Version 1.11.8 PHP Warnings again!!
-
Hi,
I posted a message about two PHP warnings 11 months ago: as follows:
FILE: /home/u440861037/public_html/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/core/core.php ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 957 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE: /home/u440861037/public_html/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/modules/checkers/http.php ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 147 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------After waiting a month or so, and seeing other postings about the same issue, but no replies about fixing the issue, I corrected the code myself.
4 days ago I saw the new version 1.11.8 and assumed that the corrections had been made, so I updated 8 sites only to find that the warnings had reappeared.
Checking the code in the new 1.11.8 version, the above deprecated code had not been changed, so I was forced to reinstall the old version that I had corrected. I can only assume that corrections were made and the wrong old version was uploaded as version 1.11.8. If not, what was changed? Incidentally both old and new versions show version 1.11.5 in the broken-link-checker.php and readme.txt files.
I think an explanation is in order.
-
I think the developers of this plugin have made it pretty clear they are not interested in helping people on this forum… ??
The code needs needs to be rewritten to avoid these warning about deprecated code, but it’s AFAIK only minor modifications of two files needed. My skill with PHP is not good enough to figure out how to change it, I don’t even know what an ‘anonymous function’ is.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php@pathduck Hello Stian,
It would appear that someone had access to the repository that does not understand the issues.
I had posted about the PHP 7.2 warnings almost a year ago and fixed them myself when there was no response from support. The plugin has since been working well on several sites. I cannot be responsible for any problems, but you may wish to try the changes I have been using.
FILE: /wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/core/core.php FOUND 1 WARNING AFFECTING LINE 957 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function insteadcomment out line 957 with // as below and add the new code. If you have problems reverse the process
// uasort($modules['container'], create_function('$a, $b', 'return strcasecmp($a["Name"], $b["Name"]);')); // Change to anonymous function in line 958 to avoid deprecated 'create_function' in PHP 7.2 uasort($modules['container'], function($a, $b) { return strcasecmp($a["Name"], $b["Name"]); });FILE: /wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/modules/checkers/http.php FOUND 1 WARNING AFFECTING LINE 147 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function insteadcomment out line 147 with // as below and add the new code. If you have problems reverse the process
// create_function('$str','return rawurlencode($str[0]);'), Change to anonymous function in line 148 to avoid deprecated 'create_function' in PHP 7.2 function ($str) { return rawurlencode($str[0]); },@pathduck No problem. No I didn’t post anything to Github because I notices in other postings here in support that someone else had already. The issue is that whoever is handling the plugin at present is not paying any attention to anything in support or Github.
You should try to find hosting with PHP 7.1 or better. There is even some free hosting that has it.
- The topic ‘Version 1.11.8 PHP Warnings again!!’ is closed to new replies.
