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[Refdb-users] php webinterface: php8: Uncaught TypeError:

[FreeBSD U. <fr...@wa...>]

Hello folks,

despite the fact that refDB is pretty inactive, it is still in use on several private
projects and internal installations. The base OS is always FreeBSD (I'm officially the
FreeBSD mainatiner so far).

Sources: most recent copy of the subversion repo provided by source forge.

Since FreeBSD ports now switched from php 7.4 to 8.0 as the default, the php-driven
webinterface is broken and it seems this error is very common in the group of those
switching from php 7.4 to 8.0. The error is triggered by

phpweb/idex.php.in

The apache's log reports:

[..]
 PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in
 /usr/local/share/refdb/www/index.php:900\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n  thrown in
 /usr/local/share/refdb/www/index.php on line 900, referer:
 https://my-host.local/refdb/index.php?thisPage=Search%20indices

$defaultValue seems to be treated as STRING but should be ARRAY

How can this be solved?

Kind regards,

Oliver

Re: [Refdb-users] php webinterface: php8: Uncaught TypeError:

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

I'm not running the PHP interface myself, so I'm sorry that it took a 
while to respond. I've set up my FreeBSD box with Apache 2.4, PHP 8.0 
and the required PHP extensions (session, dom, xml, xsl). PHP does not 
complain about a TypeError when starting the web interface. Retrieving 
an existing test dataset works as well. So I cannot reproduce the 
problem here. How exactly did you trigger the problem?

regards,
Markus

Am 2022-01-30 16:26, schrieb FreeBSD User:
> Hello folks,
> 
> despite the fact that refDB is pretty inactive, it is still in use on
> several private
> projects and internal installations. The base OS is always FreeBSD
> (I'm officially the
> FreeBSD mainatiner so far).
> 
> Sources: most recent copy of the subversion repo provided by source 
> forge.
> 
> Since FreeBSD ports now switched from php 7.4 to 8.0 as the default,
> the php-driven
> webinterface is broken and it seems this error is very common in the
> group of those
> switching from php 7.4 to 8.0. The error is triggered by
> 
> phpweb/idex.php.in
> 
> The apache's log reports:
> 
> [..]
>  PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type
> string on string in
>  /usr/local/share/refdb/www/index.php:900\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n  
> thrown in
>  /usr/local/share/refdb/www/index.php on line 900, referer:
>  https://my-host.local/refdb/index.php?thisPage=Search%20indices
> 
> $defaultValue seems to be treated as STRING but should be ARRAY
> 
> How can this be solved?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
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Re: [Refdb-users] php webinterface: php8: Uncaught TypeError:

[FreeBSD U. <fr...@wa...>]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 18:04:54 +0100
Markus Hoenicka <mar...@mh...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not running the PHP interface myself, so I'm sorry that it took a 
> while to respond. I've set up my FreeBSD box with Apache 2.4, PHP 8.0 
> and the required PHP extensions (session, dom, xml, xsl). PHP does not 
> complain about a TypeError when starting the web interface. Retrieving 
> an existing test dataset works as well. So I cannot reproduce the 
> problem here. How exactly did you trigger the problem?
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 
> Am 2022-01-30 16:26, schrieb FreeBSD User:
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > despite the fact that refDB is pretty inactive, it is still in use on
> > several private
> > projects and internal installations. The base OS is always FreeBSD
> > (I'm officially the
> > FreeBSD mainatiner so far).
> > 
> > Sources: most recent copy of the subversion repo provided by source 
> > forge.
> > 
> > Since FreeBSD ports now switched from php 7.4 to 8.0 as the default,
> > the php-driven
> > webinterface is broken and it seems this error is very common in the
> > group of those
> > switching from php 7.4 to 8.0. The error is triggered by
> > 
> > phpweb/idex.php.in
> > 
> > The apache's log reports:
> > 
> > [..]
> >  PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type
> > string on string in
> >  /usr/local/share/refdb/www/index.php:900\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n  
> > thrown in
> >  /usr/local/share/refdb/www/index.php on line 900, referer:
> >  https://my-host.local/refdb/index.php?thisPage=Search%20indices
> > 
> > $defaultValue seems to be treated as STRING but should be ARRAY
> > 
> > How can this be solved?
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Oliver
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Refdb-users mailing list
> > Ref...@li...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/refdb-users  
> 

Hello list,

in the meanwhile other issues with our setup and the migration of PHP from 7.4 towards
8.0 occured. I guess the issue could be triggered due to a rogue php port, officially
php80 incorporates now a bunch of modules formerly realized as separate ports/modules.
I'll check and I'll report back as soon as possible.

Kind regards,

oh