Fatal error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare addgetpostvars() in ....

Hiya, I've been using Phorum for about 3 years, and I love it.

Recently, I migrated my content to another server, and I now get the following message if I try to view a page whilst not logged in:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare addgetpostvars() in /var/www/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/devega/htdocs/board/common.php on line 7

My message board is here: [www.sega-devega.net]

Could someone spread some light over this issue?

Thanks,

Lewis

I think some part of your page is loading common.php for a second time. If you change all include statements that include the common.php script to use include_once("./common.php"), the problem should not occur in that case.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Mm... that doesn't seem to fix it.

Do you have any other idea has to how I can make it work? Would you like to take a look at the files yourself?

Not really (Phorum 3 is officially no longer supported and there's more than enough work to do for Phorum 5 already). The problem simply is that somehow the function addgetpostvars() is defined twice. It's either because common.php is loaded twice or because the function definition is in two different files. You should be able to find the spot where one of these two occurs by searching through the files.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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When I try to comment out the function, it gives the same error for the next function.

I haven't changed any of the files, i've only copied them to another server.

Sure, ... but we did not change those files either ;)

Still something apparently is reloading that common.php file. If you change all occurances of include("./common.php") to include_once("./common.php") it should work. If not, then you missed a spot (maybe require is used instead of include) or your PHP is somehow broken.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Most of the scripts use "require" instead of "include". Should I change these to "include_once"?

Yes.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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