what version of php?

[journeyoftheanimals]

I was just wondering what version of php the shared hosts are using. I was going to install something but it says I need version 5.5 so I wanted to check first. Thank you in advance

[Chimpie]

I'm running 5.2.9 on my reseller server.

Your best bet would to click on Live Chat and talk to a rep.

[quietFinn]

And 5.2.9 is the latest stable (5.x) PHP version.
Version 5.5 does not exist, AFAIK.

[gwyneth]

That info should be available in the server information section of cPanel, down on the lower left...you may need to poke around a bit, but it should show current versions.

[striddy]

Or you can create yourself a phpinfo() page.

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by striddy

Or you can create yourself a phpinfo() page.

We used to joke about getting Serra a t-shirt with the instructions for doing that.

If that's too much info, there's also phpversion().

[Chimpie]

Do you have a link to those instructions? A quick search didn't turn up anything obvious.

[GvilleRick]

Create a file with the following text and save it with a php extension. You might call it phpInfo.php, for example. Save it to your public_html folder and call it from a browser.

<? phpinfo(); ?>

[Chimpie]

Thanks. Is there any harm leaving this file on the server? (bots, spiders, etc)

[GvilleRick]

Depends on how paranoid you are. Theoretically it could help a hacker to see if some version of a library you are running can be exploited. I just name it something unlikely to be guessed.

[dave g]

In your Joomla Admin go to "Help" on the admin top menu and click on "System Info" it will tell you more than you need to know :-)

[gwyneth]

Courtesy of Rick...because we are not allowed to attach php files to posts, here is a .txt file. After you download or upload it, change the name to anything.php, then browse there.