I'm like the temp from HR stopping by the tech department to pass along a complaint. Imagine me stammering and trying to get away as quickly as possible. But I too have a friend who wants to join and he got the same errors. I'll let him know you all are working on it, can you make sure I know when it's fixed so he can try again? Thank you!

shoves a box of donuts onto the nearest surface and runs away

I didn't have any time this weekend and I don't usually get much time during the week so it will be a bit.

You all are AWESOME. I understand none of what you are talking about, but I will cheer you on!!

What msbelle said!

I started a branch for migrating to the pdo mysql driver. There are two reasons for doing this. One is that it will close a security vulnerability and two is that the current mysql driver was removed from PHP 7 so we can't upgrade with the old driver. Then I can work on removing another vulnerability and fixing registration and logout.

When I get further along, I can set up a staging board for doing some testing.

I'd be more specific out the vulnerability, but I don't feel comfortable explaining how to attack the site in public.

Hanging garlic and crosses about might help. t unhelpful

migrating to the pdo mysql driver

Is that the mysqli vs. mysql thing?

Sort of. There are three PHP mysql drivers. The old mysqld which was removed from PHP 7.0. Mysqli and the PDO Mysql. The PDO driver is pretty much the standard one nowadays.

Got it. I thought this article explains well the work involved.

Yep. That's what I've started doing. I'm also moving all the database interaction into a set of database access objects so it won't be mixed in with the rest of the code.