Some understanding problems

Hi:

I just tried to install this, and when I tried to activate the plugin, I got the message:

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

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/jaweinberger/dsthree.com/wp-content/plugins/two-factor-auth/two-factor-login.php on line 21

I”m using WP 3.5.1

Help?

Would be eager to help but for reasons of my last night translation into Chilean spanish I did not update yet. Oscar, would I be able to copy only certain parts of your new update in order not to lose my entire translation. I unfortunalety had to translate the backend for our editors as the use of English is not widely spread in Chile! Hope that the new update did not crash due to my questions here :-). Thx and greetz, latest install still working like a charme!

J Weinberger,

it just crossed my mind: when I had a file of the plugin open in Dreamweaver today it spit me out some php errors – I did not pay too much attention because I usually prevent using DW and code everything in text editor. Above all DW is known to have a somewhat akward behavior towards evaluating code! Maybe you give it a try and have a look into it yourself!

Hi:

Not clear what you are suggesting here. I don’t use DreamWeaver and don’t code.

I simply clicked “Activate” on the wordpress plugin screen and this error appeared at the top of the screen.

Clearly there is an error in your plug in. I don’t know why or what the error is.

Not sure what you are suggesting I “look into”….

can you help fix it?

J,

I am not the author of the plugin and by far extent my competencies do not allow coding stuff like that. I just assumed you were capable of coding html, css and some minor php stuff like I do. I understand that as a wordpress user not everybody does this. In this case please stay put for Oskars answer. He is really kind and gets back to requests fast and competent. I would love to help out by trying to install but I spend 2 hours translating today and would lose all my work. From what I can say right now, try the following: deactivate any security related plugin you momentarily use. Do it one by one always activating 2FA right after. By any chance it could be a plugin conflict. I experience no conflicts with WP Better Security, User Role Plugin and Adminimize. I have no other related plugs installed!

Got it. I thought you were responding as the author.

I need to know if this can be resolved as standard (not my) code.

If not, I need to find a different plug-in.

I’ll await the author’s answer. Thanks for trying to help!

I just do not want to have you stand in the rain:
the error you pasted at least points in the direction of a string that has not been properly closed. If you need a solution really bad you could open the according file (see the error) in a text editor and look for a missing ” or another closing character! It should not be too complicated. If you browse the error message into google you will be pointed to a bunch of great sites that easily explain it. It is if so y typo, no more. Do by any chance not move on to another plug. 2FA is by far extent the mastery option. I spend two weeks looking, trying, deleting and this is the thing. Only throwing in my two cents here.

jweinberger: What version of PHP are you using? That row uses PHP namespaces that were introduced in PHP 5.3 that were released 4 years ago.

Please check and get back to me.

Honkytonky: In your tfa4.js where the button is created (row 8-11), change to this to get the button blue.

var otp_btn = document.createElement('button');
otp_btn.id = 'otp-button';
otp_btn.className = 'button button-large button-primary';
otp_btn.onclick = function(){ return tfaChangeToInput(); };
otp_btn.style.float = 'none';

PHP 5.3

jweinberger: I’ll look into it. Please start a new thread with this issue in the meantime so other people with the same issue can find it. I’ll answer in the new thread soon.

Done.

The new thread is called “Two Factor Auth: PHP error trying to activate”

Thanks for your help!