Forces you to upgrade to php 8? why?

  • WebUser

    (@yasserawadd)


    4 months ago

    Who thought that forcing people to upgrade to php 8 to be able to use the latest version of the plugin was a good idea?

    • Most of the plugins don’t need PHP 8, and a lot of them will have errors with PHP 8
    • You are forcing people to choose between almost all their plugins OR your plugin.

      You will notice a huge decrease in people installing this plugin (if it hasn’t happened already!) please fix this!
    • This topic was modified 4 months ago by WebUser.
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  • Please consider that PHP is a fundamental of WordPress and PHP version 8 came out 3 years ago. The issue with plugins showing errors is because plugin developers have been given years to upgrade to Version 8 which is more robust, more secure, has new features, more secure in protecting websites and faster. Dynamic Conditions upgrading to version 8 is what all plugin developers should be doing and maybe instead of giving DC one star, you should be getting on the backs of the plugin devs who are dragging their feet.

    Thread Starter WebUser

    (@yasserawadd)

    Hi @muzoid ,

    First let me tell you this is a great plugin, essential to a lot of users out there, and we all appreciate the hard work behind it. (and I wish there was a paid version of it outthere)

    The problem here is by forcing people to upgrade to php 8, you essentially create a lot of problems with all those other plugins on a lot of websites, so while it is the plugin devs who are late to upgrade the plugins to work with php 8, instead this punishes people who installed and using the plugin on their website.
    Is there any way to create a backward compatibility in this plugin to let it use php 8 while in the same time still can work with php 7 if needed?

    • This reply was modified 3 months, 3 weeks ago by WebUser.
    • This reply was modified 3 months, 3 weeks ago by WebUser.
    Plugin Author crazypsycho

    (@crazypsycho)

    With version 1.7.0 we added backward compatibility for php 7.4 for now. But we recommend to update to >8.0 as soon as possible.

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