Let's start a discussion about PHP versions

Many of us have been encountering php 8 issues.

I have had my own questions with Ray, albeit not 8 but upgrading to at least 7 with this thread:
https://webassist.com/forums/posts.php?id=46828

For those of you have have upgraded from pre-7 to 8, please share your insights as to how to get WA extensions compatible, if there are issues, how to solve etc.

All insights much appreciated.

I'm in the process of upgrading all the sites I manage from PHP7.4 to 8.2 and got a series of PHP errors, but having now gone through the process on several different sites these are the steps I took to fix the errors:

Check your Connections file - if you have the charset set to utf8 or utf-8, change it to UTF8 (uppercase).

Make sure you have the latest version Data Bridge installed, and replace the following folders/files if they were generated using an older version:

- webassist/mysqli folder containing authentication.php, queryobj.php & rsobj.php

- If you use WA Email, also replace the following in the webassist/email folder:

- WA_Email.php
- phpmailer folder

- If you use form validations, replace the webassist/form_validations folder containing wavt_scripts_php.php and wavt_validatedform_php.php

I would STRONGLY advise that you make a copy of the existing files & folders before doing any updates, just in case you have to roll back for any reason. All the above updates can be done before you upgrade to php8.2 - the upgrade should be the final step.

There could be other updates required depending on which WA products you're using, but hopefully this will help some of you. I've attached copies of the files & folders mentioned above which were generated using the latest version of DataBridge.

This is such a great help! I appreciate your input.

thanks for this

I'm trying to upgrade a very old (on php 5.4 - dont judge!) site to run on 8 and thanks for the updated files above....am still having an issue (have updated the admin_cms/optimization.php and WA_CMS/WA_CMS.php as well, edited the connection files and ams till having an issue if anyone has any thoughts on what I need to do.

The error am getting is

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_select_db() in /home/sites/11b/a/a418e89e1e/public_html/WA_Globals/WA_Globals.php:39 Stack trace: #0 /home/sites/11b/a/a418e89e1e/public_html/admin_cms/page_contents_results.php(18): require_once() #1 {main} thrown in /home/sites/11b/a/a418e89e1e/public_html/WA_Globals/WA_Globals.php on line 39

thanks in advance

Hi Jamie, have you updated the server behaviors? Once you've upgraded to a mySQLi connection you need to double-click on any WA server behaviors in the panel on all pages in the site that use them and then click OK, re-save the pages and re-upload any WA files that have been automatically updated. That should fix most issues although there may be some left over that still need attention.

thank you MWilson for all your input.

to others on this list, please contribute as you have ideas/insights too

Your input doesn't need to be exact but your experience on what you have tried/failed/succeeded may help someone else.

thanks @MWilson - yes, all the server behaviours are now mysqli. Cant seem to find which area is causing this. Its basically the login management for the CMS - the rest of the site works fine!

Looks like the issue is in the WA_Globals.php file - could you upload a copy and I can try comparing it to my working versions?

thanks @Mags - the file is in my post above

I've done a quick comparison on a working installation on PHP8.2 and I notice in your file there's no inclusion of the rsobj.php file - I wonder if that's what the issue is?

In my file, I have it just after the Connection file:
<?php
require_once("../Connections/PowerCMSConnection.php");
?>
<?php
require_once("../webassist/mysqli/rsobj.php");
?>

My file hasn't been updated since 2019 though, so doesn't look like I had to change anything when I upgraded from php5 as it was after 2019. I've attached my file for reference, but you could maybe try adding the rsobj.php include to your file and see if that makes a difference?