Hi all,
I am trying to download a moodle plugin from the store, extract the zip file to moodledata folder and check the plugin requirements in the version.php file. I tested my code on Moodle 4.1.5+ release with PHP version 7.4 installed and it works perfectly fine, but when I move the plugin to a test site with Moodle 4.2.2+ and PHP version 8.2 i get the following error:
Exception - Failed opening required '../version.php' (include_path='[dirroot]/lib/pear:.:/usr/share/php') .
I have traced the error down to the include() statement where I try to access the downloaded plugin's version.php file, but I can't figure why it doesn't work. I found the forum post https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=442644 where the suggested reason for similar error is that the PHP 8.1 isn't fully supported in Moodle, but when I tried with different sites with Moodle 4.2.2+ and PHP versions 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2, still only the 7.4 one worked. If it helps, I was testing on Ubuntu 20.04 OS and Postgresql 12(15) database.
Thank you for help,
Vid
The supported PHP versions for various Moodle versions can be found here https://moodledev.io/general/development/policies/php However it is possible that the Plugin itself is has not been updated to support a later PHP version.
When updating from 4.3 to 4.4, the category_class.php file is missing at dirroot]/question/category_class.php'.
You copy it from version 4.3 and it works
The download_as_dataformat() function is obsolete.
Use:
/lib/classes/dataformat.php