# Do I have to upgrade to edit a site built on 1.3 version of cakephp

**URL:** <https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/do-i-have-to-upgrade-to-edit-a-site-built-on-1-3-version-of-cakephp/498>\
**Category:** Need Help\
**Created:** [June 8, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/do-i-have-to-upgrade-to-edit-a-site-built-on-1-3-version-of-cakephp/498 "2016-06-08T23:16:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![dcowen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3d9bf3/32.png) [@dcowen](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/dcowen)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/do-i-have-to-upgrade-to-edit-a-site-built-on-1-3-version-of-cakephp/498/1 "2016-06-08T23:16:38Z")

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I have been given the job to work on a site that was built on 1.3 v cakephp. We don’t have the development server or anything other than the production code. I am VERY new to CakePHP, but not PHP. What is recommended in this circumstance? Thank you!

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**Author:** ![rrd](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/rrd/32/113_2.png) [@rrd](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/rrd)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/do-i-have-to-upgrade-to-edit-a-site-built-on-1-3-version-of-cakephp/498/2 "2016-06-10T14:31:19Z")

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Cake 1.3 now is more than 5 years old. If you want to do some small changes, just go ahead, it will work - except if you are using PHP 7.

For bigger changes the best way would be rewrite the whole thing for CakePHP 3.

I would not reccomend to update it. Resons are here: [Upgrading from 1.2](http://discourse.cakephp.org/t/upgrading-from-1-2/368/2)