Geoff Martyn

Hi Nayeem,

Apologies for the delayed reply on this. The issue is described above. Using the add-on at all with PHP 8 will result in this error. The suggested change to the code should work to address this, however your developer should be able to apply this and test it to ensure it doesn’t have a knock-on effect anywhere else.

Kind regards,

Geoff

Hi Nayeem,

From digging around a bit further, it looks like the variable $categories is being used in /plugins/wpdm-advanced-access-control/tpls/wpdm-my-downloads-wlt.php prior to being initialised or defined, which is being flagged by the stricter error reporting in PHP 8, and suppressing the error still causes the page to throw a critical error.

Obviously, I don’t want to edit the plugin code directly, but if I do this in a staging environment, by adding a line before to check whether $categories is defined and is not null, then it looks like it fixes the issue.

<?php 

        /* Check variable is not undefined or null */ 
        $categories = $categories ?? [];

        if(is_array($categories) && count($categories) > 0){ ?>
            <div class="col-md-3">

Would it be possible to test this and look to action this amendment in the next version if it works?

Thank you

Geoff