Fatal error: Call to a member function getMessage() on a non-object in

Hello all,

Thank you in advance for your help. I am receiving the following message, but never modified any .php files and I am the only person with access:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getMessage() on a non-object in /home4/vacantrd/public_html/wp-content/themes/medianews-theme/include/widgets.php on line 1621

How do I correct and prevent from occurring in the future?

My site is wwww.vacantroad.com

I am very green with this stuff so please keep that in mind.

Thanks,

Jeff

That error usually happens when you try to call a method of an object that wasn't found.

It almost always means that the author of the extra didn't include a sanity check to make sure the object was found before calling one of its methods.

If you want to paste the code with that line (with about 10 lines or so before and after) in the widgets.php file, we may be able to give you a fix.

What version of MODX are you running?

Thanks BobRay,

I'm not sure about either. I can open the widgets.php file, but am unable to identify line numbers. How do I do so?




Quote from: BobRay at Sep 23, 2014, 11:46 PM

That error usually happens when you try to call a method of an object that wasn't found.

It almost always means that the author of the extra didn't include a sanity check to make sure the object was found before calling one of its methods.

If you want to paste the code with that line (with about 10 lines or so before and after) in the widgets.php file, we may be able to give you a fix.

What version of MODX are you running?

Well, you can count them by hand, but that's pretty tedious.

One alternative is to use a code editor that displays them -- something like Notepad++, NetBeans, or something similar.

You can install the Ace code editor in MODX -- I think it will work with files, but I'm not sure.

In Cpanel's File Manager, there's usually a "Code Editor" option that should give you line numbers. That might be the easiest.

So I copy and pasted into excel and the following are lines 1610 - 1633:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$results = json_decode($result, true);

curl_close($ch);

if(isset($results) && array_key_exists( 'error', $results)){
$px_facebook_message = 'Error - '.$results['error']['message'];
if(isset($fb_count) && $fb_count <> ''){
return $fb_count;
} else {
$px_facebook_message = $e->getMessage();
}
} else{
if(isset($results['likes'])){
set_transient($transName, (int)$results['likes'], $cacheTime);
return (int)$results['likes'];
}
}
} catch( Exception $e){
if(isset($fb_count) && $fb_count <> ''){

return $fb_count;
} else {

This is line 1621:

$px_facebook_message = $e->getMessage();

Thanks again,

Jeff


Quote from: BobRay at Sep 24, 2014, 05:00 PM

Well, you can count them by hand, but that's pretty tedious.

One alternative is to use a code editor that displays them -- something like Notepad++, NetBeans, or something similar.

You can install the Ace code editor in MODX -- I think it will work with files, but I'm not sure.

In Cpanel's File Manager, there's usually a "Code Editor" option that should give you line numbers. That might be the easiest.

Yes, Ace does work for editing files from the MODX files manager.