I had problems with 7.2.5 and php > 7.4.# :(
I had to backtrack from 8.1
I may try again.

You may be better off running your own server with php 7.4 and installing b2evo there.

I use a raspberry pi with apache 2.4
The Pi can be as cheap as £45

You can install a server on any computer, and using LAMP to install with php and Maria Database.

Here's my server, I chose not to use a domain name as my broadband provider gives a static IP address.

Here's the server/host front page
http://217.155.51.23

and here's an example of b2evo 7.2.5
http://217.155.51.23/unveiled/raspi/server/

@amoun Thanks for your having an eye on this forum and your willingness to provide support with your knowledge and experience.
The reason why I have to act is, my b2e versions run with PHP 7.3. And one hoster told me, the he will end offering this version. Now I have the choice between upgrading to at least PHP 8.1 - for which support will soon be discontinued - i.e. actually to PHP 8.3, or paying a disproportionately high amount for Extended PHP support. This pushes me.

Because my b2e Version 6.11.7 is also rather old and I noticed some security risks which could not be fixed for this version, I think about closing this Instance with four collections.

So I've started archiving the pages of the collections that are more important to me on archive.org, so at least they won't get lost.
In 40 days I will upgrade to PHP 8.3, just to see how it breaks my version of b2e.

I will keep my second instance for the time being, as this hoster will continue to offer PHP 7.3 for the time being.

I could try upgrading my instances to the latest version of b2e, but the last time I tried this I failed miserably.

Again; thanks a lot and I hope I'll meet you here again in case of other asks for support.

Best wishes and keep up your great work
Will

There was a way to import from even wordpress for example and phpbb, so inputting collections should be 'easy enough'. Yet I haven't found a way to do it, but your wants will prompt me to look again. Not that I have much inclination, time or hope.

Whilst nosing around I found a relevant file or two, so will have a look for and at them and update their locations.

UPDATE:

/inc/tools/model/

contains files relating to Wordpress and phpbb and there's an 'abstractimport.class'

Edit. 2
I have three or more installs, each with multiple collections :(

Edit 3
Have you seen
https://b2evolution.net/man/?s=import&submit=Search&disp=search

Is there any advantage of using php8? if b2evo was designed around 7 ?/

I have other things I'm working on currently so won't be of much use me thinks. :(

'The front end is completely broke.'
This is the major fatal error attempted fix by the hack above:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Object of class WidgetContainer could not be converted to string in /path/to/b2evolution/inc/skins/skin.funcs.php, i.e.,
https://github.com/b2evolution/b2evolution/issues/122#issue-2009151128

It is a show stopper. Notwithstanding, the other two fatal errors in the backend tabs referenced above are no less infuriating / exasperating. Yet, all have been apparently resolved to make PHP 8 display appropriately, as well, with relevant hacks.

Thanks, will have a look. I did try something a while back but went back to php7, though I have php8 installed on my server I think I avoided using it. Will try again.

All the best

OK That's useful info. I'll get around to trying that sometime.

so now i think i found out why the login problem the 2 b2evo installs share the same cookie name b2evo so the salt from the on install is different from the other so i had to differentiate the 2 installs by changing this in _advanced.php.

/**
 * Short name of this system (will be used for cookies and notification emails).
 *
 * Change this only if you install mutliple b2evolution instances on the same server or same domain.
 *
 * WARNING: don't play with this or you'll have tons of cookies sent away and your users will have issues!
 *
 * @global string Default: 'b2evo'
 */
$instance_name = 'blog2evo'; // MUST BE A SINGLE WORD! NO SPACES!!

no need for hurry. but its cracy by the way i have updated my production db to utf8mb4 for thsi change i had to change
evo_i18n_translated_string.itst_standard
evo_i18n_translated_string.itst_custom
varchar to text but its working great as you can see.

Sorry I edited my reply as I saw most of the detail.

I note you have a b2evo site

Sadly I'm very busy for some days, so ??

Exact b2evolution version :7.2.5-stable
Exact PHP version :7.4.33
MySQL/MariaDB version :11.2.2-MariaDB-1:11.2.2+maria~deb12

yes is my own debian 12 install

on ten same server also an update version is running.
www.disconnected-by-peer.at

an parallel i am trying to set up a new installation that owuld replace the old one sometimes in the furue.
blog.disconnected-by-peer.at

the install finished when i set no demo data ...
but then i am unable to login with the admin account with the nice errror from abouth.

Just to say hi and will think about your issue.

As you are using letsencrypt is this your own server?

Please read the post, which details info you could provide as a basis though you provide quite a bit :)

https://forums.b2evolution.net/?disp=edit&cat=244

I will install a fresh 7.2.5 blog on my site to see how it all goes

Makes sense :)

Hello @amoun,
thanks for your reply.

I think this is part of core b2e. It seems that RSS Feeds (also ATOM) follow the sorting order of the startpage.
I found a workaround: There is a way to build an RSS Feed to special Categories.
/?tempskin=_rss2&cat=ID
Now I list every new post also in a category named "Newest Posts" and built an RSS Feed of this Category. That works.

Hope you are well. And again, thank you for taking care of this forum so consistently and helpfully!

Regards, Will

1. Never used RSS but will have a look . . . .

2. Start with the /skins/_rss2 maybe to see what is 'pulls' in and from where etc.

3. Seems to use /xmlsrv/ where there is
   rss.php and rss2.php . . . which do very little it seems

Nope I didn't find anything there :(

So is that the output you get is in the same order as 'any' and all other skins use and hence the order of listing has to make an exception for RSS?

So is this RSS looking at your own feeds or those of incoming third parties

Not really :(

Hi,

Is version 7.2.5 compatible with PHP 8?

OK, thanks @oigreslima your new blog looks really good, very elegant!

Hi @nomad. I haven't decided yet. But I think I'll put all the comments on a "history page" and try to import them in the future.

At the moment, from what I've researched, there isn't a ready way to import comments to the respective post, without getting into programming.

Unfortunately!

PS: I have already imported about 1000 blog entries. I haven't done the redirect yet (but I've tested it using htaccess and it worked).
Old blog: https://sfl.pro.br/blogs/index.php/sergio-blog/
New blog: https://sfl.pro.br/blog/

@nomad wrote earlier:

Hi @oigreslima thanks a lot! I was wondering about export options as well. How does the import of comments work? And usernames? (I have lots of comments that I don't want to miss)

It remember vaguely there was an export option to Movable Type format for b2evolution 7.0.2 or so which than can be used to import it to Wordpress (I read it somewhere but don't remember where).

As b2evolution doesn't support php8 and php7.4 is no longer supported and will be phased out by the hosters, we need a way to migrate.

EDIT: Export to xml (7.0.2) https://b2evolution.net/man/export-xml-zip

EDIT2 Francois moved his English blog to Hugo https://fplanque.com

Oh, that's true, there is only 7.0.1.

What are your plans, @amoun ? Are you going to migrate? If yes, how? Or is somebody working on php 8 compatibility?