[drupal-devel] [bug] drupal base and E_NOTICE

Thu Aug 11 16:29:18 UTC 2005

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/28540
Post a follow up: 
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/28540

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      4.6.0
 Component:    base system
 Category:     bug reports
 Priority:     minor
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  hlslaughter
 Updated by:   Thomas Ilsche
-Status:       patch (code needs work)
+Status:       patch (code needs review)
 Attachment:   http://drupal.org/files/issues/node.user.e_notice.path.txt (1.79 KB)

I have a small patch for node.module and user.module that fixes 3
notices in the current HEAD.
Please especially have a look at node_access_view_all_nodes, I simply
do not get the current use of $node->nid
(do I need some more sleep or is this really bogus?)

Thomas Ilsche

Previous comments:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:19:33 +0000 : hlslaughter

ok, instead of whining in the forums, i'll submit a ticket.

i'm sure i'm not the first person to bring this up, and i apologize in
advance if this issue is already decided/closed.

but my issue is this: would it be possible to review the core modules
and clean up code to the point that it would be feasible to run drupal
with notices turned on (at least in a dev environment)?

i think it would be pretty trivial to clean most/all of these errors
from the code base. the cost of this effort would be relatively teeny,
and the benefits would be great. admins would no longer panic if they
happen to see these messages; with an option added to the settings
screen, developers could turn on notices and would write cleaner code,
which would probably result in fewer bugs in 3rd party modules; etc...
you know the routine 8*)

after turning on E_NOTICE in common.inc, i see the following notice
messages when accessing the homepage of my site:

occurences - message
----V--------------V--------
     12 notice: Undefined index:  field in
/var/www/html/includes/tablesort.inc on line 114.
     10 notice: Undefined variable: teaser in
/var/www/html/modules/opt/attachment.module on line 37.
      6 notice: Undefined variable: count in
/var/www/html/modules/opt/attachment.module on line 120.
      6 notice: Undefined index:  field in
/var/www/html/includes/tablesort.inc on line 176.
      4 notice: Undefined variable: rows in
/var/www/html/modules/opt/attachment.module on line 352.
      4 notice: Undefined variable: count in
/var/www/html/modules/opt/attachment.module on line 123.
      4 notice: Undefined variable: attachments in
/var/www/html/modules/opt/attachment.module on line 279.
      1 notice: Undefined variable: node in
/var/www/html/modules/node.module on line 1950.
      1 notice: Undefined offset:  0 in
/var/www/html/includes/pager.inc on line 59.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  op in
/var/www/html/modules/node.module on line 1636.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  node.taxonomy in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  node.picture in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  header.title in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  header.site_slogan in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  header.mission in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  header.help in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  from in
/var/www/html/includes/pager.inc on line 53.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  footer.message in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  footer.blocks in
/var/www/html/themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc on line 164.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  edit in
/var/www/html/modules/node.module on line 1637.
      1 notice: Undefined index:  2 in
/var/www/html/modules/filter.module on line 629.
      1 notice: Undefined index:   in
/var/www/html/includes/common.inc on line 506.
      1 notice: Trying to get property of non-object in
/var/www/html/modules/node.module on line 1950.

again, no offense, and sorry if i'm trying to bring a dead horse back
to life.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:22:44 +0000 : killes at www.drop.org

This is being worked on for the next Drupal version. Please install
yourself a test site on cvs and submit individual patches.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:32:57 +0000 : hlslaughter

thanks, i'll do this.

i take it patches are just posted here? do i just post a diff -N, title
it patch and mark the component appropriately?

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:39:08 +0000 : killes at www.drop.org

Yes, attach here or create new issue.
diff -up is what we usually use. 

Thanks.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:24:16 +0000 : hlslaughter

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/test.patch (25.21 KB)

attached is results of:

harry at penny:~/cvs/third_party/drupal/drupal> diff -Naurp .
/var/www/html/drupal_cvs/ > ../test.patch

ok, would this type of patch be suitable? 

it includes fixes for all the E_NOTICE messages generated when
accessing the homepage of a new, unmodified drupal installation
straight from CVS (as of Aug  9 13:14)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:01:37 +0000 : killes at www.drop.org

You are almost there. 

How to best prepare patches is to run Drupal directly from a cvs
checkout. then you can fix the checkout and then run cvs diff -up 

This way the unrelated files in the patch won't be included.