Fix regression caused by ::class constant

Good catch. This is the correct fix - replacing the ::class constant with the string name of the class, which in D7 is just the class name as core does not use namespaces.

Agreed and the patch worked for our site running on PHP 5.4 as well.

Confirming that I stumbled across this issue as well. Patch in #3 fixes this issue.

Thanks for this.

+1 on making this change and doing a hotfix release for D7.

However, I think this highlights the fact that it's not viable for D7 to continue supporting really old PHP versions.

For what it's worth, the testing system that's used for private security issues is slightly different to how public issues are tested on d.o.

We should discuss this in a separate issue - I'll link to it from here.

Linked an older issue that's still open to discuss increasing the minimum required PHP version for D7 core.

Working on a hotfix release for D7 which will include this patch.

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.97 →

Silly thing:

drush pm-update

stumbles over ::class in system.module. The site was running under PHP 7.1, but drush was using PHP 5.4.41. Applying the patch manually fixed things. I really need to update php in drush (on a Windows server),

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