Wordpress 3.9 - 4.1 and qTranslate issue

Question

I have found a bug after the upgrading the Wordpress to the last version of the software 3.9.

I get this error:

Thu Apr 17 17:21:52 2014] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Post could not be converted to string in /wp-content/plugins/qtranslate/qtranslate_core.php on line 455, referer: http://www.mywebsite.com/

Why do this happen?

What's the code on the line mentioned? If you don't have any luck on here, try http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ which might suite better for any wordpress related dev question. — Daniel W., Apr 17 '14 at 15:42
Why not file a bug with the author of the plugin? It's obvious that the issue is with plugin not working with 3.9. Perhaps wait for a fix from them? — dotty, Apr 17 '14 at 15:44
@DanFromGermany I don't know the website wordpress.stackexchange.com ... however thanks — Michelangelo, Apr 17 '14 at 20:40

score 48 · Accepted Answer · edited May 02 '14 at 12:43

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Solved!!

You have to remove the "$before." in qtranslate_core.php file from the last line, qtranslate works here with WP 3.9 !

so the result must be:

return strftime($format, $date).$after;

We will wait the qTranslate upgrade!

thanks

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answered Apr 17 '14 at 15:44

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On my plugin, it was the last line of the `qtrans_strftime` function. – djjeck Apr 20 '14 at 17:08
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return $before.strftime($format, $date).$after; => return strftime($format, $date).$after; – Mike Castro Demaria May 08 '14 at 08:51
Works with 4.1.1 too. – Simon Mar 07 '15 at 21:49
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Nice. Works with 4.4.1 too. – MazarD Jan 14 '16 at 20:18

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '14 at 17:57

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I wanted to add my 2 cents after investigating this issue myself. I don't like to ever hack the core of WP or the plugins. When I got the error indicated by the author of this thread, I fixed it by going into Settings -> Languages and clicking the Advanced Settings tab.

Under the Date / Time Conversion section it was set to the first option Use emulated date function. I changed it to Use strftime instead of date. and voila, no more error and no hacking the core!

Report back if this worked for you or if you had any issues.

Wordpress: v3.9.1 qTranslate: v2.5.39

answered May 29 '14 at 17:57

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Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I tried all the options but had to resort to the hack – Robert Went May 30 '14 at 21:25
Interesting! For science, how are you calling the date in the offending page? I only got this bug when displaying the date. I'm using `` – Shan Robertson May 30 '14 at 22:21
Thanks for great solution, this works superb in my case. page edit was not working. – Deepak Dholiyan Aug 26 '17 at 08:16
I am also unable to edit permalinks on edit page because of this. Any help on this? – Deepak Dholiyan Aug 26 '17 at 08:17

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 15 '15 at 03:12

For me (WP 4.1.1, qTranslate 2.5.39) the following helped:

From the dashboard, go to Plugins > qTranslate > Settings
Click the "Advanced Settings" link
In the "Date / Time Conversion" settings group select "Use strftime instead of date and replace formats with the predefined formats for each language." (was set to "Use strftime instead of date").

Voila!

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 24 '14 at 17:12

Unfortunately all above didn't work for me, but I found another solution, which helped me solve that issue:

in file qtranslate_core.php you must change this line

function qtrans_dateFromPostForCurrentLanguage($old_date, $format ='', $before = '', $after = '') {

to

function qtrans_dateFromPostForCurrentLanguage($old_date, $format ='') {

and this line

return qtrans_strftime(qtrans_convertDateFormat($format), mysql2date('U',$post->post_date), $old_date, $before, $after);

to

return qtrans_strftime(qtrans_convertDateFormat($format), mysql2date('U',$post->post_date), $old_date);

Wordpress 3.9 - 4.1 and qTranslate issue

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