Is it possible to use PHP 5.3.3 and Symfony2/doctrine annotations?

Question

Because my site is hosted in a corporate environment, we often don't have the latest software installed. So for this particular server, it uses PHP 5.3.3.

I know if I want to use annotations, it is recommended I use at least PHP 5.3.8. I guess my question is if the annotations mentioned in this Symfony2/Doctrine page ( Symfony2/Doctrine link here ) is the same same annotations being talked about in config.php?

Thanks very much :)

Answer 1

From README file:

Symfony2 is a PHP 5.3 full-stack web framework. It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP.

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Symfony2 is only supported on PHP 5.3.3 and up.

but PHP versions before 5.3.8 are known to be buggy and might not work for you:

• before PHP 5.3.4, if you get "Notice: Trying to get property of non-object", you've hit a known PHP bug (see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52083 and https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50027 );

• before PHP 5.3.8, if you get an error involving annotations, you've hit a known PHP bug (see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55156 ).

• PHP 5.3.16 has a major bug in the Reflection subsystem and is not suitable to run Symfony2 ( https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62715 )

I will suggest you to upgrade your php version so that you can develop more secure sites.