Debian 8 and Smarty3

[wtermini]

I was working on trying to get ugmm to work with Debian 8 as part of a project for the computer and security student association at ECU. However I have run into an issue the smarty module was upgraded from 2 - 3 and it seemed to break a lot of things. I managed to get as far as logging in. However I can not seem to figure out this issue.

[Wed Jun 22 15:36:36.835619 2016] [:error] [pid 26140] [client 192.168.1.84:45536] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught --> Smarty Compiler: Syntax error in template "./templates/editselfdetails.tpl" on line 12 "" unknown modifier "nonce" <-- \n thrown in /usr/share/php/smarty3/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php on line 12

This is caused by an issue on line 146 of session.inc.php

$smarty->register_modifier('nonce', 'create_nonce');

the function register_modifier was replaced with registerPlugin however I can not seem to get it to work. The first attempt it would simply not load anything, however changing the line to look like this
$smarty->registerPlugin("function","nonce","create_nonce");

I could at least get a broken page sent to me.

I am not a very strong PHP developer so this is about the best I can do ATM.

You can see my fork here, https://github.com/cassa/ugmm

[timwhite]

Going from Smarty 2 to Smarty 3 is a big step. There is a whole guide and the BC notes and a summary at http://www.smarty.net/v3_overview
Also, to save duplication of work, does it make sense we rename from plug-ugmm to just ugmm, and then move all Organisation specific terms/code to a config file? Currently it's impossible comparing your fork with the original, as most of the changes are branding changes.

[Zorlin]

Hi William,

We have recently been upgrading and updating UGMM with the help of @unixnut and @timwhite - including a migration to smarty3 and Debian 9. Are you still interested in using UGMM?