Time to address the support for the upcoming PHP 8.2

[mhcwebdesign]

As per the header, PHP 8.2 support for OpenCart should be implemented soon for the upcoming PHP 8.2 release. We have created a pull request for the master branch for this: #12071

[TheCartpenter]

Integrated into opencart-3 now.

[mhcwebdesign]

Still some more fixes needed, see #12071 (comment) for details.

[mhcwebdesign]

Thanks for working on it, we are getting there.

There is just one outstanding issue with PHP8.2, for the system/library/mail/smtp.php, as follows:

Line 237:

				$results = str_split($line, 998);

needs to be replaced with:

				// see https://php.watch/versions/8.2/str_split-empty-string-empty-array
				$results = ($line === '') ? [''] : str_split($line, 998);

Otherwise the email text gets completely lost when using PHP8.2 !

tested on Linux Mint 20.3 with PHP 8.2