strftime and gmstrftime depreciated as of PHP 8.1 - Need to find a replacement

[eSilverStrike]

Geeklog and many plugins including but not necessarily limited to:

• Static Pages
• Calendar
• Forum
• Media Gallery
• Messenger

use strftime all over the place (and in some places gmstrftime)

We will need to switch in a replacement as these functions have been depreciated as of 8.1 and will be removed by PHP 9:

https://php.watch/versions/8.1/strftime-gmstrftime-deprecated#replacements

Some Geeklog vendor libraries like Oauth also use it.

Replacement or work around needs to work with PHP 5.6

[mystralkk]

Basically, IntlDateFormatter::format () can output in four formats:

Type	Date	Time
IntlDateFormatter::FULL	Tuesday, April 12, 1952 AD	3:30:42pm PST
IntlDateFormatter::LONG	January 12, 1952	3:30:32pm
IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM	Jan 12, 1952
IntlDateFormatter::SHORT	12/13/52	3:30pm

We cannot get, for example, only the day or the month name using this function. We have full month names in $LANG_MONTH and full day names in $LANG_WEEK. How about adding $LANG_MONTH_SHORT (e.g. 'Jan'..'Dec') and $LANG_WEEK_SHORT (e.g. 'Mon'..'Sat') and using date() function?

[mystralkk]

OK, I replaced strftime() with COM_strftime() and gmstrftime() with COM_gmstrftime(), using date() and items from language files.

[mystralkk]

Finished with Geeklog core, core plugins, messenger, and ban.

[mystralkk]

Done with mediagallery

[eSilverStrike]

That was a lot of work for you. I will update the forum to use your new functions.

[eSilverStrike]

Forum now done. Also updated the GeSHI library to the latest version which had other PHP fixes as well