Lightbox Plus 2.2 update released

Lightbox 2.1 added a new HTML DOM parser. However due to a memory leak in PHP 5.1.x and 5.2.x and an improper use of the garbage collection routine a rather glaring bug was introduced in which all content was replaced by information about the programmatic object.  Version 2.2 addresses this issue and correctly cleans up the memory and outputs the content as a result.  The issue was partly my fault and partly PHP 5.1.x/5.2.x fault.

Version 2.2. also reintroduces PHP 4 functionality for those of you still stuck with PHP 4 which is long since (as of 8/8/8) unsupported by the PHP developers.

See after the jump for the change log details.

2.2

• Fixed “Object id #”, “Object”, “Object #” errors with PHP 5.1.x.
  • Problem was due to circular memory leak in PHP 5.1 and 5.2 and HTML DOM object not being cleaned up.
  • Altered way the content is returned to allow for closure and cleaning of object sooner eliminating memory leak.
• Due to overhwhelming demand I added PHP 4 functionality back in but it is not officially supported.
  • If you were seeing an error that looked something like Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /path/to/plugins/lightbox-plus/classes/shd.class.php on line 86 you have PHP 4.
  • Option is automatically set to use legacy method if you have PHP 4
  • You will have to manually select the option to use the PHP 4 Auto Lightbox Method if you are using PHP 5.X and wish to use legacy method.
• Fix for images with upper case file extension not being auto-lightboxed.
• Probable fix for XML Parsing Error: no element found likely caused by memory leak
  • Unable to reproduce error but research indicates memory leak is a likely cause.

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