a bit of assistance.

New Member Joined: Oct 08, 2005 Posts: 3

Hello all, I have serached several days, and tried diffrent attempts at what could be the fix. but i am still stuck...

I am trying to install the module webpage56 on my phpnuke 7.7, I have been able to install everything except this module, and im curious if its because of sentinel.

the problem i first was getting was a blank page. then i have turned on error reporting. and this is what i am getting...

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_lang() (previously declared in /home/illes2/public_html/mainfile.php:346) in /home/illes2/public_html/mainfile.php on line 363

the code on that line is...

Code:

function get_lang($module) {


    global $currentlang, $language;


    if (file_exists("modules/$module/language/lang-english.php")) {


      if ($module == "admin") {


          include_once("admin/language/lang-english.php");


      } else {


          include_once("modules/$module/language/lang-english.php");


      }


   } else {


      if ($module != "Forums") {


         if ($module == "admin") {


             include_once("admin/language/lang-english.php");


         } else {


             include_once("modules/$module/language/lang-english.php");


         }


      }


    }


}

lang-english was an attempt at a chance from another post i read. the old code is
lang-".$currentlang.".php and i can put it back... but either way i still seem to be stuck.

What other information is needed for any assistance i can get? appreciate the help.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Nothing to do with NS. You can always verify that NS is or isn't helping out by simply commenting out the include statement in mainfile.php.

A redeclaration error means that the function, in this case get_lang(), is being called twice. PHP does not allow function overloading, which is in essence what is happening. In other words, this is not allowed:

File_1
<?
function get_lang() {
// do stuff;
}
// Maybe other code
?>

File 2
<?
function get_lang() {
// do stuff;
}
include('File_1');
?>

That would cause a redeclaration error. What you can do to circumvent that type of an error is to check to see if the function already exists, like this.
File_1
<?
if (!function_exists('get_lang')) {
function get_lang() {
// do stuff;
}
}
// Maybe other code
?>

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:42 pm

Excellent. Inside the Index.php for the webpage module i did the following....

original code:

Code:

if (!isset($mainfile)) { include("mainfile.php"); }

Commented out // { include( as follows

Code:

if (!isset($mainfile)) //{ include("mainfile.php"); }

So far this seems to have worked.

Thank you for such a easy fix. Would have saved me mucho time if i had asked before hand =D

Raven you rock bro.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:35 pm

Try this instead:

if (!isset($mainfile)) { include_once("mainfile.php"); }

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:37 pm

I had actually tried that the other day, and it did nothing. to make any changes, soon as i commented out the mainfile.php it started right up.

Will i encounter errors with that being commented out?

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:42 pm

Depends why it's in there at all. If that does not work then that says that $mainfile is not being set. That's the first question to answer. Should it be? Try this

include_once("mainfile.php");

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:44 pm

Whoops. I hit submit instead of review. I was going to go on to say that if it causes the error still, which it probably will, then you need to determine why mainfile.php is being called at all if it's already loaded.