Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

That’s incredibly strange. I see that as the end to the redirect function..

function redirect($location = '', $msgtype = '', $message = '') {
        $url = $location;
        $url = ($_GET['single']) ? $url."&single=".$_GET['single'] : $url;
        if ($msgtype == "message") {
            $url .= '&' . $this->pre . 'updated=true';
        } elseif ($msgtype == "error") {
            $url .= '&' . $this->pre . 'error=true';
        }
        if (!empty($message)) {
            $url .= '&' . $this->pre . 'message=' . urlencode($message);
        }
        ?>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            window.location = '<?php echo (empty($url)) ? get_option('home') : $url; ?>';
        </script>
        <?php
        flush();
    } <---- Line 326

Did you try and activate again?

That’s the spot it’s crashing out at.

I tried it on three different sites and a couple different servers. Same error.

I agree it’s bizarre. How can I help debug?

-J

Hey, I’m not (yet) good with PHP, but this seems odd…

<?php
flush();
}

Shouldn’t there be a “?>” after the flush? Or is the “<?php” extraneous?

-J

And I see two different ways you assign a script variable. The top one is the function giving me an error.

<script type=”text/javascript”>
window.location = ‘<?php echo (empty($url)) ? get_option(‘home’) : $url; ?>’;
</script>

<script type=”text/javascript”>
var base_plupload_config=<?php echo json_encode($plupload_init); ?>;
</script>

Try changing it to:

$url = (empty($url)) ? get_option('home') : $url;

        echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
        echo 'window.location = "'.$url.'"';
        echo '</script>';
        flush();

?

That worked. However… ??

Now I’m getting a very similar error on line 550 from a very similar function.

?>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var base_plupload_config=<?php echo json_encode($plupload_init); ?>;
    </script>
    <?php
    }

After trying to fix the above using similar code (or even commenting it out), I get a

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in /home/www/webhost4/website.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-satellite/slideshow-satellite-plugin.php on line 841

And one more datapoint… 2.0.2 seems to work fine.

Yes, with the same code for redirect() as 2.2. So I’m not sure what broke in the update.

I hope this plugin is worth the headache of trying to get it to work. ??

Haha, I hope it’s worth the headache for your sake too! And for the other people dealing with this i’m sure it is.

echo "<script type='text/javascript'>";
        echo "var base_plupload_config=".json_encode($plupload_init);
        echo "</script>";

is what it should be there for you. Does that work?

Same issue. Let me look into this tomorrow.

I’m starting to think this is a file encoding issue due to saving the file from a different IDE. The code of course shouldn’t have been that fragile so…my bad

This fix has been committed for 2.2.1! thanks for informing me!

Version 2.2.1 still does not fix the “parse error” problem with PHP 5.3+
The problem is located at line 74 of file slideshow-satellite-plugin.php
Please replace:
</style> <?
with
</style> <?php
and everything is back to normal.