6.2.0 PHP 7 errors

[scythe000]

Hi all!

I'm on 6.2.0 and PHP 5.6. I'd like to upgrade to PHP 7.0 or 7.1, but i get this error on both my sites:

 

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function apc_fetch()

 

Any thoughts? GoDaddy cPanel Linux hosting.

[Al Brookbanks]

It means that PHP 7 on the server hasn't been compiled with APC support. Either compile APC or edit the includes/global.inc.php file to use "file" instead of "apc" as cache method. 

[scythe000]

Aha, ok, let me call them about that. Thank you!

[scythe000]

Hmm...apcu is enabled they say...but still getting this:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function apc_fetch() in /home/store/classes/cache/apc.class.php:172 Stack trace: #0 /home/store/classes/cache/apc.class.php(235): Cache->read('sql.empties') #1 /home/store/classes/cache/cache.class.php(113): Cache->_getEmpties() #2 /home/store/classes/config.class.php(78): Cache_Controler->enable(true) #3 /home/store/classes/config.class.php(97): Config->__construct(Array) #4 /home/store/controllers/controller.index.inc.php(22): Config::getInstance(Array) #5 /home/store/index.php(20): include('/home/xxx...') #6 {main} thrown in /home/store/classes/cache/apc.class.php on line 172

 

Interestingly, I'm seeing a lot of comments on various threads that APC is no longer being actively developed and alternatives should be used?

 

https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/php-configuration/install-apc-for-php

It does look like my server supports memcached and redis. Would one of those be a better choice than file?

[bsmither]

In admin, PHP Info, determine what exactly got loaded with respect to APC or APCU (note the table for this extension).

There is this conversation:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php/issues/2712

which makes reference to:
https://secure.php.net/manual/en/apcu.installation.php

 

[scythe000]

I can't even get phpinfo to load on the CC sites, but heres one from my wordpress site on the same host.

Could it be an issue with my php.ini?

 

session.save_path = "/tmp/"
register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = off

expose_php = Off
max_input_time = 60
variables_order = "EGPCS"
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="

[Zend]
zend_extension=/usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so
zend_extension=/home/content/xxx/html/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

 

[bsmither]

For now, please make the edit in /includes/global.inc.php, choosing either "file" or "memcached".

[havenswift-hosting]

12 hours ago, bsmither said:

For now, please make the edit in /includes/global.inc.php, choosing either "file" or "memcached".

Choose "file" as "memcached" is unlikely to be installed on a standard shared hosting platform

[scythe000]

Luckily, they did have memcached as a PHP option. I enabled it, and edited the global.inc.php, and all seems to be running fine on php 7.1!

Edited May 10, 2018 by scythe000
typo

[Al Brookbanks]

My local development environment is PHP 7.2 and it runs like a dream on that too. 

I've got one customer who store doesn't function very well on PHP 7.0 but I think its due to badly configured opcache, switching to 5.6 fixed it but I never got to the bottom of what the actual problems was. W