Trying to update from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello,

I got the notification of the new version available. Nothing custom in my forum, just ~16 languages. In Admin, I have as a MOD 2.1.5 update from 2.1.4, I clicked on it, the tests are OK, I click install, then I get to blank Firefox page showing only a long link in the corresponding line.

[Doug Heffernan]

Hello,

I got the notification of the new version available. Nothing custom in my forum, just ~16 languages. In Admin, I have as a MOD 2.1.5 update from 2.1.4, I clicked on it, the tests are OK, I click install, then I get to blank Firefox page showing only a long link in the corresponding line.

Can you post a screenshot of that long link? Can you also check your server error log page and see if there have been any errors logged in there recently?

[Liviu Lalescu]

The link is:

https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?action=admin;area=packages;sa=install2;package=smf_2-1-5_patch.tar.gz;pid=0

The error log from the forum directory is:

[25-Jun-2025 15:30:58 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 15:32:24 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 15:34:08 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 15:34:33 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 15:52:34 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 15:53:29 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 15:58:22 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19
[25-Jun-2025 16:43:14 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/lalescu/public_html/liviu/fet/forum/Packages/temp/$auto_1.php on line 19

[Illori]

what version of php are you running?

[Liviu Lalescu]

I entered PHP select version and it said 7.1 (current).

[Liviu Lalescu]

Also, I am not getting email notifications on new posts from your site (for my last two notifications, no email, just alerts).

[shawnb61]

Are you running mysql or postgresql?

What version?

[Liviu Lalescu]

I just entered php my admin:

Database server:

Server type: MariaDB
Server version: 10.6.19
Protocol version: 10

Web server:

libmysql - mysqlnd 8.1.32
PHP version: 8.1.32

[Sir Osis of Liver]

phpmyadmin is running in php 8.1, but that doesn't mean the forum is in same version.  Look in Admin > Support and Credits, that's the version your forum is at.  You should upgrade to at least php 8.1.

[Liviu Lalescu]

It is PHP 7.1.33. However, I saw that it is supported for SMF 2.1.5 and I am afraid to change the default PHP, preferring to leave this to my host.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Should work in 7.1.  You're getting a syntax error, maybe a corrupt file.  Restore the backup in /Packages/backups, delete the package in package manager, try it again.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Also, I am not getting email notifications on new posts from your site (for my last two notifications, no email, just alerts).

I got the email notification from the first post just now, after 1-2 hours.

[shawnb61]

Are you still having an issue, or did the second attempt at installing work?

If you're on MariaDB, take a peek at this also: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=592050.0

[Liviu Lalescu]

Still the same problem, shawnb61. I examined $auto_1.php and the parenthesis in line 19 seems OK.

Sir Osis, I don't have the backups enabled, and also I am a bit afraid to change manually.

[Liviu Lalescu]

I noticed that my $auto_1.php, ConverterInterface.php, and NoConverter.php don't have closing "?>" tag, like UpdateUnicode.php.

I don't know PHP, only C++.

[Illori]

the closing tag is not required.

[shawnb61]

I have confirmed that PHP < 7.3 returns a parse error there. 

Prior to 7.3, PHP didn't like arrays with trailing commas after the last entries.  ONLY in the middle of a list, not at the end...  It was a pain which I have long since forgotten about...

It's not that the parentheses are mismatched, it's that with the comma there, it's expecting another array entry, so, the ')' is unexpected.  There are six such commas in that snippet that need to go, not just on that line.

My recommendation here is to upgrade, at least to PHP7.4.

Issue logged:  https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/issues/8692

[Sesquipedalian]

@Liviu Lalescu, the patch file has been fixed to deal with this problem for PHP 7.1. Please delete your current copy of the patch file and then download a new copy.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Thank you, SMF team, I just installed successfully SMF 2.1.5.