[xdebug-general] Re: AW: Re: xdebg version choose

On 8/20/2015 5:35 AM, Nikolai Essel - MAXWORX GmbH wrote:
>>> I want to download xdebug for debug php code, but when I put my
>>> phpinfo() output, I just get “PHP versions below 5.4 are not
>>> supported.”Would you please tell me what that mean?
>
> >You are using PHP 5.2.6. That version of PHP is no longer supported, not by PHP itself (see http://php.net/supported-versions.php) and not by Xdebug.
>
> "No longer supported" only means u can´t use the actual version of the library. Even Microsoft recognizes that they cannot dismiss old functionality in few months. Many software is only developed once and then used 10-20 years. All others "should be" is far away from reality and only working for a small number of enterprises... Lucky guys which always can use actual programming features.
>

It means more than that. It also means there will be no more fixes for
the product, even if serious security flaws are found. Unsupported
versions of any software can be a huge problem.

> If you use PHP 5.2.6 you can go to the download page (http://xdebug.org/download.php) and scroll down until you find an Xdebug version which supports your PHP
>

A much better procedure would be to upgrade PHP to a more current
version. A lot of things have been fixed since 5.2.6. And then he will
be on a supported version.

-- 
Jerry