[Sarah]

After updating to Connections 8.1.4 and WordPress 4.0 the logos for each contact will not display. Their is a warning int he logo section that says “Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /www/webroot/wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php on line 3525 ” I can’t give you the link because it’s on my Dev. Server.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sarah

Can you edit the class.entry-data.php file for me? Add the following to line 3535:

var_dump( $meta );

The file can be found in this path:
../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/entry/

Reply back with the message it outputs, thanks!

[Sarah]

I made the changes to this file and nothing changed.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sarah

This will not make the logos work … it’ll output a message on the page explaining what type of variable and its contents is. I need to know that. Sorry, I assumed you would know what to look for with var_dmp() since you were running a dev server.

[Taylor]

I’m having a very similar issue running Connection 8.1.5

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php on line 3511

Adding in a var_dump($meta) on line 3511 gives me “bool(true)”

Please advise.

[Taylor]

Hey Steven, I had a quick thought on this after sending in my request. I decided to do a package search on my new server and realized that the php-gd package was never installed. After installing php-gd and quick restart to php-fpm the images showed up immediately. I hope this helps you or someone else in the future. Thanks for the great plugin.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Taylor

Thanks for the feedback, that is very helpful! I think I have it fixed where an error will be returned in the admin that reads “No editor could be selected.“, a core WP error message rather than failing with a PHP warning.

[Steven Zahm]

This is fixed and will be part of the 8.1.6 bug fix release.

[Joe Rosenbaum]

I just recently updated my Connections plugin to version 8.2.1 and updated WordPress to 4.1.1 which caused my Logos to disappear and I now see the “No editor could be selected.” error on the admin>Connections>Manage page.
I updated the Connections plugin first before updating WordPress and I probably should have performed updates the other way around. When I updated the Connections plugin I did receive a few errors during the database upgrade process. I have included the errors below from my WordPress error.log file. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!

[Tue Mar 03 10:10:33.755988 2015] [:error] [pid 29709] WordPress database error The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes for query ALTER TABLE wp_connections ADD FULLTEXT search (family_name, first_name, middle_name, last_name, title, organization, department, contact_first_name, contact_last_name, bio, notes) made by do_action(‘connections_page_connections_manage’), call_user_func_array, cnAdminMenu::showPage, connectionsShowUpgradePage, cnRunDBUpgrade, cnSchema::create, cnSchema::addFULLTEXT
[Tue Mar 03 10:10:33.756705 2015] [:error] [pid 29709] WordPress database error The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes for query ALTER TABLE wp_connections_address ADD FULLTEXT search (line_1, line_2, line_3, city, state, zipcode, country) made by do_action(‘connections_page_connections_manage’), call_user_func_array, cnAdminMenu::showPage, connectionsShowUpgradePage, cnRunDBUpgrade, cnSchema::create, cnSchema::addFULLTEXT
[Tue Mar 03 10:10:33.757195 2015] [:error] [pid 29709] WordPress database error The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes for query ALTER TABLE wp_connections_phone ADD FULLTEXT search (number) made by do_action(‘connections_page_connections_manage’), call_user_func_array, cnAdminMenu::showPage, connectionsShowUpgradePage, cnRunDBUpgrade, cnSchema::create, cnSchema::addFULLTEXT
[Tue Mar 03 10:13:39.814297 2015] [:error] [pid 29708] WordPress database error The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes for query ALTER TABLE wp_connections ADD FULLTEXT search (family_name, first_name, middle_name, last_name, title, organization, department, contact_first_name, contact_last_name, bio, notes) made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_connections/connections.php’), call_user_func_array, connectionsLoad::activate, cnSchema::create, cnSchema::addFULLTEXT
[Tue Mar 03 10:13:39.814669 2015] [:error] [pid 29708] WordPress database error The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes for query ALTER TABLE wp_connections_address ADD FULLTEXT search (line_1, line_2, line_3, city, state, zipcode, country) made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_connections/connections.php’), call_user_func_array, connectionsLoad::activate, cnSchema::create, cnSchema::addFULLTEXT
[Tue Mar 03 10:13:39.814974 2015] [:error] [pid 29708] WordPress database error The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes for query ALTER TABLE wp_connections_phone ADD FULLTEXT search (number) made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_connections/connections.php’), call_user_func_array, connectionsLoad::activate, cnSchema::create, cnSchema::addFULLTEXT

[Steven Zahm]

@ Joe

re: FULLTEXT notices
The FULLTEXT notices are nothing to be concerned about. You are seeing these because the table engine does not support FULLTEXT search queries. In instances like this Connections will fallback to a more simple, though less accurate, search method.

More can be read about this in this forum thread:
http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/8-2-1-database-upgrade-error/

re: No editor could be selected. **
You are receiving this error from WordPress because it seems the **GD image processing library is not installed and is required. Older versions of Connections utilized third party image libraries rather than the core functions provided by more recent versions of WordPress so there was not a way to report this before.

The solution is to request that your host install this very common (nearly always installed by default) image processing library.

WordPress will function without this library… sort of. It will not be able to scale and crop images in order to create the thumbnails of images and such. Instead what it does is use the full size image and force it to use browser scaling which is bad for your page load time, bandwidth usage and image SEO.

I hope that helps!

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