# Should I Enable PHP 5.6.25

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 22, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416 "2016-09-22T02:25:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![giveadime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@giveadime](https://forum.mautic.org/u/giveadime)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416/1 "2016-09-22T02:25:42Z")

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I tried to install Mautic via Softaculous and got an error message stating  
  
  
  
The following errors were found :  
  
PHP version is less than the required 5.6.19  
  
[] Do you wish to enable PHP 5.6.25 ? (Might cause issues with your existing installations).  
  
  
  
This is on a WordPress-managed web site, and I’m not sure if WordPress will work with PHP 5.6.25. I can’t even find information about that on the web. Maybe I don’t know where to look…  
  
  
  
Anyway, is it OK to enable PHP 5.6.25, or should I wait and do more investigating?!

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**Author:** ![giveadime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@giveadime](https://forum.mautic.org/u/giveadime)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416/2 "2016-09-22T02:25:42Z")

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I tried to install Mautic via Softaculous and got an error message stating

The following errors were found :  
PHP version is less than the required 5.6.19  
[] Do you wish to enable PHP 5.6.25 ? (Might cause issues with your existing installations).

This is on a WordPress-managed web site, and I’m not sure if WordPress will work with PHP 5.6.25. I can’t even find information about that on the web. Maybe I don’t know where to look…

Anyway, is it OK to enable PHP 5.6.25, or should I wait and do more investigating?!

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**Author:** ![gerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gerry](https://forum.mautic.org/u/gerry)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416/3 "2016-09-22T07:32:07Z")

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WP should work. I’m using PHP 7 and it’s working great for WP and Mautic.

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**Author:** ![naomicbush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/naomicbush/32/93_2.png) [@naomicbush](https://forum.mautic.org/u/naomicbush)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416/4 "2016-09-22T13:27:45Z")

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@giveadime I can confirm that WordPress works with PHP 5.6+, including PHP 7. So yes, upgrade your PHP version 🙂

You can reference [https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/](https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/).

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**Author:** ![giveadime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@giveadime](https://forum.mautic.org/u/giveadime)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/should-i-enable-php-5-6-25/5416/5 "2016-09-22T23:47:49Z")

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Ah, thanks @gerry and @naomicbush!

I did it. 😃