Hi there, the issue was… the plugin was actually fully working and continued to beautifully display the child summaries…
but, that error code was appearing at the top of the page.
I solved the problem by editing the plugin, and just inserting this
ini_set( ‘display_errors’, ‘false’ );
after the //commented out instructions, just before the plugin code actually got going, i.e.
//[summary-child-pages]
//[summary-child-pages id=parent_id]
//[summary-child-pages list_only=”1″] = no images, excerpt and read more
//start added
ini_set( ‘display_errors’, ‘false’ );
//end added
For my money, this really is the best child summary plugin, so I hope it keeps on going strong for many moons yet.
Cheers.
Re-posting from my plugin review – here is an alternative option to fix this error:
Great plugin, but is broken under PHP 5.4+ as the plugin attempts to pass a string in as an array (previous PHP versions were more forgiving and ignored the type error).
If you’re getting the “Warning: Illegal string offset ‘list_only’…” error, a quick and dirty fix is to manually edit the plugin and insert the following code line into summary-child-pages.php on line 56 (inside the summary_child_pages function, right before the $list_only = $atts['list_only']; line):
/* ---------------------------------------------------*/
/* Version v1.0.0: Patch for error under PHP 5.4+ to */
/* address the "Warning: Illegal string offset */
/* 'list_only'" issue. An array (not a string) is */
/* expected, so check & convert $atts string to array. */
/* ----------------------------------------------------*/
if (!is_array($atts)) {$atts=explode(',',$atts,0);}
/* ----------------------------------------------------*/
This checks to see if $atts is not an array, and converts it to one if so. If anyone has a better solution feel free to post it 🙂
To the developer: Thanks for making such a useful little plugin, and if possible could you please fix this in the next update so it works properly with PHP 5.4+? Thanks!
