Maia Mailgaurd / PHP 7 support

[Janky Jay, III]

Hello Miroslav,

On 12/29/18 6:16 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Janketh Jay wrote on 2018/12/30 01:03:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On 03/12/2018 2:17 pm, Reko Turja via freebsd-ports wrote:
>>> Hello Janky Jay!
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 4:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Maia Mailgaurd
>>>
>>>> Okay. No sweat. I'll work on getting a port patch going as that seems
>>>> it would be the easiest way to push this out. I'll provide a
>>>> download as
>>>> soon as I have something available for testing.
>>>
>>> Sounds good, thank you for your work on ports!
>>>
>>> -Reko
>>>
>>
>>        So, after a bit of testing (and not being able to update the
>> port for PHP7 due to Smarty issues), below is a simple patch that
>> will keep the current port version of Maia (1.0.4_3) working with
>> PHP7 (testing with PHP 7.2). Please let me know if this does not work
>> or if there is anything else that needs to be added or changed.
>> Hopefully, I'll get the Smarty issue(s) sorted out soon and have a
>> new port submitted.
>
> [...]
>
>>        Also, if you're interested in seeing/testing the new port
>> (from the latest Github commit for technion's maia_mailguard), you
>> can download the patch from the link below [1] and let me know if
>> it's successful for you. Everything seems to work except for the
>> WebUI due to a fatal call to Smarty which I cannot figure out (I'm
>> not a PHP developer). However, once that is sorted, I should be ready
>> to submit the new port so Maia can be updated to the latest version.
>
> I forgot about this in my previous message - I guess there is an old
> version of Smarty not supporting PHP 7. It would be probably better to
> replace it with newer version of Smarty with PHP 7 support but there
> can be some syntax changes in Smarty config / initialisation. I
> remember something about it about a year ago when I was upgrading one
> of our own (very old) project to newer Smarty templates. There are
> some differences between Smarty 2 and Smarty 3. But as I read now on
> their website, the latest Smarty 2 version 2.6.31 supports PHP 7.2 so
> it should be painless to replace old noncompatible version with this one.

    Again, thank you for the information. I remember quite a while back
I tried using Smarty3 as opposed to Smarty2 but it caused nothing but
issues so I rolled back. I can go ahead and give this another shot now
(especially as Smarty2 and Smarty3 can be installed in parallel) and see
what I get. Another thanks!

Regards,
Janky Jay, III


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