Title: PHP Fatal Errors with BP 1.9bleeding
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP Fatal Errors with BP 1.9bleeding

 *  [David Cavins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcavins/)
 * (@dcavins)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/)
 * Hi David-
 * Thanks for the excellent and very helpful plugin. I was updating my test installation
   today and ran into some fatal errors. I’m using PHP Version 5.3.15, BuddyPress
   1.9-bleeding and WordPress 3.6.
 *     ```
       PHP Fatal error:  Cannot make static method BP_Groups_Group::group_exists() non static in class BP_Groups_Hierarchy in /Users/Sites/test/wp-content/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/bp-group-hierarchy-classes.php on line 355
   
       PHP Fatal error:  Cannot make static method BP_Groups_Group::check_slug() non static in class BP_Groups_Hierarchy in /Users/Sites/test/wp-content/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/bp-group-hierarchy-classes.php on line 355
   
       PHP Fatal error:  Cannot make static method BP_Groups_Group::check_slug() non static in class BP_Groups_Hierarchy in /Users/Sites/test/wp-content/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/bp-group-hierarchy-classes.php on line 355
   
       PHP Fatal error:  Cannot make static method BP_Groups_Group::get_group_extras() non static in class BP_Groups_Hierarchy in /Users/Sites/test/wp-content/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/bp-group-hierarchy-classes.php on line 355
       ```
   
 * I faked it by declaring these functions to be `public static`. Let me know if
   I can do any testing for you, or if you need any more info.
 * Thanks for your help,
 * -David
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Dean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddean/)
 * (@ddean)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/#post-3999335)
 * Hi dcavins –
 * Thanks for reporting this and getting a head start on 1.9!
 * Switching the class methods to be real static instead of fake static has been
   looming for a while (since the early 1.6 builds). I’ll probably make the current
   class file a legacy page and make a new one for BP 1.9+.
 * If you wouldn’t mind testing out some early code and letting me know how it works,
   I’ll keep this thread updated as the development version is updated.
 * – David
 *  [solhuebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solhuebner/)
 * (@solhuebner)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/#post-3999466)
 * I would also like to test it 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [David Dean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddean/)
 * (@ddean)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/#post-3999468)
 * Development version has been updated to support BP 1.9. Please give it a try 
   and let me know if you run into any issues.
 *  [solhuebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solhuebner/)
 * (@solhuebner)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/#post-3999471)
 * Hi David,
 * if I click on “Group tree” it is not really refreshing the page and I do not 
   get the “-” and “+” signs… (with latest trunk)
 * And I have another thing:
 * If I change “post_parent” in my “wp_posts” (“post_type” forum) table I can move
   my forum and make it a sub forum.
 * So it should be easy to move the bbPress forum together with the group 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [David Dean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddean/)
 * (@ddean)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/#post-3999472)
 * Hi solhuebner –
 * The JS bug affecting “Group Tree” has been fixed. Thanks for reporting that!
 * And I appreciate that you would like to see hierarchical bbPress forums, but 
   please keep help keep this thread on one topic. 🙂
 * – David
 *  [solhuebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solhuebner/)
 * (@solhuebner)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-errors-with-bp-19bleeding/#post-3999474)
 * Hi David,
 * I will try the new version asap 🙂
 * And I will keep to this topic 🙂

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