[Solved] Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in class.alias.plugin.php on line 64

fh111

As mentioned in the title this is what I get when trying to activate the plugin. When I take out the "[Alias]" in line 64 I can activate the plugin and it seems to work, but it only shows the most recent alias, not a list of all of them.

using 2.0.18.4 (i know it says 2.0.18.8 as a requirement but i think it should work anyways)

i turned off all other plugins but it does not make a difference

any ideas? thanks

peregrine

could be your version of php or you added an error to sytax, or

I did not test it - I merely looked at the code and guessed.

It is probably not initialzed correctly as an array and it thinks its a string.

you could try (although some say it is slower - i wouldn't be worried about a microsecond if it works).

array_push($NewAliasList, $UserName);

instead of

$NewAliasList[] = $UserName;

I'd consider changing this code to this for an experiment

from

 $OldAliasList = unserialize($UserModel->GetMeta($UserID, 'Alias')['Alias']);
      $NewAliasList = $OldAliasList;
      // Append current user
      $NewAliasList[] = $UserName;

to

$OldAliasList = $NewAliasList = array();
$NewAliasList = $OldAliasList = unserialize($UserModel->GetMeta($UserID, 'Alias')['Alias']);
  // Append current user
array_push($NewAliasList, $UserName);

x00

@peregrine @R_J

I would avoid stuff like this

$UserModel->GetMeta($UserID, 'Alias')['Alias'];

Instead do

$AliasMeta = $UserModel->GetMeta($UserID, 'Alias');
$AliasMeta['Alias'];

peregrine

@x00

sounds good to me.

It's RJ's plugin not mine. I looked at the code on line 64 and didn't run it it or install it.

it pointed to this line 64. But @fh111 and I were looking at different versions. i looked at an older version apparently.

line 64 - $NewAliasList[] = $UserName; // in the version I had downloaded.

R_J

Sorry, don't have time to look at that now. Will try to care for it this weekend

fh111

thanks guys for looking into it!

peregrine

@fh111
let us know if you try any of the code changes, and if they solve your problem

R_J

Did some research and I suppose it is a PHP issue. You are using PHP version < 5.4, I assume. Here's a short extract of the PHP manual "As of PHP 5.4 it is possible to array dereference the result of a function or method call directly."

I'll change the code according to @x00 s suggestion because that should solve your problem, @fh111. Watch out for the new version. I will update it in the next minutes

R_J

It's done :-)

fh111

Thanks so much for making it work for me! Just tested it and everything works great. Very neat plugin, happy to have that feature