phpmailer version 5.2.7 does not work with PHP 8

[dunxd]

When using with PHP version 8, when trying to send a book via email errors are thrown - e.g.

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_magic_quotes_runtime() in /cops/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php:2714

This presumably isn't an issue with more recent versions of phpmailer, but likely the code calling phpmailer class needs to be changed according to phpmailer's upgrading doc.

[mikespub]

Switching to phpmailer 6.8.x is rather easy for COPS:

• change composer.json to use phpmailer/phpmailer version ~6.8 instead of ~5.2
• run "composer update --no-dev -o" if you have it available
• change sendtomail.php to use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer

See mikespub-org@e1b7182 for relevant updates, or check out the unofficial version "1.3.2" at https://github.com/mikespub-org/seblucas-cops/releases with a few other updates

Note: there are only very basic tests for the mail functionality in COPS, so you may discover some other issues when you actually use it on PHP 8.x :-)

[dunxd]

Thanks - the 1.3.2 version worked for me, although I wasn't able to get php mailer working (as you predicted) and it is a pain to troubleshoot, so I am putting the emailing of books to one side for now, and focus on tweaks to the interface and getting reading in the browser working.

Time to learn composer :-)

[mikespub]

Included in #522 and release 1.3.2 at https://github.com/mikespub-org/seblucas-cops