{"id":1333161,"date":"2017-08-09T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T23:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/strtotime-error-again-recurring-events\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T23:17:19","slug":"strtotime-error-again-recurring-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/strtotime-error-again-recurring-events\/","title":{"rendered":"strtotime() error again&#8230;recurring events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a LONG running problem. Almost 2 years. I personally first reported it in <a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/strtotime-error-2\/\">December 2015<\/a>; at that time it was logged as a bug (and I honestly don&#8217;t remember if I was ever notified that it was fixed).<\/p>\n<p>I just deleted a 12.6MB error_log file filled with nothing but<br \/>\n<code>[21-Nov-2016 20:15:03 UTC] PHP Warning:  strtotime() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in \/home\/soloentr\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/events-calendar-pro\/src\/Tribe\/Recurrence\/Meta.php on line 956<\/code><br \/>\nerrors, multiple per day, over and over again. Dating back to Dec 2016 which is probably the last time I just deleted the previous error_log file.<\/p>\n<p>This (or a similar problem) was reported at least as early as Sept 2015, and a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/strtotime-error-2\/\">search for strtotime()<\/a> in the forums shows more than a handful of reports at least somewhat related to this issue, the latest in May 2017 (and despite one of your moderator&#8217;s comments, this problem HAS happened to more than one user of Events Calendar. And looking at those forum posts, we don&#8217;t seem to have plugins or themes in common; at least one other person is using a custom theme as I am.)<\/p>\n<p>As someone else noted, because the error occurs at a given time each day, it&#8217;s not possible to recreate at will. So changing themes\/disabling plugins isn&#8217;t an option (this would be in the middle of the day for me, not a good time to take my site down on purpose, which is what would happen if I disable all my plugins.)<\/p>\n<p>For now, it is mostly a nuisance (at least for me). But if I may humbly suggest, perhaps a review of all previous forum posts on this topic will reveal to y&#8217;all (who are smarter than me on php and such!) a common thread around recurring events and this error.<\/p>\n<p>I am running the latest version of WordPress and all of my plugins, including Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro, are up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1333161","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>strtotime() error again...recurring events -<\/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\/strtotime-error-again-recurring-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"strtotime() error again...recurring events -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a LONG running problem. 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