Comments on: Upgrading Mint for use with PHP 7+ https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2020/12/upgrading-mint-for-use-with-php-7 A running commentary of occasionally interesting things — from Mike Davidson. Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Mike D. https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2020/12/upgrading-mint-for-use-with-php-7#comment-716822 Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:13:24 +0000 https://mikeindustries.com/blog/?p=29425#comment-716822 Hi Mark. Ha! I’m glad this helped someone so quickly! Thought I was the only one who still used Mint. So… to answer your question: &= is still fine to use if it’s not followed by “new”. I think that only happens once in the code (as far I as I could tell). Happy Minting!

]]> By: Mark Nichols https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2020/12/upgrading-mint-for-use-with-php-7#comment-716588 Thu, 31 Dec 2020 02:26:21 +0000 https://mikeindustries.com/blog/?p=29425#comment-716588 Thank you! I recently migrated to a new host, including both my wife’s Mint and mine. Working with the new host I was able to put some jiggery-pokey stuff into the `.htaccess` file to force PHP 5. Not ideal, but it got things working.

In `mint.php` there were several other instances of `=&`. I have left those in place for now, only changing the one you specified. And I have the SQL wrapper in place.

I, too, had spent hours trying to figure out what to update/change in Mint to get it working again. The analysis tooL I downloaded (`php7mar`) found a couple hundred lines that needed changing. The wrapper is far simpler.

The changes are in place and the htaccess workaround is removed and it all seems to be working. Thanks again!

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