Title: Support for Php 7.0 Last modified: March 7, 2017 --- # Support for Php 7.0 * [Adam Ramshaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aramshaw/) * (@aramshaw) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-php-7-0/) * Hi, * Do you plan on updating your code for Php7.0? I found just this one error when checking compatability: * FILE: /nas/content/live/genroe/wp-content/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/inc/core/ tools.php ————————————————————————————————————————- FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE ————————————————————————————————————————- 681 | ERROR | Using ‘break’ outside of a loop or switch structure is invalid and will throw a fatal error since PHP 7.0 ————————————————————————————————————————- Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Joe Brodar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbrodar/) * (@jbrodar) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-php-7-0/#post-8894784) * Hey Adam! * I am not the developer, but I ran into this compatibility issue, as well, so I decided to look at the plugin code to try and see what was actually causing the issue. * What I found is that the error you mentioned above is being thrown because there is a foreach loop (starting on line 675, ending 682) which uses implicit braces, meaning that the developer chose to not include the “{}” characters around the loop. Because the scanning plugin did not find those braces wrapping around the code block for that loop, it thinks that the “break” statement is outside of a loop, but it actually isn’t. * **The Fix** I tested this fix out and it no longer throws the compatibility error; if you are comfortable with editing the PHP code, just add explicit braces around the loop block: * So, this: * ``` foreach ( array( 'media', 'posts', 'category', 'taxonomy' ) as $type ) if ( strpos( trim( $args['source'] ), $type . ':' ) === 0 ) { $args['source'] = array( 'type' => $type, 'val' => (string) trim( str_replace( array( $type . ':', ' ' ), '', $args['source'] ), ',' ) ); break; } ``` * becomes this: * ``` foreach ( array( 'media', 'posts', 'category', 'taxonomy' ) as $type ) { if ( strpos( trim( $args['source'] ), $type . ':' ) === 0 ) { $args['source'] = array( 'type' => $type, 'val' => (string) trim( str_replace( array( $type . ':', ' ' ), '', $args['source'] ), ',' ) ); break; } } ``` * The file you will need to edit is “/wp-content/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/inc/ core/tools.php” * – Joe * [Joe Brodar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbrodar/) * (@jbrodar) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-php-7-0/#post-8894851) * Hey Adam! * I am not the developer, but I ran into the same compatibility issue that you mentioned above, so I decided to look into the code and find out what is actually causing the error to be thrown. * What I found was that there is a foreach loop (starting line 675, ending line 682) for which the developer used implicit braces, meaning that they chose not include the “{}” characters around the loop code block. Since the scanning plugin did not find those braces, it thinks that the “break” statement is outside of a loop block, which it actually isn’t. I have tested out a fix for this, that has resolved the compatibility error on my sites. * **The Fix** If you are comfortable with editing the PHP code of the plugin, you just need to add explicit braces around the offending loop block. * So this: * ``` foreach ( array( 'media', 'posts', 'category', 'taxonomy' ) as $type ) if ( strpos( trim( $args['source'] ), $type . ':' ) === 0 ) { $args['source'] = array( 'type' => $type, 'val' => (string) trim( str_replace( array( $type . ':', ' ' ), '', $args['source'] ), ',' ) ); break; } ``` * becomes this: * ``` foreach ( array( 'media', 'posts', 'category', 'taxonomy' ) as $type ) { if ( strpos( trim( $args['source'] ), $type . ':' ) === 0 ) { $args['source'] = array( 'type' => $type, 'val' => (string) trim( str_replace( array( $type . ':', ' ' ), '', $args['source'] ), ',' ) ); break; } } ``` * The file that you need to update is “wp-content/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/inc/ core/tools.php”. - This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [Joe Brodar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbrodar/). Reason: fixing code blocks * Thread Starter [Adam Ramshaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aramshaw/) * (@aramshaw) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-php-7-0/#post-8895879) * Joe, * Thanks for letting me know about the fix – nice investigation. * If I understand you the old code would work with PHP7 as well. The problem is with the compatibility scanner. * I’m comfortable making the change but my concern was that the fix will break with the next of the plugin update — but if both work under PHP7 the it doesn’t matter. * Adam * [Joe Brodar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbrodar/) * (@jbrodar) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-php-7-0/#post-8895923) * Adam, * You are correct, it is really just an issue with the scanner, not actually the plugin itself, so it should work on PHP7 without applying the fix, but I have not tested that to say for sure. * Hopefully, if the developer does update again, they will add the explicit braces so that it doesn’t continue to throw up the false flag! * – Joe * [ddpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddpweb/) * (@ddpweb) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-for-php-7-0/#post-8908287) * Joe Brodar! Awesome Fix! Thank you SO much for posting that here. * I’ve run the PHP compatibility checker against this plugin and PHP 7 and there are no errors. * Sweet! 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