Title: Illegal string offset Last modified: March 10, 2020 --- # Illegal string offset * Resolved [bergmans23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bergmans23/) * (@bergmans23) * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/) * Hi there, We’ve been using BuddyPress Registration Options for over a year on a forum site and all went well untill this week. Now, when adding a new user and clicking submit, we get a blank page with a lot of this: * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘form_id’ in /home/www/mydomain/www/wp-content/ plugins/ultimate-member/includes/um-short-functions.php on line 943 * Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /home/www/mydomain/www/wp-content/plugins/ ultimate-member/includes/um-short-functions.php on line 943 * and this: * Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bp_is_active() in /home/ www/mydomain/www/wp-content/plugins/bp-registration-options/includes/core.php: 130 Stack trace: #0 /home/www/mydomain/www/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(288): bp_registration_options_bp_core_register_account(145) #1 /home/www/mydomain/www/ wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(312): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #2 /home/ www/mydomain/www/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /home/ www/mydomain/www/wp-includes/user.php(1897): do_action(‘user_register’, 145) # 4 /home/www/mydomain/www/wp-admin/includes/user.php(230): wp_insert_user(Array)# 5 /home/www/mydomain/www/wp-admin/user-new.php(163): edit_user() #6 {main} thrown in /home/www/mydomain/www/wp-content/plugins/bp-registration-options/includes/ core.php on line 130 * After that, I get an email about a new member suvscribtion, with a link and I can go to the overview and voila, the user is there… Same thing happens when I delete a candidate user from that overview: it gives a lot of errors… * Hope you can help! * Thanks Bye * Ward * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fillegal-string-offset-53%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12528039) * Hmm. The issue isn’t the illegal offset part, as per the thread title. It’s the fatal error towards the end. * For some reason, by the time your site is reaching the `user_register` hook from WordPress core, BuddyPress hasn’t loaded quite yet, which it really should have been. Either that, or I know it’s possible to technically use the plugin with just bbPress though it’s mostly intended for BuddyPress. * Is that perhaps the case for you? Using bbPress but not BuddyPress? * I also see and recall pushing this commit to our GitHub copy of the plugin, but it hasn’t been released to everyone yet [https://github.com/WebDevStudios/BuddyPress-Registration-Options/commit/5401f8844241b114a64fe1798ec04917d44f8e79](https://github.com/WebDevStudios/BuddyPress-Registration-Options/commit/5401f8844241b114a64fe1798ec04917d44f8e79) * Thread Starter [bergmans23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bergmans23/) * (@bergmans23) * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12528672) * Hi Michael, * We’ve been using the plugin for over 18 months now, without any fail. It’s since this week that this error occurs. And actually, we’ve never had buddypress running, only bbpress… * Hope you can help! Thanks! Bye Ward * Thread Starter [bergmans23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bergmans23/) * (@bergmans23) * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12528699) * Hi Michael, Your message got me thinking… I just installed Buddypress and all seems well in the world again… 🙂 * Thanks!! Bye Ward * [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12528737) * I should look into getting the changes in that commit pushed out to everyone, cause we shouldn’t be making you install and activate buddypress if you don’t need it 🙂 * Thread Starter [bergmans23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bergmans23/) * (@bergmans23) * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12528850) * That’s a really good idea!! 🙂 * [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12541590) * Check out version 4.3.8 which adds extra non-BuddyPress protection. * Thanks again Ward * [lkjune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lkjune/) * (@lkjune) * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12557069) * I’m having the same issue, when I view user page keep getting error 405. * [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12557084) * [@lkjune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lkjune/) just to be certain, is this before or after an upgrade to 4.3.8? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Illegal string offset’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/bp-registration-options/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2882040) * [Registration Options for BuddyPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-registration-options/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-registration-options/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-registration-options/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-registration-options/reviews/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/illegal-string-offset-53/#post-12557084) * Status: resolved