PHP 7.1.1 Warnings

Resolved Milos Spasic
(@spale)

9 years, 3 months ago

Hello,

I’m running PHP 7.1.1 and I have noticed that error log on my server is filled with the following warnings:

[06-Feb-2017 10:41:49 UTC] PHP Warning: Illegal string offset 'comment_author_email' in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 269

[06-Feb-2017 10:41:49 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 269

Is Akismet fully compatible with the PHP 7.1.1? Did anyone else notice this issue?

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Plugin Author Christopher Finke
(@cfinke)

9 years, 3 months ago

I’ve tested Akismet with PHP 7 and haven’t run into this issue. What other plugins are you running? I think I see how this could theoretically happen, but I’d like to be able to reproduce it before committing a fix.
Thread Starter Milos Spasic
(@spale)

9 years, 3 months ago
Here are all the plugins that I am using → https://goo.gl/kPDPIF
- This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by Milos Spasic.
Thread Starter Milos Spasic
(@spale)

9 years, 3 months ago
After updating plugin to v3.3, server error log is still getting filled with these PHP Warnings:
```
[27-Feb-2017 09:41:36 UTC] PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'comment_author_email' in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 270
[27-Feb-2017 09:41:36 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 270
```
Is there any solution for this?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Plugin Author Christopher Finke
(@cfinke)

9 years, 3 months ago

I’m sorry, I missed your previous response with the list of plugins. I’ll have to install them and see which (if any) are interfering and causing the behavior you’re seeing.

Alternatively, if you’re able to disable any of them and see if Akismet continues to generate those errors, it would be very helpful to have as many eliminated as possible before I start testing.

b2marketing
(@b2marketing)

9 years, 2 months ago

Not sure if you prefer I open a new topic but I am seeing similar error when using https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/woocommerce-pos/
Colin McDermott
(@woodsandhillsplc)

9 years, 2 months ago
Hi,

I’m getting the same issue running Akismet and PHP 7.1.2:
```
[13-Mar-2017 21:23:46 UTC] PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'comment_author_email' in /home/****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 270
[13-Mar-2017 21:23:46 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /home/****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 270
[13-Mar-2017 21:23:47 UTC] PHP Warning:  Illegal string offset 'comment_author_email' in /home/****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 270
[13-Mar-2017 21:23:47 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /home/****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/class.akismet.php on line 270
```
- This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Colin McDermott.
Colin McDermott
(@woodsandhillsplc)

9 years, 2 months ago

Wondering why this is marked as “resolved” ?
Thread Starter Milos Spasic
(@spale)

9 years, 2 months ago
@woodsandhillsplc – Topic was marked as “resolved” by mistake, changed the status to the actual condition “not resolved”.

@cfinke – I cannot disable plugins, because that issue has occurred on a live eCommerce site, and I don’t have such an environment on local for testing purposes.
- This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Milos Spasic.
Plugin Author Christopher Finke
(@cfinke)

9 years, 2 months ago

@woodsandhillsplc Which plugins are you running? If there’s overlap between your list and Milos’s, that could be a good clue towards fixing this.

Plugin Author Christopher Finke
(@cfinke)

9 years, 2 months ago

@b2marketing I installed WooCommerce and WooCommerce POS and wasn’t able to reproduce the error.

Colin McDermott
(@woodsandhillsplc)

9 years, 2 months ago

@cfinke Hi thanks for your help, here is the list of plugins
Colin McDermott
(@woodsandhillsplc)

9 years, 2 months ago
Overlap I can see is:

Akismet
Contact form 7
Heartbeat control
Woocommerce
- This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Colin McDermott.
goldandgreyuk
(@goldandgreyuk)

9 years, 1 month ago

Is this still not resolved? I have just experienced the following on my site:

WooCommerce 3.0.3
Avada theme 5.1.6
Wordpress 4.7.3–en_GB
All plugins up to date

A user visited my site and selected a piece of furniture, popped it into the cart, went through the checkout process and was taken to PayPal. At that point they decided to cancel and return back to my web site and were hit by the above message.

For me its kind of urgent lol

Can anyone tell me what I need to do other than disable Askimet? I would prefer not to have to do that,
Thanks,
Sam

Plugin Author Christopher Finke
(@cfinke)

9 years, 1 month ago

@goldandgreyuk You can set

define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

in your wp-config.php to hide any PHP notices on the frontend. This is a good practice for any production site.

Plugin Author Christopher Finke
(@cfinke)

9 years, 1 month ago

I’ve made a change to try and avoid this; if you’d like to try it out before the next official release, you can manually install the development version from here: https://downloads.wp.xz.cn/plugin/akismet.zip

If you try it, let me know how it works for you.