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Fatal error: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is no longer supported in C:\xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Config.php on line 2095

tried replacing a few / fixing syntax, but there are hundreds to change.
needs to be updated for php8 syntax.

Thumbs up for this.

I'm trying to install WordPress CodeSniffer rules, but I can't, I get the same pear errors mentioned in the previous message.

I tried to manually fix some of them, but it's impossible, they are hundreds.
"Fatal error: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is no longer supported in .."

I also tried to update pear on my computer separately from xampp. but then I get version conflicts when starting xampp.

If possible, please update the pear package inside Xampp.
Thank you!

I have Xampp 8.0.6 installed on a Linux machine and it seems that PEAR has been adapted. I edited Config.php from PEAR and jumped to line 2095, which shows up like this:

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 } elseif ($prepend[0] != '\\') {


This looks quite good, is it uses normal braces "[" and "]" instead of curly braces "{" and "}" (which caused the error). Could you have a look what you can see in your Config.php from PEAR in your Xampp installation? Line 2095 due to the error message. I dont use Windows anymore.

Helping a customer update from a xampp system using php7 to php8.
They want pecl working.
Using xampp with PHP 8.0.6

The following files have array and string offsets that need to be fixed, which I have and it took a while.
This involved the replacement of {} with [] or () as needed.
String offsets get [].
arg() and other parametered calls get ().

xampp\php\pear\System.php
xampp\php\pear\Console\Getargs.php
xampp\php\pear\Console\Getopt.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Find.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Util.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Passwd\Custom.php
xampp\php\pear\OS\Guess.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Autoloader.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Builder.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Common.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Config.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\DependencyDB.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Downloader.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Installer.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Registry.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Validate.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Channels.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Common.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Config.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Installer\Role.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile\v1.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile\Generator\v1.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile\v2\Validator.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\CLI.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\File.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\CommentParser\AbstractParser.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\CommentParser\CommentElement.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\MySource\Sniffs\Channels\DisallowSelfActionsSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\MySource\Sniffs\CSS\BrowserSpecificStylesSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\Commenting\FileCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\Commenting\InlineCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\NamingConventions\ValidClassNameSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\NamingConventions\ValidFunctionNameSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\NamingConventions\ValidVariableNameSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\Commenting\FileCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\Commenting\FunctionCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\Commenting\InlineCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\CSS\ColourDefinitionSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\CSS\OpacitySniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\CSS.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\Compat\Function\strripos.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CompatInfo\Cli.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CompatInfo\Renderer\Text.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CompatInfo\Renderer\Xml.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Parse\Default\Smiley.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Parse\Default\Wikilink.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Render\Xhtml\Colortext.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Render\Xhtml\Url.php
xampp\php\pear\XML\Util.php

Got pecl to give command list.
When I tried pecl list I got more errors
Each is deprecated in php7, removed in php8.
The following files need to have each() logic converted to foreach() logic.

xampp\php\pear\PEAR.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\adodb-datadict.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\adodb-error.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\adodb.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\toexport.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\drivers\adodb-ado.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\drivers\adodb-ado5.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\Console\Getopt.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Find.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Autoloader.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Common.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\UML\Input\PHP\ParserImpl.php
xampp\php\pear\PHPUnit\Util\Getopt.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Diff\Engine\native.php

Perhaps the each() can simply be replaced with foreach(), don't know yet.

Just wanted to pass on what I have found so far.

I have done a clean install of Xampp v3.3.0 with PHP 8.1.2. The problem with PEAR still exists.

