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ForumPostAssistant / FPA

The Forum Post Assistant (FPA) script has been developed to assist Joomla!® forum posters to be able to post relevant system, instance, PHP and troubleshooting information directly in to a pre-formatted forum post. This will save a few hours of posting back and forth, asking for, and explaining how to acquire useful information in order for other forum users to help troubleshoot a problem.
https://forumpostassistant.github.io/docs/
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Missing Extensions Should Account for Upstream PHP Changes #40

Closed mbabker closed 6 years ago

mbabker commented 6 years ago

When the FPA is run on PHP versions where these extensions are no longer available, the FPA should not report them as potentially missing. This can be misleading to end users or to individuals providing support on the forums as it may be suggested to someone they need to install these dead extensions.

frostmakk commented 6 years ago

Agree. These, and several other PHP related settings/extensions should be evaluated in the preparations of the 2.0 rewrite of the FPA. While I have your ears: Mcrypt is still listed as a Joomla technical requirement. https://downloads.joomla.org/technical-requirements When is it required, and when is it not? Is it before a certain Joomla version, or is it Joomla running on PHP before v7, or...?

mbabker commented 6 years ago

Sometime after we started testing PHP 7.1 compatibility did we go through the effort to decouple the one point in the code that had a hard mcrypt requirement. Definitely since 3.8.0 that's not true anymore (I think that code got replaced with an OpenSSL adapter if I remember right, it was in the two factor authentication stuff).

RussW commented 6 years ago

@frostmakk , Sveinung can this be assigned to you to update in the v1 release when you have the time? and as we progress with v2 it will be incorporated there as well.

@mbabker, Michael if you are interested in having some input in to the currently planned FPA v2 update, let me know and we can have a chat.

frostmakk commented 6 years ago

I'll look into it.

frostmakk commented 6 years ago

Implemented in v1.4.1