Upgrading from PHP 5.2 to 5.6 - anything to worry about?

[Mike521w]

We have a self-hosted Miva site running PR9, no major problems. Tomorrow we'd like to upgrade from PHP 5.2 to 5.6. I have a bunch of my own PHP scripts and I've read through the change notes, generally I should be in good shape.

Our host also pointed out to me that Zend Guard is not available in 5.6, and is replaced with Zend Optimizer. I don't use either of those, so I should be fine.

Anyway, as far as Miva goes, I would expect everything to be fine since Miva doesn't use PHP... Or does it? Anyone know if there's anything I should watch out for?

thanks in advance

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Correct, Merchant doesn't use any php, so non-issue from the Miva side. If you use any encoded php scripts that use ioncube, it would also need to be updated, similar to how Zend goes from Optimizer to Guard, although unlike ioncube, my understanding is that apps encoded with the older Optimizer won't run under Guard in many cases and will break.

[Mike521w]

got it, thanks, we don't have any encoded scripts so we should be all set