vbulletin 3.8.11 on php 7.2 ?
 

hi,

i would like migrate the forum as it's on a old server with php 5,

and need go to a new server with 7.2 but i see that's not support vbulletin 3.8.11,

all new version of vbulletin i really not like,

any news about compatiliby of 3.8.11 on 7.2 ?

any planned update ?

Update php to 7.0 i doubt vbulletin will ever make things right for vb 3.8.x or 4.2.x to be compatible for 7.2 or above.

They basically dont care about users that dont like their new S**T 5.x.x version

I'll try to update then to 7.1 as i asked in technical support of vbulletin,

but really don't like 5.x.x from vbulletin and will never update to it,

what about the mysql server version, there is no problem on other side if i update to last version working with v3.8.11 ?

Im not sure about 7.1 as i havent tested a 3.8.11 forum on it.

As for MySQL, doesnt matter i run MariaDB 10 on most.

Probably no help at all but it does run just fine (plugins may be an issue if they are not updated, only had one that would cause odd problems) on php 7.0.10 with mysql 5.7.14

I'm not sure of the difference between 7.0 and 7.2 regardingg code changes needed though, it might work or if it does not, it may be very small minor manual edits required (hopefully)

hi

5.7.14 mysql work with this version ?

Yes. :) It seems OK for me at least:

thank's a lot, i'll try also for my server and will let you know.

i think i'll use MariaDB sure,

just on config file,

what i need to insert here :

Run as mysqli

You'll need mysqlnd ext. installed in php

Thank's, i have installed under Mysql, i don't beleive a lot in MariaDB.

thank's for your time

Hello guys,

As you know, vB 3.8.11 is limited to PHP 7.0

Today I find two paid custom version 3.8.12 who support PHP 7.2 / 7.3 :
* Removed By Moderator *

Did someone already test one of them ?

Cheers !

Please do not share such links. Those sites share nulled versions of vBulletin which often contain backdoors and goes against vBulletin's terms and conditions.

Hello Dave,
Thanks for link removal, I was not aware of backdoor sorry.
Are "nulled" versions are pirate php files without license ?

I also find some thread with modifications todo listing.
Are those kind of listing are also forbidden to be shared ?

Hello ShikiSuen,

Thanks for the detailled explanation :)

Yes I have a valid vB licence for my domain since vb2 release.
I don't want to move to vB4 or 5, and lack of php 7.2 support is starting to be problematic.
I'm not aware of encrypted php version of vb, as far as I know, all the php files I download from member area are tagged with my customer number, but unencrypted.
Finally, since I have access to my PHP files and vb templates, I'm simply looking for one guideline of modifications to be applied to make my own vb 3.8.11 compatible with php 7.2 :cool:

Paul_M, your support of old vB are missing us ! ;)

(I decided not to download any build of vBulletin from customer area despite that I have the license, this is to make sure I am clean with my license.)

Supposing that your downloaded source code of vBulletin 3.8.11 from vBulletin official is not zend encrypted: You can find an online PHP grammar checker (e.g. https://phpcodechecker.com) and check through PHP files and fix them one by one. After that, check both the language xml and the template xml: find all condition expressions and make sure that all constants used in these expressions are not like [constant] but like ['constant']. If not, gzip-compressed pages of vBulletin may return to either a blank page or crashed webpage to your web browser. If these are enough, then I guess you can use it with MariaDB (at least 10.4.x).

(Please stay away from MySQL 8 due to its SQL syntax changes, unless you update vBulletin source code to use new syntax and the new stronger password encryption system.)