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There is any way, without hard codding, to make 3.0 compatible to PHP7?
What are the facts?

Last Man Standing » Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:20 am wrote:There is any way, without hard codding, to make 3.0 compatible to PHP7?
What are the facts?

Unless you're using a fork of phpBB 3.0.x like phpBBex which can come with its own set of problems, keeping such an old version involves making core changes.

Is there any one who succeded doing that?

why would you want to make it compatible with php7?

don't know for sure if this site is running 3.0 but there is no real reason to do so just because we are supporting 3.0+

This site is 3.0.14.

silvermaledetto@altervista.org
PhpBB 3.0.14. PHP 7.3.33

silversurfer@altervista.org
PhpBB 3.0.14 PHP 8

I signed up to have better access to the forum.
In principle I subscribe to almost every forum I see are still on Olympus.
My motto is:
Olympus the forum made by hackers for hackers.
Not sharing the development done with Ascraeus and Rhea, I always preferred to update my Olympus: I added the responsive style made by Cyberalien for 3.0.12 updating it to 3.0.14 I'm talking about Artodia Deluxe, I implemented some Dion Design hacks, and I also drew from the latter to make it compatible up to PHP 8.1.
Now I have a forum in which I have disabled the search for updates, because it shouldn't be updated, except to apply security patches.

So Olympus is compatible also to PHP 8?

Certo, il mio Olympus è compatibile con PHP fino 8.1.
Modificando solamente i file relativi del filesystem. In pratica rimane un phpBB Olympus aggiornato. Mentre il fork phpbbex
mi pare che sia già rispondente al PHP 8.2, ma qui partendo dalla base Olympus hanno compiuto uno sviluppo proprio.
Non sono entusiasta di tutte le mod che hanno integrato, ma visto lo sforzo che stanno facendo da tempo sto localizzando in italiano il loro progetto, per adesso mi pare che sia disponibile solo russo, ucraino e inglese.
Mi piace ancora di più la mia scelta, perché posso inserire stili responsive o basati su bootstrap, mentre lo stile phpbbex è un prosilver differenziato.
Se ti interessa, potrei farti avere il phpbb 3.0.14 già funzionante con PHP 7+.
Scrivo in italiano per verificare quanto dici: a proposito conosco diversi romeni, uno pure si chiama Daniel, e tutti parlano benissimo l'italiano.

Yes. I would be interested in PHP 7 compatibility.

Ok you are interested
I can provide you with several packages:
it depends what you want to do.
Updating an already populated forum, doing a new installation, do you just want the basic prosilver style or do you want responsive styles already included?

Last Man Standing » Sun Nov 06, 2022 8:36 am wrote:Is there any one who succeded doing that?

I think AmigoJack did so.

@Silver Surfer: Since I run about 10 forums, I would need something as easy as possible.

Se i tuoi forum sono 3.0.x hai due strade:
Converti in phpbbex
Rimani su Olympus aggiornando solo il filesystem.
Se hai poche Mod, o comunque sei in grado agevolmente di reinstallarle da zero, la via migliore è senza dubbio quella di
un pacchetto già funzionale a PHP 8 e superiori,
se hai centinaia di Mod e non riesci a reinstallarle, dovrai correggere manualmente i file o convertire in phpbbex.
Per le prime due opzioni ho fatto delle guide in Brain.

I have many MODs installer. Would be impossible to redo all the work.

I do not understand!
Didn't you install the MODs?
If you did it once you can do it again, keep in mind that you will only have to modify the filesystem, the database will already be functional.
The only thing is that you will need to have the MOD instructions.
If the MOD only worked on the theme/style, you don't have to do anything.