[BlueOnyx:25544] Re: AlmaLinux 9 - BlueOnyx 5211R development

[Ernie]

Hi Michael,
in the meantime, can you relase a version of 5210R with php 8.0 which is now
a standard stream in Almalinux 8.6?

I tested that the stream was available on a fresh install of Almalinux 8.6
and it was.

I had to do a:

 yum module reset php:7.2

then
 yum module install php:8.0

and it worked..

(Don't try that on BX it may break big time)

- Ernie.





> Hi Ernie,
> 
> > any updates on how this is progressing?
> 
> It's progressing, but slowly. Up until 5210R the GUI uses CodeIgniter 3 
> (CI3), which is on it's way out of the door since CodeIgniter 4 has been 
> released.
> 
> While CI3 still more or less works on PHP-8.0: It then has its issues. I 
> could fix them, but this would not be the right approach to make the 
> 5211R GUI future proof.
> 
> So I started to rebase the 5211R GUI on the latest version of 
> CodeIgniter 4.2.1. And this isn't a straight update even under the best 
> of circumstances, as many fundamentals have changed between CI3 and CI4.
> 
> I started with a naked CI4 install and then started to merge BlueOnyx 
> libraries, classes, pages, functions and helpers in one by one. This is 
> a pretty tedious process that requires lots of patience and tinkering. 
> I've got the basic CCE communication back up again, a working login page 
> and some bits and pieces (selected trivial GUI pages after that) in 
> various stages of functionality.
> 
> I can't and won't make a prediction how long it'll take until I can 
> present something. But we're talking months rather than weeks. This is a 
> big as going from the old RaQ550/BlueQuartz type of framed GUI to the 
> 52XXR GUI.
> 
> > I haven't really been paying much attention to Almalinux as you can tell,
> > because I didn't know about the 5210R CentOS 8 to Almalinux 8 conversion
> > script until you pointed it out last week.
> 
> I think we had the announcement for the conversion in the news feed of 
> the GUI (the one you see after login) for a couple of weeks. :p
> 
> > There is a trend in php development to require at least php 7.4, I see the
> > latest Roundcube and Wordpress insist on this. I can add php 7.4 to 5210R
> > but that's only a stop gap, as Almalinux 9 comes with php 8.x.
> 
> As is with PHP-8.1 and PHP-8.0 (or any other Solarspeed PHP) all you 
> need to do is to use /home/solarspeed/php-<version>/bin/php as 
> interpreter and you can run whatever PHP you want from the Shell as 
> well. Each PHP version's /bin directory also has wrappers for PECL, 
> PHAR, PEAR and Composer to use the right version.
> 
> So it shouldn't be much of an issue using them instead the OS supplied 
> PHP. Even from the shell.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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