"Error: Call to a member function has_permission() on null" when using php8

[florencebejo]

The package was working mostly fine for us until we updated our php version to php8. Since then it seems that the helpers do not get loaded properly.

news/action.php

Line 36 in 556847f

$perm = $this->helper->has_permission();

throws the error "Error: Call to a member function has_permission() on null".

--EDIT:

On the Backward Incompatible Changes page for PHP80, they mention

Methods with the same name as the class are no longer interpreted as constructors. The __construct() method should be used instead.

So I think that replacing

news/action.php

Line 24 in 556847f

function action_plugin_news() {

by public function __construct(){ should solve it.

I do not program in PHP so I would like someone with a bit more experience in the language to check it before making a merge pull request...

[wolfgangasdf]

Great, I probably would not have found this - I made a pull request, you can install the updated plugin "manually" from https://github.com/wolfgangasdf/dokuwiki-plugin-news/archive/refs/heads/master.zip