Microthemer and PHP 7

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katw August 30, 2018 at 5:10 am

Heads up! this post was created when Microthemer was at version 5. The current version is 7. Some references to the interface may be out of date.

Hi,

I just ran a compatibility test for PHP 7.1 and Microthemer was flagged as having an issue with PHP changes.

You probably are aware, but in case you are not the info is below.

If a false positive let me know and I will alert the PHP test plugin owner.

The info given was:

FILE: /plugins/microthemer/includes/scssphp/scssphp-july-2018/src/SourceMap/Base64VLQEncoder.php
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FOUND 3 ERRORS AFFECTING 1 LINE
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 179 | ERROR | Bitwise shifts by negative number will throw an ArithmeticError in PHP 7.0
 179 | ERROR | Bitwise shifts by negative number will throw an ArithmeticError in PHP 7.0
 179 | ERROR | Bitwise shifts by negative number will throw an ArithmeticError in PHP 7.0
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Sebastian August 30, 2018 at 9:46 am

Hey,

Thanks for raising this. I found a few sites that say this is a false alarm:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-7-1-compatibility-error-3/
https://github.com/PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility/issues/294

The most up to date version of the SCSSPHP library still uses the code being flagged:

public function zeroFill($a, $b)
{
        return ($a >= 0) ? ($a >> $b) : ($a >> $b) & (PHP_INT_MAX >> ($b - 1));
}

So I think it’s OK. Also, I currently run PHP 7.1 on my development server and the SCSS feature works fine.

I would rather MT passed the PHP7 test though. So I’ve raised an issue on GitHub. Hopefully I’ll hear back soon.

Cheers!
Sebastian

katw September 26, 2018 at 2:45 am

Hi Sebastian,

If the error is a non-event I suggest you let the author of php-compatibility-checker know so he can whitelist Microthemer.

Cheers

Kat

Sebastian September 26, 2018 at 12:51 pm

Hey Kat,

I’ve actually been talking to the developer of SCSS PHP on github and have implemented a potential workaround. I’m just testing it before releasing. But if there are no issues with the workaround, MT will hopefully pass the compatibility checker.

Cheers!
Sebastian

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