Jan Dembowski on "Wordpress and PHP Versions"

New version of PHP is 5.2.17, I seen that we need 5.2.4 to run the latest version of WordPress, so looks like that won't work.

You need at least PHP 5.2.4. The 5.2.17 is later so you should be fine with the current 3.5.1 version of WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

Edit: OK now she beat me to it. Order is restored to the Universe. ;)