PHP5, released in 2014, has reached its end of life in 2018, but many hosters continued to support it. If you have any custom PHP applications, you might still be running them on a server that has a PHP5 runtime.
The upgrade path for these applications might not be obvious, but I found a way that should make it easier, so in this article we’re going to have a look at running PHP simultaneously with PHP5 and PHP7 using docker and docker-compose
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