diff -u b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_field.inc b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_field.inc
--- b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_field.inc
+++ b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_field.inc
@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@
       }
       ob_start();
       if ($this->php_click_sort_function_predefined) {
-        $result = (int)$function($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
+        $result = (int) $function($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
       }
       else {
         $closure = $function->getClosure();
-        $result = (int)$closure($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
+        $result = (int) $closure($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
       }
       ob_end_clean();
     }
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@
       foreach ($this->view->display_handler->get_handlers('field') as $field => $handler) {
         $normalized_row->$field = isset($values->{$handler->field_alias}) ? $values->{$handler->field_alias} : NULL;
       }
+
       $function = $this->php_output_lamda_function;
       ob_start();
       $closure = $function->getClosure();
diff -u b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc
--- b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc
+++ b/plugins/views/views_php_handler_sort.inc
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
       }
     }
     $closure = $function->getClosure();
-    $result = (int)$closure($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
+    $result = (int) $closure($this->view, $this, $this->php_static_variable, $normalized_row1, $normalized_row2);
     return $factor * $result;
   }
 }
diff -u b/views_php.module b/views_php.module
--- b/views_php.module
+++ b/views_php.module
@@ -188,5 +188,4 @@
   libraries_load('closure');
-  $plain = \Opis\Closure\SerializableClosure::createClosure($args, $code);
-  $serializable = \Opis\Closure\SerializableClosure::from($plain);
-  return $serializable;
+  $closure = \Opis\Closure\SerializableClosure::createClosure($args, $code);
+  return new \Opis\Closure\SerializableClosure($closure);
 }