PHP 7 and Osclass

[Aficionado]

PHP 7 RC8 Released.

For source downloads of PHP 7.0.0 RC 8 please visit the download page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

This release candidate prepares the short jump to the RTM. If no major issues appear, the 7.0.0 general availability (GA) release will be brought out on December 3rd. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki.

[Aficionado]

PHP 7.0 has just been released. It is actually the same version as PHP 7 RC8.

While everybody is excited about it, i would suggest to wait for a few weeks before activating it on a production site.

And if you do any tests, BACKUP and BACKUP First.

[SmaRTeY]

Nice heads up Aficionado, I wasn't following actively but I will take your advise and wait maybe half a year.....

[Aficionado]

Nice heads up Aficionado, I wasn't following actively but I will take your advise and wait maybe half a year.....

A "half-year" is way toooo much. But mainly depends on what you run. Wordpress 4 (core) has been extensively tested with PHP7 and most problems have been fixed (but not the 3rd party plugins). Drupal 8 also works fine. Joomla is in "unknown-state".

As for Osclass we are told that it works fine and some errors / warnings have been fixed.

But i guess there is more than that in all scripts, only time will tell i'm afraid. So many changes ... seems impossible not to create some problems .... that will be discovered when a lot of people run it..... under so many Linux and webserver variations and types.

[Aficionado]

A nice article

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/03/php_70_arrives_complete_with_ttt_spaceshiptt_operator/?mt=1449176618031

[SmaRTeY]

Hehe maybe but I might have to focus more on other things so I chose to be on the safe side;)

Nice heads up Aficionado, I wasn't following actively but I will take your advise and wait maybe half a year.....

A "half-year" is way toooo much. But mainly depends on what you run. Wordpress 4 (core) has been extensively tested with PHP7 and most problems have been fixed (but not the 3rd party plugins). Drupal 8 also works fine. Joomla is in "unknown-state".

As for Osclass we are told that it works fine and some errors / warnings have been fixed.

But i guess there is more than that in all scripts, only time will tell i'm afraid. So many changes ... seems impossible not to create some problems .... that will be discovered when a lot of people run it..... under so many Linux and webserver variations and types.

[frosticek]

@Aficionado
Well I have tested this today (only performance of home page) and got no improvements, very strange...

[Aficionado]

@Aficionado
Well I have tested this today (only performance of home page) and got no improvements, very strange...

hmmm.. how did you test ? Browsing your site ?

Can't be like that, i mean no improvments ..... 

OPCache was enabled ?

[Aficionado]

@frosticek

If you are using Windows for your working pc, this could help you test

https://www.paessler.com/tools/webstress

[frosticek]

@Aficionado
I have tested via http://www.webpagetest.org/

[Aficionado]

@frosticek

It is funny that my hosting company (one of 2 i use) just told me that PHP 7.0 GA is to be considered as BETA, since there are many-many changes.

I can't comment on speed, since "visually" i can't see any major change to be honest. But i see a HUGE difference on memory needs. PHP 7 is using (for me) something like 50-60% less than PHP 5.6 and i find that is excellent.

[frosticek]

@Aficionado
Well, I expected performance improvementes 

[Aficionado]

@Aficionado
Well, I expected performance improvementes 

I'm sure there are also huge performance gains. I don't see how benchmarks are different for Osclass.

I will try this also:

http://forums.osclass.org/plugins/%28plugin%29-benchmark-your-host/

today.

[Aficionado]

Also Osclass team could run this

https://dev.osclass.org/2014/07/25/osclass-cache-performance-testing/

against PHP 7 and let us know the results ?

 

[Aficionado]

Using

http://forums.osclass.org/plugins/%28plugin%29-benchmark-your-host/

Ok, here are results in a speadsheet. Osclass latest on a SHARED high end server (with a few sites called -wrong- semi-dedi), under LiteSpeed and CloudLinux.

There are 4 columns, the first is PHP 5.6, the second is again PHP 5.6 second pass (opcache should kick in), the third is PHP 7 RC 7 and the fourth is PHP 7 RC 7 again (opcache should kick in).

Please read and comment.

If anybody can't read the ODS file, he should download and install LibreOffice.


(Corrected ODS file in the next post)