The reason for this failure is the pretty old PHP version on your server. The magic constant __DIR__ was introduced in PHP 5.3.0 so that seems to be the minimum PHP version requirement for this plugin atm.
Try changing line 50 of /home/country/public_html/wp-content/plugins/limit-login-countries/limit-login-countries.php: replace __DIR__ with dirname(__FILE__). Please report what PHP version you are using and whether the plugin is working after that change. Thank you!
Dirk
I did some research. PHP 5.2 reached its end of life (aka no more security patches) on 6 Jan 2011 [1] but WordPress still supports PHP 5.2.4 [2]. It seems I should support version 5.2.4, but I see no real need for it. You use this plugin if you care about security and probably it’s not too difficult to break into a server running PHP 5.2 or even less.
[1] http://php.net/eol.php
[2] http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
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rwilki
(@rwilki)
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, it gave me a synatax type error.
unexpected T_FUNCTION on page 194 of Options_Page.class.php
My version of php is 5.2x so I guess I’ll need to have that updated. I just hope it doesn’t cause problems with my site.
Thanks again,
Bob
ok, that’s another newer feature I’m using: Closures. They became available in PHP 5.3, too.
I really suggest to update. If you absolutely can’t, post it here and I’ll try to find some time to make my plugin compatible.
