Update 1.3.0 Crashed my site

Hello @syokley,

static:: was introduced in 5.3, and seems that you have older php version. Though PDF Light Viewer plugin requires at least php 5.3 ( https://pdf-light-viewer.wp.teamlead.pw/wp-content/plugins/pdf-light-viewer/documentation/index.html#quick )

Even php 5.3 is not supported for more than 1 year already (https://php.net/eol.php) and (I understand that this is not possible in some cases) this is a good practice to update packages to the most recent versions.

Just downloaded this plugin but it wouldn’t activate. I found I had to update my php version but after I did that it would only give the error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getVersion() on a non-object in .../wp-content/plugins/pdf-light-viewer/controllers/Plugin.php on line 260

After some digging around I’m finding its a problem with this line of code:

$Imagick = static::getXMagick();

Which is followed by:

$ImagickVersion = $Imagick->getVersion();

Apparently the preceding line returns null and I can’t find any information on what this code actually does as the only place it shows up in searches is on this plugin.

We need to find a way to pull $Imagick as an object so the getVersion() can properly run on it.

At least, this is my assessment though I’m not the best with php.

Found that my host (inmotionhosting) has some unique settings that need to be applied for ImageMagick to work.
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/software/using-imagemagick
Can a dev look at this and supply information to those whose’s servers don’t have this openly installed on their server. I’m figuring I need to change the plugin settings or something.

Hello @chadcey,

I see what you mean. Did you solve the issue in your case?

We’ve plan to add fallback to use Ghostscript library directly. However as far as I can see ( https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/community-support/wordpress/is-ghostscript-and-imagemagick-with-ghostscript-support-installed ) Ghostscript library wouldn’t be installed for the shared hosting and can be installed only on VPS accounts manually.