Parse error activating 1.2.19

I’m now running 5.6, so can’t check easily. Apologies if I got it wrong — I probably read some documentation and did not check the php version it applied to.

I’m working on a new version of entrywizard with a few small improvements. I will change the offending line to something that should be better supported. It should be out within a few days to a week or so.

For now, I’d suggest you edit the file classes/ewz-base.php, and change line 116 from
$this->$key = (object)[];
to
$this->$key = new stdClass();

( If you have never edited code before, do be sure that your editor saves it as plain text. )

Or your other option would be to go to php 5.6

I fixed it.
I changed the code line as suggested and activation then failed claiming I was not up to PHP level 5.4
Although I had requested a change to PHP5.5 via my hosting service console, my WP folder has an .htaccess file and that had an environment setting for PHP 53.
I reverted the hosting console to 5.4, and edited the .htaccess file to 54, and the plugin activated with the original code.

Good to hear.

5.4 is the level I had set as required. I hadn’t realized that even my code that checks for the PHP version would not run with that line in place.

I’ll change it in the next version.

Your code to check the PHP level did work correctly.
I changed the line in ewz-base.php so the parse error didn’t occur. But the activation then reported the requirement for PHP5.4
The problem was that I had asked the hosting system to use PHP5.4 (actually 5.5), but my original WordPress installation had inserted (in my local installation) an environment setting for 5.3 which I didn’t know about.

Once I had changed the environment setting, and put ewz-base.php back to its release state, the activation worked fine.

I wonder how many others may have a setting hidden in an .htaccess file that they don’t know about.