Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

Have you folks heard of this?

I stumbled across it and wondered if it could be a quick short term fix for
the maia php DB interface, to buy more time for a more comprehensive
solution -

"PEAR MDB2 PHP8.2 compatible version"
https://github.com/imrelaszlo/PEAR-MDB2

Joe

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yep. This would be my suggestion:
>
> sed -i.bak "s/old_code/new_code/g" *.php
>
> Regards,
> Janky Jay, III
>
> On 9/14/25 05:23PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> 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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