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FAQ - The upgrade fails with the error “A non well formed numeric value encountered”

The upgrade fails with the error “A non well formed numeric value encountered”

This error occurs when you are upgrading from webtrees <= 1.7.10 on a server running PHP >= 7.1.

webtrees <= 1.7.10 uses a .ZIP library which is not compatibible with PHP 7.1. This causes the automatic upgrade upgrade to fail.

You have three options.

1) If your web host allows you to choose a version of PHP via a control panel, temporarily change to PHP 7.0

2) If you can update the PHP.INI file on your server, change the setting for memory_limit so that it contains just digits. e.g. change 48M to 48000000. You may need to restart PHP or web services on your server for this to take effect. You also need to remove the memory limit setting in the webtrees control panel (Website preferences, Memory limit). Leave this blank so that it uses the server’s default.

3) You can upgrade manually.

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