Which PHP version is Opencart supporting?

Hi there,

I've got two questions:

1. for installing Opencart, I've read that the version PHP version hast to be at least 5.3
does that automatically mean that PHP version 7.0 is also supported? And will this affect all plugins when upgrading tot webhost PHP version 7.0 ?


2. till which PHP version is Opencart 1.5.6 supported?


Thank you!

I am unsure if PHP 7 is supported, but most web hosts are still on PHP 5.5 / PHP 5.6, so I don't think you should have an issue getting it to run on a typical web hosting setup.

Nawid wrote:does that automatically mean that PHP version 7.0 is also supported? And will this affect all plugins when upgrading tot webhost PHP version 7.0 ?

Not necessarily supported, but then again it might work. Yes of course all plugins are affected.

Nawid wrote:2. till which PHP version is Opencart 1.5.6 supported?

I think the best thing to do would just be to set up a test install and try running it on PHP 7. Has anyone done this?

I'd be happy to do it but all our servers have cPanel which doesn't support PHP 7 yet but will very shortly:
https://features.cpanel.net/topic/php7-support

PHP 7 is pretty exciting!
http://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/php-7-released/

I know it's a quite late reply,
but I wanted to confirm Opencart 2.1.0.2 is running smoothly on PHP 7!

I cant install it on PHP 7 the regular way - it gives me back this massage: PHP5.3+ Required

I tried installing 2.1.0.2 mannualy and 2.2.0.0 using Softaculus - the result is the same

What should I do?

hardgamer wrote:I cant install it on PHP 7 the regular way - it gives me back this massage: PHP5.3+ Required

I tried installing 2.1.0.2 mannualy and 2.2.0.0 using Softaculus - the result is the same

What should I do?

I've run 2.x on PHP 7 without issues.

As a side note, I also use MAMP Pro. I dropped Softaculus awhile ago - it had a bunch of problems (although I can't remember what). I'd consider trying MAMP Pro instead, it works perfect for simple projects.

Well php7 didn't work for us, our site is 2.3.0.2 and is heavily modified. We had these errors

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function utf8_substr() in /home/xxxxx/public_html/system/storage/modification/catalog/model/tool/image.php:11 Stack trace: #0 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/vq2-system_storage_modification_system_engine_loader.php(201): ModelToolImage->resize('data/journal2/t...', '250', '250', 'h') #1 /home/xxxx/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php(25): Loader->{closure}(Array, Array) #2 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/system/journal2/classes/journal2_utils.php(522): Proxy->__call('resize', Array) #3 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/catalog/controller/journal2/settings.php(150): Journal2Utils::resizeImage(Object(Proxy), 'data/journal2/t...', '250', '250', 'h') #4 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/vq2-system_storage_modification_system_engine_action.php(58): ControllerJournal2Settings->index() #5 /home/xxxxxx/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/vq2-system_storage_modification_system_engine_front.php(70): Action->execute(Object(Registry)) #6 /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/system/journal2/start in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/system/storage/modification/catalog/model/tool/image.php on line 1

We had to revert back to php5 unfortunately to fix the frontend, but the back-end worked fine?

It sounds like your PHP 7 was built without multibyte (wide) character support (for UTF-8). Talk to your host, or run phpinfo() to see if MB support is in there. That would be the first step.