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Installing with MySQL 8 fails - No MyISAM engine [message #187925]

Tue, 07 July 2020 14:49

interestinglyaverage

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Hi everyone, new to FUDforum after a client introduced it to me. I have tried to install it on Digital Ocean using MySQL 8 managed database, and the installation fails with various errors about not being able to drop tables. After investigating the installation script, the issue is in the table creations, where the installer forces the table to be MyISAM regardless of the default. Commenting this line out of the installer fixed the issue for me.

Is the use of MyISAM required for FUDforum to function correctly, or will the forum perform properly using InnoDB? This is the new default engine for MySQL, and would likely perform better for a high traffic forum as it is designed for more read/write as opposed to MyISAM which I understood to be more high read low write?

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Re: Installing with MySQL 8 fails - No MyISAM engine [message #187926 is a reply to message #187925]

Tue, 07 July 2020 15:42

naudefj

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MyISAM is not required Smile

I assume this is a relic of the past that needs to be expelled from the code.

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Re: Installing with MySQL 8 fails - No MyISAM engine [message #187927 is a reply to message #187926]

Tue, 07 July 2020 16:58

interestinglyaverage

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Awesome. I did get the forum up and running by commenting out line 452 in FUDforum/include/dbadmin.inc.

By the way, I am fairly new to FUDforum, but I have been working on rewriting part of it for a client project (enabling composer support, PSR-4 namespaces, moving the database operations to objects, creating a TWIG based template system, separating out the views from the code, reducing code duplication are all done or in progress, next will be trying to move away from globals and fix some SQL injection issues I've noticed). I don't know how open you might be to code from the community, but if you were interested, I'd be willing to share what I have as I complete it. Please let me know.

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Re: Installing with MySQL 8 fails - No MyISAM engine [message #187928 is a reply to message #187927]

Tue, 07 July 2020 18:53

naudefj

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Very open! If you can produce better code or improved functionality, while maintaining a clear upgrade path for exiting forum owners, you will be a hero around here.

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Re: Installing with MySQL 8 fails - No MyISAM engine [message #187940 is a reply to message #187928]

Thu, 13 August 2020 18:37

naudefj

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Hi,

I trust you are well and that you are making good progress with your improvements.
Please let us know as soon as you have something we can add to the next release.

Regards.
Frank

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Re: Installing with MySQL 8 fails - No MyISAM engine [message #187943 is a reply to message #187940]

Wed, 02 September 2020 00:10

GaryM

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I just saw this and echo Frank's comments. I would be very interested and would donate to improve client functionality.

http://vintagegruen.org

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