The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress

Delivered at WordPress London September 2017 meetup.

Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wo4LkkWyVP0DXk2A9evSMzvQxwIyugEDdhd3imK-60k/edit?usp=sharing

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1. The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress Gary Jones (@GaryJ)
2. 0. What’s Happening
3. #core-php
4. https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core-php/
5. 1. The Goals
6. Integrate improved patterns
7. Introduce abstraction layers
8. Increase minimum PHP version
9. 2. The Problem
10. PHP 5.2.4
12. PHP 5.5 and below is not supported
14. PHP 5.6: critical security releases only
17. PHP 7.0 Actively supported until December 2017. Critical security releases until December 2018.
18. PHP 7.2 Release Candidate stage Gold release: November 30th 2017
20. Bump WP Core? Sites will break after an upgrade on hosts that are not using at least the chosen level of PHP
21. 3. The Solutions
22. Hosts
23. FlyWheel, taking the initiative.
24. SiteGround: PHP 7.2 RC2
25. Developers
26. Require PHP
29. Mockup
31. Users
32. Wrapper for wimg/php-compatibility package
33. Conclusion
34. Thank You Gary Jones Gamajo @GaryJ https://gamajo.com Slides: https://gmj.to/modernphpinwp