Not PHP 7 Compliant

We are running PHP 7.1 and are getting the following warning when running the Simple Preview plugin:

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Simple_Preview has a deprecated constructor in /app01/html/aaa_ncnu/wp-content/plugins/simple-preview/simple-preview.php on line 45

Can you please update the class constructor in the plugin so it uses the PHP 7-valid __construct() method instead of the old-style constructor method that uses the class name as the constructor?

Instead of constructing the class like this:

// Plugin startup
function Simple_Preview() {
	if ( ! is_admin() ) {
		add_action('init', array(&$this, 'show_preview'));
	} else {
		register_activation_hook(__FILE__, array(&$this, 'init'));
		add_action('admin_menu', array(&$this, 'meta_box'));
		add_action('save_post', array(&$this, 'save_post'));
	}
}

We’d construct it like this:

// Plugin startup
function __construct() {
	if ( ! is_admin() ) {
		add_action('init', array(&$this, 'show_preview'));
	} else {
		register_activation_hook(__FILE__, array(&$this, 'init'));
		add_action('admin_menu', array(&$this, 'meta_box'));
		add_action('save_post', array(&$this, 'save_post'));
	}
}

• This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Chad Hayton.