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b0blee
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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 5:12 pm
Post subject: Upgrade for PHP 7.x |
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phpBB2 works with PHP 5.6, but I'd like to run it under PHP 7.x. The main problem is that the MySQL API from PHP 5 is no longer available in PHP 7.
What is the best way to convert phpBB2 to run under PHP 7?
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Vendethiel
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:28 pm
Post subject: Re: Upgrade for PHP 7.x |
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Hi,
This is the class I put up together for my own use: mysqli.php.
You can also try Premod-Shadow's file, it supposedly runs mysqli as well -- Mine is based on it!
I've gotten quite a few premodded boards to run on PHP7+ so feel free to ask if you have other issues.
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lumpy burgertushie
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:58 pm
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| b0blee wrote: | phpBB2 works with PHP 5.6, but I'd like to run it under PHP 7.x. The main problem is that the MySQL API from PHP 5 is no longer available in PHP 7.
What is the best way to convert phpBB2 to run under PHP 7? |
doing a search here comes up with quite a few issues with getting phpbb2 to even run under php5.6
like anything, getting it to run on php7 is possible but I wonder if it is worth the effort if you are not a php programmer.
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b0blee
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:35 pm
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| Vendethiel wrote: | Hi,
This is the class I put up together for my own use: mysqli.php.
You can also try Premod-Shadow's file, it supposedly runs mysqli as well -- Mine is based on it!
I've gotten quite a few premodded boards to run on PHP7+ so feel free to ask if you have other issues. |
That's very impressive. how would I go about integrating it into phpBB2?
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Vendethiel
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 5:15 pm
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It should be *almost* a drop-in replacement of your mysql.php, the SQL_LAYER needs fixed, and the cache part needs removed if your current mysql class doesnβt implement it.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:57 pm
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Hi,
I get a 404 on github?
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dogs and things
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:29 am
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Danke schΓΆn! 
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Vendethiel
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:56 am
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Oops, I moved that file a week ago, forgot about this.
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b0blee
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:17 am
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So, do I understand this correctly?
1) add mysqli.php to the system
2) point to it in includes/db.php
Is that all there is to it?
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StarWolf3000
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:53 am
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| b0blee wrote: | So, do I understand this correctly?
1) add mysqli.php to the system
2) point to it in includes/db.php
Is that all there is to it? |
If you don't use IntegraMOD, then you place the file in phpbb_root_path/db/, and switch to it in the config.php. |
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Vendethiel
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:44 pm
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I think it's just a lot easier to replace your mysql file with my mysqli file, and change the constant SQL_LAYER to mysql, just to support old phpBB code that switch()es on SQL_LAYER.
Thankfully a lot of code checks that it "starts with mysql" (to support mysql and mysql4) and the rest mostly considers mysql the default, so it should already work with mysqli.
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b0blee
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 3:08 am
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| Vendethiel wrote: | | I think it's just a lot easier to replace your mysql file with my mysqli file, and change the constant SQL_LAYER to mysql, just to support old phpBB code that switch()es on SQL_LAYER. |
Are you saying that you rename mysqli.php to mysql.php, and just change the one line that defines the constant in it?
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Vendethiel
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:06 pm
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I don't want to mislead you, so I'll be trying this procedure on another one of my phpBB2 boards and get back to you with a working procedure.
I'll probably skip the install section though, is that OK?
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b0blee
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:40 am
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| Vendethiel wrote: | I don't want to mislead you, so I'll be trying this procedure on another one of my phpBB2 boards and get back to you with a working procedure.
I'll probably skip the install section though, is that OK? |
Great! Thanks.
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