[Refdb-users] phpweb: Problems with correct handling of $formfields[] array

[O. H. <oha...@ze...>]

Running refdb from SVN (Rev 813 at the moment) with some necessary FreeBSD patches, we
had to move to PHP 7.1 recently. Since then, the phpweb Interface acts weird and very
unconvenient in some places when inserting data or when using "Edit this entry" on an
already existing entry.

When selecting  Reference type to be "Report" or "Web page" (we use those a lot, I can
not tell whether there are other types with the same issues), the "title" is empty/gone
whenever we choose "Edit this entry". The same is for "Local URL". These problems are
since back pre 1.0 of refdb.

With the recent svn version and PHP 7.1, now the fields "Publication Year (most recent)"
and "Publication Year(earlier or additional)" do have some serious issues. Additionaly to
the above mentioned problems when Editing an existing refdb entry, PY and Y2 become
truncated. Somehow the year is truncated to one digit (for 2018, it remains 2) and the
month and day as well as the optional "Other:" field have some strange settings, even
when nothing inserted.

Kind regards,

oh