Site stop working after update module

My site also stopped working when installing this update. Every page including the maintenance pages displayed an almost blank page with an error about an unexpected ? (question mark). I'm new to this but I think it could be the same issue if your site is not set to display errors in the browser. I investigated and it turns out Multiupload Filefield Widget 7.x-1.14 uses a new operator in PHP 7, ?? (double question mark). My site has PHP 5.6.40 is installed, which is supported for Drupal 7 but no longer recommended (see https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/system-requirements/php-requirements → ). Since the old syntax was replaced with the new ?? operator in six places, I'm guessing the code was intentionally updated to the newer PHP syntax. I restored the previous version of this module to get the site working again until I can update PHP.

Should there be a note or requirement somewhere saying this module requires PHP 7 or newer? The operator could also be changed back if that was not intentional since it's basically just a shorter way to accomplish the same thing.

If anyone else is having this issue and uses an older version of PHP, I would recommend upgrading PHP to version 7 or newer.

Same problem for me

I was also on PHP 5.6, I updated to 7.4 and it fixed it. Thank you!

Thank you! How i can install this patch?

Thanks for the patch, will this be commited soon?

Thank you for the patch witwar! I reviewed the code changes and can confirm that it changes the PHP 7 "a ?? b" syntax to the PHP 5 compatible "isset(a) ? a : b" syntax correctly according to the documentation. The proper expressions were copied to the correct part of the syntax. There may be a duplicate semicolon at the end of the first changed line 91 though it works with or without it as expected for an empty statement. Nothing else was changed.

I applied the patch and confirmed that my site now works with the patched version of 7.x-1.14 on PHP 5.6.40. It fixed the blank page issue.

Works for us. Thank you!

I applied the patch, but if you received this error, this is a big security warning for your project. ☠️
Committed!

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