Title: create_function removed in PHP 8.0
Last modified: June 23, 2021

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# create_function removed in PHP 8.0

 *  [wpesolva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpesolva/)
 * (@wpesolva)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create_function-removed-in-php-8-0/)
 * Hi
 * Please replace ‘create_function’ with ‘function’
    example: // old, to remove 
   $search_terms = array_filter(array_map( create_function( ‘$a’, ‘return trim($
   a, “\\”\’\\n\\r “);’ ), $matches[0] )); // new how it could be … $search_terms
   = array_filter(array_map( function( $a ) { return trim($a, “\”‘\\n\\r “); }, 
   $matches[0] ));

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 *  [windracer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windracer/)
 * (@windracer)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create_function-removed-in-php-8-0/#post-14975193)
 * I just ran into this same issue after upgrading to PHP 8.0. Thanks for the workaround
   to get the plug-in working again.
 * I guess I hadn’t realized this plug-in had been abandoned for so long. Does anyone
   have any other recommendations for a good full-text search plug-in for WordPress?
 *  [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create_function-removed-in-php-8-0/#post-15132814)
 * Hi [@windracer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windracer/)
 * I replaced it with the [WP Extended Search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/)
   plugin.
 * Guido
 *  [windracer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windracer/)
 * (@windracer)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create_function-removed-in-php-8-0/#post-15132837)
 * Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check that out.

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 * Last reply from: [windracer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windracer/)
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