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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:43:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>
To:        lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Preparing for PHP8
Message-ID:  <2081546448.50716936.1647531824973.JavaMail.zimbra@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To: <298F3F1A-EABF-4AB9-A00C-54427B9B55BB@kreme.com>
References:  <298F3F1A-EABF-4AB9-A00C-54427B9B55BB@kreme.com>

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:49:08 PM
>...
> I have heard various stories of many issued with the move to PHP8 and a lot of
> software not making the transition, so I am wondering how I can check fit
> anything that I am currently running will work with PHP8 or if I need to find
> alternatives. I know apache works with PHP8, and I am relatively sure round
> cube does, but I definitely want to check everything on the system, for
> compatibility before I make the switch.

I checked the support channel for each app I'm hosting (their requirements page and
searched their forum for PHP8).

The latest releases of the following apps support using PHP 8.0 (although some
may not support PHP 8.1 yet)

MantisBT
Nextcloud
ProjeQtOr
TimeTracker
WebERP
Phpvirtualbox (head from GitHub)
SuiteCRM v8
WackoWiki
WordPress

Of note MediaWiki does NOT support PHP8 (at least as of Christmas), so I
replaced it with WackoWiki (WebERP uses a wiki for a product/customer/vendor
knowlebase and supports both WackoWiki and MediaWiki).

> As for making the switch itself, since I am still using postmaster (I tried
> poudriwassits again, in earnest, and nope), is the postmaster -o flag still the
> best way to replace the old version?

I made a list of my PHP7 pkgs (% pkg info | grep -i php7), deleted them and
installed PHP8 equivalents. IIRC there were some seperate modules in PHP7
that are now part of the core PHP80 pkg.
 
Fwiw it took a couple hours and I did it on a live system.

Cheers,
Dale



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