Title: PHP 8 issues
Last modified: January 10, 2025

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# PHP 8 issues

 *  [dsar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsar/)
 * (@dsar)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-issues-9/)
 * Hi,
 * Is this plugin still being worked on?
 * There are few threads, even over year old about PHP 8 issues in it, and they 
   still haven’t been fixed.
 * Plugin uses [abs()](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.abs.php) function 
   which requires int|float input since PHP 8.0.0, which in certain scenarios results
   in errors like below.
 * PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: abs(): Argument #1 ($num) must be of type
   int|float, string given in …/wp-content/plugins/image-widget/image-widget.php:
   185
   Stack trace: 0 …/wp-content/plugins/image-widget/image-widget.php(185): abs()
   1 …/wp-includes/class-wp-widget.php(394): Tribe_Image_Widget->widget() 2 …/wp-
   includes/widgets.php(845): WP_Widget->display_callback() 3 …/wp-content/themes/
   hemingway/sidebar.php(5): dynamic_sidebar() 4 …/wp-includes/template.php(810):
   require_once(‘…’) 5 …/wp-includes/template.php(745): load_template() 6 …/wp-includes/
   general-template.php(136): locate_template() 7 …/wp-content/themes/hemingway/
   page.php(75): get_sidebar() 8 …/wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include(‘…’)
   9 …/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once(‘…’) 10 …/index.php(17): require(‘…’)
   11 {main} thrown in …/wp-content/plugins/image-widget/image-widget.php on line
   185
 * I submitted a PR on Github fixing such issues in case it helps.

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 * Last reply from: [dsar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsar/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-8-issues-9/)
 * Status: not resolved