[Raptor]

This plugin breaks the forums if server is PHP 7.1 or 7.2

Fatal error: Cannot use $this as parameter in /home/*****/public_html/forums/dbtech/usertag/includes/functions_bbcode.php on line 9

This is a well-known error message with PHP 7.1 and PHP 7.2 as you can see in the StackOverflow threads below:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...s-as-parameter
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...edirect=1&lq=1

According to the above threads, the $this value is breaking the PHP function. In this case, the following PHP function breaks the functionality:

function handle_bbcode_mention(&$this, &$value, &$option)

In order to test it, I temporarily commented out the &$this value and set the PHP version to 7.1.

After removing the value the forums function correctly.

I actually went to pay for the pro version but it seems DBTech don't support Vbulletin any more. Lost business for them I guess.

If someone can fix this so it works in PHP 7.1 that would be great.