1. Requirements

1.1. PHP

PHP 7.3 - 8.0 (PHP 7.4 recommended)

1.1.1. PHP Extensions

1. bcmath, or GMP
2. ctype
3. fileinfo
4. gd
5. iconv
6. intl
7. json
8. mbstring
9. mysqli
10. openssl
11. pcre
12. pdo
13. pdo_mysql
14. spl
15. zlib

1.1.2. Necessity to raise the PHP version

PHP version

• 7.0
  • Null Coalescing Operator - ??
• 7.1
  • php-diff 1.13
  • [$a, $b, $c] = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
• 7.2
  • EOS December 2020
  • hashids 4.0 - mb_ord() function
• 7.3
  • EOS December 2021
  • is_countable() function
  • PCRE2

cause for raise

• PHP end of support
• library dependency
• core dependency

1.2. Web server

Apache >= 2.4

Apache version

• 2.2
  • EOS December 2017

1.3. Database

SQL database system, one of:

1.3.1. Necessity to raise the Database version

DB version

• MariaDB 10.0.5 & MySQL 5.6.4
  • InnoDB Full-text Search support
  • EOS Feb 2021
• MariaDB 10.2.2 & MySQL 5.7.7
  • support index key prefixes up to 3072 bytes by default (optional)

cause for raise

• MariaDB end of support
• MySQL end of support
• core dependency

2. Used Libraries