Added PHP 8 Compatibility

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) and [changelog
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## 8.2.5
+
+### added
+
+- compatibility with php 8 ( issue #19)
+
+### removed
+
+- obsolete system tests and their dependencies with old SDaaS platform versions
+
+
 ## 8.2.4
 
 ### fixed

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -35,38 +35,6 @@ Unit tests are performed through PHPUnit. To launch unit tests:
 	docker run --rm -v $PWD/.:/app -w /app --entrypoint vendor/bin/phpunit php
 
 
-## working in system test environment
-
-run bash from the sdaas platform:
-
-	docker run -d --name test -v $PWD/.:/workspace -p 8080:8080 linkeddatacenter/sdaas-ce:2.5.0
-	docker exec -ti test bash
-
-Install php 7.3  according with /~https://github.com/codecasts/php-alpine
-
-	apk add --update curl ca-certificates
-	curl https://dl.bintray.com/php-alpine/key/php-alpine.rsa.pub -o /etc/apk/keys/php-alpine.rsa.pub
-	echo "https://dl.bintray.com/php-alpine/v3.8/php-7.3" >> /etc/apk/repositories
-	apk add --update php php-mbstring php-json php-xml php-xmlreader
-	ln -s /usr/bin/php7 /usr/bin/php
-
-run unit tests:
-
-	vendor/bin/phpunit
-
-test the gateway standalone:
-
-	tests/system/gateways/example1.php < tests/system/data/example1.csv
-
-run system tests:
-
-	sdaas -f tests/system/build.sdaas --reboot
-
-free resources
-
-	exit
-	docker rm -f test
-
 
 ## Pull Request Process
 

README.md

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ See [Contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
 
 ## License
 
-Copyright © 2018-2019 by [LinkedData.Center](http://LinkedData.Center/)®
+Copyright © 2018-2021 by [LinkedData.Center](http://LinkedData.Center/)®
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

composer.json

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.3"
+        "php": ">=7.3"
     },
     "require-dev" : {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^9"