HTML Import 2 message: Importing HTML file… nothing happens???

same to me… I was using php7, and get the error:
Call to undefined function set_magic_quotes_runtime()
Try to use an older version of php: for me php 5.5.9 works like a charm! (some deprecated function warning) and I was able to run the conversion process very quickly! Great plugin!!

Since magic_quotes_runtime is no longer used, I commented 2 lines in the html-importer.php file to remove that call. Everything appears to work as intended now.

As an update to this plugin, should there be a different way of doing this, as this function was deprecated in 5.3.0? https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.magic-quotes-runtime.php

I’m a newbie with php code. I’ve tried commenting out the 2 lines to remove the call to magic_quotes-runtime but I’m either grabbing too much or too little of the code.
Could you be a little more clear as to what your commenting out?
Thanks
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Sorry about that, everyone. As you can see by the lack of replies here, I’ve been swamped. I’ve just updated the plugin to remove the old junk that was causing problems in PHP 7.