As PHP 5.6, Still Used By a Large Number of Websites, Approaches Its End of Life Deadline, Some Worry About the Consequences (linkedin.com)

An anonymous reader writes: I know PHP isn't to some devs liking, but chances are you know people who work with PHP or have sites that are built with it. PHP 5.6 and 7.0 are shortly coming to the end of the support period for security patches, so what plans have you made to migrate code and sites to newer platforms? With apparently huge numbers (80%) of sites still running PHP 5.6, there appears to be little industry acknowledgement of the issue. Is there a ticking PHP Time Bomb waiting to go off?

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Migrating to PHP 7: Backward incompatible changes

[tepples]

I would expect a simple update guide with breaking changes and simple resolutions.

Expected it, got it. Google Search for php 7.0 breaking changes returned this section of the official migration guide as the first result.

Re:Not just 5.6

[citylivin]

"Besides... Didn't 'Bob' document what he did? If not why wasn't he made to?

I get kinda tired of this 'no money, no expertise, no documentation, but it has to be kept running!'. No, it doesn't."

Just wondering if you or anyone else that blames this sysadmin has ever done tech support for small businesses or non profits. They aren't going to spend 10k redoing their websites that are currently working fine.

I can tell them they should do it all day and night and they will say "thank you for the info, but we have other priorities". So there is only so much a sysadmin can do. Charities do not have money. I assume NGO means charity in some respect. They are not proactive at all and generally know nothing about technology. You can make the director aware of the issue, but thats about it. Unless you want to be fixing it for free.

And yeah no one makes any documentation. That's the real world yo, not some kind of college course textbook fantasy where your knowledge evidently comes from. Charities often get things like web development done for free or extremely cheap. There is no budget to maintain the site and certainly not to hire a web developer for anything more than a small contract.