Today I moved my application to a new server and since hours I can’t figure out what’s wrong.

1. On the old server (Apache 2, PHP 4.3.10-22, MySQL 4.0.24) everything is fine.

2. On the new server - with the same code and database - I get many “A PHP Error was encountered: Trying to get property of non-object” errors. (Apache 2. PHP 5.2.0-8+etch7, MySQL 5.0.32). The errors occur (as I can see) whenever I use validation constructions like

3. To check if there’s a problem with my new server’s configuration I installed XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org / Apache 2, PHP 5.2.1, MySQL 5.0.37) on my local Linux machine. Same problems.

Any hints, what can be wrong? I’m confused because in all cases it’s the same code.

I’d look at getting that PHP 5 version updated. It’s slightly old and there were known problems in the 5.2.0 distribution. It’s possible it’s not passing and setting variables correctly in the view.

So I need to compile PHP myself on the Debian Etch server? Do you now a good tutorial where this is explained step by step?

Switched in XAMPP to PHP4 and everything is immediately right. Coolfactor, I’m pretty sure, that your assumption is correct; though I wonder, why nobody else has troubles with 5.2.x. Nobody running Debian Etch?

Upgraded to 5.2.3 without success: same errors as in 5.2.0 und 5.2.1 :-(

Is it possible that there’s a compatibility issue with CodeIgniter an these PHP versions?

ortsanfang - 05 September 2007 09:54 PM

Upgraded to 5.2.3 without success: same errors as in 5.2.0 und 5.2.1 :-(

Is it possible that there’s a compatibility issue with CodeIgniter an these PHP versions?

Not sure what to suggest. However, I would avoid shortcuts and the awkward code you have here:

1. don’t use the short tags
2. you don’t need brackets around atomic values

I’d write it like so:

I doubt that’s the source of the problem, but it was worth a shot.

Coolfactor, thank you very much for your support. Unfortunately, changing the code as suggested didn’t solve the problem. Is there a PHP setting which can prevent corret variable passing?