Ridiculous that vbulletin 4.x isnt updated to support php 5.4

[owning_y0u]

the past few weeks we made major efforts to consolidate our website and upgrade everything Core PHP software and that kinda stuff. Everything worked fine until we where running in php warnings and double posting errors in vbulletin 4.2.

Back in 2012 it was announced that php 5.3 is reaching its end of life status in the near future.
Since the early 2012 vBulletin staff has posted that a fix for php 5.4 was planned

vBulletin 5 is far away from being usable as professional forum software, IMHO. Problems with the basic user interface that makes it far less usable than even free open source solutions for a successful forum. I cannot have current users confounded and frustrated by the myriad of issues which are confusing or simply don't work as expected.

So what is a customer of vBulletin supposed to do?
All forum software that competes with vBulletin (includes free open source forums)- is compatible with php5.4

We have fixed the issue with parsings but vbulletin developers and the internet brands management should already have patched out the incompatibility of vbulletin 4.x with php 5.4

[cellarius]

Why don't you bring this up on vbulletin.com? That's where the company is. This is only the addon site.

[RickyH]

I had issues for about 4 weeks after purchasing the license for vb 5 (with access to previous versions) due to PHP 5.3. I consulted vBulletin.com directly and they've somewhat assured me that they are working on a patch for 5.3, although i somehow doubt this will come anytime soon before vb 4 dies off anyways.

[DF031]

In the official VB forums they have indicated an ETA for PHP5.4 support.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by DF031

In the official VB forums they have indicated an ETA for PHP5.4 support.

Link?

[DF031]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-4" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-4</a>

[cellarius]

Thank you for the link, but what is it supposed to show? I'm a vB customer for almost 10 years, having ~ 4.5k posts on vbulletin.com under my belt. I actually know where to look for the official vB4 support forums, should I ever need them.

You said an ETA for php 5.4 support had been "indicated", and I asked for a link. It would be really nice if you could provide such a link - to the actual post with the actual "indication", not to the vbulletin support forums in general.

[nhawk]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-4/vbulletin-4-installations-and-upgrades/3990787-php-5-3-x-and-vbulletin-4-x" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...-vbulletin-4-x</a>

[DF031]

I do not remember the exact url or name of the topic. My memory is not that good. Sorry. Try using the search enigine on the indicated forum.

[ozzy47]

I still don't see a ETA in that link either.