gmmktime Error in WordPress and MagpieRSS

If you’re running PHP 5.1 with your web server, you may encounter the following error in your Apache web server error log file (i.e. httpd-error.log) whenever there are requests to the RSS feed and the Apache need to parse the RSS in PHP:

For Magpie RSS:

PHP Warning: gmmktime() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in …../magpie/rss_utils.inc on line 35

For WordPress 2:

PHP Warning: gmmktime() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/wordpress-mydigitallife/wp-includes/rss-functions.php on line 788

The error usually only occurs if you are using or upgrading to PHP 5.1.

The resolution is to edit rss_utils.inc in MagpieRSS or rss-functions.php in WordPress and changes the line below:

$epoch = gmmktime( $hours, $minutes, $seconds, $month, $day, $year);

to the following line by adding +0 after the third variables ($seconds):

$epoch = gmmktime( $hours, $minutes, $seconds+0, $month, $day, $year);

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5 Responses to “gmmktime Error in WordPress and MagpieRSS”

Sarah
April 27th, 2006 03:37
1

Thanks very much for documenting this! You saved me a bunch of time and I really appreciate it.
Andrew
May 22nd, 2006 02:17
2

The first Google result my own website showing the error. Your’s was #3 or so. I can’t thank you enough for publishing this simple fix.
Douglas Karr
May 21st, 2007 06:22
3

Glad I found this! I’m surprised they haven’t incorporated this into the version in Sourceforge!
Frank
June 17th, 2007 05:48
4

Great tips! Thank you very much!
neil epstein
May 13th, 2008 23:54
5

thank you so much! saved me alot of time