Title: PHP 5.4 compatible?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP 5.4 compatible?

 *  [coloradocory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coloradocory/)
 * (@coloradocory)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/)
 * wrepofidaho.com is hosted with 1and1.com and they recently switched to PHP 5.4.
   I am getting “Sorry, it took too long to find the document at the original source.
   Please try again later.” message in standard viewer. Could the PHP change be 
   the issue? Other thoughts? It was working fine for months without any changes.
   I have updated GDE also.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-document-embedder/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-document-embedder/)

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 *  [k3davis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3davis/)
 * (@k3davis)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/#post-3840555)
 * Hi there,
 * PHP 5.4 shouldn’t be a problem. The error you’re seeing is cropping up occasionally
   all over the place and is a kind of connectivity problem on Google’s end. Some
   people who have reported this saw it disappear within a day or so without any
   action, while others found that moving their files to another web host (or a 
   dropbox link temporarily) resolved the issue.
 * None of those are convenient, but unfortunately I’m at Google’s mercy in this
   regard. The plugin is working correctly but Google isn’t fetching the documents
   in a timely way for conversion. This occurs even if you use their viewer directly(
   without GDE).
 * Hopefully the problem will be resolved soon. I’ve definitely learned never to
   invest a lot of programming hours building up a product that relies on third 
   party code, because it’s frustrating for me as well when there are issues I can’t
   control.
 * Kevin
 *  Thread Starter [coloradocory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coloradocory/)
 * (@coloradocory)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/#post-3840600)
 * Thanks for the reply… my PDFs are on my server and I have also tried linking 
   to them from DropBox and GoogleDocs directly without luck.. I will try to find
   a workaround.
 *  [k3davis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3davis/)
 * (@k3davis)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/#post-3840626)
 * Google Docs probably won’t work, but if you’re trying dropbox as a workaround
   and getting a different error message, you might be able to get it to work if
   you temporarily turn off “check for errors before loading viewer” on the Advanced
   tab.
 * Wish I could give you a more direct solution. 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [coloradocory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coloradocory/)
 * (@coloradocory)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/#post-3840627)
 * Using DropBox I get source code in the preview window.
    (screenshot: [http://screencast.com/t/SAoKxVV6](http://screencast.com/t/SAoKxVV6)).
   Tried turning off “check for errors…” with no change.
 *  [k3davis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3davis/)
 * (@k3davis)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/#post-3840628)
 * Screencast link doesn’t seem good, but I’m wondering what kind of doc you’re 
   embedding (you mentioned PDF, is that all?). I’ve seen that “source code” type
   appearance in the viewer when trying to use certain Office XML docs (docx, xlsx,
   etc.). But then again it may just be the HTML source of some other error page?
 *  Thread Starter [coloradocory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coloradocory/)
 * (@coloradocory)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-54-compatible-1/#post-3840629)
 * Just PDFs hosted on site server. Screenshot again: [http://screencast.com/t/SAoKxVV6](http://screencast.com/t/SAoKxVV6)
   
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