[Plugin: Breadcrumb NavXT] PHP 5.2.0 Requirement Notification Renders WP Dashboard Useless

  • Resolved Lew Ayotte

    (@layotte)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    I ran the autoupdate for this plugin to find that 5.2.0 was requires for it, which is fine to do… except you completely rendered the WP-Admin Dashboard useless. You should have used a notification or auto-deactivated the plugin. Having to manually rename the folder to get access to the dashboard isn’t the best option.

    By the way, I’m on PHP 5.1.6 why the PHP 5.2.x requirement?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/

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  • Plugin Author John Havlik

    (@mtekk)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    The message was primarily intended for PHP4 users, but it seems that more users of very old PHP5 installs are seeing it. It is implemented with a wp_die statement before the any of the require blocks in the code. On PHP4 installs, placing the checking code any later would cause PHP errors rather than the warning. I have modified the SVN trunk version to deactivate the plugin before calling wp_die, hopefully that will display a “one shot” upgrade PHP die message while keeping the WP dashboard usable on subsequent accesses to the dashboard.

    The reason for the bump from PHP5 to 5.2 or newer is due to the requirement in WordPress 3.2 for PHP 5.2 or newer. PHP 5.1.6 is over four years old (released August 2006) and should not be used anymore.

    leenkme

    (@leenkme)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    You could use a normal die() which should cause WordPress to send the message of the die in a notification box and will automatically deactivate the plugin.

    Thanks for the response.

    Plugin Author John Havlik

    (@mtekk)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    wp_die calls die though it wraps in some HTML to present a more visually appealing error message.

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