Rollback to previous version that doesn't require PHP 5.3?

  • Resolved MacDoodle

    (@macdoodle)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Is there a way to rollback to the previous version that did not require php 5.3?? There was no warning on the update screen that php 5.3 was REQUIRED. (A heads up on that would have been great.)

    When I try remove reinstall to previous vs, I still get the warning even when I restore the adrotate tables from backup.

    Clearly there’s something that’s been added to options, meta, or one of the other mysql tables that’s doing this, but I can’t find it. Rolling back the entire website is not an option now, after spending 6 hours trying to sort this out. Too much info has changed.

    No, it’s not cache on my browser or the site.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/adrotate/

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  • Thread Starter MacDoodle

    (@macdoodle)

    – one version off on the rollback was causing issue.

    Plugin Author Arnan de Gans

    (@adegans)

    Php 5.3 has been required for over a year. Updates from that period all had a warning and instruction on how to deal with that.

    Thread Starter MacDoodle

    (@macdoodle)

    Marked resolved, by me, 6 days ago.

    But let me clarify something for you – in the version details related to this release, it doesn’t say “requires php 5.3+”

    FYI:
    Site was worked up on development server with php 5.3+, using all the most recent versions of all plugins & wp. Home server had just under the required PHP for AdRotate to work.

    Working site was transferred to home server about 3 weeks ago and AdRotate worked fine until the update 6 days ago, and that’s the first and only time I started getting the error message.

    How does that happen?

    Plugin Author Arnan de Gans

    (@adegans)

    AdRotate doesn’t actively check the PHP version, only on activation. So if you move the plugins and site around without de-activating plugins you may get around the check.

    This check has been in place for a long time. So if you’d activated the plugin since then, say in the last 12 months, you would have gotten that message.

    And indeed, the change log doesn’t note the requirement anymore. The requirements have been updated so long ago it’s no longer relevant. Just like I don’t tell people over and over and over when their database structure changes when they update – It’s simply not relevant.

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