I had the same problem, after I did the installation of xampp-windows-x64-8.2.4-0-VS16-installer.exe / xampp PHP Version 8.2.4 .
I'm having trouble installing PEAR Mail
I've replaced all the {} signs with [] replaced all but I seem to fail each to become foreach with the correct code
I hope this issue is resolved because I'm still stuck on PHP 5

burhanxMAN wrote:I had the same problem, after I did the installation of xampp-windows-x64-8.2.4-0-VS16-installer.exe / xampp PHP Version 8.2.4 .
I'm having trouble installing PEAR Mail
I've replaced all the {} signs with [] replaced all but I seem to fail each to become foreach with the correct code
I hope this issue is resolved because I'm still stuck on PHP 5

Problem solved, i just ignore all pear errors, in my case i need pear mail, i just need to do manual copy of mail and net modules to pear folder, and its working in php 8.2.4

Doors wrote:Helping a customer update from a xampp system using php7 to php8.
They want pecl working.
Using xampp with PHP 8.0.6

The following files have array and string offsets that need to be fixed, which I have and it took a while.
This involved the replacement of {} with [] or () as needed.
String offsets get [].
arg() and other parametered calls get ().

xampp\php\pear\System.php
xampp\php\pear\Console\Getargs.php
xampp\php\pear\Console\Getopt.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Find.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Util.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Passwd\Custom.php
xampp\php\pear\OS\Guess.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Autoloader.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Builder.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Common.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Config.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\DependencyDB.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Downloader.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Installer.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Registry.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Validate.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Channels.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Common.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Config.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Installer\Role.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile\v1.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile\Generator\v1.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\PackageFile\v2\Validator.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\CLI.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\File.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\CommentParser\AbstractParser.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\CommentParser\CommentElement.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\MySource\Sniffs\Channels\DisallowSelfActionsSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\MySource\Sniffs\CSS\BrowserSpecificStylesSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\Commenting\FileCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\Commenting\InlineCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\NamingConventions\ValidClassNameSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\NamingConventions\ValidFunctionNameSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\PEAR\Sniffs\NamingConventions\ValidVariableNameSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\Commenting\FileCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\Commenting\FunctionCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\Commenting\InlineCommentSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\CSS\ColourDefinitionSniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards\Squiz\Sniffs\CSS\OpacitySniff.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\CSS.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\Compat\Function\strripos.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CompatInfo\Cli.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CompatInfo\Renderer\Text.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\CompatInfo\Renderer\Xml.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Parse\Default\Smiley.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Parse\Default\Wikilink.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Render\Xhtml\Colortext.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Wiki\Render\Xhtml\Url.php
xampp\php\pear\XML\Util.php

Got pecl to give command list.
When I tried pecl list I got more errors
Each is deprecated in php7, removed in php8.
The following files need to have each() logic converted to foreach() logic.

xampp\php\pear\PEAR.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\adodb-datadict.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\adodb-error.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\adodb.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\toexport.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\drivers\adodb-ado.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\adodb\drivers\adodb-ado5.inc.php
xampp\php\pear\Console\Getopt.php
xampp\php\pear\File\Find.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Autoloader.php
xampp\php\pear\PEAR\Command\Common.php
xampp\php\pear\PHP\UML\Input\PHP\ParserImpl.php
xampp\php\pear\PHPUnit\Util\Getopt.php
xampp\php\pear\Text\Diff\Engine\native.php

Perhaps the each() can simply be replaced with foreach(), don't know yet.

Just wanted to pass on what I have found so far.

fix the pear script by replacing the symbol { } with [ ] and replacing the each() function with forech() in my case it can only run informational commands without errors, such as displaying version info, lists etc., but still an error if the command is installed, but at least your information is very helpful.

It seems that even in the most recent versions of Xampp, the (quite outdated) version 1.10.1 of PEAR is bundled, while Ubuntu 22.04 already ships with 1.10.12 (where the curly brackets were cleaned). Current version AFAIK is 1.10.15.

@Apachefriends: Could you replace this? It would presumably be a quick operation, and with PHP8.x the old version 1.10.1 of PEAR is not usable anyway. If developers relying on Xampp as beginner-friendly WAMP stack for their open source projects would have to explain to their users how to replace PEAR on each installation, it would be far more complicated... Thanks very much!!