Re: Maia on centos 8

Chiming in as a moderately-experienced PHP developer who also hasn't 
seen a better in-house answer to SPAM management.  I'd definitely 
consider donating effort toward a Maia update, especially if I could 
suggest some improvements along the way.

Cheers,
- (another) Brian

On 3/24/20 3:48 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> Thanks Brian,
>
> There are a few of us left who don't want to see maia fade away. I 
> haven't found a better on-premises solution.
>
> I haven't done php code in 10 years, but I'm about ready to take a 
> swing at it, out of necessity.
>
> I wonder if maybe js and mongodb should be considered for the next 
> generation.
>
> But for now, I guess I'll have to see if I can get php-7.2 talking to 
> mysql with the pear MDB2 modules, and go from there.
>
> Jake
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:02 PM Brian McCullough <bdmc-haUhy3JheJ9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] 
> <mailto:bdmc-haUhy3JheJ9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:46:17AM -0700, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>     > Hi folks,
>
>     Hi Jake,
>
>
>     > maia works well for me on centos 7, but not on centos 8, with
>     php-7.2
>     >
>     > Actually the perl part is golden, and configtest.pl
>     <http://configtest.pl> works fine. But the php
>     > side of things is broken, and configtest.php fails miserably.
>     >
>     > It looks the diverging code bases of php, smarty, pear and maia
>     are the
>     > issue.
>     >
>     > Has anybody had any success getting maia running with php-7.2?
>     If so, I'd
>     > be curious what tweaks you had to make. I found that as installed,
>     > configtest.php says it can't connect to the database, but
>     tcpdump shows
>     > that not a single packet gets sent to the specified db server.
>     >
>     > If nobody has any new info, I guess I'll have to look at the old
>     code and
>     > try to figure out what's broken.
>
>     I haven't looked at the Maia code for some time, but have had to move
>     some projects from PHP 5.6 to 7.x.  Of course, depending on the
>     value of
>     x, the answer changes.  PHP 7.x has changed, more or less
>     significantly,
>     from PHP 5.6.  Most likely, what is happening to you is that there are
>     errors being reported, internally, but PHP 7, but they are being
>     hidden
>     from you.  These errors are changes in the language causing syntax
>     errors and such in Maia.
>
>     A project to update the Maia code from PHP 5 has been discussed at
>     least a couple of times, but, as far as I know, never been
>     completed, if
>     even actually started.
>
>     If you wanted to take that on, there are several of us who would
>     be VERY
>     grateful.  Some of us might even be willing to assist.
>
>
>     > Jake
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     ( Tried to answer with the wrong e-mail address! )
>
>
>
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