[Plugin: Skitter Slideshow] Fatal Errors with 3.2.1 Multisite, Audit Trail and Skitter Slider …

Okay – answering my own post here … turns out that both Audit Trail and WP Skitter Slider are using similar debug function that appears to be suggested from CakePHP (info below) …

since i am not using Audit Trail’s debug feature, i commented those lines out and that seemed to work and now both plugins co-exist …

it does remind me about some of the threads at Justin Tadlock’s ThemeHybrid site that suggest importance of plugin authors to define their functions by pre-appending said functions with unique plugin text … e.g., had Audit Trail author defined his pr function as audit_pr and Skitter used skitter_pr to define his, then the likelyhood of conflict would be greatly decreased but i digress …

cordially, chuck scott

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Info on Work Out
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1. code from skitter that PHP complained as fatal error circa lines 258 thru 266 =

/**
 * Debug arrays and others
 */
function pr ($array)
{
	echo '<pre>';
	print_r($array);
	echo '</pre>';
}

2. code from Audit Trail that php complained about circa lines 574 thru 582 (note i commented out the function) =

/**
 * Debug helper, borrowed from CakePHP, that displays a print_r inside <pre></pre> tags
 *
 * @param string $name Name of your plugin.  Is used to determine the plugin locale domain
 * @param string $base Directory containing the plugin's 'view' files.
 * @return void
 **/

/*
if ( !function_exists( 'pr' ) ) {
	function pr( $thing ) {
		echo '<pre>';
		print_r( $thing );
		echo '</pre>';
	}
}
*/

– fin –