Joomdle not autocreating users in Moodle with PHP 8

Hi Antonio,

Joomdle doesn't seem to be auto-creating users in Moodle with PHP 8.0. It can manually create them when I select the user and click "Add users to Moodle" in Joomla - Users (Joomla). Auto-delete works OK as well.

If I fall back to PHP 7.4 it works again. Unfortunately for site-wide security reasons, I need to stay with PHP 8.0.

Versions installed:
Joomdle 2.0.3
Joomla 4.1.5
Moodle 4.0.2 (Build 20220711)
PHP 8.0

Settings:
Connection method: file_get_contents
Web service protocol: REST
Use redirectless SSO: No
Use redirectless logout: No
Auto create Moodle users: Yes
Auto delete Moodle users: Yes

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Hi John.

Thanks for the bug report. I investigated, and the problem seems to be in plugins/user/joomdlehooks/joomdlehooks.php , sync_user () function.

If you remove this code, it seems to work fine:
I can't remember why this code is there instead of relying on the $isnew value provided by Joomla. Probably some 3rd party integration needed the kludge....
Anyway, I am pretty sure it is safe to remove now, so you can try, I will add the change for next release.

That change works perfectly on my installation. Thanks for the speedy fix!

Great, thanks for the feedback.