PHP function is disabled; abort expected: gzopen updraft

Hi,

The removal of the gzopen() function and its replacement with gzopen64() is a Ubuntu-specific change. i.e. They decided, in certain versions, to change the PHP language. This has not been done in any official PHP release, and is not supported by the PHP group.

So – you’d need to raise a support issue in an Ubuntu forum about the issue, to find out the official reasoning on what you are meant to do with applications using the PHP function that they removed.

Or just add this to your wp-config.php, to bring the gzopen() function back:

function gzopen( string $filename , $mode, $use_include_path = 0 ) { return gzopen64($filename, $mode, $use_include_path); }

David

P.S., Though, my memory was that they reversed this in a later bugfix for their PHP package – ???

WoW it works!

Many thanks for this.

The correct code is:
function gzopen($filename , $mode, $use_include_path = 0 ) { return gzopen64($filename, $mode, $use_include_path); }

No “string” before $filename

I hope people find this post to fix on their install too..

You’re welcome!

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P.S. You might want to wrap that code with an “if (!function_exists())” call, to prevent your site going down if and when you update to a PHP version in which Ubuntu have restored the gzopen() function… e.g.

if (!function_exists('gzopen')) {
function gzopen($filename , $mode, $use_include_path = 0 ) { return gzopen64($filename, $mode, $use_include_path); }
}

Best wishes,
David

Nice. Thanks again David.

Rated the plugin. It’s a great one and i hope you guys keep this tool for a long time yet.

I also moved the function to theme’s child functions.php.

Hi,

Thanks for the review!

I prefer using an mu-plugin to functions.php – unless it’s theme-dependent stuff. Or unless you know you’ll never change your theme (or will remember, when you do!). I mentioned wp-config.php only as its the quickest.

Best wishes,
David

I hope people find this post to fix on their install too..

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