CMSMS 2.2.7 Login Fatal Error

[personIsHere]

Hi all,
Fresh install of CMSMS 2.2.7. Everything worked fine as usual - no change at all to process.
When entering password on admin/login.php page i get this:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function CMSMS\password_hash() in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/lib/classes/internal/class.LoginOperations.php on line 84

which is rather frustrating...!

I have entered the password wrong, and that behaves normal and just gives you the wrong password error it usally does.
Have changed password and that still gives PHP fatal error.
I have re-installed/freshened 2.2.7 to see if anything was a bit messy on the way orignialyl and nothing has changed I am still getting issue.

I am running PHP version 5.4.45 on my server, which according to the documentation is not high enough as versions 2x require 5.6 and reccomended 7.0.
What I don't understand is why all ofmy other CMSMS installs have worked for 2.2.4, 2.2.5 and 2.2.6!
Has this documentation been updated since 2.2.7?
Is this a known issue with 2.2.7 or is it just me?

On the actual line of code I am being pointed to it says:

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$private_data['hash'] = password_hash( $user->id.$user->password.__FILE__, PASSWORD_BCRYPT );

Any advice on a reccomended course of action from this point on would be appreciated
Thanks!

[velden]

Has this documentation been updated since 2.2.7?
Is this a known issue with 2.2.7 or is it just me?

This indeed has changed for version 2.2.7

[DIGI3]

PHP 5.4 is very old. Your only course of action, other than restoring from backup, is to upgrade PHP. You should do this anyway, the performance and security benefits are well worth it.

We included the PHP version requirement change in the changelog, release notes, forum post, newsletter, and all of our social media outlets. There's only so much we can do to get your attention