XenForo on PHP7

[rdn]

Could you list your add-ons?

Check your PM.

 

[Alpha1]

I would like one as well.

 

[Moshe1010]

The final version is now scheduled for the 11th of November. (52 days remaining...)

My guess cPanel would have the final version available November 11th 2059

 

[rdn]

Another addon incompatible with PHP 7.0 RC3
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digital-point-ad-positioning.232/

 

[DroidOne]

Here we go again; RC5 has now been released (15/10): http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-10-15-2

The final RC (6) will be released on the 29th and final version is expected to arrive on the 12th of November.

T-minus: 24 Days

(On another note: MariaDB recently released a stable version of 10.1 - more on performance here)

 

[Fred.]

I might also give it a try in the next days.

 

[m1ne]

Setting up a server with PHP 7 this week, will be the new home for my forum.
I didn't check, is zend opcache still included/supported?

 

[DroidOne]

Setting up a server with PHP 7 this week, will be the new home for my forum.
I didn't check, is zend opcache still included/supported?

Yes. https://wiki.php.net/phpng

 

[wmtech]

I am happy to announce that all of our add-ons but one (Social Share Security, where we rely on a third party library with many PHP7 problems) are fully compatible with PHP7.

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/authors/wmtech.40565/

We will soon update the add-ons descriptions to mention that fact.

PHP7 is a huge speed and coding enhancement and will probably be adopted very quickly by hosts.

 

[DroidOne]

The last RC(6) is now available for download: http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-10-29-1

The 7.0.0 general availability (GA) release is scheduled for 12th of November. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki.

PHP 7.0 will be released on the 12th of November.

About two weeks left

 

[Alpha1]

Yes, just 12 days left before we can try XenForo on PHP7...
Up to 70% faster!

 

[imthebest]

Up to 70% faster compared to stock PHP 5.4+ but who uses PHP without xCache/APC?

Again, it doesn't make sense to risk the stability of your 1.5 site upgrading to PHP7 (you don't know if all your add-ons are compatible). It would be way better to wait for XenForo 2.0 and by that time there will be PHP 7.1 which will fix all the issues discovered in PHP 7.0 when put in production.

 

[Ozzy47]

If no one tests their sites on 7.0 then how would they know what bugs to fix?

 

[Robru]

Do not run this in production, never ever....!

 

[Ozzy47]

Right, but you can run test/dev setups on it to test.

 

[Alpha1]

@pegasus @Marcus @NixFifty @wmtech
Are you running PHP7 in production? Are there any issues with XF on RC6?

 

[Chris D]

My day to day development environment is on PHP 7. XF 1.5 is working great, but I would suggest 1.5.0 should be the minimum if you wish to use PHP 7.

 

[HWS]

My day to day development environment is on PHP 7. XF 1.5 is working great, but I would suggest 1.5.0 should be the minimum if you wish to use PHP 7.

Depends on how many add-ons you use and how they are prepared for PHP7.

We are also running PHP7 in production and it needs less server resources for quicker services.
But we had to patch some add-ons before ...

It pays to upgrade to PHP7 as soon as possible.

 

[DroidOne]

Up to 70% faster compared to stock PHP 5.4+ but who uses PHP without xCache/APC?

Again, it doesn't make sense to risk the stability of your 1.5 site upgrading to PHP7 (you don't know if all your add-ons are compatible). It would be way better to wait for XenForo 2.0 and by that time there will be PHP 7.1 which will fix all the issues discovered in PHP 7.0 when put in production.

Not sure what you mean by that. The performance gap is even wider with opcache enabled:
http://www.drupalonwindows.com/en/blog/benchmarking-drupal-8-php-7-dev

Dont forget that memory consumption also is reduced by about 30%.

Can't speak for XF specifically though... A few benchmarks would be very welcome once the stable release is available

 

[Naz]

@pegasus @Marcus @NixFifty @wmtech
Are you running PHP7 in production? Are there any issues with XF on RC6?

Not at this time. Though with the last RC I tried, the issues I came across stemmed mostly from add-ons. I'll probably give RC6 a go this weekend.