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RSS Feeds on Simple Portal Block Don't Work with PHP 7.0, 7.1

Started by Michael Vail, May 23, 2017, 07:32:05 PM

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Michael Vail

Hello,

I'm posting this just to help people who may be in the same boat I am. I'm sure the devs here have better things to deal with so this is more of a heads up to them and anyone else in my shoes.

I recently migrated over to Siteground webhosting. I moved my SMF 2.0.13 SMF forum over to Siteground and initially it didn't work. I received a bunch of PHP errors when trying to access the site. I soon learned that Siteground's default PHP version is 7.0, which doesn't work for SMF 2.0 versions prior to 2.0.14. Thank goodness Siteground allows you to change the PHP version on-the-fly with via their control panel. I switched the version to 5.6.30 and the site worked perfectly again.

Last week I updated from SMF 2.0.13 to 2.0.14 last week. The upgrade went smoothly and my forum was running fine after the upgrade, still under PHP version 5.6.30. I switched to PHP 7.0.19 and later to 7.1.5 and the site continued to load fine, or at least it appeared to. 

This morning I noticed the the two RSS Feeds in one of the Simple Portal blocks had stopped working and were reporting the following instead of showing the feeds: "Invalid Feed". After some research, I learned that going back to PHP 5.6.30 fixed the feed block.

I'm not sure if this is a SMF problem or a Simple Portal problem, but wanted to let people know in case they run across it.

Take care and a huge thanks for all the great work you guys do for my favorite forum software. This is my 12th year of running SMF and I can't imagine not having it.

Thanks again,
Mike Vail
Windsor California, USA

Kindred

Simple portal needs some updates to run correctly with smf 2.0.14 and with pho7+
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Please do not PM, IM or Email me with support questions.  You will get better and faster responses in the support boards.  Thank you.

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Michael Vail

Thank you sir, I'll post this over there on their forums so people know.


Have a great week,
Mike

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