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Call to a member function on a non-object in ezstep_create_sites.php install error

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Bjørn Torkel Dahl

Wednesday 24 November 2004 6:20:48 am

While using the wizard to set up eZ 3.4.4 (i had the same problem with 3.4.2) everything works smoothly, until the very end and you are done with the wizard, when the action dies with the following error message:

<i>-----
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/nteu/kernel/setup/steps/ezstep_create_sites.php on line 623
Fatal error: Exponential did not finish its request

The execution of Exponential was abruptly ended, the debug output is present below.
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the code around here is as follows, starting at line 620

<i>-----
if ( trim( $admin['first_name'] ) or trim( $admin['last_name'] ) )
{
$dataMap =& $userObject->attribute( 'data_map' );
$dataMap['first_name']->setAttribute( 'data_text', $admin ['first_name'] );
$dataMap['first_name']->store();
$dataMap['last_name']->setAttribute( 'data_text', $admin['last_name'] );
$dataMap['last_name']->store();
$userObject->store();
$publishAdmin = true;
}
-----</i>

and since I was in extreme lack of time, the fix was to comment a few of the lines:

<i>-----
if ( trim( $admin['first_name'] ) or trim( $admin['last_name'] ) )
{
$dataMap =& $userObject->attribute( 'data_map' );
#$dataMap['first_name']->setAttribute( 'data_text', $admin ['first_name'] );
#$dataMap['first_name']->store();
#$dataMap['last_name']->setAttribute( 'data_text', $admin['last_name'] );
#$dataMap['last_name']->store();
$userObject->store();
$publishAdmin = true;
}
-----</i>

whereafter things actually worked. I realize this is an ugly fix. I present this information with the hope that it might be useful for someone, and that someone might know what causes this.

My system spec:

GNU/Linux Debian 3.0 testing with
PHP 4.3.9-1
MySQL 4.0.22-log
Apache/1.3.31

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btd

Bjørn Torkel Dahl

Wednesday 24 November 2004 6:33:01 am

And I realize i posted in the wrong forum.. sorry..

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btd