not working working with php 8.

[bob0bob]

When trying to use php 8, I get the following error. The backend appears to work, for what I use it does. The front end if completely broke.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Object of class WidgetContainer could not be converted to string in /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/skins/skin.funcs.php:3198 Stack trace: #0 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/skins/skin.funcs.php(3198): str_replace('$wico_class$', 'evo_container...', Array) #1 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/skins/model/_skin.class.php(440): widget_container_customize_params(Array, 'right_navigatio...', 'Right Navigatio...') #2 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/skins/_skin.funcs.php(3092): Skin->container('Right Navigatio...', Array, 'right_navigatio...') #3 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/skins/bootstrap_site_dropdown_skin/_site_body_header.inc.php(190): widget_container('right_navigatio...', Array) #4 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/skins/_skin.funcs.php(2469): require('/home/mysticlan...') #5 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/skins/bootstrap_blog_skin/index.main.php(36): siteskin_include('_site_body_head...') #6 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/_blog_main.inc.php(1203): require('/home/mysticlan...') #7 /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/index.php(74): require('/home/mysticlan...') #8 {main} thrown in /home/mysticland/public_html/arx/inc/skins/_skin.funcs.php on line 3198

[keithbowes]

There are a lot of these errors. Each new version of PHP breaks something (I try to fix them in my fork but I gave up on upstream years ago (version 7 looked like it was going to exarcerbate the bloat that had existed for a while, so I forked version 6.9.7 in hopes to slim it down)), but I can't really fault PHP: a lot of dubious coding practices were used and PHP was right for removing support for them (but wrong for supporting them in the first place).

[spooxe]

You can fix this with data casting in the widget class. The objects are WidgetContainer, Commentlist, ItemList and Item. Then the str_replace for $params work fine. Type cast them after the str_replace back to objects. Other solution is to to copy this objects and delete the original. After the str_replace add them back and delete the clone. But there are a also lot of more deprecations with dynamic properties....