[cori nevruz]

do you know what could cause this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘color’ (T_STRING), expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/settings/class.settings.php(105) : runtime-created function on line 1

[cori nevruz]

The other errors are: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘color’ (T_STRING), expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/settings/class.settings.php(105) : runtime-created function on line 1 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘color’ (T_STRING), expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/settings/class.settings.php(149) : runtime-created function on line 1 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/settings/class.settings.php(105) : runtime-created function:1) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/option.php on line 787 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/settings/class.settings.php(105) : runtime-created function:1) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/option.php on line 788

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by cori nevruz.

[Steven Zahm]

@ cori

Well, it does seem like the error might be coming from Connections but what does not make any sense is that there is no runtime function in that file in that location for color. Actually color is not used in that file at all.

My suggestion, deactivate Connections, delete it (your data is safe) and reinstall it.

Let me know how it goes.

[cori nevruz]

Thank you for the fast reply. I should’ve mentioned that I already deleted it and reinstalled from scratch. same errors :(

[Steven Zahm]

@ cori

Hmmm… ok. Let’s start by deactivating all plugins except Connections. Does the error go away? If it does, activate plugins one at a time until the error happens again. The last plugin activated when the error comes back is where the conflict is (assuming there is a conflict). If you you deactivate all other plugins and you still have the error, then it might be a conflict with the theme? Has the theme had an update recently?

Oh, I should have asked this first… you do have the latest version of Connections installed, correct? (version 8.5.1)

[cori nevruz]

Again, I should’ve given more details up front… I have all the plug ins, wp and themes updated to the latest versions. However, I did just move the full installation from one server to another.
I tried deactivating all plug ins except connections and all the errors still have the errors. I then changed the theme to a basic one and the errors all go away. So, on the old server there were no conflicts with the theme and connections but for some reason on the move there is a conflict now.

[Steven Zahm]

@ cori

If you can give me a temp admin login, I’ll take a closer look.

[cori nevruz]

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[Steven Zahm]

@ cori

I tracked down the source of the errors… clueless why it would cause the issue though because that code has not changed in ages and there was nothing wrong with it… but for whatever reason the new server and its config did not like the way a string was escaped when registering a couple of the settings. Stranger still is why the error would mention it encountered the string “color” which simply does not exist in the file that the error is mentioning.

That said…

I tweaked these two settings slightly and the errors went away. The tweaks should have no effect, but they do .

Apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ cori

ps. I made the same changes to me dev version should the change will be in all future releases on Connections so updating should be safe as far this is concerned.

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