Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

In any event, this fork of MDB2 got me thinking... would it be easier, for
now, to simply modify the MDB2 code to be compatible with php 8, than going
through 50 php files to rip out MDB2 code and replace it with (hopefully
equivalent) PDO code?

I'm really starting to wonder if that's not the quicker short term
solution, as we work on something more long term.

Joe

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM Bubba Brown <bubba-UmgsxY/[email protected]>
wrote:

> Looks like it was a good idea, not sure if it actually works yet.
>
> Bubba
> On 9/15/25 11:40, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> 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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