php8

[uktran]

What's the latest on compatiability with php8?

I am running PHP 7.4.33 and

Joomla! 3.10.6

When i flick to php8 the whole site just goes white....

What are the advised steps here to upgrade with minimal coding in mind

 

[juuser]

As far as I know, Fabrik 3 is not "officially" PHP 8 ready, but almost all of the functions should still work fine if you:

1) Update Fabrik from Github if you haven't done so lately.
2) Stick to PHP 8.0 or 8.1 (skip 8.2) to be on the safe side.

 

[uktran]

As far as I know, Fabrik 3 is not "officially" PHP 8 ready, but almost all of the the functions should still work fine if you:

1) Update Fabrik from Github if you haven't done so lately.
2) Stick to PHP 8.0 or 8.1 (skip 8.2) to be on the safe side.

Thanks a lot, I'll try that .

Is there a middle ground (eg PHP 7.8 or something) which is less likely to break something but also reduce the scary warnings?

Is it actually that dangerous to use 7.4?

 

[juuser]

There is 7.4 and the next one is already 8.0.

If there are warnings, not errors, you can ignore those (just reduce error reporting level if you don't want to see them).

If you keep 7.4, there certainly are some security risks, but if your site is not extra critical and you keep regular backups, I would say you are fine with 7.4 if your hosting provider still supports it. But of course it's up to you to decide.

Anyway, if you decide to switch to PHP 8, I would first do it in a test environment and test that all the important functions of the site work as expected.