Same for me. After a manuall re-install still the same error.

Ubuntu 10.04
PHP 5.3.2

I guess that is an PHP 5.3.2 issue. The name of that method is named as the class, Before PHP 5.3.3 constructors could also have the name of the class.
@diosmosis You've added the Factory. I guess we need to rename that to make it work again on PHP 5.3.2

Thx @diosmosis for fixing
@mattab could you build a new release to fix piwik for PHP 5.3.2
Btw. Can't we let travis run the tests on 5.3.2 instead of 5.3.3 to avoid those issues?

@sgiehl Is the mentioned fix meant for a release with Piwik 2.6.2? As it stands now, new installations or updates on old Ubuntu 10.04LTS machines will break with 2.6.1. Is that on route for another minor bugfix update?

That should also fix broken installations, but you might need to reupload manually. @mattab is the release manager, guess he will build piwik 2.6.2, as that is a major bug for PHP 5.3.2

Applied the Patch manually. Works for me now.

Btw. Can't we let travis run the tests on 5.3.2 instead of 5.3.3 to avoid those issues?

AFAIK travis only proposes php 5.3.2... Also we will likely increase requirements to 5.3.3 later when we work on DI #4917.

Hi,

I am using 2.6.1 (manual installation) based on Ubuntu 10.04 and PHP 5.3.2.
The Error Log shows:

[Sat Sep 06 22:30:02 2014] [warn] [client IP-Adresse] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: Constructor Piwik\Factory::factory() cannot be static in /var/www/vhosts/Domain/piwik/core/Factory.php on line 60

Further, there is always shown a white screen.

Any idea what went wrong and what to do to solve the prob?

Thanks so much for your help in advance.
Mawi

That issue solves exactly that problem. You could try to apply the changes done in 099c969 or wait for the next release

2.7.0 will be released in ~ 8-10 days so hopefully we can wait

-> Please try upgrading to 2.7.0-b1 which fixes this problem.

There was a similar problem with another 2.x version some months ago. Is there nobody testing for ubuntu 10.04? That's really ugly! So I'll stay at 2.4.0 until a working update comes out…

thanks for the fix, seems to work :)
it's quite annoying though when the requirements are fullfilled and a simple update crashes everything :(

Thanks @diosmosis for the fix! Have a coffee on me! @changetip

Hi,

I had the issue and I was able to resolve it by updating to PHP 5.3.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 using the instructions from http://blog.leenix.co.uk/2011/06/ubuntu-1004-lts-lucid-php-533-backport.html

Simple commands:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fabianarias/php5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Is there nobody testing for ubuntu 10.04? That's really ugly!

We are testing on php 5.3.3 and 5.4 and 5.5 and 5.6 - but we don't test 5.3.2 since travis doesn't offer it

Could you please update the requirements to reflect the fact that PHP 5.3.3 or greater is required instead of 5.3.2

Does Piwik 2.7.0 not work well on PHP 5.3.2 ? We'd like to support it if possible please let us know if you find any bug.

On my PHP 5.3.2 Installation 2.7.0 is working well. You should just skip the 2.6.1 Release.

👍 2.7.0 works on Ubuntu 10.04 and PHP 5.3.2.