Testing help for squirrelmail with php 5.4 please

[Göran Löwkrantz]

--On August 13, 2013 10:02:46 -0400 Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone. php-5.3 is approaching EOL, and squirrelmail support for 5.4
> isn't official.
>
> There have been patches in squirrelmail SVN against their HEAD, but they
> don't apply cleanly against the 1.4.22 release. We can't put a snapshot
> in ports, as they only live on the master site for 1 day. I have what I
> think is support for php-5.4, but I have no way of testing it in a live
> environment.
>
> If anybody is interested in testing it this would be a huge help to me.
> Please see
>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/176225
> and the patch at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~adamw/patches/sm-specialchars.patch
>
> That will hopefully provide php-5.4 support. php-5.5 support is in the
> SVN tree but I want to do 5.4 support first.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
>
># Adam
>
>
> --
> Adam Weinberger
> adamw at adamw.org / adamw at FreeBSD.org
> http://www.adamw.org

Hi Adam,

if I apply he substitution to functions/global.php I get a blank login 
screen. Restoring that file to using htmlspecialchars give me a working 
installation.

Also, is the substitution required in the plugins too?

/glz