Open mpotts95420 opened 3 years ago
glensc
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3 years ago your errors are because you using too new PHP. you can downgrade. deprecation messages can be turned of with the error_reporting php.ini setting.
you could also use automatic code fix tools to upgrade code:
mpotts95420
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3 years ago At 02:22 PM 12/23/2020, you wrote:
your errors are because you using too new PHP. you can downgrade. deprecation messages can be turned of with the error_reporting php.ini setting.
Not really. Because of the way my host system works, I can only turn off ALL error messages for every script.
you could also use automatic code fix tools to upgrade code:
If I can do that, why haven't you Phorum folks made a "fixed" version available?
Our users love and rely on the Phorum, and I hate showing it to them with a whole raft of "deprecated"s on top; it makes us all look laggardly. Do you have any idea when a PHP7-ready version will be available? Should we be beta testing? I note that the PHP gurus are already on to PHP8...
glensc
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3 years ago you could also use automatic code fix tools to upgrade code:
If I can do that, why haven't you Phorum folks made a "fixed" version available?
If you haven't noticed then the last merge was in 2016: -https://github.com/Phorum/Core/commit/8ce5dcad812fc66511423d89e8fb9c92e9cb79bc
that's an indication that there are no phorum devs active.
sookoll
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2 years ago Take a look at https://github.com/Phorum/Core/pull/1043 It is not entirely fixed to work with php8, a bunch of warnings pop up, but they are easy to fix. $PHORUM needs default values on api.php and one fix PhorumDB.php file to get it working without warnings.
My moderately used Phorum installation is gathering several hundred PHP errors an hour, and jeopardizing my website. The errors look like this:
[23-Dec-2020 17:42:12 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /home/goapples/public_html/phorum/mods/spamhurdles/api.php on line 775 [23-Dec-2020 17:42:12 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Crypt_AES has a deprecated constructor in /home/goapples/public_html/phorum/mods/spamhurdles/include/crypt/aes.php on line 110 [23-Dec-2020 17:42:12 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Crypt_Rijndael has a deprecated constructor in /home/goapples/public_html/phorum/mods/spamhurdles/include/crypt/rijndael.php on line 112 [22-Dec-2020 23:51:00 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /home/goapples/public_html/phorum/mods/spamhurdles/api.php on line 694 [22-Dec-2020 23:51:00 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /home/goapples/public_html/phorum/mods/spamhurdles/api.php on line 756
I just upgraded to 5_2_23 hoping the errors would abate, but they've intensified. I hope there's a way to turn these errors off (if they can't be fixed) ...but I have tried by adding error_reporting( 0 ) ; to the first line of index.php, and (experimentally) replacing curly brackets on line 771 of spamhurdles/api.php with parens -- this just appeared to "whack a mole" to line 775? I am way out of my depth here -- I'm an experienced PHP programmer but my "big" systems are only a few hundred lines long -- with an avid audience whose experience I don't want to muddle. I did "browse" looking for solutions, but came up empty. HELP!