WA Forums - PHP/MySQLi General

Reply to Bill Hobbs re PHP 8.2 Upgrade

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:34:08 +0000

Hi Bill, I was unable to post a reply on the WA Forum, so until that's fixed I hope you see this!

The error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysqli_init()

means that PHP can't find the mysqli_init() function, which only exists if the MySQLi extension is installed and enabled in your PHP environment.

Check if the MySQLi extension is installed - download the attached phpinfo.php file and upload it to your server. Access the page in the browser, then search the page for "mysqli".

If you don’t see it, the extension is not installed or not enabled.

You may need to ask your server supplier to enable it, or let me know if you need help. Once activated, check the phpinfo page again.

You should remove the phpinfo.php file once you've finished with it for security purposes.

phpinfo.php (Size: 22 bytes / Downloads: 0)

not seeing database error

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:18:26 +0000

I found a solution when setting up a site and WA can't see the tables; this was php chat engineer suggestion.

My server was set to 8.1. Chat says WA was written for 7.4. I reset this domain to 7.4, made the connection file, then changed domain back to 8.1

"An unidentified error has occurred" when attempting to connect db using Dynamic MySq

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:57:46 +0000

A thread on this error is available here: https://www.webassist.com/forums/posts.php?id=47226

Updated to PHP 8.0 and I receive this error: Fatal error: Array and string offset acc

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:52:22 +0000

Useful thread on this error is here: https://www.webassist.com/forums/posts.php?id=47035

upgrade from mysql 5.7 to mariadb 10.6

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:48:58 +0000

Useful thread here:

https://www.webassist.com/forums/posts.php?id=47266

HTML text from database not displaying correctly?

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:32:11 +0000

If you've upgraded to mySQLi and you find that HTML text is displaying the HTML code as well as the text, all you need to do is update the PHP code as in the following example:

Old code:

PHP Code:
echo($recordset->getColumnVal("textcolumn")); ?>

New code:

PHP Code:
echo($recordset->getColumnVal("textcolumn",false)); ?>

Upgrading to php8.x

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:19:59 +0000

I've upgraded all the sites I manage from PHP7.4 to 8.2 and after getting a series of PHP errors, these are the steps I took to fix the errors which I hope will be helpful to others.

Check your Connections file - if you have the charset set to utf8 or utf-8, change it to UTF8 (uppercase).
Make sure you have the latest version Data Bridge installed, and replace the following folders/files if they were generated using an older version:
- webassist/mysqli folder containing authentication.php, queryobj.php & rsobj.php
If you use WA Email, also replace the following in the webassist/email folder:
- WA_Email.php
- phpmailer folder
If you use form validations, replace the webassist/form_validations folder containing wavt_scripts_php.php and wavt_validatedform_php.php

I would STRONGLY advise that you make a copy of the existing files & folders before doing any updates, just in case you have to roll back for any reason. All the above updates can be done before you upgrade to php8.2 - the upgrade should be the final step.

There could be other updates required depending on which WA products you're using, but hopefully this will help some of you. I've attached copies of the files & folders mentioned above which were generated using the latest version of DataBridge.

  email.zip (Size: 121.94 KB / Downloads: 3)

  form_validations.zip (Size: 7.42 KB / Downloads: 2)

  mysqli.zip (Size: 18.99 KB / Downloads: 3)

Reinstalling extensions

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:42:44 +0000

This thread is helpful:

http://www.webassist.com/forums/posts.php?id=46924

Just in case we ever lose WA Forum, here is the full answer:

The latest Adobe Creative Cloud update has introduced a file corruption issue in the Dreamweaver menus.xml and insertbar.xml files. This will cause extensions to not show in the Dreamweaver Insert menu and the Insert Panel. Hopefully Adobe will fix this soon.

You have a corruption in the underlying Dreamweaver files that now needs to be fixed.

1. Do NOT use the Anastasiy’s Extension Manager!

2. ONLY use the DMXzone Extension Manager.

3. Follow the instructions on the page link. The Dreamweaver configuration folder is corrupt and needs to be replaced with a default configuration. The instructions here are very important, follow each step:

https://www.projectseven.com/products/ex...m#cc-issue

First, be sure that you have re-started Dreamweaver after you renamed the configuration folder. Then shut Dreamweaver down.

In the DMXzone Extension Manager, if your extensions are listed as installed then you must first un-install each. Just click the X to the right of each extension. This will clear the extension database. Now you can install each one, one at a time.

Be sure that Dreamweaver is shut down during this operation.

Let's start a discussion about PHP versions

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:01:38 +0000

Here is the link to the thread about php versions that had 89 replies.

https://webassist.com/forums/posts.php?id=46999