PHP 8.0 support

[turbo124]

I see there were issues with PHP 7.4 here #383, when running my tests against PHP 8.0 i also see the following:

PHPUnit\Framework\Exception: PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent in vendor/authorizenet/authorizenet/lib/net/authorize/api/contract/v1/MerchantAuthenticationType.php on line 29

[mav2287]

Looks like this issue has been around since Jan 1 of 2020 with not official fix yet. Have look at: PHP 7.4 support #383 & Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent #397

[turbo124]

@mav2287 I was able to use #397 as a workaround, however this is no longer possible with PHP 8.0

[mav2287]

Have you taken a look at the php-version-upgrade branch and this pull request? Updating generator to fix PHP74 related bug #395

[mav2287]

Just tried switching to that branch with composer require authorizenet/authorizenet:dev-php-version-upgrade, deleted the vendor folder and then ran composer install , but I still get the same parent error on PHP 8.0.2. It does work correctly on php 7.4 though so I'm not sure what changed in PHP 8.0 that is causing it to throw that error.

[turbo124]

@mav2287 I believe it is the stricter type checks in PHP 8

[mav2287]

That would make sense. I dropped a comment on the merge request for the person who made the 7.4 patch to see if they are doing an 8.0 patch. If they do hopefully it gets merged in as well.

[skystebnicki]

Have there been any updates on this? We've been holding off on upgrading to php8 because of this bug, but it is starting to create some problems for us.

[turbo124]

@skystebnicki have you tested @markonikolicdir PR as a fix for this? I am also in a similar position as this is the only package that is holding us back from PHP 8

[skystebnicki]

Unfortunately we were unable to get it to work, even with the PR fix, but we didn't spend too much time testing that because it's pretty critical we have the official package tested and working in our production environment.

[brada1703]

Any update on this? Running into the same problem on 8.0. I'd love to use the fix here, but can't until it's official :(

[midnightcorp]

+1 for PHP 8 support.

[kkeith-adg]

Been trying to upgrade our app to PHP 8 for the last few days and this library is one of my main issues. Decided to write a PHP script to patch the files so I wouldn't have to use a fork of the official library. If you are looking for a temporary solution until they either fix this issue or you migrate away from Authorize.net (recommended), this could work.

1. Setup this script in the same directory as your composer.json file
2. Run via php name-of-script.php
3. Install as a composer post-install-cmd script in your composer.json

    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "php name-of-script.php"
        ]
    }

I tried to apply these changes to a private fork but all the composer dependencies are so old I couldn't update everything to run tests.

[skystebnicki]

Is anyone from Authorize.net even monitoring this repo? Maybe we're just screaming in the desert here. Seems like such a trivial fix to leave undone for so long.

[skystebnicki]

I just filed a ticket with their support to see if we can get some eyes on it. Note of businesses out there, if you publish a github repo, it's not a good look if you fail to respond to customers there.