Christopher Juckins

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CentOS PHP 8.1 Upgrade

Pre-existing PHP 7.4 RPMs:

[root@tidewater: ~]# rpm -qa |grep php | sort
oniguruma5php-6.9.7.1-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-cli-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-common-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-json-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-mbstring-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-mysqlnd-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-pdo-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-pecl-mcrypt-1.0.4-1.el7.remi.7.4.x86_64
php-sodium-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64
php-xml-7.4.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64

After installation, PHP files will now give this error message:

Deprecated: Constant FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is deprecated in ...

Fix is explained at Stack Overflow and 2 options are the following:

use FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW
use FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS