PHP 7.0.0RC6 experimentally available
As we mentioned in a previous post, our customers can now test the next major update to PHP, version 7.0, which is almost twice as fast as the current PHP 5.6. (There is no PHP version 6: That project was abandoned by the PHP authors.)
Today we updated the test version on our servers from 7.0.0RC5 to the latest 7.0.0RC6. This updated version also includes support for the ImageMagick extension, making it functionally complete.
If you want to test PHP 7:
- Login to our My Account control panel
- Click PHP Settings
- Choose PHP 7.0 series and click Save Settings.
Keep in mind that PHP 7 is still experimental and officially unsupported. It does not yet support ionCube Loader or Zend Guard Loader, simply because those companies have not released versions of their software compatible with PHP 7.
We’re using PHP 7 to run this blog (twice as fast as it used to run!) and we haven’t seen any problems, but it almost certainly contains bugs and incompatibilities, some of which could affect your site. That’s why we don’t yet recommend it for most customers. If you have any trouble with it, we’re interested in hearing about that, but you’ll need to switch your site back to a supported version of PHP to fix it.
