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userfrosting / UserFrosting

Modern PHP user login and management framework
https://www.userfrosting.com
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How to make a good app unusable for 90% of developers #1248

Closed vordan closed 8 months ago

vordan commented 8 months ago

Your decision to require PHP 8.x is practically denying the usage of this good app (at least, looks good, haven't tried it, can't try it). I'm sure it is provable that 90% of today's web server installations do not use PHP 8. Updating PHP on servers is very serious and can't be done lightly - it can break some applications already on it. I understand that there are developers like youselves which always like the latest and the best, but, this is counter-productive. Frankly, this kind of app can be safely coded in any version of PHP from 5 and up, but, unfortunately, that's not the case. At least, you should allow some kind of "compatibility mode", which at least accepts PHP 7.

So, there is my request - make the app compatible with PHP 7.x. It can't be that hard

lcharette commented 8 months ago

PHP 8.0 is End of life : https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php. Using PHP 5.0 today is a VERY bad idea. Our dependencies don't support it, so we can support it. That's it.