Mamp crash

I have found out (by accident) that many translatable string start with _( instead of __( (that is with one single underscore instead of two). If I change them to two underscores the plugin works. Does MailUp require specific l18n tools to be installed to work properly?

Hi @nick76,
Thanks for your message. It’s the first time this kind of problem has been reported and the plugin is currently running on many production sites. As we are not MAMP experts, it would be great if any other developer following this forum will provide his feedback. As MailUp, we will contribute on this check.

The wp-mailup plugin was designed to support WPML and Polylang as optional tools for translations but we have also run many successful tests without them.

Anyway, I’m glad you managed to find what’s wrong in your case and maybe it will be a good hint in case it will be confirmed that there is a bug to be fixed.
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Best

Thank you for your answer. I’ve tried an older MAMP, an older WordPress but they still crash.

ODDLY ENOUGH the plugin installs in a breeze on the production site, so I can only think there’s something different in the way the server itself is configured.

Perhaps is is gettext related? I seem to understand that ” _( ” introduces strings translatable through gettext, but on this WP doc page -> https://codex.www.ads-software.com/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Introduction_to_Gettext they suggest the use of _e( or __( instead.

I’m really lost…

Hi @nick76,
Could you try switching from MAMP to Local by Flywheel? We did it on a Mac Pro and it worked fine. Perhaps Flywheel is less restrictive than MAMP.
Our test configuration includes Apache, PHP 5.6.20, MySql 5.6.34 and WordPress 4.9.8.

Thanks for sharing the notes about Gettext, I’ll pass them to the developers.

Regards

I did not know about Local by Flywheel, thanks for the suggestion!
I’ve tried it and it DOES work (apache, php 7.2, MySql 5.5, WP 4.9.8 – I wanted to check on a slightly different config than yours to double check).
At this point, it really has to come down to the environment MAMP creates and how that relates to translation functions regardless of the version, since downgrading mamp and reinstalling did not help either. Unless it has to do with some obscure High Sierra/mamp interaction bug…anyway if you had a chance to try mamp on your end that would probably help your developers even more.
I’ll be subscribed so if you find out something new let us all know! And please give the possibility of using different widgets for different newsletter lists ??
Regards