Feedback to: Textpattern CMS 4.8.0-beta.3 released

philwareham · 2020-02-14 16:00:10

Please provide any feedback here related to Textpattern 4.8.0-beta.3 released.

We appreciate all feedback. Please check the issue queue before raising a problem.

colak · 2020-02-14 16:32:20

Uploaded. Thanks so much guys. No issues spotted yet.

gaekwad · 2020-02-14 18:47:33

Beta demo site updated just now, sorry for the delay – work was a bit crazy.

jakob · 2020-02-14 21:21:05

Great progress again! Thanks to you all, and Pete you weren’t slow by any means!

amordecosmos · 2020-02-15 04:20:07

I did a fresh install on a brand new DigitalOcean droplet and got this in setup (immediately after choosing language.)

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function Textpattern\Module\Help\simplexml_load_file() in /var/www/html/textpattern/vendors/Textpattern/Module/Help/HelpAdmin.php:77 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/textpattern/vendors/Textpattern/Module/Help/HelpAdmin.php(130): Textpattern\Module\Help\HelpAdmin::pophelp_load(‘en-us’) #1 /var/www/html/textpattern/lib/txplib_html.php(1189): Textpattern\Module\Help\HelpAdmin::pophelp(‘table_prefix’) #2 /var/www/html/textpattern/lib/txplib_html.php(880): popHelp(‘table_prefix’) #3 /var/www/html/textpattern/setup/index.php(305): inputLabel(‘setup_table_pre…’, ‘\n<input name=“d…’, ‘table_prefix’, Array, Array) #4 /var/www/html/textpattern/setup/index.php(139): step_getDbInfo() #5 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/textpattern/vendors/Textpattern/Module/Help/HelpAdmin.php on line 77

gaekwad · 2020-02-15 07:59:59

amordecosmos wrote #321669:

I did a fresh install on a brand new DigitalOcean droplet and got this in setup (immediately after choosing language.)

Likely missing the PHP XML functionality from system requirements. What operating system? What PHP version? Did you install PHP from apt / yum or similar, or compile from source?

Edit: added sys reqs link.

Last edited by gaekwad (2020-02-15 08:01:12)

phiw13 · 2020-02-15 09:35:06

From the GH / download page, I noted this:

Permit multiple forms to be fetched from the database at once for performance improvements.

Is there some more details about this?

amordecosmos · 2020-02-15 14:20:55

Standard Digital Ocean LAMP one-click.

Ubuntu/PHP 7.2

I’ve run tons of TXP on Digital Ocean before.

Last edited by amordecosmos (2020-02-15 14:21:20)

gaekwad · 2020-02-15 14:30:23

amordecosmos wrote #321674:

Standard Digital Ocean LAMP one-click.

Ubuntu/PHP 7.2

I’ve run tons of TXP on Digital Ocean before.

Out of interest, if you open Diagnostics, then PHP Configuration, do you have a ‘SimpleXML’ and/or ‘XML’ header in the output?

Edit: I ask because I’ve had XML issues with the PHP 7.* defaults before, sometimes the XML-related components aren’t included.

Last edited by gaekwad (2020-02-15 14:31:13)

amordecosmos · 2020-02-15 14:55:45

Apparently they were not included this time.

I ‘apt-get install php-xml’ and now everything is okay.

Thank you!

gaekwad · 2020-02-15 14:57:41

amordecosmos wrote #321676:

Apparently they were not included this time.

I ‘apt-get install php-xml’ and now everything is okay.

Exactly the same issue I had – glad it’s fixed. I don’t know whether DO PHP is just compiled differently, but my gut feeling is XML stuff is not included in PHP 7 like it was with PHP 5.

jakob · 2020-02-15 15:14:19

Given that DO is fairly popular and a generally respected hosting option, might it make sense to trap this error more elegantly? Or allow one to proceed if not vital?

gaekwad · 2020-02-15 15:29:35

jakob wrote #321678:

Given that DO is fairly popular and a generally respected hosting option, might it make sense to trap this error more elegantly? Or allow one to proceed if not vital?

There’s this: github.com/textpattern/textpattern/issues/1309

Personally I’m in favour of a sys req check in the initial setup routine, but not sure how best to catch upgrades where the sys reqs have changed on, say, a big jump in Textpattern versions.

gaekwad · 2020-02-15 15:31:21

Follow up: I’ve got a vague memory of all Ubuntu PHP 7.* seemingly being compiled without XML support, presumably with the ready availability of php-xml it’s easy to mitigate. Don’t quote me on this, though.

Edit: yep – I’m not imagining it – here: forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=318130#p318130

Last edited by gaekwad (2020-02-15 15:33:32)

colak · 2020-02-15 17:08:14

When using

<txp:php>echo safe_count('txp_image', "category = 'publications'");</txp:php>

in an article with textile on, I get the following error, which also prevents the page from loading.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ')' in /path/to/textpattern/publish/taghandlers.php(4323) : eval()'d code on line 1

overriding textile

==<txp:php>echo safe_count('txp_image', "category = 'publications'");</txp:php>==

works OK.

I have no worries if this remains as in the b3.:)

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