[Code] php-openid on php 5.3.3 - is the project maintained?

[Bill Shupp]

And yes, it runs on PHP 5.3.  You won't find any @ error suppression either.

Regards,

Bill

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bill Shupp <hostmaster at shupp.org> wrote:

> I can't speak to the php-openid project, as I don't use it.  But if you are
> only looking for relying party support, you might check out the package I
> wrote for PEAR:
>
> http://pear.php.net/package/OpenID
>
> The github page is here:
>
> http://github.com/shupp/openid
>
> Documentation is mostly API docs, but it does come with examples and a
> debug console which you can see in action here:
>
> http://shupp.org/openid/examples/
>
> Feel free to ping me if you have any questions on it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
> P.S. provider support is coming soon, I'm starting on it next week.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, fred trotter <fred.trotter at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>       I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get
>> php-openid to work on php 5.3.3
>>
>> So far I have rediscovered the "blank screen" bug (not sure who
>> decided to use @, but holy-moly that makes painful to find bugs) and
>> have fixed this by installing the latest from git.
>> But now Google and Yahoo URLs do not appear to work any longer.
>> Returning "Invalid URL".
>>
>> I have found many many complaints and "bug fixes" for php 5.3 issues.
>> I see no source coming forward and saying "Hey, I am the person who
>> aggregates bug reports, and makes sure they are addressed in the
>> latest version. The open bug list on github has 30 issues that date
>> back 7 months. Many of them might apply to the issues I am having.
>>
>> The "detect" script has a serious bug in it. It expects to be called
>> from apache, and fails when run form the command line, despite
>> instructions that specifically say running from command line is fine.
>> Moreover the error that is generated is the very helpful "Check your
>> mod_include". That's it. "Check". Not check to see if it is there. Or
>> if it is not there. Or if it is misconfigured, or if it is painted
>> yellow. Just check. This from a function that will -always- fail when
>> run from the command prompt, no matter what your mod_include status
>> is. That was a 4 hour rabbit hole. Only figured it out when I saw that
>> there was a patch, months old, that fixes the problem of the error
>> being displayed when run from the command prompt. Again, one of the
>> issues floating around git, waiting to integrated into the main tree.
>>
>> So far there are blog posts, stack overflow entries and multiple
>> emails on this list suggesting different problems and fixes usnig this
>> library with php 5.3.x
>> php 5.3.3. has been out since the summer.
>>
>> And then I come to the kicker: I read this message from Will Norris
>> http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-code/2010-July/000142.html
>>
>> This basically sums up the experience I am having. There is no
>> "leadership" coordinating this project that I can tell.
>> This is despite an active community that appears to be providing not
>> only high-quality bug reports, but often high quality patches.
>>
>> Which brings me to my question? Is this project maintained? I cannot
>> afford to lose a week to a debug process on a previously working
>> library, only to find that many of the issues that I am dealing with
>> have been reported, patches, and ignored by the library in question.
>> Viable projects do not act like this.
>>
>> If you are seeking a maintainer for this project then make that clear
>> on the main page at git. If people should start looking at other
>> libraries... please make that clear.
>> Otherwise, could we please snap out of it? The issues in git need to
>> be either addressed and removed or verified fixed and removed.
>> Otherwise users like me have not idea where to even start debugging.
>>
>> Hope everyone is having a good Christmas..
>>
>> -FT
>>
>> --
>> Fred Trotter
>> http://www.fredtrotter.com
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