Re: Maia on centos 8

Quick and dirty fix -

Change line 557 of cache.php from this:
   $rectmp[] = $recipient;
To this:
   $rectmp = $recipient;

and now I can see and display the individual ham and spam messages.

Jake


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:31 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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