Some issues in XAMPP 8.0.0.1

[Jarda Cerny]

Hello,

I have tried to use XAMPP from file xampp-portable-windows-x64-8.0.0-1-VS16.zip. I have noticed these issues:

Running setup_xampp.bat:

Warning: Undefined variable $backslash in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 452

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 452

... (repeated lines)

Warning: Undefined array key 100 in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 453

Warning: Undefined variable $doublebackslash in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 510

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 510

... (repeated lines)

Warning: Undefined array key 3 in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 511

Warning: Undefined variable $slash in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 569

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 569

... (repeated lines)

Warning: Undefined array key 15 in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 570

Warning: Undefined variable $perlactive in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 674

Warning: Undefined variable $pythonactive in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 674

Warning: Undefined variable $javaactive in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 674

Try to launch Apache:
- Regular error message "Missing libsqlite3.dll ..." (not first Xampp version with this bug)

Please fix.

[gonzalo]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this issue. I tried several times with the .zip and .7z files to reproduce this issue but I'm not able to reproduce it. I can run Apache just fine, and I can visit the phpinfo() page without issues (to perform a request to Apache). Can you please provide more details on how to reproduce this issue?

[Altrea]

Running setup_xampp.bat:

Warning: Undefined variable $backslash in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 452

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 452

... (repeated lines)

Warning: Undefined array key 100 in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 453

Warning: Undefined variable $doublebackslash in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 510

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 510

... (repeated lines)

Warning: Undefined array key 3 in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 511

Warning: Undefined variable $slash in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 569

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 569

... (repeated lines)

Warning: Undefined array key 15 in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 570

Warning: Undefined variable $perlactive in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 674

Warning: Undefined variable $pythonactive in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 674

Warning: Undefined variable $javaactive in E:\www\xampp8\install\install.php on line 674

Short Workaround for this issue:

• open the file \xampp\install\install.php with help of a plain text editor like Notepad++
• in the line after the opening php Tag (<?php) add these two lines:
  

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  error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT & ~E_WARNING & ~E_NOTICE);
$array = $slashrootreal = $backslashrootreal = $doublebackslashrootreal = array();

• save the file

The script is still very old and faulty. I am currently working on a redesign of it.

Try to launch Apache:
- Regular error message "Missing libsqlite3.dll ..." (not first Xampp version with this bug)

Please fix.

I was not able to reproduce this issue, sorry.

[x92]

Short Workaround for this issue:

• open the file \xampp\install\install.php with help of a plain text editor like Notepad++
• in the line after the opening php Tag (<?php) add these two lines:
  

  Code: Select all

  error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT & ~E_WARNING & ~E_NOTICE);
$array = $slashrootreal = $backslashrootreal = $doublebackslashrootreal = array();

• save the file

The script is still very old and faulty. I am currently working on a redesign of it.

I confirm that this fix works. Adding those two lines in \install\install.php and running setup_xampp.bat solved the issue.
The issue was that PHP 8 is far stricter by default with using uninitialized variables, throwing type errors and showing warnings.

[Jarda Cerny]

Hello,

I can confirm that Altrea's solution for warnings works, thanks.

The issue with libsqlite3.dll persists on my PC (Windows 7). The fix is simple - add new line into httpd-xampp.conf

LoadFile "/path_to_xampp_root/php/libsqlite3.dll"

[Altrea]

The issue was that PHP 8 is far stricter by default with using uninitialized variables, throwing type errors and showing warnings.

Kind of, but the most warnings are existing in previous XAMPP versions too, but the default setting was to not show them.

The only significant changes are the type hints which now seems to throw a fatal error instead of a warning if a count function is used in a non countable variable type

[gonzalo]

Hello Altrea,

We released a new revision, 8.0.0-2, including your changes in the install.php script to remove the warning messages so new users don't need to manually edit the file. Thank you for checking this!