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Ashley Shaw
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Ashley Shaw
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Posted by Ashley Shaw
Ashley Shaw
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Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP

I get this error: Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Wptreehouse_Badges_Widget has a deprecated constructor in /xxx/wp-content/plugins/wptreehouse-badges/wptreehouse-badges.php on line 92

3 Answers

Martin Brown
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Martin Brown
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Martin Brown
Martin Brown
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Dude, did you get an answer to your question chap ????

Sipann A.
Sipann A.
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Sipann A.
Sipann A.
30,234 Points

Hi,

I did not get the error, but checked the php documentation and found this : http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.deprecated.php It seems that same names should not be an issue since our class does implement a __construct() method :

function wptreehouse_badges_widget() {
        // Instantiate the parent object
        parent::__construct( false, 'Official Treehouse Badges Widget' );
    }

(providing you kept that part).

Or I may be wrong. Just glad to know that I'm not completely alone in this class.

Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
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Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points

Hi all,

Just sharing the below worked fine for me:

class Wptreehouse_Badges_Widget extends WP_Widget {
    function __construct() {
        // Instantiate the parent object
        parent::__construct( false, 'Official Treehouse Badges Widget' );
    }