Title: replace create_function for PHP 8 Last modified: November 24, 2022 --- # replace create_function for PHP 8 * Resolved [eagerbob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagerbob/) * (@eagerbob) * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-create_function-for-php-8/) * Hello all, * A website that I installed long ago has stopped working. Turns out that the theme uses `create_function` that has been removed from PHP 8.0 I looked it up and there are examples of how to rewrite the code, but I can’t get it to work. * This is the offender: * `add_action( 'widgets_init', create_function( '', 'register_widget("Zilla_Twitter_Widget");'));` * So how could this line be re-written so that it works with PHP 8.0 ? * Thanks! Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [hirenbhanderi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hirenbhanderi/) * (@hirenbhanderi) * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-create_function-for-php-8/#post-16233169) * Yes this problem has occurred because this function has been removed from PHP 8,this problem solution is * function fn_Zilla_Twitter_Widget() { register_widget( ‘Zilla_Twitter_Widget’);} add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘fn_Zilla_Twitter_Widget’); * Thread Starter [eagerbob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagerbob/) * (@eagerbob) * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-create_function-for-php-8/#post-16233622) * OK Thanks Hiren for your quick response. * Unfortunately I still get an error: * `Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function WP_Widget:: __construct(), 0 passed in /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp- includes/class-wp-widget-factory.php on line 62 and at least 2 expected in /Users/ eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/class-wp-widget.php:163 Stack trace: #0 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/class- wp-widget-factory.php(62): WP_Widget->__construct() #1 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/widgets.php(115): WP_Widget_Factory->register(‘ zilla_FLICKR_Wi…’) #2 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-content/ themes/cinetone/includes/widgets/widget-flickr.php(21): register_widget(‘zilla_FLICKR_Wi…’)# 3 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php( 308): zilla_flickr_widgets(”) #4 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/ wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(332): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #5 /Users/ eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook- >do_action(Array) #6 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/ widgets.php(1854): do_action(‘widgets_init’) #7 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/ app/public/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(308): wp_widgets_init(”) #8 /Users/eagerbob/ Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(332): WP_Hook-> apply_filters(NULL, Array) #9 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/ wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #10 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-settings.php(617): do_action(‘init’) #11 /Users/ eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-config.php(91): require_once(‘/Users/ eagerbob’) #12 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-load.php(50): require_once(‘/Users/eagerbob’) #13 /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/ public/wp-admin/admin.php(34): require_once(‘/Users/eagerbob’) #14 /Users/eagerbob/ Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/wp-admin/index.php(10): require_once(‘/Users/ eagerbob’) #15 {main} thrown in /Users/eagerbob/Local Sites/cinetone/app/public/ wp-includes/class-wp-widget.php on line 163′ * Seems I’ll have to dive a bit deeper for this. * Found some info on Stackexchange: [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/383777/too-few-arguments-to-function-wp-widget-construct/383778#383778](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/383777/too-few-arguments-to-function-wp-widget-construct/383778#383778) * Thanks again - This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [eagerbob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagerbob/). Reason: redacted code * [hirenbhanderi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hirenbhanderi/) * (@hirenbhanderi) * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-create_function-for-php-8/#post-16233777) * yes one little changes in this code you can change one function name. Zilla_Twitter_Widget() to __construct() - This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [hirenbhanderi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hirenbhanderi/). * Thread Starter [eagerbob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagerbob/) * (@eagerbob) * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-create_function-for-php-8/#post-16240947) * Ok I changed the code following the information on [developer.wordpress](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_widget/) but I kept getting errors. Like a “unmatched “}” at the end of my file. Which seems easy to fix but wasn’t. * I “Solved” it by removing the widgets alltogether. It was a Flickr and a twitter widget, both are not used. * Thanks Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘replace create_function for PHP 8’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [php 8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-8/) * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [eagerbob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eagerbob/) * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-create_function-for-php-8/#post-16240947) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics