PHP 8 migration for ARI Ext Menu Topic is solved

[Jefferson49]

Hello users of the ARI Ext Menu,

during the migration of my joomla 3.10 site to PHP 8, I recognized that the ARI Ext Menu module is not working with PHP 8. Therefore, I created a patch for the ARI Ext Menu, which I provide on Github: https://github.com/Jefferson49/PHP8_mod_ariextmenu

The patch was developed and successfully tested with:

• joomla 3.10.11; but should also run with other joomla 3.x versions
• PHP 8.0.20
• ARI Ext Menu 2.2.11

The following aspects of the PHP code were patched in 6 PHP files of the module:

• Substitution of curly braces for character access in arrays (e.g. "my_array[0]" instead of "my_array{0}")
• Declaration of static methods as static (i.e. "static function" instead of "function" only)

[ozneilau]

On behalf of the 100+ Joomla fans that have read this post, and all the rest that come by later, thank-you so much for sharing!

[Jefferson49]

Hello users of the ARI Ext Menu,

now, I managed to migrate the module to joomla 4.x

The patch for the 4.x migration (including also PHP8) is available on Github:
https://github.com/Jefferson49/PHP8_mod_ariextmenu

The joomla 4.x patch (including PHP 8 patch) was developed and tested with:

• joomla 4.2.5; but should also run with other joomla 4.x versions.
• PHP 8.0.23; but should also run with other PHP 8.x versions
• ARI Ext Menu 2.2.11 (with PHP 8 patch)

[BruceT123]

I agreed with this article. In November 2022, PHP 7's final version 7.4 will no longer get security updates. Then, PHP 7.4 users will need to update to version 8.0 or later. Before then, it would be really helpful if ARI Ext Menu could be upgraded to support PHP version 8.X. Thank you.