Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/25600 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: bug reports Priority: critical Assigned to: chx Reported by: kubaZygmunt Updated by: walkah Status: patch just to follow up.. chx's patch in #7 only fixes XMLRPC servers... anything that uses XML-RPC client (i.e. drupal_auth or ping) will still be busted. walkah Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 06:28 : kubaZygmunt Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/bootstrap.diff (422 bytes) I've found that new cvs version doesn't get properly db_prefix. In bootstrap.inc (function _drupal_bootstrap($phase) ) I added another global variable $db_prefix, and then it goes . I don't know if my solution is good because on my local site I can't see any blocks and on my internet site I have some caching and I can't see anything :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 07:45 : kubaZygmunt Above I've put my patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 07:56 : Jaza Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/db_prefix_global.patch (582 bytes) Also noticed this bug, when trying to install a fresh CVS snapshot. Attached is my patch against CVS HEAD (same as kubaZygmunt's, basically). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 08:10 : chx Yes, this is a bug, if you look at the bootstrap patch, there were versions when I thought variables in settings.php should be written as $GLOBALS['something'] but then introduced global $something . Forgot when that something is db_prefix . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 28, 2005 - 00:26 : Jaza Can this patch be applied to HEAD please? This is not something that should be left sitting around in the issues list. Chx has identified that it was a simple honest mistake on his part, and has indicated that the submitted patch(es) will fix the mistake. Until this patch is applied, anyone who tries to install HEAD using db prefixes will get a fatal error. It doesn't get much more critical than that :-p. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 09:56 : Bart Jansens Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/20050630.bootstrap-prefix-update.patch (1.21 KB) There is another related problem, it is no longer possible to override variables in settings.php. And update.php no longer works. Updated patch attached. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 10:04 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/20050630.bootstrap-patch.patch (2.92 KB) Oh, and XML-RPC client is broken too. I talked with walkah and we found it the best to move xmlrpc.inc to modules which use them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 10:09 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/20050630.1.bootstrap-patch.patch (3.34 KB) some more xml-rpc fixes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 10:20 : Steven Making XML-RPC a conditional include was discussed a while ago, and decided against due to problems with the class persistency. Why is this now possible? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 12:36 : walkah basically - it's not. the problem is, well, the xmlrpc.inc is not very well written. It requires / depends on several global variables, etc. which leads to a fair bit of the scoping issues. If you look at what PEAR has done with this (since their XML-RPC module is based on the same original code)... you'll notice lots of $GLOBALS['...'] usage (see http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/XML_RPC/RPC.php) . Basically, I think we have 3 options: 1) keep banging on this old code to make it work. 2) switch libraries to either PEAR::XML-RPC or something like incutio's (http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/) 3) re-write our own custom xml-rpc library personally, I'd +1 #2 - since #1 is ugly, and #3 I personally don't have time for, and I'd rather see our developer resources going to more interesting things. that said, i know there are those with strong feelings against 3rd party libraries... but this needs to get fixed quickly. blogapi and drupal dist_auth are both currently broken in HEAD. (isn't there anyone else here that tests XML-RPC stuff??)