id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty
1564	consider making 5.2 minimum php version	ewinslow		For installations running older versions of php, this means export/api functionality for json can't work without editing core.  Solution would be to include a third party json encoding library such as Zend in the /vendors/ folder and use that function instead. Zend in particular defaults to the native php encoder/decorder when available, so there should be no performance hit for php 5.3 enabled installations.	Defect	closed	normal	Elgg 1.8.0	Installation	1.6	minor	fixed		brettp ewinslow