Hello to everyone,
I need to upgrade a drupal7 site and choose backdrop-cms. As I document every step, I found out, the hard way, that the required php packages aren't well documented.
When I install into a fresh debian 12 setup with apache2 and mariadb-server, you need the following php (8.2) packages to get backdrop-cms version 1.30.1 installed:
php8.2 php-mdb2 php-pear php-xml php-mbstring php-gd php-mdb2-driver-mysql php-mysql php8.2-mysql
Especially when you get the "ERROR: Call to a member function name() on bool in install_settings_form() ..." you might miss the php-mysql packages.
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Hi
Thanks for flagging this up. I'll see if we can update our documentation to be clearer about the PHP packages needed.
I've added an issue for this at https://github.com/backdrop-ops/docs.backdropcms.org/issues/247