<div dir="ltr">We have a similar issue here (an older Joomla version not compatible with PHP7) and decided to upgrade to a version of Joomla that is PHP7 compatible and upgrade the webservers once the regression testing is complete.  (We also have a lot of custom code inside Joomla.)<div><br></div><div>I would really consider testing your code against PHP7 and fixing any issues that arise and upgrading once you're satisfied it's PHP7 happy.   The performance increase with 7 is worth it, I think.  At least it was for us.  Besides, at some point 14.04 will be EOL and then you'll either need to migrate to 16.04 and PHP7 or hope there are no major security issues that won't get fixed.  </div><div><br></div><div>Granted, you <i>can</i> drop PHP7 and install PHP5 in 16.04 using PPAs, but for us, that was not much of a long term solution so much as a band-aid.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:44 AM, tech-lists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tech-lists@zyxst.net" target="_blank">tech-lists@zyxst.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
Is there an easy way to upgrade 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS *without*<br>
clobbering php and mysql in the upgrade? The standard upgrade will<br>
upgrade php5.x to php7 and we definitely don't want that.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
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J.<br>
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