PHP 7.1 Released - Are you making it default yet?

We have provided 7.0 as default for quite a few months now. Will be changing to 7.1 as default for new accounts soon.

Most of WordPress should already be compatible.

We don't force an upgrade on customers. It should be easy for them to choose a PHP version, and they should be informed that it's a good idea to upgrade.

Cloudlinux's hardened PHP allows us to continue providing unsupported versions (currently anything less than 5.6).

We recently updated PHP to 7.0 on our own website and have a noticable drop in CPU usage.
 
Wanah said:
We have provided 7.0 as default for quite a few months now. Will be changing to 7.1 as default for new accounts soon.

Most of WordPress should already be compatible.
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Yes, but still a lot of scripts that are not compatible, also what happens if you clients are using plugins etc. on their sites that are not compatible.

Wanah said:
We don't force an upgrade on customers. It should be easy for them to choose a PHP version, and they should be informed that it's a good idea to upgrade.
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Same here, but you can inform your clients that it is a good thing to upgrade, but if they are using a plugin/module/script that is not compatible then the choice to upgrade is taken out of their hands until the developers of the plugin/module/script release a compatible version
 
archindustries said:
All new websites i create will be running PHP 7.1, it's going to take a while for it to become widely used.
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But it has nothing to do with websites, a PHP, HTML website and wordpress website will run in php 7 and 7.1 without issue.

The issue is 3rd party plugins, modules etc. that are not compatible with the latest version of PHP.
 
So it's been 2 months since I started this thread - have people been encouraging PHP 7.x yet? :)

I know we can all use the change in cPanel to change the PHP version to the version I want to use, but has anyone been sending out newsletters encouring users to check it out?

I think that's more along the lines of where I was going with the thread. Making it a default of 7.0 and allowing users to downgrade to an older version should be well in play at this point.

Of course, we ran things differently in that when I say "make default" I'm not saying to change an existing server - rather setting up a NEW server and all new clients go onto the 7.x version. Then notify existing users if they're compatible and tested, they can move to the new machine.

This was the method we used to weed people off PHP 4.3, 4.4, and 4.x so many years ago.

We've found a number of hosts that clients are using that don't offer the 7.x version, and as a result, we've been moving them to an alternate host the moment we start working with them.
 
bigredseo said:
So it's been 2 months since I started this thread - have people been encouraging PHP 7.x yet? :)

I know we can all use the change in cPanel to change the PHP version to the version I want to use, but has anyone been sending out newsletters encouring users to check it out?

I think that's more along the lines of where I was going with the thread. Making it a default of 7.0 and allowing users to downgrade to an older version should be well in play at this point.

Of course, we ran things differently in that when I say "make default" I'm not saying to change an existing server - rather setting up a NEW server and all new clients go onto the 7.x version. Then notify existing users if they're compatible and tested, they can move to the new machine.

This was the method we used to weed people off PHP 4.3, 4.4, and 4.x so many years ago.

We've found a number of hosts that clients are using that don't offer the 7.x version, and as a result, we've been moving them to an alternate host the moment we start working with them.
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Yes all my clients have been informed along with directions to the multiphp editor from with a sites cpanel where that can chose their version of PHP
 
easyhostmedia said:
Yes, but still a lot of scripts that are not compatible, also what happens if you clients are using plugins etc. on their sites that are not compatible.



Same here, but you can inform your clients that it is a good thing to upgrade, but if they are using a plugin/module/script that is not compatible then the choice to upgrade is taken out of their hands until the developers of the plugin/module/script release a compatible version
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We make a new php verion the default for new accounts when we think most scripts will be compatible. We wait a reasonable amount of time to allow activly developed plugins to update and become compatible. We did this for PHP 7 quite some time ago, and very few customers had issues and those that did, we just told them to try with an older version of PHP.

We don't enforce any upgrades, just suggest they should upgrade as soon as they can. We also remind them that they can quickly downgrade again if something's not compatible.
 
There are lots of bugs in PHP 7. Your application codes may not properly support it. So I would recommend you to run your websites on php 5.6 for next few days.
 
Still my clients are using php 5.6 only , not even 7.0 . Might be their websites are up and running on 5.6 at ease and don't want any trouble . I hope if someone plans to make a new website , they will surely consider 7.x series platform as it is the updated version of php.
 
As multiple PHP version is available in WHM now a days, therefore no need to worries while setting default PHP version to PHP 7 , initially for few days support staff work load will increase but after few days everything will be stable :)
 
We have moved to PHP 7 and noticed the differences immediatly. We tested HHVM before, but it wasn't stable enough at the time. We have had some small issues with PHP7, but nothing that couldn't be fixed in a few minutes. The issues that existed were basically from either bad coding, or deprecated code. For the codes that were fixed, the information was forwarded to the developer to include in the next updates.

I personally find PHP7 to be a form of comedy for the fact it's calling out bad and lazy coding. Themes and plugins coded properly work on any version of PHP. Other themes and plugins...look at the code the wrong way and things start breaking. A real "let's just throw codes together" and hope it works. Too many stories.
 
WPCYCLE said:
I personally find PHP7 to be a form of comedy for the fact it's calling out bad and lazy coding. Themes and plugins coded properly work on any version of PHP. Other themes and plugins...look at the code the wrong way and things start breaking. A real "let's just throw codes together" and hope it works. Too many stories.
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You are wrong. it is the same situation like when Smarty code changed and it meant WHMCS had to almost re write their software in version 6 to work with the new code.

Nothing to do with bad or lazy coding, just the coding changed, so plugins etc. had to be altered to work with PHP7, if plugins etc. were not altered they it through up errors as the coding was changed
 
It's just like the code changes from a mysql connect statement and a mysqli connection statement.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the code developed for a specific version, and it *MAY* work on later versions, but in the case of PHP 7, there was a LOT of rewriting. Code developed for older versions using calls for depreciated or removed sections of PHP are going to break.

Programs written for Windows 95 may not work on Windows 10 (I'd go so far as to say MANY programs don't).

We've been doing a TON of updates for new clients to get them on board with PHP 7.

As Terry said, nothing to do with laziness of a programmer.

SIDE NOTE
Yoast, one of the more popular plugins for WordPress, has started a campaign called WHIP. You can install their package on your server as an encouragement to users to upgrade - https://github.com/Yoast/whip

Yoast will also be updating their software with a big warning to users encouraging them to contact their host to upgrade, or move web hosting companies. They will then push a list of recommended hosts to move to.

if you haven't prepared for this, now is the time!
 
I have already rolled out PHP 7.1 on all of my websites. No issues at all using popular scripts like Wordpress, XenForo, Plesk and more!
Decent performance increase, too.
 
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