Is there a build for Editor that works on PHP 5.3?

Karen Van Staden

Getting errors for Editor on square brackets on PHP 5.3.3. Is there a build for Editor that works on PHP 5.3?

allan

Which line is causing the error please? The libraries should actually work with 5.3 (although I would suggest you upgrade really soon - PHP 5.3 hasn't been receiving security patches in a decade!).

We've also noticed some bugs in the earlier PHP 5.3 releases which were address in the latest patch releases. So even if you can't go to 5.4 (or better 7.x) I'd suggest updating to 5.3.29 which I think should resolve the issue.

Allan

Karen Van Staden

Thanks Allan.

The current error is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /var/www/html/curriculum_mapper/datatables/lib/Database.php on line 136

If I changed that, there would probably be other places which would need to be addressed. I have asked out IT people at UWA to put PHP 5.4 on dev to test.

allan

That's this. I think that is actually meant to be valid PHP 5.3, but I've committed a change.

I'll see if there is a way we can run our tests on PHP 5.3.

Allan

Karen Van Staden

Thanks for the change snippet, I'm not getting the error anymore. However, I have a new error:

Fatal error: Class 'Field' not found in /var/www/html/curriculum_mapper/users.php on line 7

```
require_once( 'connection/connect.php' );
mysql_select_db( $database, $connection );
include( "datatables/lib/DataTables.php" );
use DataTables\Editor;
$editor = Editor::inst( $db, 'user', 'user_pk' )->fields(
Field::inst( 'first_name' ), //line 7
Field::inst( 'last_name' ),
Field::inst( 'email' ),
Field::inst( 'username' ),
Field::inst( 'user_type' ),
Field::inst( 'created' ),
Field::inst( 'created_by' ),
Field::inst( 'updated' ),
Field::inst( 'updated_by' )
)
->process( $_POST )
->json();

<?php > ``` ?>

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tangerine

You're lacking some "use" statements.
Look at the server script code here::
https://editor.datatables.net/examples/simple/simple.html

peterbrowne

Thanks, got it working now.

Allan, your simple fix for the editor to work with 5.3 works just fine.