Error for Smart Slider 3 shows whenever updating other plugins.

Hi @joyryde

We have got some recent reports regarding to the problem, but we couldn’t really reproduce it yet on our dev server, however, we have made a fix that resolved the problem on the users’ site who contacted us about this problem. The fix will be in the next version, but I’m writing the solution here for you.

Please open up the said file:
wp-content\plugins\smart-slider3\includes\smartslider3.php

And from line 133. where you see this:

`public static function upgrade($upgrader_object, $options) {
if ($options[‘action’] == ‘update’ && $options[‘type’] == ‘plugin’) {
foreach ($options[‘plugins’] as $plugin) {
if ($plugin == NEXTEND_SMARTSLIDER_3_BASENAME) {
self::install(true);
}
}
}
}`

Add “is_array($options[‘plugins’]) && ” to the first “if” part:

`public static function upgrade($upgrader_object, $options) {
if (is_array($options[‘plugins’]) && $options[‘action’] == ‘update’ && $options[‘type’] == ‘plugin’) {
foreach ($options[‘plugins’] as $plugin) {
if ($plugin == NEXTEND_SMARTSLIDER_3_BASENAME) {
self::install(true);
}
}
}
}`

Shouldn’t an update to the plugin be created rather than this?

Hi @joyryde

The fix will be in the next update which already had some new feature added just these new stuffs are still being tested to ensure that they’re working correctly and all, and we only get the report on this problem a few hours before your message. (It did not happened in our test servers for some reason.)

Probably the new version (with the fix) will be released in the end of this week or the next.

i’ve just updated SmartSlider3 to version 3.1.2 and i’m getting the same error.
it appeared first when updating other plugins, then i thought of updating SmartSlider3 and it still appeared.
i went checking the file in order to apply the fix, but i noticed it’s already there:

plugins/smart-slider-3/includes/smartslider3.php
line 170:

if (isset($options['plugins']) && is_array($options['plugins']) && $options['action'] == 'update' && $options['type'] == 'plugin') {

any suggestion as to what to try next?

more to it:

i’ve updated other plugins after SmartSlider3, and the error is no longer there.

i don’t know if it’s related, but on updating a plugin, now i’m taken to the old WP page with the updating info, rather than stay on the WP plugins page with the new “inline” updating process.