Problem with PEAR_Error in serializer

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perseqtor — Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:45 am

I recently upgraded to 7.1 and I’ve ironed out most of the obvious kinks but I’m still getting this error after I login:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type PEAR_Error as array in /sao/apache/dataface/Dataface/Serializer.php on line 75

Here’s my SQL dumps for the two tables:

CREATE TABLE case (
CaseID int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
FirstName varchar(15) NOT NULL,
LastName varchar(25) NOT NULL,
DateofBirth date default NULL,
Attorney varchar(25) default NULL,
DocketNumber varchar(15) default NULL,
OriginalCharge char(5) default NULL,
OriginalChargeClass tinyint(3) default NULL,
OffenseDate date default NULL,
ReportNumber varchar(15) default NULL,
DocumentControlNumber varchar(20) default NULL,
DispoCharge char(5) default NULL,
DispoChargeClass tinyint(3) default NULL,
DispoDate date default NULL,
Courtroom smallint(6) default NULL,
HighProfile tinyint(1) default NULL,
DispoType char(2) default NULL,
DispoMonths tinyint(2) default NULL,
Jailtime smallint(6) default NULL,
AssignedASA varchar(4) default NULL,
InvestigatingAgency varchar(4) default NULL,
FelonyReview varchar(50) default NULL,
UserID smallint(6) NOT NULL,
CaseStatus tinyint(4) default NULL,
HearingDate date default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (CaseID)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=791 ;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (
UserID smallint(6) NOT NULL,
UserFirstName varchar(15) NOT NULL,
UserLastName varchar(25) NOT NULL,
UserName varchar(15) NOT NULL,
PassWord varchar(10) NOT NULL,
Role enum(‘READ ONLY’,’NO ACCESS’,’ADMIN’,’EDIT’,’DELETE’,’OWNER’,’USER’) NOT NULL default ‘USER’,
Photograph tinyblob,
OfficeLine varchar(12) NOT NULL,
Cellphone varchar(12) default NULL,
Pager varchar(12) default NULL,
LastAccess timestamp NOT NULL,
UserDateofBirth date default NULL,
InOrOut tinyint(1) default NULL,
ASA tinyint(1) default NULL,
Courtroom smallint(6) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (UserID)
) TYPE=MyISAM ;

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shannah — Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:25 am

Hmmm tricky to debug with just this… try adding a little debugging code just before line 75 of Dataface/Serializer.php:

if ( PEAR::isError($field) ) echo $field->getMessage();

See what the output is… trying to find out what the error is.

-Steve

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perseqtor — Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:26 pm

I inserted that line and got a ‘2’ just before the PEAR_Error error message.

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shannah — Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:37 pm

Okay… some more debugging then to see which field is causing the problem.
In the same place:
if ( PEAR::isError($field) ){
echo “Failed to serialize field $fieldname with value $value”;
print_r($value);
}

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perseqtor — Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:40 am

Steve -

FIXED thanks to that last error message. It was an uppercase/lowercase error in my conf.ini file under
the __auth section. The password field name had a lowercase typo, causing it to stall on locating the password field in the table
when I went to log in. Sorry about the stupid questions! The devil is in the details…

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shannah — Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:25 pm

Never a stupid question. If anything this highlights something that should be more easily debuggable.

Glad to hear it is working.

-Steve