Taxonomy vocabularies and PHP 8.2 - needs direction / decision.
Core support for PHP 8.2 is on its way. In a previous pull request, we decided to check for property existence in function taxonomy_form_vocabulary_submit() to prevent arbitrary form item values to bloat the object, but it turns out, that's not sufficient and possibly not even appropriate.
Looking at official documentation, it seems like class TaxonomyVocabulary is actually supposed to allow dynamic properties. We just didn't realize, as hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_load() isn't used anywhere in core. And there's no functional test for that hook, either.
Hi breckenr. Welcome to the Backdrop CMS forum.
I'm not sure what might be producing the Deprecation notices. To get rid of those temporarily you can probably revert to PHP 7.4.
As...
Posted12 hours 39 min ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
The database connection settings have been simplified in recent releases, so may look a little different than what Steve mentions (which should still work, if you prefer that format). See here...
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Taxonomy vocabularies and PHP 8.2 - needs direction / decision.
Core support for PHP 8.2 is on its way. In a previous pull request, we decided to check for property existence in function taxonomy_form_vocabulary_submit() to prevent arbitrary form item values to bloat the object, but it turns out, that's not sufficient and possibly not even appropriate.
Looking at official documentation, it seems like class TaxonomyVocabulary is actually supposed to allow dynamic properties. We just didn't realize, as hook_taxonomy_vocabulary_load() isn't used anywhere in core. And there's no functional test for that hook, either.
Issue #6197 provides more info.
The decision has notable impact on contrib modules.