PHP8 Status

Hi:

We’re working on it. Core is almost ready but we have 70+ addons that we have to handle before we can release it.

Thanks.

Thanks for the update, @nigel01. Any sense on a timeline?

I obviously have a few weeks before any critical issues on my end. I can push the client a few weeks past November 2nd if necessary knowing an update is coming, but if we’re realistically looking at mid-2023 or something like that, I need to start looking for another solution now rather than later.

If you’re not using any add-ons, you can grab the dev branch from github and use it on php 8.0:

https://github.com/Simple-Press/simple-press/tree/dev

If for some reason you find any issues that show up in 8.x and not in 7.4, please log an issue on github here: https://github.com/Simple-Press/simple-press/issues

Thanks.

Thank you for the update on PHP 8. I was also getting very worried.
A timeline would indeed be nice. I understand you have 70 add-ons but certainly some are more used then others. Perhaps a tiered approach would be acceptable if you think it’s going to be a challenge to convert them all before November.
Thanks

Hi:

Since you’re not using the premium plugins it probably shouldn’t matter that much for your use case. All you need are the files from the current dev branch on github.

Here’s a direct link that will download them as a .zip:

https://github.com/Simple-Press/simple-press/archive/refs/heads/dev.zip

Thanks.