Activationemail Plugin Problem on Upgrade from 2.2.0 to 2.2.4

Hi there,

Was upgrading a site from 2.2.0 to 2.2.4 when I ran into an issue regarding this plugin. With the setup process I only got as far as checking the files when an error was returned to with cache files.

Tried deleting cache files but that didn't work.

Spent several hours trying to establish which package / plugin was causing the issue and whittled it down to activationemail. I uninstalled and was able to upgrade without issue.

Unfortunately I've got a copy of the actual error that was returned because I was so intent on finding a solution!

But hopefully post might help anyone else who runs into a similar upgrade problem.

Thanks for reporting that. Was everything green on the configuration check page, or did it die before that.


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Hi Bob,

Setup was going fine and everything checked out on the configuration page, as soon as I clicked next it returned an error relating to an element in the cache. I did clear cache manually but that didn't work.

I had to disable plugin before it would upgrade. After that the upgrade went as normal, and I then enabled the plugin again.

I did check error report in manager but there wasn't anything there.

Thanks. I think I see what the problem is, but I need to reproduce it to be sure.

It doesn't happen for me when upgrading from 2.2.4 to 2.2.4, but when you upgrade from earlier versions, MODX actually performs all the intermediate upgrades one-by-one. One of the upgrades (I think 2.2.1) alters and saves the user object which fires OnUserBeforeSave, which triggers ActivationEmail at a point where the paths are not yet set properly.

At least that's my theory.



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Hey Bob - it happened again, but at least I knew what the problem was. I was upgrading a site from 2.1.8 to 2.2.4 and the activationemail plugin had to be disabled and the cache manually cleared before setup would run successfully. But I did make a note of the error message



Over to you...

Thanks!

The fix is to change the if statement on line 84 of the plugin to this:



I just uploaded a new version (1.1.1-pl).



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