Fix for fatal error in PHP 7.1.8

[n8kowald]

Thank you for the excellent plugin! It's saving my client so much time.

I am getting the following fatal error when I try to use your plugin.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in wp-content/plugins/import-html-pages/html-importer.php:610

Other:
I notice the version of the plugin hosted on Wordpress is different from this master branch.
For example: $this->table = ''; occurs on line 1114 of master, but 610 of the Wordpress hosted html-importer.php.

Do merged pull requests make it back to the Wordpress hosted plugin?

[mvl22]

Just to confirm this also works for me.

Would be good if this could be merged into master and a new release made, as time allows.

[fmk2]

Thanks very much for this post... you saved me who-knows how many hours!

I agree that it would be good to merge the fix with the master at some point because, while this works great, it took me a while to poke through various Google results to find it.

[annachurasheva]

Thanks very much for this post... you saved me who-knows how many hours!

I agree that it would be good to merge the fix with the master at some point because, while this works great, it took me a while to poke through various Google results to find it.

ask you to post a version of PHP in which you have successfully completed the plugin. because WP version 4.6.15 is listed as recommended.