can’t activate Open-ID – fatal error

Interesting. I also get an error, but not the same as yours:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ')' in /home/[...]/wp-content/plugins/openid/Auth/Yadis/Yadis.php on line 278

Line 278 (and 279)

function discover($uri, &$fetcher = null,
              $extra_ns_map = null, $timeout = 20)

In my case, upgrading PHP up to 5.x fixed my problem.

You need PHP5 for the latest version of the Yadis stuff, which WP-OpenID now uses. Bite the bullet and get upgrading 😉

First, I didn’t saw anything at all, but “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” fade-message. Then I added some lines to wp-admin/plugins.php:

ini_set('display_errors','1');
ini_set('display_startup_errors','1');
error_reporting (E_ALL);

and little more stuff appeared:

Warning: Log::factory() [function.factory]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/Log/file.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/dir01.org/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/dir01.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/openid/OpenIDLog.php on line 142

Warning: Log::factory(Log/file.php) [function.factory]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/vhosts/dir01.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/openid/OpenIDLog.php on line 142

Warning: Log::factory() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘Log/file.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:’) in /var/www/vhosts/dir01.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/openid/OpenIDLog.php on line 142

Fatal error: Call to a member function setMask() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/dir01.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/openid/core.php on line 156

line from phpinfo:

open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/dir01.org/httpdocs:/tmp no value

Problem could be fixed either by reconfiguring php or by editing plugin.

I changed
include_once $classfile;
on line 142 in OpenIDLog.php to

set_include_path( dirname(__FILE__) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() );
include_once $classfile;
restore_include_path();

and

require_once 'store.php'; on line 53 in logic.php to

set_include_path( dirname(__FILE__) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() );
require_once 'store.php';
restore_include_path();

I will be happy, if this will be usefull for anybody )

I’ve made the same trick to require on line 76 in logic.php
Everything works fine for me, great plugin, thx.

HandySolo:

The problem in your case is that ampersand. Lose it. The line should be

function discover($uri, $fetcher = null,

In PHP, a variable fetcher is indicated with “$fetcher” and reference to that variable is indicated with “&fetcher“.

fetcher is a reference variable, and the programmer has confusedly the value of a reference variable with reference to the reference variable, and then notated this incorrectly.