BibTex importing not working

[M. A.]

Is anyone else having problems importing bibtex files since upgrading to Joomla 3.9 and using php 7+?

This is the error I receive 

Call to undefined function split() 

I found that function split() was deprecated in php 7 and discovered  ./administrator/components/com_jresearch/includes/BibTex.php used split and replaced it as follows, but that didn't solve the problem. The error went away, but bibtex files aren't importing.

421c421

<             $arr = split('\{', $entry);

---

>             $arr = preg_split('\{', $entry);

630c630

<         $authorarray = split(' and ', $entry);

---

>         $authorarray = preg_split(' and ', $entry);

642c642

<                 $tmparray = split(' |~', $author);

---

>                 $tmparray = preg_split(' |~', $author);

Any suggestions? I can't give you access to my development server because I'm behind a corporate firewall.

thanks!

[M. A.]

I have edited administrator/components/com_jresearch/includes/BibTEx.php

diff BibTex.php-orig BibTex.php

421c421

<             $arr = split('\{', $entry);

---

>             $arr = preg_split('~\{~', $entry);

630,631c630,631

<         $authorarray = split(' and ', $entry);

<         for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($authorarray); $i++) {

---

>         $authorarray = preg_split('~and~', $entry);

>         for ($i = 0; $i < is_array($authorarray); $i++) {

642,643c642,643

<                 $tmparray = split(' |~', $author);

<                 $size     = sizeof($tmparray);

---

>                 $tmparray = preg_split('~|~', $author);

>                 $size     = is_array($tmparray);

And now, I get this error 

Argument 1 passed to JResearchMember::bindFromArray() must be of the type array, string given, called in administrator/components/com_jresearch/helpers/importers/bibtex.php on line 57 

I think this is using the function from administrator/components/com_jresearch/tables/member.php, but I can't figure out what I need to tweak for it to behave.

[Luis Galárraga]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. The aforementioned line looks like this:

    if($member->bindFromArray(JResearchPublicationsHelper::bibCharsToUtf8FromArray($auth)))

This means that JResearchPublicationsHelper::bibCharsToUtf8FromArray is not returning an array, but a string. May I have a look at the file you are importing? It seems an encoding problem to me.

Best,

Luis

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[M. A. Ladd]

Attached are a couple of my bibtex files. I moved php BACK to 5.6 (I'm on a private Plesk server) and everything uploads properly.

[M. A.]

Did you find any problems with the bibtex files? 

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 6:54:29 PM UTC-5, M. A. wrote:

Attached are a couple of my bibtex files. I moved php BACK to 5.6 (I'm on a private Plesk server) and everything uploads properly.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:46 AM Luis Galárraga < wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. The aforementioned line looks like this:

    if($member->bindFromArray(JResearchPublicationsHelper::bibCharsToUtf8FromArray($auth)))

This means that JResearchPublicationsHelper::bibCharsToUtf8FromArray is not returning an array, but a string. May I have a look at the file you are importing? It seems an encoding problem to me.

Best,

Luis

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[M. A.]

I think I mentioned these bibtex files upload fine w/ php5.6 and JResearch 3.1

[M. A.]

In administrator/components/com_jresearch/includes/BibTEx.php, I replaced split w/ explode, and it almost worked. The @article{citekey munged together in the database and it only uploaded one publication in the two publication file. I suspect the arguments to the explode function need something different. Since split was removed in php7, one of the alternatives is needed. http://php.net/manual/en/function.split.php

[M. A.]

Any chance you have had time to work on this?

[M. A.]

I see that the person who created bibtex.php isn't updating it anymore. Any chance this could be a replacement? https://github.com/renanbr/bibtex-parser#usage