Eidolon & PHP8
Posted on 30 Apr '23 filed under Eidolon
Happy end-of-April everyone. After many weeks of consideration, I've finally decided to close down Eidolon. The clique just wasn't making any progress over the years as there wasn't any spark in interests compared to Exvius. Seeing that the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (https) was causing such a difficult time for the code to work on others' sites, I've eventually gave up on it. Nonetheless, thank you to the members for a great 5-year progress.
When the announcement of PHP 8 was released, I knew Dreamhost will eventually require everyone to upgrade to the latest version. Unfortunately, in order to keep a couple sites running smoothly in legacy PHP versions, an additional $5 monthly fee is required. PHP 7 is still quite relevant, but there's really no point keeping old codes working at PHP 7 or lower because of security vulnerabilities. Thus, over the past few weeks, I've updated most of the backend coding to port for PHP 8. So far, the whole network (including Caelestis and Enamour) at the moment are 85% running on v8.2 while the others are still at v7.4. Because of my upcoming graduation taking place in a few weeks, there won't be a complete update just yet. Stay tuned for the next updates.
When the announcement of PHP 8 was released, I knew Dreamhost will eventually require everyone to upgrade to the latest version. Unfortunately, in order to keep a couple sites running smoothly in legacy PHP versions, an additional $5 monthly fee is required. PHP 7 is still quite relevant, but there's really no point keeping old codes working at PHP 7 or lower because of security vulnerabilities. Thus, over the past few weeks, I've updated most of the backend coding to port for PHP 8. So far, the whole network (including Caelestis and Enamour) at the moment are 85% running on v8.2 while the others are still at v7.4. Because of my upcoming graduation taking place in a few weeks, there won't be a complete update just yet. Stay tuned for the next updates.