Error code appearing

Hi there, the issue was… the plugin was actually fully working and continued to beautifully display the child summaries…

but, that error code was appearing at the top of the page.

I solved the problem by editing the plugin, and just inserting this

ini_set( ‘display_errors’, ‘false’ );

after the //commented out instructions, just before the plugin code actually got going, i.e.

//[summary-child-pages]
//[summary-child-pages id=parent_id]
//[summary-child-pages list_only=”1″] = no images, excerpt and read more
//start added
ini_set( ‘display_errors’, ‘false’ );
//end added

For my money, this really is the best child summary plugin, so I hope it keeps on going strong for many moons yet.

Cheers.

Re-posting from my plugin review – here is an alternative option to fix this error:

Great plugin, but is broken under PHP 5.4+ as the plugin attempts to pass a string in as an array (previous PHP versions were more forgiving and ignored the type error).

If you’re getting the “Warning: Illegal string offset ‘list_only’…” error, a quick and dirty fix is to manually edit the plugin and insert the following code line into summary-child-pages.php on line 56 (inside the summary_child_pages function, right before the $list_only = $atts['list_only']; line):

/* ---------------------------------------------------*/
  /* Version v1.0.0: Patch for error under PHP 5.4+ to   */
  /*  address the "Warning: Illegal string offset        */
  /* 'list_only'" issue. An array (not a string) is      */
  /* expected, so check & convert $atts string to array. */
  /* ----------------------------------------------------*/
  if (!is_array($atts)) {$atts=explode(',',$atts,0);}
  /* ----------------------------------------------------*/

This checks to see if $atts is not an array, and converts it to one if so. If anyone has a better solution feel free to post it ??

To the developer: Thanks for making such a useful little plugin, and if possible could you please fix this in the next update so it works properly with PHP 5.4+? Thanks!