V2.2.18 caused Nextgen not to load

@lawriem1 – Yes, this points to the idea your server was running one of the problematic versions of PHP that we are finding.

We are working to find a better solution…

– Cais.

@imagely PHP 7 is not problematic, your plugin is problematic, nobody is switching back to php 5.6. because of 1 plugin and that is yours. So better fix your plugin than blame PHP. Your plugin said that all 3 versions of PHP 7 has a bug .. do you believe that by yourself ? I don’t. It is not the first time that your plugin gave troubles.

@haydrionrayel – “PHP 7 is not problematic” – Quite to the contrary, the issues we are seeing here are CAUSED BY BUGS IN PHP. PHP recognized and fixed the main bug in 7.0.26 and 7.1.12 already. You can see our other post about this for links to the PHP site and discussion and patching of the bug by PHP. There is yet another PHP bug still present in 7.2.0.

And the bug in PHP were/is affecting systems well beyond NextGEN Gallery. Your point might be that many plugins aren’t affected by the PHP bug. That’s generally true, and great. But that doesn’t change the fact that the issues are are the direct result of a bug introduced in PHP that breaks some of PHP’s core logic.

Also, to clarify: there are only a few specific versions affected here, not all of PHP 7. It’s PHP 7.0.26, 7.1.12, 7.0RC6 for the main bug. 7.2.0 has a secondary bug that affects fewer people, but still has similar symptoms. Other versions of 7.0.x and 7.1.x work fine.

@haydrionrayel

I think you’re right. This PHP issue continues a week and 1/2 after it was first reported and no updates or fixes.

I’ve lost all confidence with Imagely and working on removing it from all my client sites. When the various Imagely subscriptions come up for renewal, we will be cancelling and advising our clients to do the same.

@paradime – I also responded to you separately, but I’d emphasize the same thing I did in my original response. This is, very specifically, a bug introduced by PHP. There’s nothing we could have done to prevent it, and we’ve had devs looking at it around the clock since PHP released it.

Here’s the bug report from PHP: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75573

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In any case, for both of you, even though we didn’t cause it and PHP has already patched it, we’ve still been working on it and finally have a work around for the PHP bug. The following copy of NextGEN 2.2.20 should run with any version of PHP (including the bugged versions: 7.0.26, 7.1.12, 7.2RC6, and 7.2.0). Feel free to give it a try and let us know if you have issues.

https://imagely.com/wp-content/staging/nextgen-gallery.2.2.20.zip

We’d like to get a few confirmations before we release it officially.