STH archive not working?

[tom_seddon]

Just went to look for something on the stairwaytohell.com archive, which I'm certain was working last I tried it (within the last month or so), and I just get blank pages. For example: http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/archi ... ilter=.zip

This also affects JSBeeb's "Load from STH" option.

I know the STH archive isn't being updated any more - but is it still supposed to work? Or have I just got unlucky with some transient and/or local issue?

--Tom

[sweh]

The archive seems to be there ( http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/archive/diskimages/ ) but the "reclist.php" page is return 500 errors ("server error").

[lurkio]

Already noted here:

• viewtopic.php?t=16203

[richardtoohey]

Upgrade to PHP 7.x needs attention? (But no HTTP headers so can't see PHP version anyway.)

Or could be something completely different.

[Arcadian]

Hi, this has happened before (where php upgrades have broken the indexer scripts, which were written many years ago!).

If any php wizards can identify anything in the attached /render.php and reclist/reclister scripts that may be causing the problem, please let me know.

If FTP access is needed, again - let me know.

Thanks.

[richardtoohey]

Would be good to see the logs if you can get those.

Assuming we're talking upgrade from PHP 5.x to 7.x? Or is it something else?

In render.php - split is no longer available:

list($include, $buffer) = split("\"?'? ?-->", $buffer, 2);

It appears at least 3 times in render.php.

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.split.php

I'll have a look at the others too ...

[richardtoohey]

render.php also uses the deprecated spliti function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.spliti.php

Looks like the other two files pull in render.php, so that will cause both of them to stop working until it is fixed.

Can't spot anything immediately obvious in the other two ... but that's where the server error logs will be a great help.

(Again this is all assuming we are talking about a move from PHP 5.x to 7.x).

[richardtoohey]

Attached is a simple replacement of split / spliti with preg_split versions. Might help a bit. But might need tweaking and there may be more to do.

Don't think it will make anything worse - if they don't work, you'll still end up with the white screen.

Backup render.php and then copy & rename this new_render.php to render.php and see if it goes any further forward.

(Just spent the last few weeks moving from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.2 on a few servers).

[Arcadian]

Thanks Richard, I've only just got round to swapping in your updated render.php file and it appears to have done the trick!

[lurkio]

Thanks Richard, I've only just got round to swapping in your updated render.php file and it appears to have done the trick!

Yay! Well done, both!



Btw, do we know what's happening with the Retro Software site?

[richardtoohey]

Was expecting a few more glitches so will wait and see before counting chickens ...

I've been talking to Simon and he's talking to Dave re. the Retro Software site so we'll see (guessing it needs a newer version of MediaWiki that is PHP 7.x friendly, but that's a wild guess!)