Oxygen builder / PHP Struggling to create dynamic property

Question

When debugging my site to figure out why I'm occasionally (and seemingly, quite randomly) not able to save any edits I'm making to my site I came across this.

Well, there are actually 37 similar errors to this:

PHP Deprecated Creation of dynamic property EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater_Oxygen

Using the latest PHP and the latest version of Oxygen.

The error occurred since updating oxygen so naturally I tried restoring and using an older version.

I´ve also done the usual, signing all short codes, clearing all caches etc.

I'm just about to go in with a new staging copy to try it out with all my existing templates and components on a 'new' site.

Answer 1

It is PHP 8.2 https://php.watch/versions/8.2/dynamic-properties-deprecated

You may:

1. Downgrade to PHP 8.1
2. Exclude E_DEPRECATED from error level: error_reporting(E_ALL);
3. Or just wait for the plugin update

Also you can add #[AllowDynamicProperties] before class in EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater_Oxygen.php, but it will disappear after an update

Answer 2

Before update the Oxygen builder and your PHP to the last version, check the requirements and recommendations of oxygen:

1. PHP Versions: 7.4, 8.0, 8.1
2. PHP Modules: SimpleXML
3. Server Memory: 256 MB (512 MB is preferred)
4. WP Memory Limit: 256 MB (512 MB is preferred)

With that, you can't use the last PHP version available.