All of my PHP scrapers are failing - I get the following message:
No code has changed for weeks, been getting this for the last 48 hours or so:
Injecting configuration and compiling…
e[1G e[1G-----> PHP app detected
e[1G-----> Bootstrapping…
e[1G
e[1G ! ERROR: Failed to download minimal PHP for bootstrapping.
e[1G Please try again, or contact support if this problem persists.
e[1G
Check out https://morph.io/planningalerts-scrapers/townsville
Looks like you need to create a file called ‘platform’ with a single line text ‘early_release’ in it.
@jamezpolley, can you add some doc on the web site please when you have a chance?
Well that did something, but I’m afraid it isn’t working.
I get…
Injecting configuration and compiling…
Injecting scraper and running…
PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: invalid range in character class at offset 4 in /app/vendor/openaustralia/scraperwiki/simple_html_dom.php on line 1364
That PHP error error then repeated hundreds of times and filled up the 10000 line buffer before failing.
I tried creating a compeletely empty “platform” file on another scraper, and that is running with no messages at all but looks to have hung.
Seems the platform file is key, but I don’t know what to put in to make dependencies like SimpleHTMLDOM work again.
Just tried creating a new php scraper but that has the same problem.
Is anyone else getting this?
I’ve created Switch default platform to herokuish:18 · GitHub to track this.
I think this isThis definitely isn’t the error I worked around in Update composer.json · planningalerts-scrapers/KingboroughCouncil@458f141 · GitHub (updating dependencies to a new version of the dom parser) and Switch to Torann::DomParser · planningalerts-scrapers/KingboroughCouncil@6147b13 · GitHub (which updates the code to use the new dom parser)
But I would suggest updating to use the dom parser I used there rather than the simple_html_dom.php, which is unfortunately about 6 years old at this point and hasn’t kept up with the php versions available on the newer platform.
When I had to make changes, it took me a while to figure out how to update Composer.lock. I ended up documenting the solution I used at I don't usually develop PHP; how can I update composer.lock? - #2 by jamezpolley but there are probably simpler ways to do it.
Could you point me at this so I can take a look? We have an issue open already for Ruby scrapers not generating output (Switch default platform to herokuish:18 · GitHub); I think we need another one for PHP.
Np, it’s here: