Parse error: syntax error in Ver.2.0 update

My site is down too.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting ‘;’ or ‘{‘ in /home/…/wp-content/plugins/sunny/src/Sunny.php on line 99

I’m having the exact same error. Caused my site to go down, had to get help to disable the plug-in and rename the folder. Tried reinstalling, same issue. Plug-in worked great until this recent update.

Here’s my error, meant to add this earlier, it is on line 92 actually:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘.’ in /…./wp-content/plugins/sunny/src/Sunny.php on line 92

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by mah2681. Reason: Added my error

Likewise, same as William and James

Hi

For anyone who doesn’t know, this can be easily fixed by either deactivating Sunny (delete plugins/sunny folder if necessary), or upgrading to PHP 7.

FWIW, I move all the sites I can to PHP 7, but there are some very important production sites that are stuck on lower versions due to old unsupported themes and little budget to upgrade.

Last I checked, WordPress promises to be backwards compatible down to PHP 5.2 or 5.3. Hopefully the Sunny plugin author will reconsider using PHP 7 functionality, as annoying as it might be to miss out on the new stuff!

Best wishes

Paul

Mi site is down. I had to uninstall the plug-in via ftp.

Mine too. Thanks for CPK Web Solutions for telling the solution. I’ll try to change it to 7.

@cpkwebsolutions is correct.

Sunny 2.0.0 requires php 7 or later and WordPress 4.7 or later. Please upgrade your servers.

About backward compatibilities, I have no plan to support php 5 because php 7 makes developing easier.

The next version will deactivate itself if minimum requirements(php and WordPress version) don’t meet. Until then, ftp to your php 5 server and remove Sunny manually.

Hi Tang Rufus

Understand your position. Ok if I fork the project to provide backwards compatibility?

Best wishes

Paul

@cpkwebsolutions Go ahead.
https://github.com/Typisttech/sunny

Starting form Sunny 2.0.1, Sunny checks for php version and deactivate itself if needed.

Related commit:
https://github.com/TypistTech/sunny/pull/58