Deprecated: Unparenthesized… error message

Hi, no sorry but none of this is pertinent to Groups. You likely have something interfering badly on your setup – might be a crappy optimization plugin or whatever … none of this is coming from Groups though.

@proaktion

WordPress 5.4
php 7.4
Groups Version 2.10.0

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Deprecated: Unparenthesizeda ? b : c ? d : eis deprecated. Use either(a ? b : c) ? d : eora ? b : (c ? d : e)in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxx/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/groups/lib/access/class-groups-access-meta-boxes.php on line 301

Kindly help.
Thanks and Regards

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by thesmahesh.

Hi Kento,

Believe this is related to PHP version 7.4. Nested ternary operators without explicit parentheses are deprecated. https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.deprecated.php

I fixed things by modifying the stated source files in the Groups plugin (obviously not my preference ;)). I’m currently running 2.10.0 of the Groups plugin.

Erik

Same problem here:

Deprecated: Unparenthesizeda ? b : c ? d : eis deprecated. Use either(a ? b : c) ? d : eora ? b : (c ? d : e)in /Users/ronaldt/Sites/debugging.test/wp-content/plugins/groups/lib/wp/class-groups-wordpress.php on line 81

and

Deprecated: Unparenthesizeda ? b : c ? d : eis deprecated. Use either(a ? b : c) ? d : eora ? b : (c ? d : e)in /Users/ronaldt/Sites/debugging.test/wp-content/plugins/groups/lib/access/class-groups-access-meta-boxes.php on line 295

The fix is quite easy @proaktion, like @evdheuvel mentioned:

Change groups/lib/access/class-groups-access-meta-boxes.php on line 295 to:
$post_id = !empty( $postarr['ID'] ) ? $postarr['ID'] : (!empty( $postarr['post_ID'] ) ? $postarr['post_ID'] : null);

And change groups/lib/wp/class-groups-wordpress.php on line 81 to:
$user_id = isset( $user->ID ) ? $user->ID : (isset( $args[1] ) ? $args[1] : 0);

There might be more occurrences throughout the plugin though.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Ronaldt.

Thanks @evdheuvel and @neejoh.

I just got caught in the issue with a new server today and your fixes worked. This is months old and there’s no updates.

@proaktion Is this plug-in still supported?

Gerry