PHP 8.1 Upgrade

[GaryM0101]

Our host provider let us know that PHP 8.1 is available. FUD 3.1.2 was tested under PHP7.4 and 8 but not sure if the sub release 8.1 is compatible. Looks like a lot of performance improvements but some new classes and functions as well.

https://www.php.net/releases/8.1/en.php

We're available to test if needed.

[naudefj]

FUDforum is fully compatible with PHP 8.1.
Personally, I would just install the latest code as FUDforum 3.1.2 is already a couple of month old.

Best regards.
Frank

[GaryM0101]

We tried upgrading to PHP 8.1 FastCGI. We tried rebuilding all themes for our test and got a depreciation error on the compiler.inc for all the themes except the default.

Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in /home/garmye2/FUDforum/include/compiler.inc on line 653
Theme grey (en) was successfully rebuilt.

Line 653 is the theme's date format. Then we notice we were getting http 500 errors when posting message replies. The http error logs shows us erroring in the post.php

[Fri Apr 08 13:18:40.943236 2022] [fcgid:warn] [pid 485943:tid 116437297764096] [client 73.225.60.238:65055] mod_fcgid: stderr: #1 /home/garmye2/vintagegruen.org/vgforum/theme/default/post.php(1209): db_li('INSERT INTO fud...', NULL)

We decided to revert back to 7.4 FastCGI for now. Note we've been on FUDforum 3.1.2 for a couple of months.