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• allan Posts: 61,771Questions: 1Answers: 10,112 Site admin

  September 2019

  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 Posts: 3Questions: 1Answers: 0

  September 2019

  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 Posts: 61,771Questions: 1Answers: 10,112 Site admin

  September 2019 Answer ✓

  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 Posts: 3Questions: 1Answers: 0

  September 2019 edited September 2019

  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();
  ?>
  

  Edited by Colin - Syntax highlighting. Details on how to highlight code using markdown can be found in this guide.
• tangerine Posts: 3,350Questions: 37Answers: 394

  September 2019 Answer ✓

  You're lacking some "use" statements.
  Look at the server script code here::
  https://editor.datatables.net/examples/simple/simple.html
• peterbrowne Posts: 314Questions: 54Answers: 0

  September 2019

  Thanks, got it working now.

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