Title: PHP 5.5 compatibility
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP 5.5 compatibility

 *  Resolved [wandriska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wandriska/)
 * (@wandriska)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility-1/)
 * Hi there.
 * Hostgator has asked its users to upgrade to PHP 5.5
    I did and this plugin fell
   over, causing following error message to appear: ng: Illegal string offset ‘wordpress_adv_hidden’
   in /home1/XYZ/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tinymce-advanced/tinymce-advanced.
   php on line 178
 * I have deactivated it for now.
 * Is this an issue with plug in that needs rectifying?
 * thanks,
    Andrew
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-55-compatibility-1/#post-4893895)
 * Looks like you’re using an old version of this plugin, 3.5.9 or older. In addition
   something is using the `'tiny_mce_before_init'` filter improperly passing a string
   instead of array.

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