Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

Thanks, now that you mention it, even a vim macro could do some of
the work.

Or that classic perl one liner: perl -pi -e s/old/new/g <filename pattern>

Joe

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM P.J. Tezza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for working on this - I kind of thought I'd be doing it, but you
> beat me to it!
>
> Having done this type of work in the past, here is my recommendation:
>
> If there is is anything that can be done with search and replace across
> files, use it. Even if there are a few different forms to be changed, you
> may be able to run the search and replace once for each form. The work
> often goes faster, it is less error prone and if you later find a mistake,
> it is usually easier to resolve.
>
> PJ
> On 9/14/25 3:52 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> Apart from redefining the top level $maia_sql_dsn in config.php, most of the
> effort for my task is replacing code that looks like this:
> --
>  $res = $sth->execute();
> if ($row = $res->fetchrow()) {
> --
> with code that looks like this:
> --
>  $sth->execute();
> if ($row = $sth->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
> --
> on a file by file basis since every instance is a little different. It
> looks like there are a few dozen such files to fix.
>
> It's not much, but it's honest work.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Since nobody else has committed to the effort, I'm willing to at least
>> give it a try.
>>
>> I don't have unlimited time, but I'm going to start looking into updating
>> the maia codebase to make it compatible with php 8.
>>
>> If anybody else wants to contribute, I'd welcome the help.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
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