Short array syntax incompatible with older PHP versions

[xurizaemon]

I will be advising the client to upgrade, but I figured I should report this here also.

Client is on PHP 5.3.3 which is ancient, but also listed as compatible with CiviCRM.

This extension uses short array syntax (eg here) which means the extension has its own PHP requirements that are higher than CiviCRM's.

Options might be:

• Add a status check to the extension to warn site owners. (The symptom here was that cron started failing; the extension seems to install OK - which is weird ... maybe they use a different PHP via HTTP to CLI ... but you're not going to pick taht up in a status check over HTTP ... ok nvm)
• Document the problem
• Ignore, since PHP5.3 is ancient anyway 😱😏
• Something else?

[veda-consulting]

@xurizaemon at the moment we're ignoring - as you might have guessed from the lack of response! We're testing against PHP7 and PHP5.6 at our end. I think 5.3 is well past its sell by date.