Ubuntu php7 and OJS

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Hello,
is there any progress about possibility of using php7 on Ubuntu - our provider upgraded the server to php7 and our OJS does not work due to “String” problem. Does exist any patch which can help us?

Many thanks

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Hi @Jiri_Dlouhy,
What version of OJS you are using? OJS3 Works fine on my Ubuntu with PHP 7.0.

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Hi @Vitaliy We are using version 2.4.8.x - there is quite frequentely visited scientific journal running on it.

As I understand the version 3.0 is still not ready for real usage, there are still no all translations etc. And it will be difficult to migrate without running OJS.

Jiri

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There are not currently plans to move OJS 2.4.x to PHP7. See:
https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/1118#issuecomment-180643335

If you wanted to try to make these changes yourself, start by looking at the OJS 3.x issues which reference PHP7, and identifying what might apply to OJS 2.4.x.