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Why is Php 5.2 required?
January 31, 2010, 04:58:53 am
This should be for all installations, not just Joomla, so please feel free to move to another section if appropriate.

I am running CentOS Linux 5.4 which has Php 5.1.6. The release version of CentOS 5.4 does not have a 5.2 version. Of course one can install 5.2, but that isn't part of the supported release.

Anyway, running the CiviCRM 3.1 beta, I haven't yet seen any issues, but I didn't test all features or components.

So, what specifically requires Php 5.2, rather than 5.1.6? If it's not required, then the online documentation should be updated for this.

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Re: Why is Php 5.2 required?
January 31, 2010, 06:48:49 am

there are a few PHP 5.2 (and at least one PHP 5.2.1) functions that we use, hence the requirement

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Re: Why is Php 5.2 required?
January 31, 2010, 02:02:57 pm
you will run into issues eventually.
one element is that civi uses JSON format in a number of areas, and makes use of the php 5.2 function to transform some data, which doesn't exist in 5.1.x
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