http://tech.saigonist.com/taxonomy/term/133/all en http://tech.saigonist.com/b/drupal/solving-error-cannot-use-string-because-string-special-class-name <span class="submitted-by">March 25, 2016</span><div class="field_tags"><span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/drupal-8">drupal 8</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/php-7">php 7</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/oop">oop</a></span> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>If you've ever seen an error message in your PHP 7 website about 'String' being a special class name, e.g. <code>Error: Cannot use Drupal\Component\Utility\String as String because 'String' is a special class name in /Users/jesus/drush/commands/core/watchdog.drush.inc, line 4</code>, the reason is that String is now a reserved class name as of PHP 7. So your code that worked fine on PHP 5.7 and earlier will now be broken. This affects Drupal but could affect any old PHP site with a class called String.</p> <p>This is a problem with Drupal 8 which moved to an OOP-everywhere approach, so...</p></div></div></div> Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:58:00 +0000 tomo 85 at http://tech.saigonist.com