Advice on upgrade path

Fusion 7.02.7 can ben run under PHP 7.1
I have not tested with higher versions of PHP

I have a few sites running under PHP 7.1 with fusion 7

PHP Fusion 9 fully support latest PHP 7

Hi there,

Thank you for the reply.

However, when i attempt to use 7.02.7 on PHP 7 i get fatal error because maincore.php:295 is trying to use the old mysql functions (mysql_connect).

Have you applied changes similar to this: https://www.php-fusion.co.uk/articles.php?article_id=49

Is there a better way?

I use the download from post#2, which can also be found here:

1, There are no official releases yet but several mods around.
2, In the 9.0 version there was some upgrade glitches in forums that have all been fixed in the current Git.
The current Git is not stabilized enough for a public release yet but it contains a lot of fixes and improvements.
Since it is updated on a daily basis it can be a quite volatile version to rely on in public environments.
Once that one is released we should have a version that is well established, tested and quite solid as a result.
A lot of people do use the 9.0 version in their production sites today, just avoid upgrading if you have forums with the 9.0
3, 7 is quite solid since the 7.02.07 patch. There are some things that can be flagged at security risks but that would require Administrator access which in it self then could be a security risk, all semantics from that point of view.
4, All the time.
5, On this site?, Yes any day from today, final touches are made as we speak.
6, It has not yet been fully tested and verified on that version. 7.1 is known to be ok so it should work for most part. As with all new versions there might be issues ofc.

I need to know wich PHP version you are using and where did you get the update package from PHP-fusion from?

Numbers of threads and views are displayed so the forum data is in your database. I guess it has something to do with an BB code not functioning. Can you please as a test swich off the BB codes one by one to see when the data on your forum is showing up? Then we know which one is faulty.
It could be more than one BB code, maybe switch them off all first.

Please come back after you have done this test.

There is an error in the admin part, I forgot,

Got to your site and edit folowing file:
http://www.yoursite.com/administration/bbcodes.php
arround line 170 find: $__BBCODE__ = "";

replace with $__BBCODE__ = [];

And upload the modified file to your webserver

Hmm,

I tested the modification on two different Sites running PHPFusion 7.02.07, One under PHP 7.1 and one under PHP 7.2, And I got no problems. I Investigated the code and the so called missing variable __BBCODE__ is filled from the bbcode_include_var.php files, which must be present for each BB-code.

I tested with some BB-Codes that comes with standard PHP_Fusion installation

Two questions arise:
1 - Is the problem not showing forum posts solved when you disable BB-codes?
2 - What BB-Code is it you are not able to enable again? Maybe this is the faulty BB-code we are looking for?

Congratulations!

You have found a bug in the solid as rock PHPFusion7.02.07!
What you did, you disabled the I and B BB-Code.
This are the only two BB-Codes with are 1 letter long. The others are longer e.g. [quote].
In the code is a section that checks the length of the BB-code, that has to be between 2 and 50 chars.
Well the B and I are the only ones that are shorter, so once disabled, you cannot enable them again.

Solution:
In te file: yourdomain.com/admininstration/bbcodes.php, around line 49 search for:



replace with:



The only difference is the number "2" in the preg_match parameters.

After this you can enable B and I BB-Codes.

Thank you!! I adjusted /administration/bbcodes.php to check for 1, 50 characters and was able to enable the single character bbcodes. I then began disabling each of the subsequent bbcodes and found the culprits. They were image alignment bbcode add-ons that I saw and grabbed a while ago somewhere on another Fusion support site to align images to text [img-l][/img-l] and [img-r][/img-r]. I disabled them and forum posts display now. Can't find the author of those bbcodes to check for update, too bad.

But thank you so much for the persistent help!

Glad it's working now

Maybe you can sent me a copy of the BB-Codes, So I can try to make them work under PHP 7.x?

Thank you, it is working fine again!