Plugin breaks on PHP 71+

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12 May 2019 at 18:55 #32965

joostdekeijzer
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Hi,

On PHP71 and above the plugin breaks WordPress with a 500 error. The error log states:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /wp-content/plugins/events-maker/includes/class-query.php:551

In a different plugin the same issue was fixed. See https://dfactory.eu/support/topic/import-wp-post-views-server-error-500/

I’ve made some changes to class-query to fix, I can send a diff

31 May 2019 at 13:47 #33283

SergiM
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Hi,

I have the same problem and I can not solve it. Can you publish your solution?

Thank you!

5 September 2019 at 13:11 #34958
Sergey
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it looks like authors gave up reading this forum. Ok.
I got the same problem, plugin doesn’t work on PHP 7.1, and I know how to fix it.

1. Open the file
\wp-content\plugins\events-maker\includes\class-query.php

2. From line 516 and below you’ll see a few (8) pieces of code like this:
```
$meta_args[] = array(
'key'		 => $keys['start'],
'value'		 => date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime( $query->query_vars['event_start_after'] . $sa_date ) ),
'compare'	 => ($query->query_vars['event_date_range'] === 'between' ? '>=' : '<='),
'type'		 => 'DATETIME'
);
```
3. You shoud add the string
$meta_args = array();
before every string
$meta_args[] = array(

4. Save the file.
Now plugin is compatable with php 7.1

If you wanna read explanation why it didn’t work:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-uncaught-error-operator-not-supported-for-strings/

Enjoy!
19 November 2019 at 13:33 #36007

joostdekeijzer
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I’ve created a plugin to fix Events Maker. It does it’s magic for all queries in WordPress, so please test thoroughly!

https://github.com/joostdekeijzer/wp-dkzr-event-maker-fixes
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