PHP 8.3 compatibility patch

[Forsaken]

I find it crazy only about 50% of customers run PHP8. That was released 3.5 years ago

Compatibility issues (a lot of extensions got deprecated and no longer are supported on 8.0), or shared hosting that still defaults to 7.4.

 

[duderuud]

Yeah I get that. But the funny part is, the internet is (perceived to be) on the forefront of bleeding edge tech...while, in the same time, the underlying engine is really really old.

Never understood that.

 

[avalanch]

In november we'll have php 8.4 available.

PHP 8.4: What's New and Changed

PHP 8.4: What's new and changed. PHP 8.4 is the active development branch and the current target for new feature and major changes and new [RFCs](%base%/rfcs). Scheduled for general availability on 2024.

php.watch

 

[RobinHood]

 

[Kirby]

Compatibility issues (a lot of extensions got deprecated and no longer are supported on 8.0), or shared hosting that still defaults to 7.4.

... and the fact that XenForo < 2.2.15 told admins that the PHP version is "recommended" if it's > 7.2, so many XenForo admins might not have been aware that they are running (severely) outdated PHP versions and thus do not upgrade even though it might be as easy as changing some options in their hosting account settings / server control panel.

But luckily this has been addressed now

 

[Chris D]

No, i mean the member that triggered the warning... does JohnQMember see it as a page fault while browsing the site, or is it just logged in ACP?

I don’t think you’ve said exactly what error you received so difficult to say but recently a lot of logs generated by newer PHP versions have been deprecation notices which are only logged in debug mode.

 

[Chris D]

This will be formally announced at some point but currently the plan is that XF 3.0 will require a minimum of PHP 8.0.

 

[briansol]

ErrorException: Template error: [E_WARNING] Increment on type bool has no effect, this will change in the next major version of PHP src/XF/BbCode/Renderer/Html.php:296