PHP Version 8.x Compatibility

[Gavin Spomer]

Hello,

I upgraded PHP on our web server from version 7.4 to 8.0 last Monday. Our Access Services staff brought to my attention that the Suma client was producing an error:

Error sending data to server. This may be caused by issues including server outages and Wi-Fi connectivity problems. The data will be retained by the browser. Please contact an administrator if this doesn't resolve itself soon: Internal Server Error.

I checked my logs and found that the issue was caused by a call to the deprecated get_magic_quotes_gpc function:

Since magic quotes type functions are deprecated as of PHP 7.4.0 and removed as of PHP 8.0.0, is there plans to upgrade Suma to work with PHP 8.0?

Thanks for your time.

Gavin Spomer

Systems Programmer

Brooks Library

Central Washington University

[Jesse Russell]

Hello,

Was there any followup on this that didn't occur here? I mean this will eventually spell the end of Suma if not updated right? PHP 7.4 is out of active support and only receiving security support until November of this year. So any server with a Suma instance after November will either vulnerable or broken.

[Julie Wood]

I am successfully running our instance of suma (4.0) on php v. 8.1.6.  

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 11:47 AM 'Jesse Russell' via Suma: mobile library assessment toolkit <suma-mobile-library...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello, Was there any followup on this that didn't occur here? I mean this will eventually spell the end of Suma if not updated right? PHP 7.4 is out of active support and only receiving security support until November of this year. So any server

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[Jason Casden]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the late reply. I made an initial attempt at addressing PHP 8.x compatibility issues, but I think there may be more work to be done. If anyone would like to contribute to this as a tester, you can find the draft PR here: https://github.com/suma-project/Suma/pull/152

Thanks,

Jason

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[Jason Casden]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to follow up on this thread to say that we've released Suma 4.1.0 with PHP 8.1 support. We are running this in production at UNC and all seems to be working well. It also appears to be working normally on PHP 7.4 and I expect that it would work at least as far back as PHP 7.1.

https://github.com/suma-project/Suma/releases/tag/v4.1.0

Thanks,

Jason

[Gavin Spomer]

Thanks Jason! Big apologies for my very late reply. 

 - Gavin