Content Rotator not working on PHP 7.2.x

• dlishdesign

  said

  When using the content rotator feature after upgrading to PHP 7.2.9 from PHP 5.6.20, I get the following fatal errors:

  Warning: Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /app/public/wp-content/themes/parallelus-vellum/extensions/content-rotator/load.php on line 148 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use assign-op operators with string offsets in /app/public/wp-content/themes/parallelus-vellum/extensions/content-rotator/load.php:176 Stack trace: #0 /app/public/wp-content/themes/parallelus-vellum/extensions/content-rotator/load.php(65): Runway_ResponsiveContentRotator->getPostContent(Array) #1 /app/public/wp-content/themes/parallelus-vellum/extensions/theme-utilities/theme-shortcodes.php(71): Runway_ResponsiveContentRotator->Generate(Array) #2 /app/public/wp-includes/shortcodes.php(319): content_rotator(Array, ”, ‘content_rotator’) #3 [internal function]: do_shortcode_tag(Array) #4 /app/public/wp-includes/shortcodes.php(197): preg_replace_callback(‘/[([?)(conten…’, ‘do_shortcode_ta…’, ‘[content_rotato…’) #5 /app/public/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/helpers/helpers.php(236): do_shortcode(‘[content_rotato…’) #6 /app/public/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/templates/shortcodes/vc_column.php(93): wpb_js_remove_wpautop(‘[content_rotato…’) #7 /app/public/wp-content/plugins/js_c in /app/public/wp-content/themes/parallelus-vellum/extensions/content-rotator/load.php on line 176

  It appears that there is some sort of conflict/impcompatability with PHP 7+ and the content rotator feature. Can you help?

• jeffw

  said

  Yeah, they moved the coding goalposts in PHP v.7.2. Here’s how to fix that error.

  Open the ‘extensions/content-rotator/load.php‘ file and on line 121 or thereabouts you’ll see this line of code…

  $content='';

  Change it to this…

  $content = array();

  Save and upload.

  Thanks for pointing this out to us so we can get it fixed.

• dlishdesign

  said

  Perfect, thank you!