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Hey All—

I’m trying to use the Top Authors plugin featured on this page:

http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/top_authors/

I’m getting the following output:

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /www/eh13849/public_html/hcs_sys/plugins/pi.top_authors.php on line 79 Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /www/eh13849/public_html/hcs_sys/plugins/pi.top_authors.php on line 189 Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /www/eh13849/public_html/hcs_sys/plugins/pi.top_authors.php on line 79 Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /www/eh13849/public_html/hcs_sys/plugins/pi.top_authors.php on line 189 Boyink - 2

Additionally, the plugin is listed as 1st party on the page linked to above, but in the plugin code itself the author appears as:

Donnie Adams
Author URL   http://www.thedailylife.org/ee/

And the domain in that url looks to be abandoned.

You could try replacing the ereg() function with preg_match() - the syntax is slightly different, I think.

You could also disable the ereg error reporting. if you’re on 5.3, it should still work okay. A version or two on, maybe it won’t….

Hmm, my quick test w/ the 1.6x plugin didn’t really work. It only returns a partial count of my own entries, no one else’s, and the parameters don’t work. Sorry, don’t know what’s gone screwy with this one….

It’s only a note for now, I think, but the plugin would have to be modified to work with PHP 5.3. Is that what you are running, Boyink? Also, is it working as intended apart from that?

Yes - the site is running PHP 5.3.2.

So - is it working…other than throwing a whole bunch of errors?  😉 Yes - looks like I get an author name and count after all of that..😉

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the report. These (largely untested) changes for the 1.x version should work for you in the short term:

On line 79 change this:

if (ereg("^switch", $key))

to this:

if (preg_match("/^switch/", $key))

And on line 189 change this:

if (ereg("^profile_path", $key))

to this:

if (preg_match("/^profile_path/", $key))

Cheers

Greg

Installed and seems to be working -thanks Greg!

Glad Greg was able to help. Feel free as always to start a new thread if you have any more questions.