News Not working on Ubuntu 14.04 and PHP7

[aproposnix]

Guys, all apologies, I'm cross posting as I'm not sure which git account is the correct one to use (both?). My understanding is that you are going to focus on Nextcloud.

Orginal ticket: owncloud-archive/news#1005

Explain the Problem

Feeds are no longer updating since upgrading to PHP7.

I installed PHP 5.6 as discussed in issue 967 (owncloud-archive/news#967)
Since the PHP5.6 PPA was deprecated, I was forced to do an upgrade to 7.

In the log file I see this line:
Fatal cron Failed to connect to the database: An exception occured in driver: could not find driver

System Information

• News app version: 8.8.0
• ownCloud version: Nextcloud 9.0.52 (previous Nextcloud versions affected as well)
• PHP version:
  php -v
  PHP 7.0.8-3+deb.sury.orgtrusty+1 (cli) ( NTS )
  Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
  Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
  with Zend OPcache v7.0.8-3+deb.sury.orgtrusty+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
  with Xdebug v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by Derick Rethans
• Database and version: mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.49, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.3
• Browser and version: N/A
• Distribution and version: Ubuntu 14.04

[BernhardPosselt]

Your php INI that is being used for the command line does not contain your database driver extension. There are usually different INI files for Apache and cli

[BernhardPosselt]

Closing because of inactivity