Help with an error message.

[michael +]

Hi all. I've been away for quite a while but I'm back and raring to press on with my sites. I'm getting the following error message on some - not all - pages:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_ids() on a non-object in /home/michael/public_html/mkclassifieds/includes/classes/smarty/plugins/function.categories_parent.php on line 38

Any ideas?

[Eric Barnes]

I think this is a bug in the plugin: includes/smarty/plugins/function.categories_parent.php

Please replace that whole file with this:

PHP Code:

<?php
/**
* @copyright 68 Classifieds
*
* @author $Author: suzkaw $
* @version $Revision: 411 $
* @package Smarty
* @subpackage plugins
*
* @Updated: $Date: 2008-08-26 10:20:49 -0400 (Tue, 26 Aug 2008) $
*/

/**
 * This function is useful for using your parent categories in the navigation
 * 
 * To Call this function in your template you would use: 
 * <code>{categories_parent}
 * {foreach from=$pcat item=entry}
 * <ul>
 * <li>{$entry.link} {$entry.total}</li>
 * </ul>
 * {/foreach}</code>
 * 
 */

/**
 * Include categories class
 */
require_once(FILESYSTEM_PATH .'includes/classes/kernel/Categories.php');

function smarty_function_categories_parent($params, &$smarty)
{
    global $db, $class_tpl, $arr_childs;
    
    $show_total='N';

    foreach ($params as $_key=>$_value) 
    {
        switch ($_key) 
        {
            case 'show_total':
                $$_key = (string)$_value;
                break;
        }
    }
        
        $Categories = new Categories;
        $sSQL = "SELECT id,name,cLink,slug FROM ".PREFIX."categories WHERE parent_id = 0 AND display<>'N' ORDER BY cORDER DESC, name ASC";
        $result=$db->query($sSQL);
        $i=0;
        while($rs=$result->fetch())
        {
            if($arow['cLink']<>"")
            {
                $rs['link']='<a href="'.$rs['cLink'].'">'.$rs['name'].'</a>';
            }
            else
            {
                $rs['link']='<a href="category.php?cat='.$rs['slug'].'">'.$rs['name'].'</a>';
            }
            if($show_total=='Y') {
                $arr_childs = array($rs['id']);
                $Categories->get_ids($arr_childs);
                $rs['total']=$Categories->get_count($arr_childs);
            }
            $cat[]=$rs;
        }
    $class_tpl->assign('pcat', $cat);
}
?>

[michael +]

That was fast Eric! Thanks I'll try that now . . . .

[michael +]

Just to be sure, my path to the plugin also includes the classes folder. Is that correct?

includes/classes/smarty/plugins/function.categories_parent.php

Is that correct?

[michael +]

Whatever. It works a charm.

Thanks.