Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

Yes, it does "work" to some extent but there are places in the MDB2 code
that throw an error in php 8.

At the least, fixing that would make maia 1.04 usable again for current php
releases,while we work on moving completely to PDO for maia 1.05

Joe



On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> On 2025-09-16 13:48, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> The PEAR MDB2 *DOES* work. I did some testing with Maia's interface a
> while back and it worked just fine. Definitely makes the code changes
> quicker. However, it also was kind of a band-aid for the code. The code
> really should be updated for PDO. PEAR MDB2 just adds another dependency
> which isn't technically needed.
>
> Regards,
> Janky Jay, III
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