Title: PHP7 error
Last modified: November 7, 2016

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# PHP7 error

 *  [Barn2 Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barn2media/)
 * (@barn2media)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-error-5/)
 * Hi Sean
 * I hope you are well. I need to update our server to PHP7 and there’s an error
   with the SB Welcome Email Editor plugin when I run WP Engine’s PHP7 compatibility
   checker, please could you fix this. The errors are:
 * FILE: /nas/content/live/doctorschemist/wp-content/plugins/welcome-email-editor/
   sb_welcome_email_editor.php
    ————————————————————————————————————– FOUND 1 ERROR
   AFFECTING 1 LINE ————————————————————————————————————– 912 | ERROR | Extension‘
   mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0 – use mysqli instead.
 * Thanks very much
 * Katie

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 *  [mglasser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mglasser/)
 * (@mglasser)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-error-5/#post-8914850)
 * I second this request. I would rather not make changes to the plugin code that
   may be overwritten on next update. I think the fix is to change “mysql_real_escape_string”
   to “mysqli_real_escape_string”, but the parameters are different, so I am not
   sure the complete change. Here is the offending code….
 * function sb_we_get_superglobal($array, $key, $default=”, $escape=false, $strip_tags
   =false) {
    if (isset($array[$key])) { $default = $array[$key]; if ($escape) {
   $default = mysql_real_escape_string($default); }
 * If someone can provide the correct code here, I guess I could edit the plugin
   and then hope the next upgrade has the same change.

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 * Last reply from: [mglasser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mglasser/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-error-5/#post-8914850)
 * Status: not resolved