Title: [NSFW] Plugin causing PHP fatal error – Nesting level too deep Last modified: February 20, 2023 --- # [NSFW] Plugin causing PHP fatal error – Nesting level too deep * Resolved [Noelle Ackermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/) * (@noellesteegs) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/) * Hi, Unfortunately, your plugin has started producing fatal PHP errors on a live site, interrupting its uptime. We have not seen one ourselves yet, however we were alerted by the host and saw the following error in the log: * 2023/02/20 14:06:40 [error] 14546#14546: *6089441 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Nesting level too deep – recursive dependency? in / www/qxmagazine_512/public/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/ modules/nextgen_basic_tagcloud/package.module.nextgen_basic_tagcloud.php on line 257” while reading response header from upstream, client: 66.249.64.118, server: qxmagazine.com, request: “GET /event/live-dj-until-3-am/2023-03-14/ HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php8.0-fpm-qxmagazine.sock:”, host: “www.qxmagazine. com:43795” Please can you advise on how we can get this to work smoothly again? Thank you. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/) * (@imagely) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16490181) * Hi [@noellesteegs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/), * Could you please let us know what PHP version do you use for your site? - This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/). * Thread Starter [Noelle Ackermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/) * (@noellesteegs) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16490495) * Hi [@imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/), it’s PHP 8.0.26. The site’s running WordPress 6.1.1 + Newspaper theme 12.3 and Nextgen Gallery 3.35. * Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/) * (@imagely) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16491508) * Thanks. Could you please additionally let us know if you only got this error logged once or whether it appears periodically in the log and how often? * We’ll try to check with the dev team to see what may have caused it then we’ll get back to you. * Thread Starter [Noelle Ackermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/) * (@noellesteegs) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16491603) * It appears often in the error log. Sometimes there’s a minute in between, sometimes a few, sometimes 5 but not more than that. It causes the website to become unreachable for a few minutes sometimes, but this only seems to happen a few times a day, not every time the error is logged (thankfully). * Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/) * (@imagely) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16498008) * Hi [@noellesteegs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/), * We hope that you wouldn’t mind reaching out to us directly at [https://www.imagely.com/report-bug/](https://www.imagely.com/report-bug/) * Thanks * Thread Starter [Noelle Ackermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/) * (@noellesteegs) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16498174) * [@imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/) I have completed the bug report. Thank you in advance for looking into this with urgency. * Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/) * (@imagely) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16508561) * Hi [@noellesteegs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/), * Just wanted to follow-up to see if you’ve got any of the errors replicated since the code changes made. * Thread Starter [Noelle Ackermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noellesteegs/) * (@noellesteegs) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-php-fatal-error-nesting-level-too-deep/#post-16509052) * Hi [@imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/), we wanted to give it a few days just in case, but we have had no fatal errors since you made the changes. Thank you. 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