PHP 5.6 goes obsolete

Started by Puritan, 11 August 2018, 14:57:48

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Puritan

On 02 December 2018 the server we're operating from are shutting down PHP 5.6.
The new PHP 7.0 (7.1 - 7.2 - ....etc) would be the lowest PHP standard.

This site is tested for PHP 7.0 and should work well.

The question that remain is; what will happen with the forums?
As of August 2018 the SMF sofware is buggy.
Escpecially "Sessions" is affected. Meaning that log in/out might crash.
Also posting in forum threads is buggy as of now.

Hopefully, the SMF team will have ironed out the bugs by December.

(We're now operating on PHP 5.6 until further notice)


-Puritan
Bitter words mean little to me. Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time, when they asked me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine, and the sadness would be lifted from my eyes
Oh when I'm old and wise

Forge

MyBB is fairly similar to SMF, and is compatible with php 7.x. (make sure the inc/config.php reads mysqli instead of mysql if you get errors)
From my experience I think it actually has more features that allow finer control over the forum.

I believe there's a migration feature as well.

https://mybb.com/
Take it down to the beach with a hammer and pound sand up your ass

Puritan

Quote from: Forge on  11 August 2018, 16:06:28
MyBB is fairly similar to SMF, and is compatible with php 7.x. (make sure the inc/config.php reads mysqli instead of mysql if you get errors)
From my experience I think it actually has more features that allow finer control over the forum.

I believe there's a migration feature as well.

https://mybb.com/


I'll have a look at it.
Seems to be a good alternative.
Thank you  :)
Bitter words mean little to me. Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time, when they asked me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine, and the sadness would be lifted from my eyes
Oh when I'm old and wise

Puritan

For those who cares; we've migrated to php ver 7.1 a few days ago.
The login errors that appeared when I tried php 7.1 earlier this fall is now history.

It seems that the only feature that isn't working is the 5-star rating system.
It's not a feature that many are using anyway.
But I will ironing it out as soon as I'm able to convert the scripts involved.
Bitter words mean little to me. Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time, when they asked me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine, and the sadness would be lifted from my eyes
Oh when I'm old and wise

Puritan

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Quote from: Puritan on  01 December 2018, 20:43:40
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It seems that the only feature that isn't working is the 5-star rating system.
It's not a feature that many are using anyway.
But I will ironing it out as soon as I'm able to convert the scripts involved.


I've re-written all the codes into PHP 7 and MySQLi
The rating system should be up and running again.


Thanks
Bitter words mean little to me. Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time, when they asked me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine, and the sadness would be lifted from my eyes
Oh when I'm old and wise