ZoneMinder 1.36.30+ No Longer Works On CentOS 7

[gandihar]

Describe Your Environment

• CentOS 7 (Latest), setup as per Zoneminder docs.
  • httpd-2.4.6-97.el7.centos.5.x86_64
  • php-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-cli-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-common-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-gd-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-intl-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-mysql-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-pdo-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-pear-1.9.4-22.el7.noarch
  • php-pecl-apcu-4.0.11-1.el7.x86_64
  • php-process-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
  • php-xml-5.4.16-48.el7.x86_64
• Zoneminder 1.36.30+ (Tested on .31) installed from RPMFusion repo
  • zoneminder-1.36.31-1.el7.x86_64
  • zoneminder-common-1.36.31-1.el7.x86_64
  • zoneminder-httpd-1.36.31-1.el7.x86_64
• Any browser

Describe the bug After upgrading to ZoneMinder 1.36.30+ (I went from .28 to .31) the ZoneMinder web interface is entirely blank. As in a single blank line is returned to the browser for any page requested. After digging through Apache and ZoneMinder error logs, it looks like the new PHP syntax added to /usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/session.php is using newer PHP syntax (PHP 7+) than what is shipped with CentOS 7 (PHP 5.4).

To Reproduce

1. Install ZoneMinder on CentOS 7 as per docs.
2. Try to hit the web interface.
3. Blank page.
4. Web server error logs show something like this:

   2022-10-31 15:46:49 Error: Fatal Error (4): syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{' in [/usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/session.php, line 129]

Expected behavior The ZoneMinder login page or console.

Hacky Work-around Going through /usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/session.php and removing the PHP 7 function return hints. i.e. public function open($path, $name): bool { becomes public function open($path, $name) {

If PHP 5 is being deprecated, please update the docs to include SCL instructions for installing PHP 7 on CentOS 7. If not, please remove PHP 7+ function return hints.

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[connortechnology]

This should have been fixed in 1.36.32.

[gandihar]

Confirmed working. TYVM