bug fixed, I *think*: the off-by-one issue in using mysql enums for classification type text metadata
three tiny bugfixes
change logic to avoid referring to a defunct InnoDB meta-table
some minor finessing of the tests on usernames around user-corpora.
fix tiny but horrible bug where integer data was sometimes being transmitted to the browser as strings
I properly buggered up the try-catch logic round mysqli-rollback. so let's give that one more go, shall we.
my 2nd effort to stop PHP8's mysqli extension spilling exceptions all over the damn place by try-catching every call to a mysqli func that might possibly throw, hopefully thus keeping the madness contained in sql-lib. [THANKS PHP8svn diff rss.php svn diff rss.php ] ...plus a tiny fix to the rss generator.
tiny fix for stupid utf8 bug in php 8