Compatibility improvements for Boost under PHP 8.x

[anarkia1976]

Hi Guys,

i have installed new cacti from scratch (release 1.2 latest source) with OS ubuntu 22.04:

OS: ubunt 22.04
PHP: 8.1.2
CACTI: 1.2 latest

i have enabled poller/boost, after this i have encountered some PHP related errors:

2023-05-29 14:35:02 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR Backtrace: (/poller_boost.php[162]:boost_prepare_process_table(), /poller_boost.php[313]:substr_count(), CactiErrorHandler())
2023-05-29 14:35:02 - ERROR PHP DEPRECATED: substr_count(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in file: /var/www/html/cacti/poller_boost.php on line: 313
2023-05-29 14:05:01 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR Backtrace: (/poller_boost.php[131]:strtotime(), CactiErrorHandler())
2023-05-29 14:05:01 - ERROR PHP DEPRECATED: strtotime(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($datetime) of type string is deprecated in file: /var/www/html/cacti/poller_boost.php on line: 131
2023-05-29 14:05:01 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR Backtrace: (/poller_boost.php[124]:strtotime(), CactiErrorHandler())
2023-05-29 14:05:01 - ERROR PHP DEPRECATED: strtotime(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($datetime) of type string is deprecated in file: /var/www/html/cacti/poller_boost.php on line: 124

thanks a lot as always. stefano.

[netniV]

Hi @anarkia1976, can you please be clear by which version you define as the latest? It may not actually be the latest.

[TheWitness]

This should now be fixed in a compatible way.