Eventbrite Activation error

[Jason]

I just purchased the Eventbrite add-on (v1.0.2) and when I click the Activate plug-in link I get the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot re-assign auto-global variable _POST in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/tribe-eventbrite.class.php on line 553

I have Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO activated (both v2.0.8). I am also running WordPress 3.4.1. Thanks for your help!

Jason

[Jonah]

Hi Jason,

Does the error persist throughout WordPress? Does the plugin not even activate? Have you tried deactivating all other plugins to see if there’s maybe a conflict? Or, switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to see if it’s a conflict with your theme?

Let me know what you turn up with those suggestions,
– Jonah

[Jason]

I switched back to the Twenty Eleven theme and I got the same error. The only other plug-ins I have active are the Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO. The plug-in will not activate because of the error message. The other two Event Calendars did just fine.

[Rob]

Hey Jason. Thanks for the follow-up here; this is odd, as I’m on the exact same setup on WP 3.4.1 – Events 2.0.8, PRO 2.0.8 + Eventbrite 1.0.2 – and all 3 activate without issue. Even with WP-debug set to TRUE I’m not seeing any notices.

What version of PHP are you using?

[Jason]

I am running PHP 5.4.3 on MAMP PRO 2.1. I have removed all the WP files and reinstalled it and the Eventbrite still gets the error. I have also deactivated the Calendar PRO to see if that was messing it up, but it still errored on activation.

[Jason]

I downgraded my PHP from 5.4.3 to 5.3.13 and the Eventbrite activated with no errors. It must be something with PHP 5.4.3 that it doesn’t like.

[Rob]

Thanks for the confirmation, Jason. We have had a few reports of conflicts with certain versions of PHP and are looking into whether we need to update the core plugin in some capacity to resolve that. Once we settle on a solution we’ll deploy it…but what you’ve shared here will be helpful to others who encounter this in the interim.

Cheers, and apologies for the inconvenience on this end. Let us know if you need anything else down the road.

[Quartiers]

Hi,
same problem. But I can’t reverse to php 5.3.1
Any solution ?
All plug-ins and add-on from tribe are up to date.
our wordpress version is 3.1.2
our php version is 5.4.5
Same message :
Fatal error: Cannot re-assign auto-global variable _POST in /vol0/home/quartier/www.quartiersdanses.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/tribe-eventbrite.class.php on line 553

Thanks
Emmanuel

[Quartiers]

Hi,
we did finally find the way.
Your add-on is using a variable that belong to php.
See below :
http://quirm.net/forum/topic.php?id=5600
and :
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54657

We did fix it in our version of you add-on.

[Joyce Grace]

Hello Quartiers,

Are you saying you applied this fix and it worked for you?

Are you still in need of support on this issue?

I have logged it in our backend system and hopefully it will get fixed in the next release, though I’m not allowed to make any promises.

It would really help to know what exact code you put where to fix it, so I can show this to our developers.

Thanks!

[Quartiers]

Here is the explanation in french :
“$_POST est une variable globale de PHP qui est utilisé à quelques endroits dans le code. Cependant, à d’autres endroits, il utilise une variable locale du même non ($_POST), ce qui est une mauvaise technique de programmation et interdit depuis la version 5.4 de PHP. Dans ces dit-endroit, je l’ai donc renommée $_POST_MAX. ”

Basically, it’s a problem with a local variable called _POST.
It’s now forbidden to name it like that in php.

I send you the file via email

[Joyce Grace]

Thank you!

[Joyce Grace]

Hello Quartiers! I just wanted to let you know that thanks to your wonderful help we have logged this as a bug in our system and we hope to get it fixed in the next release of this plugin. Can’t guarantee the timing, but it has been escalated in our own back end system!

Once again thank you!

[Tom]

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare the_event_ticket_count() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar/template-tags.php:7) in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar-eventbrite-tickets/deprecated-template-tags.php on line 11

[Tom]

I manage to activate it but I am not promoted for the licence key and there’s no indication of the plug in working for new events except there is a field for the eventbrite API in the my profile – an odd place for such a key to be positioned if I may be so bold?

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