How PHP 5.4 support patch for Magento helps?

Question

I've installed Magento 1.8 Community Edition and PHP version - 5.5.8

Operating System: CentOS 6.4
I have installed and configured nginx 1.0.15 and Redis for caching.

And it seems Magento 1.8 works well in PHP 5.5.8

So I would like to know what difference it will make if I apply this patch?

Or do I need to apply this patch?

Answer 1

The patch itself is small and fixes four problems in four files.

First three problems which are fixed you probably will never see, spatially if your error report is configured to display only error.

But the last one fixed the fatal error in lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php. And this error you also will not see until you will do something connected with pdf files.

So my advice is to apply this patch.

Anyway if you want more information you can find it in this article.