Dropping php 5.3 support with optional override in config.php #1732

config.dist.php

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ $db['tmptable_engine_type'] = "MEMORY";
 /**
  * Mail sending and other parameters for pingCheck and DiscoveryCheck scripts
  ******************************/
+
 # pingCheck.php script parameters
 $config['ping_check_send_mail']        = true;       // true/false, send or not mail on ping check
 $config['ping_check_method']           = false;      // false/ping/pear/fping, reset scan method
@@ -62,6 +63,14 @@ $config['resolve_verbose']             = true;       // verbose response - print
 $debugging = false;
 
 
+/**
+ * Allow older version
+ *
+ * allow version < 5.4 with limited functionality
+ ******************************/
+$allow_older_version = false;
+
+
 /**
  *  manual set session name for auth
  *  increases security

functions/checks/check_php_build.php

@@ -45,15 +45,8 @@ if ((@include_once 'PEAR.php') != true) {
 	$missingExt[] = "php PEAR support";
 }
 
-# if db ssl = true check version
-if (@$db['ssl']==true) {
-    if (phpversion() < "5.3.7") {
-        $missingExt[] = "For SSL MySQL php version 5.3.7 is required!";
-    }
-}
-
 # if any extension is missing print error and die!
-if (sizeof($missingExt) != 1) {
+if (sizeof($missingExt) != 1 || (phpversion() < "5.4" && $allow_older_version!==true)) {
 
     /* remove dummy 0 line */
     unset($missingExt[0]);
@@ -72,7 +65,8 @@ if (sizeof($missingExt) != 1) {
 	$error  .= '</div>';
 	$error  .= '</div></div>';
 
-    /* error */
+    /* Extensions error */
+    if(sizeof($missingExt)>0) {
         $error  .= "<div class='alert alert-danger' style='margin:auto;margin-top:20px;width:500px;'><strong>"._('The following required PHP extensions are missing').":</strong><br><hr>";
         $error  .= '<ul>' . "\n";
         foreach ($missingExt as $missing) {
@@ -80,10 +74,17 @@ if (sizeof($missingExt) != 1) {
         }
         $error  .= '</ul><hr>' . "\n";
         $error  .= _('Please recompile PHP to include missing extensions and restart Apache.') . "\n";
+    }
+    /* php version error */
+    else {
+        $error  .= "<div class='alert alert-danger' style='margin:auto;margin-top:20px;width:500px;'><strong>"._('Unsupported PHP version')."!</strong><br><hr>";
+        $error  .= _('From release 1.3.2 on at least PHP version 5.4 is required!')."<br>"._('You can override this by setting $allow_older_version=true in config.php.')."<br>";
+        $error  .= _("Detected PHP version: ").phpversion(). "<br><br>\n";
+        $error  .= _("Last development version can be downloaded ")." <a href='https://github.com/phpipam/phpipam/tree/9ca731d475d5830ca421bac12da31d5023f02636' target='_blank'>here</a>.";
+    }
 
     $error  .= "</body>";
     $error  .= "</html>";
 
     die($error);
 }
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-?>
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