PHP 7.2 Compatibility: Deprecated ‘create_function’

Working on upgrading to PHP 7.2 and running into a compatibility issue.

The ‘create_function’ function has been deprecated, but it’s being used in the main powerpress.php file.

Any chance there’s an update in the works to address this?

Here’s the function…

// For grabbing data from Podpress data stored serialized, the strings for some values can sometimes get corrupted, so we fix it...
function powerpress_repair_serialize($string)
{
	if( @unserialize($string) )
		return $string; // Nothing to repair...
	$string = preg_replace_callback('/(s:(\d+):"([^"]*)")/', 
			create_function(
					'$matches',
					'if( strlen($matches[3]) == $matches[2] ) return $matches[0]; return sprintf(\'s:%d:"%s"\', strlen($matches[3]), $matches[3]);'
			), 
			$string);
	
	if( substr($string, 0, 2) == 's:' ) // Sometimes the serialized data is double serialized, so we need to re-serialize the outside string
	{
		$string = preg_replace_callback('/(s:(\d+):"(.*)";)$/', 
			create_function(
					'$matches',
					'if( strlen($matches[3]) == $matches[2] ) return $matches[0]; return sprintf(\'s:%d:"%s";\', strlen($matches[3]), $matches[3]);'
			), 
			$string);
	}
	
	return $string;
}