From ba57103aaec0550bc7be23c9a1102f0b09c27e4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Jacoby <bonelifer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:04:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Lower the PHP minimum to 8.1

The extension now enables on PHP 8.1.0 and later instead of 8.3.36.
phpBB requirements are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 composer.json                    | 2 +-
 ext.php                          | 4 ++--
 language/en/install_newspage.php | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 1db6384..8dbc330 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 		}
 	],
 	"require": {
-		"php": ">=8.3.36",
+		"php": ">=8.1.0",
 		"ext-dom": "*",
 		"composer/installers": "^1.0 || ^2.0"
 	},
diff --git a/ext.php b/ext.php
index 539e51a..192c43e 100644
--- a/ext.php
+++ b/ext.php
@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ public function check_phpbb_version()
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Requires PHP 8.3.36 due to security fixes.
+	 * Requires PHP 8.1.0 or later.
 	 *
 	 * @return bool
 	 */
 	public function check_php_version()
 	{
-		return PHP_VERSION_ID >= 80336;
+		return PHP_VERSION_ID >= 80100;
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/language/en/install_newspage.php b/language/en/install_newspage.php
index a5dcf5c..b084f82 100644
--- a/language/en/install_newspage.php
+++ b/language/en/install_newspage.php
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@
 }
 
 $lang = array_merge($lang, [
-	'NEWSPAGE_NOT_ENABLEABLE'	=> 'NV Newspage could not be enabled. It needs phpBB 3.3.19 or later, PHP 8.3.36 or later, and the PHP DOM extension.',
+	'NEWSPAGE_NOT_ENABLEABLE'	=> 'NV Newspage could not be enabled. It needs phpBB 3.3.19 or later, PHP 8.1 or later, and the PHP DOM extension.',
 	'NEWSPAGE_DISABLE_OLD'		=> 'Disable the old “%s” extension first. Keep its data; do not delete it.',
 ]);