PHP 7 support

[s6930064]

Dear Fabrik team,

As Joomla 3.5 soon will be out with PHP 7 support is Fabrik gonna be compatible with PHP 7?

 

[cheesegrits]

We're in the process of doing that.

-- hugh

 

[rbuelund]

I can see that my sites with fabrik installed go blank if I change to php 7 - when will fabrik support php 7 ?

 

[troester]

Blank: set Joomla error reporting to max

 

[rbuelund]

I belive it is the last line here that causes the error:

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; PlgSystemFabrik has a deprecated constructor in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/plugins/system/fabrik/fabrik.php on line 25

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; plgSystemFlickrsuite_chrome has a deprecated constructor in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/plugins/system/flickrsuite_chrome/flickrsuite_chrome.php on line 34

Fatal error: Cannot use Joomla\String\String as String because 'String' is a special class name in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/components/com_fabrik/helpers/html.php on line 14

 

[troester]

Seems you are not running a recent GitHub update?
This has been fixed several weeks ago
https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/commit/feb387bdb8ff6a575258220d258b65a1f327366e

 

[rbuelund]

No I have not updated. Are you not going to release a new official version that supports php 7?

 

[s6930064]

I just update Fabrik from Github and in my php7+joomla3.5 installation I get:
Fatal error: Cannot use Joomla\String\String as String because 'String' is a special class name in ..\libraries\fabrik\include.php on line 16

If i do not update from Github, Fabrik works with the 'Deprecated' message.

 

[troester]

Yup, seems to be inserted after the fix "revert String to JString usage for PHP7 compat"
https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/issues/1679

 

[cheesegrits]

I've fixed that in that release I'm building at the moment, although that's to a branch that won't get merged back in to the master. I'll try and remember to made the change in the main branch when I'm done with the build.

-- hugh

 

[rbuelund]

Just updated to the latest release. Slideshow does not work!

Fatal error: Cannot use Joomla\String\String as String because 'String' is a special class name in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/plugins/fabrik_visualization/slideshow/models/slideshow.php on line 11

 

[troester]

This is not the recent code.

Just updated to the latest release

How? Joomla? Fabrik?

 

[rbuelund]

I updated fabrik to 3.4.3

I believe line 11 in /plugins/fabrik_visualization/slideshow/models/slideshow.php:

use Joomla\String\String;

should be changed to:

use Joomla\String\StringHelper;

 

[troester]

I updated fabrik to 3.4.3

How? Via Joomla updater?

Or did you download and install the 3.4.3 package? This will not update non-core plugins. If you have additional plugins running you must use the Joomla updater (or download and install the new plugin versions manually).

Is the slideshow viz in the ExtensionManager really showing version 3.4.3?
As I've said: this is not the recent 3.4.3 code

 

[rbuelund]

Please see attached image...
I updated through Joomla updater.

 

[troester]

Strange.
The recent \plugins\fabrik_visualization\slideshow\models\slideshow.php is

<?php
/**
* Slideshow viz Model
*
* @package     Joomla.Plugin
* @subpackage  Fabrik.visualization.slideshow
* @copyright   Copyright (C) 2005-2015 fabrikar.com - All rights reserved.
* @license     GNU/GPL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
*/

// No direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');

jimport('joomla.application.component.model');

require_once JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_fabrik/models/visualization.php';

/**
* Slideshow viz Model
*
* @package     Joomla.Plugin
* @subpackage  Fabrik.visualization.slideshow
* @since       3.0
*/

class FabrikModelSlideshow extends FabrikFEModelVisualization
{
    /**
     * Get slideshow HTML container markup
     *
     * @return string
     */

    public function getSlideshow()
    {
...

and it's using JString::...
Can you check the modification date of your file? Is it write locked?

 

[rbuelund]

Well I have modified it myself after update, so I cannot see that

 

[troester]

You can try this:
edit \plugins\fabrik_visualization\slideshow\slideshow.xml, set version to e.g. 3.4.2
in ExtensionsManage "refresh cache" on plugin slideshow viz
now it should show again in ExtensionsUpdate (at least after a "Find Updates")
"update" again and check if it has the new code now