Title: PHP 7 Compatibility
Last modified: February 28, 2019

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# PHP 7 Compatibility

 *  [brycef](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brycef/)
 * (@brycef)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-compatibility-237/)
 * Hi, we are testing our sites for PHP 7 compatibility. The Cloudflare plugin yields
   these errors:
 * FILE: /wp-content/plugins/cloudflare/vendor/cloudflare/cloudflare-plugin-backend/
   src/SecurityUtil.php
    —————————————————————————————————————————————————— FOUND
   2 ERRORS AFFECTING 1 LINE —————————————————————————————————————————————————— 
   16 | ERROR | Extension ‘mcrypt’ is deprecated since PHP 7.1 and removed since
   PHP 7.2; Use openssl (preferred) or pecl/mcrypt once available instead 16 | ERROR
   | Function mcrypt_create_iv() is deprecated since PHP 7.1 and removed since PHP
   7.2; Use random_bytes() or OpenSSL instead ——————————————————————————————————————————————————
 * Can you help address them?

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 *  [AiratTop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airathalitov/)
 * (@airathalitov)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-compatibility-237/#post-11364497)
 * [https://github.com/cloudflare/Cloudflare-WordPress/issues/228](https://github.com/cloudflare/Cloudflare-WordPress/issues/228)
   
   this is a false positive as it is complaining about php 5 fallback code.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-php-7-2-compatibility-test/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-php-7-2-compatibility-test/)
 *  [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * (@galbaras)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-compatibility-237/#post-11364554)
 * [@brycef](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brycef/), please close this as 
   resolved.

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 * Last reply from: [Gal Baras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galbaras/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-compatibility-237/#post-11364554)
 * Status: not resolved