[Plugin: WP Photo Album Plus] Latest Update causing Fatal Error

I have gotten this same error this morning. It took my site down completely. I use this plugin in my other sites as well and am afraid to use it now. I can’t believe you would release an update that is this flawed.

This plugin was brilliant and served all my needs especially as I need a site which users will add content to. Can’t believe the plugin came out flawed so bad.

Crazy that they shipped a syntax error, for sure. Thankfully the fix is easy. Remove line 588 from wppa-common-functions.php and it will work once again.

(this applies to version 4.3.6)

Awesome. Thanks for the fix!

Will have to give that a try when I get home (just leaving) and can get plugged in again – thank you in advance (fingers crossed)

Would still be interested to see if the develop will do a fix though because there will be a lot of people out there finding same problem

What is the code on 588 ? is it

break;

???

No, line 588 has a single curly brace on it: }. The preceding two lines are commented out, and it appears that the author just failed to also comment out that line.

After deleting line 588, the working function looks like this:

function wppa_qtrans($output, $lang = '') {
  if ($lang == '') {
    $output = __($output);
//  if (function_exists('qtrans_useCurrentLanguageIfNotFoundUseDefaultLanguage')) {
//  $output = qtrans_useCurrentLanguageIfNotFoundUseDefaultLanguage($output);
  } else {
    if (function_exists('qtrans_use')) {
      $output = qtrans_use($lang, $output, false);
    }
  }
  return $output;
}

Thanks for the fix! Worked like a charm after I had the same error ??

Way to go sant0sk1…You da man!

Thanks! that fixed it!

sant0sk1 – brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Thank you so much!

As others have mentioned though I am not going to put my thread to solved as I still think the plugin maker needs to rectify the problem his end and restore what is a great plugin.

Thanks

Thank you so much for the fix – I nearly freaked out when I thought I had lost my albums!

My page does not open at all and it displays this message
wp-content/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/wppa-common-functions.php on line 589

what do i do?

in tried the above and now i am getting tis message, any helpppppppp

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘wppa-common-functions.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′) in /homepages/41/d383435300/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/wppa.php on line 55

thanks once again sant0sk1 – another site rescued.