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[Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net>]

Whoah, that’s quite a jump! Thankfully you likely didn’t have any OOP code, otherwise you’d have to refactor a whole lot more.

Rouben

On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 00:48 Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

It's worse than that... my servers were way behind specifically because of all the changes to php that I didn't want to deal with.  I just jumped from php 5.6 to php 8.2.  As you can imagine, everything broke.  I actually got most things working ahead of time testing offline, but of course I couldn't test everything.  The biggest problem is that they killed the very thing that made php so attractive -- the lack of required variable typecasting.  There used to be some very simple methods to check if a variable had a value assigned but now you have to go through a series of checks for every little thing.  For example, I used to be able just say if($array) but now I have to go through if(isset($array) && is_array($array) && count($array)) just to get the same result without throwing fatal errors.

On 7/18/26 15:18, Rouben wrote:

If you’re trying to update the code to the latest version of PHP, that’s probably going to cause some of this… PHP tends to deprecate a whole bunch of stuff between major releases.

Rouben

On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 00:50 Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

I'm working on upgrading the web servers this weekend and some of the
code is throwing errors.  I'll fix them as I have time and try to get
things back online but at the moment some of the critical pages are
broken for editing server entries.


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