Re: [Tiki-devel] After installing a package on a Tiki24.1 => dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.0"

Related feature request : https://dev.tiki.org/item7820-Installing-package-is-hardly-possible-on-shared-hosting-without-an-option-to-select-the-PHP-CLI-to-use

> On 23 Aug 2022, at 13:18, Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Related to the way installing a package works and pick the server default php version (first available in order).
> 
> Thanks to Jonny 🍻 that could diagnose (and fixe my issue for this Tiki and the package)
> IMO, we need a way to tell the package/composer things which PHP to use because when we’ll move to PHP8 and have to maintain several Tiki with both versions it will be a nightmare…
> 
> I think I had a ticket for this, I will update.
> ——
> 
> Solution:
> php7.4 temp/composer.phar remove mpdf/mpdf
> 
> php7.4 temp/composer.phar require mpdf/mpdf
> 
> update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.4
> (Now the default PHP for all the VPS in this server will be PHP7.4, if I understood correctly).
> 
> Bernard
> 
>> On 23 Aug 2022, at 12:02, Jonny Bradley via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, i see the fontawsome change was reverted, and i just uninstalled and reinstalled mpdf on php 7.4 and it was fine here - anyone else seeing this?
>> 
>> jonny
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 23 Aug 2022, at 09:51, Jonny Bradley via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Bernard
>>> 
>>> Yes, this must be wrong - Tiki 24 needs to stay on php 7.4 - i'll see what happened.
>>> 
>>> Also we saw there was a major upgrade of fontawesome in 24.x recently, i certainly saw one site missing its icons after an upgrade, and yet others seem fine... usually a fontawesome upgrade needs some changes to the Icons php code - so maybe we should revert both of these changes before 24.1?
>>> 
>>> jonny
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 23 Aug 2022, at 09:30, Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> On a Tiki24.1 (updated from Git today) I installed “my" usual Tiki packages, npm-asset/lozad and mpdf/mpdf.
>>>> 
>>>> Installing mpdf/mpdf broke the Tiki with this error displayed : Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.0". You are running 7.4.30. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please, whoever updated the dependencies should make sure this doesn’t happen especially not on an LTS.
>>>> mpdf/mpdf is an essential package and the correct version should be set back for Tiki24 using PHP7.4.
>>>> 
>>>> ——
>>>> 
>>>> Troubleshooting and fixing the issue (it may help someone else);
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to check the packages from the console but it displayed the same error:
>>>> php7.4 console.php 
>>>> Composer detected issues in your platform:
>>>> Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.0". You are running 7.4.30.
>>>> 
>>>> I had to switch the PHP version for this domain to PHP8.0.
>>>> Then using the console I deleted the mpdf/mpdf package manually so I can switch the domain back to PHP7.4.
>>>> 
>>>> This let me with another error "Service Unavailable…”
>>>> I changed the PHP option from FPM to CGI wrapper and then back again to FPM to kick a little PHP (MySQL) and get the domain back online and working. (I hope)
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bernard
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