Title: [Plugin: WP Zend Library] PHP 5.3 required …
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Zend Library] PHP 5.3 required …

 *  [ixiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ixiter/)
 * (@ixiter)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-zend-library-php-53-required/)
 * … since you use `__DIR__`
    Better use `dirname(__FILE__)`, which works with PHP
   <5.3
 * I dont get, why you use the config file for the db acount data. I changed it 
   to use the WP constants from wp-config.php. Works pretty good.
 * However … its a great plugin. I was just thinking of doing exactly the same, 
   when I found this in the plugins pool.
 * Thank you!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-zend-library/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-zend-library/)

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 *  [doubleslash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubleslash/)
 * (@doubleslash)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-zend-library-php-53-required/#post-2821454)
 * You just need to add that line at the start of wp-zend-library.php to use it 
   on PHP 5.2 server :
 * `if(!defined(__DIR__)) define('__DIR__',dirname(__FILE_));`
 *  [phpflow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpflow/)
 * (@phpflow)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-zend-library-php-53-required/#post-2821654)
 * I am getting below error
    Warning: fopen([http://framework.zend.com/api/zf-version](http://framework.zend.com/api/zf-version))[
   function.fopen]: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the
   connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established
   connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in C:\wamp\www\
   wordpress\wp-content\plugins\wp-zend-library\library\Zend\Version.php on line
   72 i m passing below parametres in config.ini file
 * ;<?php exit; // do not remove ?>
 * [main]
    ; Database connection settings ; Database functionality is automatically
   disabled if any of these settings are blank. ; for available adapters see [http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.db.adapter.html](http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.db.adapter.html);
   db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL db.params.host = localhost db.params.dbname = wordpress
   db.params.username = root db.params.password =

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## Tags

 * [php 5.3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-5-3/)
 * [wp-config](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-config/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [phpflow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpflow/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-zend-library-php-53-required/#post-2821654)
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