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Updated Last: 04 October 2018

Technical Requirements

It is strongly recommended that you always use the latest stable version of Joomla (3.8+) to ensure all known bugs and security issues are fixed. To ensure full compatibility and website security verify that your server / hosting service meets the PHP requirements (below) when you try to install JoomShaper products.

The minimum and recommended PHP requirements*:

  • PHP 5.6 or PHP 7.0.x or PHP 7.1
  • MySQLi 5.5 (5.6 suggested)
  • upload_max_filesize = 4M (or more)
  • memory_limit = 128MB (256MB suggested)
  • max_execution_time = 180 (300 suggested)
  • cURL library must be installed on your server
  • Magic Quotes GPC off

Note! Support for PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 ended a long time ago.
* Those values can be changed in php.ini or .htaccess file. Please contact your web hosting service provider to be sure that your server complies with the requirements or to ask them where/how to change PHP settings.

There are some less demanding situations where Template and SPPB will perform quite well on weaker PHP settings.

Browser

We suggest to use the latest version of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera or Edge.
Note! Internet Explorer version 9 and older are NOT supported anymore even by Microsoft company.