WordPress Importer – PHP Compatibility Checker report

This is a legitimate php 7 issue.
Line 884 is:
$$meta['key'] = $meta['value'];
and should be:
${$meta['key']} = $meta['value'];

I have spent about 8 hours tracking down this issue and would appreciate seeing it fixed.

Yes, that fixed importing menu items in php 7.
This issue has been brought up a few times in the support forums, hopefully the author updates the code as php 7 is used more frequently.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

Curly braces may also be used, to clearly delimit the property name. They are most useful when accessing values within a property that contains an array, when the property name is made of mulitple parts, or when the property name contains characters that are not otherwise valid (e.g. from json_decode() or SimpleXML).

It appears the syntax is well supported in php 5.6 and I suspect earlier minor versions.

Hi,
I have the same message on line
772 | ERROR | Indirect access to variables, properties and methods will be evaluated strictly in left-to-right order since PHP 7.0. Use curly braces to remove ambiguity.
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my lines in wordpress-importer.php from 771 :
// Create an array to store all the post meta in
$menu_item_meta = array();

foreach ( $item[‘postmeta’] as $meta ){
$$meta[‘key’] = $meta[‘value’];

Could you help me plese ? What should I change ?
Thank you !!
$menu_item_meta[$meta[‘key’]] = $meta[‘value’];
}