• Registered: 02/12/2009
  • Posts: 5

Topic: First time installation problems

Hello,

I am a first time user of FA. I downloaded the package and installed it as described in “FrontAccounting Installation”.

I use FrontAccounting  2.1.0 beta Build 08.02.2009, Windows XP, IIS, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5.2.8

After filling In the “FrontAccounting Installation Wizard” I get a black screen with the following two lines on it:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function display_error() in C:\Inetpub\FrontAccount\admin\db\maintenance_db.inc on line 240

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function display_error() in C:\Inetpub\FrontAccount\admin\db\maintenance_db.inc on line 240

Can someone help me with this problem.
Grz. Rob.

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
  • Posts: 2,447

Re: First time installation problems

Hi Rob,
Seems we have introduced a bug in beta release. I have already fixed it and uploaded changed save.php file to CVS. If you want to continue testing you can change all occurrences of set_error in file install/save.php with display_error. This way you will be able to find exact source of trouble which is error during sql file processing.
Or if you wish I can send fixed file to your email box.
Thanks for info.
Janusz

  • Registered: 02/12/2009
  • Posts: 5

Re: First time installation problems

Hi Janusz,

Thanks for your reaction.
I did a “replace all” for “set_error” to “display_error” in the file "install/save.php".
But my problems are not over jet.
Now I get the following two lines after filling in the “FrontAccounting Installation Wizard”:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function _() in C:\Inetpub\FrontAccount\admin\db\maintenance_db.inc on line 240

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function _() in C:\Inetpub\FrontAccount\admin\db\maintenance_db.inc on line 240

Can you help me also with this problem?

Grz. Rob.

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
  • Posts: 2,447

Re: First time installation problems

Well, seems you have no gettext installed on your site. Please get rid with _() call over the message string in line 240. This finally should uncover exact error message.
Janusz

  • Registered: 02/12/2009
  • Posts: 5

Re: First time installation problems

Hello Janusz,

Thank you for your reaction, you  are write about gettext.
Sorry about that, I do not have a lot of experience with PHP.  Are there more of these options I have to install?
At this moment I have installed:
  [PHP_MYSQL]
  extension=php_mysql.dll
  [PHP_GETTEXT]
  extension=php_gettext.dll

After installing gettext and filling in the “FrontAccounting Installation Wizard” I get a normal readable error on the top of the screen:

Error: SQL script execution failed in line 116: Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'bank_trans_type_id' at row 1

Can you help me with this problem?

Grz. Rob.

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
  • Posts: 2,447

Re: First time installation problems

If there is no complain about _() call seems this is sufficient to use gettext.
You have found small bug in en_US-demo.sql file which is related to your exact MySQL version.
The easiest way to fix this locally is to change '' to '0' after the date in lines 116-118.
Janusz

7 Reply by RobDeHaan (edited by RobDeHaan 02/16/2009 08:44:46 pm)

  • Registered: 02/12/2009
  • Posts: 5

Re: First time installation problems

Janusz,

Again thanks for your help. Now the installation wizard works OK!
When I start FA and login as “Admin” the program start with a “Notice” at the bottom of the screen:

PHP Notice: Undefined variable: _SESSION in C:\Inetpub\FrontAccount\includes\current_user.inc on line 201 PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\Inetpub\FrontAccount\includes\current_user.inc on line 201

The application seems to work OK! But all the screens display the same “PHP Notice”

I think this is the last request for help . Hihihi
After this I can start testing.

Grz. Rob.

  • Registered: 02/12/2009
  • Posts: 5

Re: First time installation problems

Hi Janusz or others,

I still have the problemes with the _SESSION as described above.
And FA is still not working.

Is there anyone who can help me?

Thanks

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
  • Posts: 2,447

Re: First time installation problems

I have no idea why you have the problem. $_SESSION variable is always defined when session support is enabled in php (in turn it is always defualt on). I even have no idea how to switch the session off to have this effect.
Janusz