Only variables can be passed by reference Forum Error

New Member Joined: Mar 20, 2005 Posts: 2

I get this message when i try to post to my forums

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/virtual/site8/fst/var/www/html/modules/Forums/posting.php on line 567

Any thoughts,

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

Please post lines 560 to 570 from posting.php

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:30 pm

This is due to the latest versions of PHP 5. phpBB does not support PHP 5, and they have not released an official fix.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:56 pm

break;

case 'delete':
case 'poll_delete':
delete_post($mode, $post_data, $return_message, $return_meta, $forum_id, $topic_id, $post_id, $poll_id);
break;
}

if ( $error_msg == '' )
{
if ( $mode != 'editpost' )

someone also told me about global something had to be on and it is off

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:12 pm

They are probably referring to the php.ini setting allow_call_time_pass_reference = On, but that only causes a warning and not a fatal error. Waht version of PHP are you using? Please post your entire modules/Forums/posting.php file using the bbcode [code] syntax

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:52 pm

I'm having this problem too, guys.

I'm using php 5.0.5

My nuke is 7.4. I'm not having any trouble on my 7.6 Raven version.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:37 am

Upgrade with the latest BBToNuke files

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:43 am

I'm having a hard time finding them.

I'm not as connected to Nuke as I used to be.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:49 am

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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:54 am

So much for my attachment mod.

I'm not going to have the energy to install that again after upgrading my phpbb this many versions. lol

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:51 pm

I fixed the issue Smile

PHP 5.0.* whatever version doesn't like functions being called with parameters that aren't already variables.

For example:

Code:




someFunction(anotherFunction("blah!")); // Reference error

But

Code:




$someVariable = anotherFunction("blah");


someFunction($someVariable); // Works just fine!!

In reference to our error, change

Code:




submit_post($mode, $post_data, $return_message, $return_meta, $forum_id, $topic_id, $post_id, $poll_id, $topic_type, $bbcode_on, $html_on, $smilies_on, $attach_sig, $bbcode_uid, str_replace("\'", "''", $username), str_replace("\'", "''", $subject), str_replace("\'", "''", $message), str_replace("\'", "''", $poll_title), $poll_options, $poll_length);

To something like

Code:




$username2 = str_replace("\'", "''", $username);


$subject2 = str_replace("\'", "''", $subject);


$message2 = str_replace("\'", "''", $message);


$poll_title2 = str_replace("\'", "''", $poll_title);





submit_post($mode, $post_data, $return_message, $return_meta, $forum_id, $topic_id, $post_id, $poll_id, $topic_type, $bbcode_on, $html_on, $smilies_on, $attach_sig, $bbcode_uid, $username2, $subject2, $message2, $poll_title2, $poll_options, $poll_length);

Where you preset the variables, so the function parameters are all variables before-hand.

Don't ask WHY, I just know this works.

READ THE ERROR MESSAGES CAREFULLY!
After fixing this one I received two more errors on functions_search.php. Do the same proceedure and it works. The forum posts do save properly.

Hope this helps everyone!
Please, spread the word. This is a common error.

-Anthony M. Powers
tehraven(at)gmail(dot)com

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:32 pm

I believe these issues have been fixed in the recent phpBB versions.. at least 2.0.20 or higher.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:48 pm

Still a good thing to know what that error means relevant to what needs to be done to fix it, Evaders Smile

.

-Anthony
crashboomworks.com [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:11 am

Of course, I just wanted people to know to try the phpBB upgrades first Smile

If there's still issues with phpBB and PHP 5, your fixes will certainly help