Show warning for PHP versions older than 5.4.0

We can't check the PHP version in the installer since base.php already used 5.4 syntax. Thus for a better UX we show a simple warning instead of a fatal PHP error.

diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 88d5733cb37dda1a94c4bcdbd09bd8cd43a03b01..1ab350a2da477652a389c42def61405600b3b17e 100644 (file)
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@
 *
 */
 
+// Show warning if a PHP version below 5.4.0 is used, this has to happen here
+// because base.php will already use 5.4 syntax.
+if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.4.0') === -1) {
+       echo 'This version of ownCloud requires at least PHP 5.4.0<br/>';
+       echo 'You are currently running ' . PHP_VERSION . '. Please update your PHP version.';
+       return;
+}
+
 try {
        
        require_once 'lib/base.php';