vBulletin 4 & PHP 7 - drastic speed improvement!

[z3r0]

I've updated two of my sites to 4.2.5b1 and PHP7 over the last two days, it's been a pain fumbling though the plugins fixing them with my limited understanding of PHP, but the speed increase has been well worth it.

I do have a few scripts flagging with depreciated constructor errors, but everything is running and I can try and figure them out at a later date.

[Paul M]

Fortunately, when they released 7.1.x they kept the stuff deprecated in 7.0.x (like constructors) rather than removing them. Had they removed them, it would have been real chaos.

Instead they decided to make other changes (for example, around performing mathamatical operations on strings) which is causing a few problems (much harder to detect as well).

JFYI, the next 3.8.11 & 4.2.5 Beta releases should be later this month.