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#1 2020-10-07 08:25:42

etc
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Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

PHP 8 is coming soon and brings some 4.8.3-incompatible changes. Please stress-test PHP8RC-empowered 4.8.4 demo site, both public and admin side, and report any anomaly. Thanks!

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#2 2020-10-15 08:52:03

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

Get your login credentials from textpattern.co/demo

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#3 2020-12-11 12:35:38

etc
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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

Txp needs you again for PHP 8 compatibility testing: dev-demo.textpattern.co/dev/. Just caught few bugs this morning, please keep hunting.

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#4 2020-12-11 17:15:45

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

For any users of XAMPP, there is a new version as of yesterday that includes PHP 8.

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#5 2020-12-11 17:27:15

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

I’m flat out until next Friday but after that, I’ll help and this and read through the Docs site refresh effort thread, so as to see how I can help there too.


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#6 2020-12-11 22:04:11

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

Ok i just checked. Over on Opalstack they have it installed and although it is not the default version it can set it for use via the dashboard.


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#7 2020-12-14 23:42:18

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

so i tried installing 4.8.4 TxP on my server with PHP 8 as the setting:

I received the following errors when trying to install:

Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: mysqli_get_client_version() expects exactly 0 arguments, 1 given in /home/myid/apps/marialand_app/textpattern/setup/setup_lib.php:368 Stack trace: #0 /home/myid/apps/marialand_app/textpattern/setup/setup_lib.php(368): mysqli_get_client_version() #1 /home/myid/apps/marialand_app/textpattern/setup/index.php(365): setup_connect() #2 /home/myid/apps/marialand_app/textpattern/setup/index.php(145): step_printConfig() #3 {main} thrown in /home/myid/apps/marialand_app/textpattern/setup/setup_lib.php on line 368

does MySQL need to be confiqured for 8?

Last edited by bici (2020-12-14 23:49:42)


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#8 2020-12-15 00:22:48

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

bici wrote #327509:

so i tried installing 4.8.4 TxP on my server with PHP 8

Yeah, you’ll get those on 4.8.4, sorry. They’re fixed in the upcoming 4.8.5. If you’re able to test that and report back, it’d be much appreciated.


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#9 2020-12-15 01:00:47

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

ok. i’ll await the 4.8.5 because no matter what i did… i even created a Mariadb with utf8mb4 i was never able to instal TxP — of course using Php8

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#10 2020-12-15 09:12:07

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

Testing the 4.8.5 work-in-progress build would be really helpful, bici – thank you:

github.com/textpattern/textpattern/archive/4.8.5.zip

Note this is not the final 4.8.5, it’s the code that is currently on its way to becoming 4.8.5.

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#11 2020-12-15 12:09:13

etc
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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

It would be ace to test 4.8.5 before release, to avoid testing 4.8.6 :-)

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#12 2020-12-15 18:59:52

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Re: Testers needed: PHP 8 compatibility

why do i get this error?

Cannot Upload
The symlink “textpattern.js” could not be transferred because following symlinks is not supported.


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