: Compatibility Test
Test | Should Be | What You Have |
---|---|---|
PHP | 5.2.0 or higher | |
XML | Enabled | |
PCRE | Enabled | |
Zlib | Enabled | |
mbstring | Enabled | |
iconv | Enabled | |
Tidy | Enabled | |
cURL | Enabled | |
HttpRequestPool | Enabled | |
allow_url_fopen | Enabled | |
HTTP Redirects | Enabled |
What does this mean?
- You have everything you need to run properly! Congratulations!
- PHP: You are running a supported version of PHP. No problems here.
- XML: You have XMLReader support or a version of XML support that isn't broken installed. No problems here.
- PCRE: You have PCRE support installed. No problems here.
- allow_url_fopen: You have allow_url_fopen enabled. No problems here.
- Zlib: You have
Zlib
enabled. This allows SimplePie to support GZIP-encoded feeds. No problems here. - Zlib: The
Zlib
extension is not available. SimplePie will ignore any GZIP-encoding, and instead handle feeds as uncompressed text. - mbstring and iconv: You have both
mbstring
andiconv
installed! This will allow to handle the greatest number of languages. No problems here. - mbstring:
mbstring
is installed, buticonv
is not. - iconv:
iconv
is installed, butmbstring
is not. - mbstring and iconv: You do not have either of the extensions installed. This will significantly impair your ability to read non-English feeds, as well as even some English ones.
- Tidy: You have
Tidy
support installed. No problems here. - Tidy: The
Tidy
extension is not available. should still work with most feeds, but you may experience problems with some. - cURL: You have
cURL
support installed. No problems here. - cURL: The
cURL
extension is not available. SimplePie will usefsockopen()
instead. - HttpRequestPool: You have
HttpRequestPool
support installed. No problems here. - HttpRequestPool: The
HttpRequestPool
class is not available. will usefile_get_contents()
instead to fetch URLs sequentially rather than in parallel. - HTTP Redirects: Your server appears to handle redirects ok. No problems here.
- HTTP Redirects: Your server appears not to be able to handle HTTP redirects. should still work with most feeds, but you may experience problems with some.
- allow_url_fopen: Your PHP configuration has allow_url_fopen disabled. will not work here.
- PCRE: Your PHP installation doesn't support Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions. will not work here.
- XML: Your PHP installation doesn't support XML parsing. will not work here.
- PHP: You are running an unsupported version of PHP. will not work here.
Bottom Line: Yes, you can!
Your webhost has its act together!
You can download the latest version of from FiveFilters.org.
Note: Passing this test does not guarantee that will run on your webhost — it only ensures that the basic requirements have been addressed. If you experience any problems, please let us know.
Bottom Line: Yes, you can!
For most feeds, it'll run with no problems. There are certain languages that you might have a hard time with though.
You can download the latest version of from FiveFilters.org.
Note: Passing this test does not guarantee that will run on your webhost — it only ensures that the basic requirements have been addressed. If you experience any problems, please let us know.
Bottom Line: We're sorry…
Your webhost does not support the minimum requirements for . It may be a good idea to contact your webhost, and ask them to install a more recent version of PHP as well as the xmlreader
, xml
, mbstring
, iconv
, curl
, and zlib
extensions. And ask them to enable allow_url_fopen.
This compatibility test has been borrowed (and slightly adapted) from the one supplied by SimplePie.org. We have kept most of their checks intact as we use SimplePie in our application.