Announcements

WebsiteBaker to discontinue support for PHP versions below 5.2.2

The Development Team has decided that WebsiteBaker will not officially support PHP versions less than 5.2.2 by the 1st August 2010. All future feature releases (and their maintenance releases), beginning with WebsiteBaker 2.8.2, will require PHP 5.2.2 or greater.

PHP 5.2.2 released on 3rd May 2007 is the first release you can call secure of PHP 5.2.

You will not receive any official support with all PHP versions below 5.2.2. This means, there will be no fixing of bugs and / or accepting of tickets and / or similar which are dependent on outdated PHP versions.

Please look at the end of this announcement if you are unsure which PHP version you have and what to do.

In our Support forum and other sources you can get perhaps a solution from our community members how to adapt future changes / features of WebsiteBaker that require PHP 5.2 they will work with lower PHP versions. But there is no guarantee you can update to newer WebsiteBaker versions and / or it will work stable and / or it is secure and so on – it’s 100% on your own risk to adapt WebsiteBaker changes depending at least on PHP 5.2.2 they will work with lower PHP versions.
The WebsiteBaker Development Team will never support such adaptions and / or the upgrades and / or downgrades from such adaptions.

Additionally, one should note that this announcement does not imply WebsiteBaker 2.x.y will see large portions of code rewritten in order to take advantage of new features in PHP 5.2. Instead, sections of code will be updated as needed in the 2.x release cycle.

To follow up the changes in our next version 2.8.2 please look in the “Changes_in 2.8.2” documentation file in our SVN: http://project.websitebaker2.org/browser/branches/2.8.x/CHANGES_IN%202.8.2

After release 2.8.2 there will be “Changes_in 2.8.3” documentation file if necessary and so on.

The current “Backend-Themes Development Freeze” is being updated here: http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,17914.0.html

Which PHP version do I have?

1. Log in to your WebsiteBaker Administration
2. Click on pages
3. Add a page with some title, “Type” Code (or Code2, NOT WYSIWYG), visibility “Private” (that nobody can access the site that shouldn’t).
4. Type in the following Code text field phpinfo(); without the quotes and “Save” it.
5.  View the page in frontend (e.g. with clicking on “View” right above in your Administration).
6. There’s a quite long list. The headline should be “PHP Version 5.X.Y”. This is your PHP version.

If you have not a fully working WebsiteBaker installation, no installed Code (or Code2) module or other problems:

1. Create on your computer a file (e.g. with Notepad or any other texteditor) with the following content: 
     
   <?php  phpinfo(); ?>
2. Save this file and name it phpinfo.php (could be any other name, but must have file extension .php).
3. Upload the file with your favorite FTP browser to your webspace
4. Access the file with your favorite internet browser (e.g. www.domain.xy/yourfolder/phpinfo.php )
5. There’s a quite long list. The headline should be “PHP Version 5.X.Y”. This is your PHP version.

Alternatively you can ask your web hoster or look in the administration of your web space / webserver.

My PHP version is lower than PHP 5.2.2. What should I do?

Don’t panic. Your current WebsiteBaker installation will run on any PHP version it worked before as long as you don’t change something. If you think you are really happy with PHP 4.2.0 and WebsiteBaker 2.6.2 – we don’t like it, it’s outdated, you won’t receive any support in our forum beside “Please upgrade first at least to PHP 5.2.2 and WebsiteBaker 2.8”, but if you’re happy with it we won’t and can’t drive you to do anything.

Most web hosters have PHP versions 5.2.x, nowadays also 5.3.y.

Please contact your web hoster – we can’t say what you need to do. A common method is to add a .htaccess file in your WebsiteBaker installation with the following content: 

AddHandler php5-cgi .php

But – contact your web hoster and ask how to update to PHP 5.2.x (or PHP 5.3.y, it’s working good, too).

You have a root server your own? Well, then you should know yourself best how to configure it.

Please consider: We can’t give you any support how to change your PHP version – not on your web space, neither on your managed or root web server.

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