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bussmst

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Registered: 2016-03-29

Posts: 5

Error message when sending Emails with PHP Version 7

Hi together

I get the following error message when I send an Email out of my backlight contact site, when the server PHP Version is set to Version 7.0. Version 5.6 is working fine.

Something went wrong
Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; SMTP has a deprecated constructor in SMTP.php on line 39

Has anyone an idea to fix this?

Thanks
Stefan

Ben

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2012-09-29

Posts: 4,399

Re: Error message when sending Emails with PHP Version 7

Hi Stefan,  thanks for pointing this out.  The file SMTP is third-party code.  I wasn't aware that it operated in this way.

For now, can you try editing the file backlight/framework/lib/SMTP.php and change line 78 from:

function SMTP() {

to:

function __construct() {

Please let us know whether that solves the problem.  If so, I will update this in Backlight for the next maintenance release.

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Ben

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bussmst

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Registered: 2016-03-29

Posts: 5

Re: Error message when sending Emails with PHP Version 7

Hi Ben

Thanks for the quick response.

That fixed the problem!

Stefan