PHP 7 "new object();" breaks moodle cron

[ocitguy]

I have been struggling with this for the past few days and finally have, I think, it fixed on my system. Moodle 3.4 necessitates updating to PHP 7. In PHP 7's documentation it says that "New objects cannot be assigned by reference", which I think is done in the auth.php script line 170. As per a post on Moodle's forum I changed object(); to stdclass(); and new drupal users were synced with Moodle. I don't know enough PHP to determine if there are any repercussions other than finally being able to sync new users.

[tebyx]

Is the plugin and synchronization working after the change you have outlined? I'm currently running moodle 3.3 with PHP 5.6, but I will need to upgrade to moodle 3.4 o 3.5 in the future, so Iwould like to maintain the functionality provided by the moodle-drupalservices plugin, but I couldn't make it work with PHP 7 as is...