Is Q2A planning to officially support PHP 8.*?

Question

I'm curious to know if Question2Answer will soon be compatible with PHP 8.* or if there are no plans for further development in this regard?

I have updated all of my themes and plugins to support PHP 7.4. Before I proceed with further development or upgrading my old themes and plugins to support PHP 8.*, I would appreciate receiving some insight from whoever is currently in charge of the source. This will help me to reopen Q2A Market with confidence.

Comments

I haven't seen Scott being active here for more than a year. Hope he's doing good. I'm not sure what's the best way to reach the maintainers.

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I agree with you. I'll do my best to get in touch with Scott. In addition, from what I understand, @pupi1985 has been assisting him in maintaining the majority of the source. I'll try to reach out to them and consider our options for how to proceed if Scott is unable to continue development for any reason.

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Q2A v1.9 will be released anytime soon! ;)

https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/pull/948#issuecomment-1557057264

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@QROkes The comment on the repo is outdated, as it is from a year ago (May 22). I have reached out to Scott and Pupi1985 and am hopeful for a positive response from them.

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Here in my country "May 22" was just about 5 weeks ago!

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If you are sure if 22 is the date. I believe it is a year.

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Please, go to the link and read it again!
Read the date of other comments and you will find a clue about how to read the dates.

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Hey I could see where he got confused. Honest mistake. I thought it was 2022 at first too until I saw your comment.

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@QROkes You are correct. I made a mistake that was caused by the way the date was displayed. Thank you for clarifying it for me.

Answer 1

The bugfix branch on Github has the latest updates that work in PHP 8.

A new version will be released when I can find the time. It's slightly awkward since some of the changes use PHP 7.x features, but the 1.8 line of Q2A was made for PHP 5.x so it would be a breaking change.

Comments

@Scott Glad to hear you.

Thank you for providing me with the updates. I can imagine how difficult it can be to find time in a busy schedule. Regarding the breaking changes, I fully understand the impact of PHP 8.*. Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I can assist you with.

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In the end I just did a find/replace for the PHP 7 features and created a zip that works on PHP 5. So I've now released 1.8.7!

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Thank you very much, Scott, for the prompt release. I truly appreciate it.