{"id":1232382,"date":"2017-02-09T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/php-error-explode-expects-parameter-2-to-be-string-array-given\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:15:22","slug":"php-error-explode-expects-parameter-2-to-be-string-array-given","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/php-error-explode-expects-parameter-2-to-be-string-array-given\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Error &#8211;  explode() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written up a full technical explanation here as GitHub has better support for code snippets. https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jeremyfelt\/6f1a5b0e684668b9a389cdb1b6a9a563<\/p>\n<p>This is a duplicate of https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/error-in-the-logfile\/, but I was not able to add a reply there.<\/p>\n<p>A change in Events Calendar 4.4.1 is causing this PHP error message to appear on events that do not have what appears to be a newer data structure containing recurrence meta.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the approach in my gist is the appropriate one, but it&#8217;s the one I&#8217;m deploying as a hotfix now in our production environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1232382","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PHP Error - explode() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/php-error-explode-expects-parameter-2-to-be-string-array-given\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PHP Error - explode() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve written up a full technical explanation here as GitHub has better support for code snippets. https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jeremyfelt\/6f1a5b0e684668b9a389cdb1b6a9a563 This is a duplicate of https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/error-in-the-logfile\/, but I was not able to add a reply there. 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