[mythtv-users] Mythweb error after upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10

[Nigel Jewell]

On 13/12/2021 13:12, James Abernathy wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 11:20 AM <f-myth-users at lab.media.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     I know this is a very late reply, but I only noticed this thread
>     because
>     of recent discussion on -dev.  Judging from things like [1] (which I
>     found just by searching for ASSERT_QUIET_EVAL), I'm wondering if
>     simply
>     commenting-out that line in
>     /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/errors.php
>     might fix this.  I don't have a 21.x/PHP8 test setup to have any
>     idea if
>     it would, but it might be an easy test for you try to and report back.
>
>     [From the paragraph at the top of that file, I'm guessing that Chris
>     Petersen may have written that file for use in many of his projects,
>     not just Mythweb, and perhaps that line isn't even relevent for
>     Mythweb.]
>
>     [1] https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/issues/1421
>
>
> I tried just commenting out the line you mentioned and now the error 
> has moved to a new place. Not sure it's worth chasing all of these 
> since mythweb is depreciated. The new error is:
>
> Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function 
> get_magic_quotes_gpc() in 
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/cleanup.php:50 Stack trace: #0 
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php(30): require_once() #1 
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/mythweb.php(20): require_once('...') #2 
> {main} thrown in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/cleanup.php on line 50

Hi,

There is more involved than changing a single line of code, although the 
changes aren't huge.

Please test this pull request ... https://github.com/MythTV/mythweb/pull/64

It fixes all breakages I've found when moving from PHP 7.4 to 8.0.

Regards,

Nige.
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