Title: PHP7 Incompatibility: Uncaught error undefined function split()
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# PHP7 Incompatibility: Uncaught error undefined function split()

 *  [codifex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codifex/)
 * (@codifex)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-incompatibility-uncaught-error-undefined-function-split/)
 * When updating the plugin’s settings, I get this error message:
 * `Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function split() in /.../web/
   wp-content/plugins/wp-minify-fix/wp-minify.php:192 Stack trace: #0 /.../web/wp-
   content/plugins/wp-minify-fix/wp-minify.php(244): WPMinify->a_update_options()#
   1 /.../web/wp-includes/plugin.php(525): WPMinify->a_request_handler('') #2 ...
   web/wp-admin/admin-header.php(130): do_action('admin_head-sett...') #3 /.../web/
   wp-admin/admin.php(228): require_once('/......') #4 /.../web/wp-admin/options-
   general.php(10): require_once('/......') #5 {main} thrown in /.../web/wp-content/
   plugins/wp-minify-fix/wp-minify.php on line 192`
 * Any ideas on how to fix this are welcome!
 * Thank you in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-minify-fix/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-minify-fix/)

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 *  Thread Starter [codifex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codifex/)
 * (@codifex)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-incompatibility-uncaught-error-undefined-function-split/#post-7316804)
 * It seems that replacing all calls to `split` in _wp\_minify.php_ with calls to`
   explode` solve the problem (not yet tested heavily).
 *  [Alexis Wilke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexiswilke/)
 * (@alexiswilke)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-incompatibility-uncaught-error-undefined-function-split/#post-8906062)
 * I ran into that one too! Thank you for the solution, that way I did not have 
   to search any further. It worked like a charm for me. Also, there were only 2
   instances of the `split()` calls in the entire plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [Alexis Wilke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexiswilke/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-incompatibility-uncaught-error-undefined-function-split/#post-8906062)
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