vBulletin 4 & PHP 7 - drastic speed improvement!

[webmastersun]

Originally Posted by Dave

On top of my head, I had to make changes to the following files:

• includes/class_core.php (to fix constructor error)
• includes/class_datastore.php (to fix constructor error)
• includes/class_bbcode.php (to fix function name must be a string error)
• includes/class_hook.php (to fix constructor error)
• vb/exception/parser.php (to fix redefinition of argument error)

Also I had to change the datastore class in config.php back to vB_Datastore_Filecache since there's no PHP 7 version for APC/XCache or Memcached. You don't need it anymore anyway since OPCache has been introduced and it's extremely fast.

Another thing to keep in mind is that PHP 7 deprecates the mysql_* functions. In case you have any plugins or custom scripts installed which makes use of that then it will not work.

You should send these to vB team so we can use PHP7 on forums earilier

I want to upgrade to PHP7 for my hosting but I could not because my vB forum is not compatible with PHP7 so I have to leave it.