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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-50565

Prepare Moodle for PHP7

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      PHP 7 is on the horizon for October of this year. It needs to be tested for compatibility, as there are some backwards compatibility breakers in there.

      So by the time PHP 7 rolls around, we need to either
      a) be confident that Moodle will run fine (and probably blazing fast!) on it, or
      b) We need to update our required versions to put an upper cap on supported versions, as all our release notes and checks are 5.4.4 (or whatever) and higher.

      If changes are needed, we may want to amend old release notes for no longer supported Moodle versions with upper limits.

      I know it's still early on, but I want to make sure this gets on the radar, as PHP 7 is supposed to drop right around the time of Moodle 3.0.

      You can see the accepted changes for PHP 7 here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc#php_70

      https://github.com/tpunt/PHP7-Reference

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-50624 Add environment check for versions where PHP7 is NOT supported

          • Critical - Crashes server, loss of data, severe memory leak
          • Closed
          has to be done before

          Epic - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a big user story that needs to be broken down. MDL-55120 Prepare Moodle for PHP 7.1

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          is blocked by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-52316 Policy: PHP7 fixes (approach and backporting)

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          is duplicated by

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-52215 Moodle 3.1 should be compatible with PHP 7.0.0

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          will be (partly) resolved by

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDLSITE-3649 New php version process

          • Low - Cosmetic problems, nice-to-have features
          • Open

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-51011 Get working support for PHP7 in core (all-in-one auto-generated branch)

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-50453 Replace reserved word usage from \core\progress\null (PHP7)

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-50926 Upgrade to phpunit 4.x

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          will help resolve

          New Feature - A new Moodle feature which has yet to be developed. MDL-43724 Hiphop (hhvm) support in Moodle

          • Trivial - Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text
          • Closed

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              moodle.com Moodle HQ
              emerrill Eric Merrill
              Adrian Greeve, David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo, Matteo Scaramuccia, David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo, Matteo Scaramuccia, David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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                21/Dec/15