In our company, we have in recent months switched to laravel framework. We use laravel in version 5.3 We develop a fairly large project (developing in the Czech Republic, but the site will in future be hosted in the USA).
Yesterday we had a heated debate with the director, who, after finding that the latest version laravel requires PHP version 5.6.4 was very angry. He argued that:
- Enforce one of the latest version of PHP is not correct
- Found that the biggest hosting godaddy not offer php 5.6.4, which for him is a sufficient reason for not using the latest version laravel
- Talked about the security risks related to the version of PHP, which is relatively young
- Our own server, which manages several dozen sites have version 5.6.3 and the transition to this server to version 5.6.4 is not possible
And most importantly - he said that he wants us due to the above reasons, went to an older version laravel (5.2).
Can you help me with a valuable and legitimate arguments for laravel 5.3? What are the main advantages of PHP version 5.6.4 to the 5.6.3? (Version 5.6.3 offers a much larger number of hostings, which is version 5.6.4 can not say). I have a large (possibly personal) problem with subordination laravel version to towards hosting. I tried to argue that DigitalOcean, Linode or AWS are also large hosting which version of PHP 5.6.4 allow, but at the director, I came across (service outage, which is e.g. at DigitalOceans substantially higher than Godaddy).
What do we lose humiliation to version 5.2 laravel? Packages, services, architecture ...
It is possible to deploy laravel version 5.3 of PHP 5.6.3?
Thanks to everyone for any relevant references (articles, reasoning that I could submit to my Director) and arguments that will help me.
