Great to see you're still there!Jachym wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 4:28 pm Then I will update some blocks/plugins which are also affected by PHP8 incompatibility (I do not quite understand some of the changes in PHP8, it is fine to introduce new functions, but I do not get why they deprecated so many functions, replaced them with newer ones and the original ones now throw fatal errors and make pages non-functional, but not much I can do about it).
I agree, the deprecated functions, and especially the totally useless renaming of many is ridiculous. But then again, I remember decades ago when I worked at a hosting/webdev company many developers really deeply hated php because their lead-creators were truly behaving like selfish *ssholes (sorry, but true), they made decisions in upgrades that seem to exist solely to please themselves and not its users. Arguments like "we liked that name better than the previous one", for much used functionality, forcing all its users to do cumbersome search and replace actions on their php code everywhere. It's always been like that with php, and as it grew larger and larger they had to comply some more to user response and feedback, but the core decider team are still the same people. It's sad that php grew so large. There were other better options.
Anyway, we now work with what we have. Good luck!
