Title: PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array
Last modified: August 1, 2017

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# PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array

 *  [hmcl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charityl/)
 * (@charityl)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-cannot-use-string-offset-as-an-array-2/)
 * We were getting a 500 from admin-ajax.php. Further digging showed wp_get_attachment_metadata()
   is returning a serialized value.
 * Please replace line 38 with:
    $attachment_metadata = maybe_unserialize(wp_get_attachment_metadata(
   $req_post ));

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 *  Thread Starter [hmcl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charityl/)
 * (@charityl)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-cannot-use-string-offset-as-an-array-2/#post-9371201)
 * File: yoimages/vendor/surilli/yoimages-crop/inc/image-editor.php
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [hmcl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charityl/).
 *  Plugin Author [sirulli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirulli/)
 * (@sirulli)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-cannot-use-string-offset-as-an-array-2/#post-9685743)
 * Hi [@charityl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charityl/)
    we should have
   just fixed the issue, please upgrade the plugin to the latest version. Thanks
   for reporting!

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