This source is a fork of SugarCRM CE 6.5.x that works (mostly) with PHP 7 and MySQL 14.14 on Ubuntu 16.04.
It looks like the Sugar people do not want to make such drastic changes to their codebase. Rather sad, it took me half a day to make it work. I'm hardly done, but I do get the Dashboard and it looks pretty good already.
Btw, even the commercial version (SugarCRM 7.x) is not working on PHP 7. Ouch!
The only changes I want to do are of three categories:
- Make it work with PHP 7. Some functions are obsolete and need replacement.
- Beautify the code (i.e. only use spaces for indentation, clean consistent indentation throughout the project, that won't be done any time soon, there are over 1,600 PHP files!)
- Fix any potential bugs I can find along the way (I already fixed quite a few...)
I ran PHP directly in my console against all the classes and that tells me when there is a problem. I fixed many more functions that did not have the correct signature between base classes and derived classes. These may still happen, but it looks like it should be quite rare now. This change involved (a few times) the renaming of some functions. This means I may have missed changing the name of the function from callers... in other words, it could be that it still won't work as expected!
As far as I'm concerned, I finished work on the installation and it works as expected in "Custom" mode and MySQL. I do not know about the other mode(s) as I'm not using them. The only quirk is the SugarCRM registration page which has a permission error, like I care.
Once installed, I get to the Dashboard as expected and can create/manage leads without problems. That included adding fields or options in a dropdown in the Admin/Studio area.
I still have one issue which happens because some AJAX call does not want to include the proper JavaScript in some situations. I still need to understand which functions do not get called in those cases. You can see the issue details here:
If you are a programmer and want to help, I'll be happy to give you access. I still don't understand (or maybe I missed it?) why there wasn't yet a fork of SugarCRM that works in PHP 7.