I know this is not something you all have to deal with, looks like I need to go out and get a developer to figure this all out, but just thought I'd keep ya up to speed the correspondence with my host at A2 Hosting, good group of folks by the way. If any php gurus are tracking my issue here, I'd be receptive to you reaching out and giving me a cost to figure this out? Thank you!
ME: Hello folks, the software I have installed is going to require php8.1 for the next upgrade, and the current version has been php8.1 compatible for quite awhile now. When I change my php version from 8.0 to 8.1 my website crashes.
Can you please help me fix this?
A2: I have checked that and indeed it shows errors when set to PHP 8.1. However, I am unable to debug it further, so you will need to ask your developer to check what is actually wrong there. I apologize for the inconvenience; the error message is generic, and I am not seeing any specific error logged here. Debugging can sometimes be tricky, but your developer should be able to handle it since they know the script much better. Please ask them to take a look. Actually, one more thing: I have tried both PHP 8.1 and 8.2, and both versions are throwing errors. However, it seems to be working with PHP 8.3, so please check if that is fully compatible with PHP 8.3.
I have reverted PHP back to 8.0, of course.
Hope it helps. I am of course standing by to provide you additional assistance, if needed. Remember we are here 24/7. Thank you!
ME: Gordon thank you for your help! Appreciate it much. Is there a way I can get a PHP error log for this? The developer is asking. Thank you sir! John
A2: You are most welcome, and I am glad that I could be of assistance. However, the PHP log is a bit tricky thing. I wasn't really able to debug that beyond the generic error as per the (attached screenshot), and I didn't see anything in the logs, so that is a kind of mystery to me. I apologize.
I wish I could be more helpful to you, but that is the situation.