Bumping from php 5.2.13 to php 5.3. Is it safe???

[falconking]

Dear VB Support or anyone with knowledge on this issue.

My VB board has 3.8 and php 5.2.13. Is it ok for me to bump to php 5.3?
The reason I ask is that some fairly major changes to PHP syntax were made in php 5.3, and I am afraid something will break in the process!

Please let me know ASAP.

[falconking]

Reason for edit: mostaken info ... still waiting for an answer.

[ENF]

Are you running 3.8.0 exactly or a more recent version?

We had a forum break with PHP 5.3 that was a 3.8 site, but later found it to be a mis-configuration in PHP.

As of this moment, I've got two 3.8.6 PL1 sites running fine on PHP 5.3.2 (Windows FastCGI) and the upgrade was painless. We're mostly Windows servers, so I can't speak directly about Linux servers... but I figure it's probably easier to upgrade them. Windows binaries have thread-safe and non-thread safe options at the PHP 5.3 level.. . can get messy if you don't know what you're doing.

Well the overall points to take away:

- VB3.8 works fine with PHP 5.3
- Have a backout plan if you run into problems upgrading the PHP