PHP7 Support For Strictly AutoTags

PHP7 Support For Strictly AutoTags

By Strictly-Software


If you are using the popular Strictly AutoTags plugin then everything should be working fine however if you have upgraded to PHP 7 then that will have caused problems.

Not every developer has the time or knowledge to know that a new PHP version will remove features or cause issues with their plugins. However in this case it's due to the /e modifier being dropped.

$content = preg_replace("/(\.[”’\"]?\s*[A-Z][a-z]+\s[a-z])/e","strtolower('$1')",$content);

The only difference apart from the callback is that I am using @ @ as wrappers around my regular expression this is just so I can see it more easily with far less escaping required.

So replace the line above which is about line 1345 of the strictly-autotags/strictlyautotags.class.php file.

$content = preg_replace_callback("@(\.[”’\"]?\s*[A-Z][a-z]+\s[a-z])@",
 function ($matches) {
  return strtolower($matches[0]);
 },
$content);

Other people have used this fix for the plugin in the WordPress forum so it should work. I don't use PHP7 yet so never had to deal with it.

However if you are a developer please help others out on the forum. I have had over 223,616 downloads of the free version. If just everyone of those people had donated me £1 then I could spent my whole time working on it but everyone wants everything for free it seems nowadays which is why I have my premium plugin with more features > Strictly AutoTags Premium Plugin Version.

Remember you can also find up to date information on my Facebook page for my Automation plugins, this and the Strictly TweetBOT plugin which go hand in hand.

Also remember there is a Facebook page for thee plugins you can check for help as I don't automatically get notified of new problems on the WordPress site for some reason.

You can find this page at https://www.facebook.com/strictlysoftware/

Remember if you have a bug with any of my plugins to do the following:

1. Check the WordPress forum for similar bugs and fixes https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/strictly-autotags
2. Check the ReadMe file or admin page for any help.
3. Check your PHP and APACHE error logs to ensure it's this plugin causing the issues.
4. Run though the standard debug practises laid out here: Giving useful debug information.
5. Provide as much info to the developer as possible e.g PHP version, WP version, Plugin version, any other installed plugins, when it started failing, was anything else installed near that time, details of your process for tagging.

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