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Thank you Sandra, for reporting this issue.

The original line in the "mod/hotpot/locallib.php" script is this:

• WHERE hotpotid=? AND userid=? AND attempt<? AND status=?

... but your server reports the line as being this:

• WHERE hotpotid=? AND userid=? AND attempt<?php AND status=?

Notice that "php" has been added. Something on your server is replacing "<?" with "<?php".

For your information, this original line has been like that since Sept 2013, so I suspect that during the recent upgrade, not only was the HotPot module upgraded, but so was PHP, or at least some of the PHP settings were changed. Perhaps you now have PHP's "short_open_tag On", where it was set to "Off" before? Or perhaps there is some other filter at work that was not active before?

Anyway, I have added a space between the "<" and the "?", so I hope this fixes the issue on your server. Please update your HotPot module and let me know if this fix works for you.

Please be aware that the "<?" also occurs in the following scripts in Moodle core, so other plugins are also probably causing errors on your server:

lib/evalmath/evalmath.class.php

<?

mod/chat/lib.php

$query = "(version<>'basic' AND lastping<?) OR (version='basic' AND lastping<?)";

question/format/webct/format.php

"'<[\/\!]*?[^<?>]*?>'si", // Remove HTML tags.

question/type/calculated/questiontype.php

foreach (['//', '/*', '#', '<?', '?>'] as $commentstart) {
$safeoperatorchar = '-+/*%>:^\~<?=&|!'; /* */

Best regards,
Gordon