Re: Maia on centos 8

For those interested in the old maia code base and php-7.2

I've actually managed to get somewhat farther with php-7.2, after a few
minor code tweaks.

I can log into maia, become another user via admin, and see how many ham
and spam they have in the cache.

[image: maia-screenshot-2020-03-26.png]

But when I click on the ham or spam, php throws an error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in
/var/www/html/maia/cache.php:557 Stack trace: #0
/var/www/html/maia/list-cache.php(148): MessageCache->render('6') #1 {main}
thrown in /var/www/html/maia/cache.php on line 557

So I'll have to figure out how that should be re-written for php 7.

jake

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:29 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]> wrote:

> You know what, the spam filtering part of maia still works fine on new
> distros, or 10 year old distros, so I can manage with the old maia as is,
> and just use a dedicated instance of debian 8 (or some other older distro)
> just for the web interface.
>
> If you'd rather be working on maia 2.0 material, I think that would have
> better long term prospects.
>
> Jake
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:31 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that simple test doesn't produce an outright failure, but it was a
>> place to start. The show stoppers are further down the road, but there may
>> be clues here. Thanks for the MDB2 link, I'll test with that.
>>
>> Jake
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:30 PM Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So far that looks like just deprecated syntax warnings and notices, but
>>> nothing that necessarily breaks functionality.  I’d expect that with older
>>> code that hasn’t been updated for PHP 7—it may still work (you did get to
>>> “Success!”), but it’ll generate a lot of complaints in the logs unless you
>>> change the log threshold to ignore warnings and notices.
>>>
>>> According to its “official” changelog, MDB2 was last updated in 2012 (v
>>> 2.5.0b5), so its maintainers are clearly not going to update it for PHP 7.
>>>
>>> That said, there’s a GitHub version that seems to be maintained (as of
>>> 12 months ago) with PHP 7 fixes:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/pear/MDB2
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:53 AM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Simple test -
>>>
>>> OK, I'm going back to basics here with a simple test, comparing Centos 7
>>> & php-5.4.16 with Centos 8 & php-7.2.11
>>>
>>> They both have the same pear MDB2 modules installed. A simple DB
>>> connection test was run on both:
>>>
>>> <?php
>>> require_once 'MDB2.php';
>>>
>>> $dsn = 'mysqli://test:test@dbserv/test';
>>> $options = array(
>>>     'debug' => 2,
>>>     'result_buffering' => false,
>>> );
>>>
>>> $mdb2 =& MDB2:: connect($dsn, $options);
>>> if (PEAR::isError($mdb2)) {
>>>     die($mdb2->getMessage());
>>> } else {
>>>     echo "Success!\n";
>>> }
>>>
>>> $mdb2->disconnect();
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> On Centos 7, it simply returns "Success!"
>>> But on Centos 8 it returns this:
>>>
>>> PHP Warning:  count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that
>>> implements Countable in /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php on line 826
>>>
>>> Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that
>>> implements Countable in /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php on line 826
>>> PHP Notice:  Only variables should be assigned by reference in
>>> /root/dbtest.php on line 10
>>>
>>> Notice: Only variables should be assigned by reference in
>>> /root/dbtest.php on line 10
>>> Success!
>>>
>>> Jake
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:46 AM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> 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 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.
>>>>
>>>> Jake
>>>>
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