Sorry for the super long silence regarding eFiction! I know many of you probably forgot that we even existed, and are using forked versions of eFiction created by our community. (thanks a ton for that btw)
Consider this article our big and grand reveal of eFiction 4! While there’s not much to share as of right this second, I can at the very least confirm the following;
- eFiction 4 will require PHP 8.3 or newer.
- eFiction 4 is a full conversion of eFiction 3.x, rebuilt from the ground up.
- eFiction 4 is backwards compatible with all previous 3.x stories / authors.
We’ll have more information soon.
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Also posted as an article - eFiction 4 - eFiction
Excited to see some movement with efiction. There's really no comparison (for me, and my archive anyway).
This is great news! Do you have any kind of an ETA? We have heavily modded our site so an upgrade would probably take a lot for us to implement but we've been looking into potentially paying for an upgrade to keep current and get around some bugs we can't solve on our own. Speaking of, will the epubversion mod be part of efiction4? (Our bug is we can't get it to zip the images it includes in epubs, which makes some of our epubs unwieldy to the say the least.)
This is great news! Do you have any kind of an ETA? We have heavily modded our site so an upgrade would probably take a lot for us to implement but we've been looking into potentially paying for an upgrade to keep current and get around some bugs we can't solve on our own. Speaking of, will the epubversion mod be part of efiction4? (Our bug is we can't get it to zip the images it includes in epubs, which makes some of our epubs unwieldy to the say the least.)
I'm not great at providing ETA's to be honest with you. Probably won't be done this year though. Maybe by spring or early summer?
I don't believe that mod will be a part of it as of current planning, but I'll try to bake its functionality into the core of 4x.
Excited to hear this, like others have said nothing really compares to efiction. If you need someone to help test things out let me know!
My efiction is stuck at PHP 7.4 and with all the security issues with the older versions of PHP I'm looking forward to the efiction version that works with PHP 8.3. Thanks for the update!
@amalthia did you see this post? https://efiction.org/community/postid/21669/ In it, Sidular provided an upgrade that takes your current version of eFiction from PHP 7.4 to allow you to change your server settings to PHP 8.5. We haven't run it yet but are planning to asap
@cawthraven After going through the forums more thoroughly I saw that that there was a more up-to-date version of efiction than what I was using! Once I upgraded to the newest version PHP 8 worked on my website. Thanks for letting me know about the update.