Geolocation immediate breaks website

By: Jim Bynum | Asked: 11/24/2022
ForumsCategory: General questionsGeolocation immediate breaks website
Jim BynumJim Bynum asked 2 years ago

Not sure what is going on with Geolocation. I have a couple of websites using Formidable and whenever I try to activate the plugin it immediately breaks all of my sites. I do use Nicepage for all of my templating, but I'm not sure how it would cause a critical error. I have to go into safe mode and deactivate the plugin for the site to come back.

This is the error message I get when in safe mode.

This plugin failed to load properly and is paused during recovery mode.

An error of type E_PARSE was caused in line 108 of the file /phxtransportation/wp-content/plugins/formidable-geo/classes/controllers/FrmGeoAppController.php. Error message: syntax error, unexpected ')'

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

What do the logs (either WordPress or browser) display for errors?

Jim BynumJim Bynum replied 2 years ago

<p>This plugin failed to load properly and is paused during recovery mode. An error of type E_PARSE was caused in line 108 of the file /phxtransportation/wp-content/plugins/formidable-geo/classes/controllers/FrmGeoAppController.php. Error message: syntax error, unexpected ')'</p>

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

Is it possible your PHP version changed behind the scenes? I suggest you find out what version is being used. I have no idea if that's the issue, but it's worth looking into.

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

Also strange is that's not the path that I have for my geolcation addon installation. Mine is /plugins/formidable-geolocation

Jim BynumJim Bynum replied 2 years ago

Yeah, I have no idea. I didn't do anything but click the Install button.

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

The only two suggestions I have are: 1. Check your PHP version and 2. Navigate to that file and look at the line it's crapping out on and see if tells a story.

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

I think I know why the paths are different. I have the plugin Formdiable Geolocation, rather than the Geolocation addon from formidable. https://formidablegeolocation.com/

Jim BynumJim Bynum replied 2 years ago

Correct. I have that on one of my sites and it works perfectly. I was hoping the built-in one would work for my others so I didn't have to buy another license, but for some reason I haven't been able to install it without the site breaking.

2 Answers
Best Answer
Jim BynumJim Bynum answered 2 years ago
There was a comma after the false statement which was causing the syntax error. The website is working after removing it now.
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Steven MSteven M answered 1 year ago
This is still an issue 7 months later! I wonder why Formidable fixed this one?

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