What version of PHP is everyone using?

[MannDude]

PHP 5.5.1 is now stable (as of today), but wondering what everyone else uses and why?

 

[jcaleb]

5.3

 

[wdq]

I'm currently using 5.4 which has been stable for a while now so pretty much everything including Ioncube works with it.

 

[zzrok]

5.3 because that is what comes with CentOS 6.  I hope they make 5.4 or even 5.5 available some day (I prefer to use official packages instead of third-party).

 

[D. Strout]

I try to use 5.4 when I have the choice. I use Ubuntu on my VPSes, and a lot of providers' Ubuntu image is 12.04, which only has PHP 5.3, so I use a PPA to get 5.4. I like it a lot (and thus don't mind going through the above hoops) because of two main new features: function return array dereferencing and short array notation. I'm used to both of these from JavaScript, so it's great having them in PHP.

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

Perl.

 

[shovenose]

5.3

 

[shawn_ky]

5.3 here

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Perl.

 

Smartass trying to be all hipster.  

 

[BradND]

5.3 Not sure i'm ready to make the move to 5.4 or 5.5 for production stuff.

 

[sv01]

PHP 5.5.0 (cli) (built: Jul 12 2013 18:11:16)
Copyright © 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0-dev, Copyright © 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.2.3, Copyright © 2002-2013, by Derick Rethans
 

 

[peterw]

PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u3 (cli) (built: Jul 17 2013 17:51:10)
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

 

[HostUS-Alexander]

I just updated all my servers to 5.4

 

[tdc-adm]

Debian 6, PHP 5.4 from dotdeb.

 

[MannDude]

5.4.4-14 (fpm-fcgi) for now.

 

[NodeBytes]

The one that's stable and clients can rely on 

 

[wlanboy]

PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.7 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jul 15 2013 18:10:56)
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

Ubuntu packages.

 

[kaniini]

prod-web:~$ php -v
/bin/ash: php: not found

Our new docs team has their own server with some PHP on it for MediaWiki, I have no idea what version or particularly care, as long as it stays away from the mission critical stuff.

 

[Master Bo]

5.3/5.4

5.4 wherever possible.

 

[NathanielD]

I'm using PHP 5.3 version currently.