{"id":2057,"date":"2019-06-27T11:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:32:50","slug":"update-php-or-be-shamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/27\/update-php-or-be-shamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Update PHP &#8211; or be shamed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PHP 5.6 and 7.1 are no longer being actively supported (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/supported-versions.php\" target=\"_blank\">PHP 5.6 is no longer being actively supported<\/a>, it&#8217;s time to move to PHP 7.  And if you don&#8217;t, then <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WordPress will shame you (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wordpress-to-show-warnings-on-servers-running-outdated-php-versions\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress will shame you<\/a> by displaying a warning! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, WordPress is very easy to update, and there&#8217;s really no reason not to be running PHP 7 if this is your main web application.  Other applications are more work to upgrade.  If you need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/upgrades.html\">upgrade a Zen Cart<\/a>, for example, please contact me and I&#8217;ll help.   You can run Zen Cart 1.5.5 under PHP 7.1 with a small number of modifications for most carts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that PHP 5.6 is no longer being actively supported, it&#8217;s time to move to PHP 7. And if you don&#8217;t, then WordPress will shame you by displaying a warning! Fortunately, WordPress is very easy to update, and there&#8217;s really no reason not to be running PHP 7 if this is your main web application. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/27\/update-php-or-be-shamed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update PHP &#8211; or be shamed!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,58,95,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php","category-that-software-guy","category-wordpress","category-zen-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}