Hi folks, I installed and used the plugin until some weeks ago when during an update it break my blog :frowning: Deactivated and de-installed it now I can’t install it anymore [image] public static function get_options() { $options = ; <---- line 23 $discourse_option_groups = get…

I think it’s because you have an old version of php. You can either update php or change that to the old syntax,which is something like $options = array();

Thanks but I have another error at line 165 the last one ;-(

you can’t just delete the one,you have to declare the array. Think that there is another one somewhere too. I did it last week, and don’t remember exactly. I think I got it to work, but can’t quite remember. I will try to check when I get to the office.

What PHP version do you have on your server? I can update the plugin to support php 5.3.

Sorry, standard CentOS 6 php-5.3.3

I think the only issue the plugin has with php 5.3 is that it’s creating an array with []. That can be changed. I’ll update it later today or early tomorrow.

Isn’t PHP 5.3 EOL? Might be wiser to have the user upgrade their PHP so they are still getting security patches.

[image] simon: I think the only issue the plugin has with php 5.3 is that it’s creating an array with I’m pretty sure that’s right, @simon . I had this problem last week and I think that I just changed two array declarations and that it worked after that. (OTOH, I’ve configured a whole bunch …

[image] cpradio: Isn’t PHP 5.3 EOL? Yes it looks like it is: PHP: Unsupported Branches . I haven’t been testing against it. I can change the array declarations anyway.

[image] simon: I haven’t been testing against it. I can change the array declarations anyway. I was going to suggest that, but perhaps it’s better that only people who can fix that code such that it works with PHP5.3 be able to use it. :slight_smile: Or even just put a “VERSION X required” …

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) November 17, 2016, 5:30am 13

Assuming that the packages being used are those provided by the OS vendor, that version of PHP will get security updates, based on backported patches of security vulnerabilities provided for later releases.

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