Add PHP 8.x compatibilty (tested on PHP 8.2). Document the installation of shims to run old PHP functions.

[bjorn]

This is really an amazing feat! There's so much involved in this update, it's a little baffling how you've actually pulled it off. Thank you!

Now, there are still some remaining issues:

• I've changed the server to use a git checkout, to make it easier to keep it up to date. However, now the deletion of forums/install is a local change. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with this?

• It would be nice if the database user wasn't edited into a checked-in file. Maybe forums/config.php should be moved to forums/config.php.sample?

• I could not get the auto_prepend_file setting to work, so instead I've included the shims in forums/common.php. This is of course another annoying local change.

• I had to comment out a lot more duplicate defines. Actually I don't know what the code expected before, but I've basically commented out all RPGDX-specific defines from forums/includes/constants.php (except READS_TABLE), since they were also being defined at includes/constants.php. It's a local change until we figure out the proper fix.

• Apparently I am accessing rpgdx.net over IPv6 and the encode_ip function choked on it. Given that the result of that function is even stored in the DB in a char(8), I hacked it to just return FFFFFFFF when the IP address isn't IPv4. This of course breaks IP bans and possibly other IP-based checks.

And then there are some errors I haven't gotten around to look into yet:

• https://rpgdx.net/showgame.php?project_id=211

  Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: sizeof(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given in /home/public/showgame.php:203 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/public/showgame.php on line 203

• https://rpgdx.net/profile.php?user_id=9

  I can't find my own posts (also I can't login), likely due to encoding issues in my name (#2).

• https://rpgdx.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2831

  None of the forum posts are showing their contents. :-(

But again, thank you so much for all the updates! It would be great if you can help resolve the remaining issues as well, but I'll also see if I can resolve some of these eventually.

[bjorn]

I've addressed the sizeof() error in 661857c21cf4e4bdaea72141bac71d1c84bc7be5 and created #10 about the empty forum posts.

[Poikilos]

• I've changed the server to use a git checkout, to make it easier to keep it up to date. However, now the deletion of forums/install is a local change. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with this?

See https://github.com/bjorn/rpgdx/issues/11#issuecomment-2125937029

[Poikilos]

• It would be nice if the database user wasn't edited into a checked-in file. Maybe forums/config.php should be moved to forums/config.php.sample?

Yes!

Then add config.php to .gitignore

[Poikilos]

You are very welcome. I have fond memories of playing the RPGs on the site.