Php 5.6 or 7.1 for new CB install

I realize there is no easy answer to the question of 5.6 or 7.1 as much is dependent upon which extensions to both Joomla and CB.

5.6 and Joomla 3.6.4 are recommended versions at this point in time for CB, though the tech requirements says it has been tested with PHP 7.

Given that PHP 5.6 is out of active support, although security support continues for another 20 months, would it be better to just go ahead and work through issues with PHP 7.1 now, even though that may slow down the building of our new site? Or stick with 5.6 and then tackle upgrade issues when the time comes?

Again - just seeking opinions and feedback. I realize there is no "right" answer. What would you do?

PHP 7 is still very early in its development cycle. A lot of extensions I wager will not 100% work with it. We've still a few bugs with PHP 7 due to depending on Guzzle API library for HTTP requests. We've already made plans to move our minimum PHP version to 5.6 most likely, upgrade all our dependency libraries, and we'll be able to 100% stable support PHP 7. In short for a basic usage yes PHP 7 with CB is tested working fine, but the more advanced of an install you configure the more likely you are to hit some sort of PHP 7 issue.

Personally I recommend sticking with PHP 5.6. Then clone your install to a PHP 7.1 test environment after everything you want is configured and test to make sure it continues to work fine. If it does it's safe to assume upgrading your live site to PHP 7.1 will be fine. If not then please report any CB related errors you find.

I have installed localhost Xampp with PHP7.1.1 to test and develop a new site using Joomla 3.7 which recommends PHP 7 or 7.1

My current site is Joomla 3.6.5 which is installed on the localhost prior doing the new site and has the latest CB and CBSubs but they both crash when selected in the admin panel with the following error message: Fatal error: Redefinition of parameter $user in F:\NewSite\htdocs\components\com_comprofiler\plugin\user\plug_cbreconfirmemail\cbreconfirmemail.php on line 134

I note you say"The CB Team has been testing Joomla 3.7 with Community Builder and everything is working just fine" so is this just a problem in my setup or something else

Thanks

CB is not 100% PHP 7 compatible yet. We've 3rd party libraries that are not PHP 7 compatible that we can't update until next CB build release where we'll be pushing minimum PHP version 5.6, updating those libraries, and should be able to move development environments, etc.. to PHP 7. I recommend continuing to use PHP 5.6 for now if possible.

My current site is Joomla 3.6.5 which is installed on the localhost prior doing the new site and has the latest CB and CBSubs but they both crash when selected in the admin panel with the following error message: Fatal error: Redefinition of parameter $user in F:\NewSite\htdocs\components\com_comprofiler\plugin\user\plug_cbreconfirmemail\cbreconfirmemail.php on line 134

There is no such usage on line 134. Update CB Reconfirm Email and retry.

Thanks for your reply.
Have found the old plugin cbreconfirmemail was published and after deleting this it seems to be all working properly.:blush:
Thanks again

I have the same issue. Joomla said they will update to 4.0 and it does not work with PHP less then 7. So I changes to PHP 7 and I have same error with CB Reconfirm Email, line 134. I cannot get in my admin site also. My CB Reconfirm Email plagin is up to date, last update. Now, Kyle said no issue in line 134, I just rename plug_cbreconfirmemail to plug_cbreconfirmemail.bak. Now everything works fine. Is it correct way to fix?