According to statistics from W3Techs, approximately 78.9% of all websites on the Internet run on PHP today.
However, as of December 31, 2018, security updates for PHP 5.6.x will stop being released, marking the end of all support for any version of PHP 5.x.
This means that by 2019, approximately 62% of all websites running PHP version 5.x will stop receiving security updates, exposing hundreds of millions of websites and data.
“This is going to be a huge problem for the PHP ecosystem,” Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer at Paragon Initiative Enterprise, told ZDNet. “Many people think they can have PHP 5 in 2019. The simplest way to describe this choice is: Negligence.”
"It is likely that any major, massively exploitable flaw in PHP 5.6 will affect all newer versions of PHP," Arciszewski added.
“But PHP 7.2 will receive some updates from the PHP team, free of charge, and in a timely manner.”
It should be noted that although the PHP community has been informing all stakeholders for some time, many of them are indifferent. Of the three major CMSs WordPress, Joomla and Drupal – only Drupal has adapted its minimum requirements to PHP 7, and this will happen from March 2019. The minimum requirements for Joomla continue to use PHP 5.3, while the minimum requirement for WordPress remains at PHP 5.2.
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