1.0-beta5 and PHP7

[Abigail Laufer]

Hi!   Will 1.0-beta5 be released with support for PHP7 sometime in the Fall or early Winter?   PHP 5.6 is EOL as of December 31st 2018.

Thank you!

[Mike Hagedon]

We don't currently have a release date for 1.0-beta5, but your concern is quite valid. In the meantime, the master branch of GotS supports PHP7.

[jessi...@sjsu.edu]

Hi Mike,

I am trying to install GotS with PHP 7.2.4 and download the zip from Github master branch. It seems that this version from Github doesn't provide lib/ folder. Then I downloaded the lib/ from the zip on https://ualibraries.github.io/Guide-on-the-Side/about.html.

However, when I try to access the home page, I got the error:

Fatal error: Cannot use 'Object' as class name as it is reserved

I am wondering which version of CakePHP you are using to work with PHP 7? 

thank you very much for your information.

Jessie Cai

[jessi...@sjsu.edu]

Hi Mike,

Just follow up Tuesday's message. I've installed CakePHP 2.10.11 with GotS. And it seems that it's working fine except four PHP Warnings were found:

1, Declaration of SteppableBehavior::beforeSave(&$Model) should be compatible with ModelBehavior::beforeSave(Model $model, $options = Array) in XXX/app/Model/Behavior/SteppableBehavior.php

2, Declaration of TaggableBehavior::afterFind(Model $Model, $results, $primary) should be compatible with ModelBehavior::afterFind(Model $model, $results, $primary = false) in XXX/app/Plugin/Tags/Model/Behavior/TaggableBehavior.php

3, Declaration of TaggableBehavior::afterSave(Model $Model) should be compatible with ModelBehavior::afterSave(Model $model, $created, $options = Array) in XXX/app/Plugin/Tags/Model/Behavior/TaggableBehavior.php

4, Declaration of CsvImportBehavior::setup(Model &$Model, $settings = Array) should be compatible with ModelBehavior::setup(Model $model, $config = Array) in XXX//app/Plugin/Utils/Model/Behavior/CsvImportBehavior.php

thanks,
Jessie

[Mike Hagedon]

Good news! Thanks for the report. GotS does have some warnings that need to be cleaned up.

Mike

[J. Robert West]

Can anyone, provide further details about getting GotS to work with PHP7.  I see that Jessie Cai got it working with Cake 2.10.11, but I am not sure where to PUT Cake 2.10.11 in the GotS folder structure to make it work -- assuming I can acquire that version of the cakePHP framework.  Ideally, I would like to get it to work with AT LEAST PHP v7.1.

[J. Robert West]

Update:  I think I got it!  Here is how I did the upgrade to GotS, so that it would work on a web server running PHP v7.1:

1. Found cakePHP v2.10.20, here That is a full distro of cakePHP, but we only need the 'Cake' folder at <downloaded start folder>\Cake\lib\Cake.
2. Moved the 'Cake' folder for cakePHP v2.6.3 -- which ships with beta4 of GotS -- from <GotS folder>\lib\Cake on my web server, to a safe place.  (So as to have something to fallback to, if this became a problem.)
3. Copied the new 'Cake' folder for cakePHP v2.10.20 from <downloaded start folder>\Cake\lib\Cake, to the <GotS folder>\lib\ folder on my web server.

FYI, I spent a lot of time trying to reconfigure GotS to work with cakePHP v3.6+ -- did not really fuss much with cakePHP v4.x -- to no avail.  The key ingredient to ver 2.x is that it keeps the 'bootstrap.php' and the 'basics.php' files in the Cake root directory, instead of in sub-folders thereof.

[Mike Hagedon]

Glad you got it... that is indeed how to do it!