Title: PHP Version Below Minimum Required
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PHP Version Below Minimum Required

 *  Resolved [cheri3714](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheri3714/)
 * (@cheri3714)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-below-minimum-required-1/)
 * I have wp2db installed on 2 websites. It works great.I can see the files backing
   up on a regular basis. I attempted to install it on another site and I get a 
   page saying the php version is below min.
 * I went ahead and tried to install the alternative version of the plugin and still
   got the same error.
 * I am running php version 5.3.13
 * Thanks!
    Cheri
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-below-minimum-required-1/#post-3625372)
 * Gday,
 * I am using the PHP_VERSION_ID constant to determine the the version of PHP you
   are running.
 * [http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php#constant.php-version-id](http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php#constant.php-version-id)
 * The deprecated message will tell you the contents of this version in the message
   here:
 * “So, unfortunately your version of PHP (YOUR_VERSION_ID) is below version 5.2.16”.
 * What does yours say?
 * Cheers,
    Mikey
 *  Thread Starter [cheri3714](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheri3714/)
 * (@cheri3714)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-below-minimum-required-1/#post-3625373)
 * mine says the same thing but then adds a link to download another version of 
   back-up I tried downloading it and got the same page.
 * I really like this plugin not sure why its not working this time.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-below-minimum-required-1/#post-3625385)
 * I did some research and found a more idiomatic way of doing version checking 
   that I will add to the next release.
 * Hopefully this will fix your problem.
 * Cheers,
    Mikey

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-below-minimum-required-1/#post-3625385)
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