Support for PHP7

[VCD]

I am using the release phpvirtualbox-4.3-3 and phpvirtualbox-5.0-4 but found that it couldn't work with PHP7 (I need PHP7 for my new project).

I tried to trace the code, and found that in file "lib/auth/Builtin.php" (of phpvirtualbox-4.3-3), the "break" statement at line 173 and line 181 have to change to "return". Next, need to installed package php-xml.x86_64 on my CentOS to enable SimpleXML. The login prompt is working afterwards but it still doesn't work after input the username and password with parse error at "lib/ajax.php". I didn't go further as I need to continue my work.

I am looking forward for phpVirtualBox to include support for PHP7 :)

[VCD]

After further tracing, in file "lib/ajax.php", line 304 should change from:

$vbox->$vboxRequest['fn']($vboxRequest,array(&$response));

to

$vbox->{$vboxRequest['fn']}($vboxRequest,array(&$response));

It seems phpVirtualBox is working correct after this change (together with other changes I mentioned in my early post).

Hope phpVirtualBox can include the change in the next release :)

[Mark Bertolina]

New versions of phpVirtualBox have this code section in /endpoints/api.php instead of lib/ajax.php . VCD's suggestions above ending with adding {}s indeed did fix that line, and was enough to start the web-interface working again.
My system is:
Arch
extra/apache 2.4.18-1
extra/php 7.0.1-5
community/phpvirtualbox 5.0_3-1

You can find php errors, and thus other lines that need to fixed, on a default install as above here:
/var/log/httpd/error_log

In my case:
"
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Function name must be a string in /usr/share/webapps/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/api.php:316\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n thrown in /usr/share/webapps/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/api.php on line 316
"

Which I changed to:

//$vbox->$request['fn']($request['params'],array(&$response));
$vbox->{$request['fn']}($request['params'],array(&$response));

[Sergej Pupykin]

Also you need to replace break with return in updateUser function

[Ian Moore]

Thanks! I'll have this fixed in the next release.

[Ian Moore]

OK, 5.0-5 (the latest release) supports php 7.

[Mark Bertolina]

Thanks a lot for fixing this so quickly, and phpvirtualbox in general !

[Paul]

I have same problem in 5.0.5 not working with new ubuntu server 16.04 with php7...
An unknown PHP error occurred. This is most likely a syntax error in config.php in phpVirtualBox's folder. The most common errors are an unclosed quote or a missing semicolon in a configuration item that has been entered (e.g. location, username, or password).

[Kasper Hedegaard]

Hey guys! I found another error, which I cannot decipher - any help would be appreciated!

[Thu Jun 02 11:21:49.109049 2016] [:error] [pid 2007] [client 192.168.1.133:55739] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/lib/language.php:73\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/language.php(15): __vbox_language->__construct()\n#1 {main}\n  thrown in /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/lib/language.php on line 73, referer: http://192.168.1.103/phpvirtualbox/

Line 73 in the language.php reads this:

$xmlObj = simplexml_load_string(@file_get_contents(VBOX_BASE_LANG_DIR.'/'.$lang.'.xml'));

BR Kasper

[Kasper Hedegaard]

Fix for above mentioned error was:

sudo apt-get install php-xml

Restart the servers and everything was working :)

Found the answer in another forum question! Have a nice day! WUHUU!

[mstudio]

phpvirtualbox doesn't work with the last PHP update. Please fix it. Thanks

[Ronny Ager-Wick]

In order to get phpVirtualBox 5.0.5 to work on Ubuntu 16.04 you need to do the following:
sudo apt-get install php-xml php-soap
sudo service apache2 restart # or similar for nginx or whtever other webserver you use

[Andrés Sánchez]

doesn't work in php7. Any another ideas.

Ubuntu server+php7+phpvirtualbox5.05