Warn Eventum admin to enable session.auto_start

[Vlad Safronov]

Eventum depends on PHP session to be autostarted.
Warn admins to set session.auto_start=1 in php.ini or init.php

[Vlad Safronov (vsafronov)]

without session.auto_start=1 workload_date_range_graph.php fails.

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

that is weird. session is started with session_start by Session::init which is called by Auth::checkAuthentication(APP_COOKIE);
and checkAuthentication is called out from htdocs/reports/workload_date_range_graph.php before anything else is performed.

what is the actual error, can you show error log?

[Vlad Safronov (vsafronov)]

typical error_log:

[Thu Sep 06 17:02:54 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant MONTH - assumed 'MONTH' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 56, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/tree.php
[Thu Sep 06 17:03:13 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
[Thu Sep 06 17:05:15 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
[Thu Sep 06 17:05:50 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
[Thu Sep 06 17:06:30 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
[Thu Sep 06 17:12:00 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
[Thu Sep 06 17:12:14 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php

which disappeared after session.auto_start=1 with extra warning:

[Sat Sep 29 21:42:31 2012] [error] [client 10.175.31.111] PHP Notice: A session had already been started - ignoring session_sta
rt() in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/lib/eventum/class.session.php on line 87, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/index.php
?err=5&url=%2Fview.php%3Fid%3D44557

[Sun Sep 30 00:01:23 2012] [error] [client 10.175.31.111] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/
intranet/eventum-2.3.3/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 70, referer: http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload
_date_range.php

I think you can close this. I can not recall all the details and this could be PHP related bug (I have upgraded a few times since that day).

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

On 17.06.2013 11:23, Vlad Safronov wrote:
> typical error_log:
>
> [Thu Sep 06 17:02:54 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant MONTH - assumed 'MONTH' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 56, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/tree.php
> [Thu Sep 06 17:03:13 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
> [Thu Sep 06 17:05:15 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
> [Thu Sep 06 17:05:50 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
> [Thu Sep 06 17:06:30 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
> [Thu Sep 06 17:12:00 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
> [Thu Sep 06 17:12:14 2012] [error] [client 10.175.13.175] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant DAY - assumed 'DAY' in /export/intranet/eventum-2.3.1/htdocs/reports/workload_date_range.php on line 69, referer:http://eventum.no.oracle.com/reports/workload_date_range.php
this is pretty valid bug (but different). present in my install too.

it's because MONTH constant is defined in
lib/eventum/class.date_helper.php but Date_Helper class is not yet
autoloaded

committed workaround. proper fix would be to use class constants not
"global" constants
https://github.com/eventum/eventum/commit/0cd7338c1ab3e63538197895f6a613efdb2f5274
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~eventum-developers/eventum/trunk/revision/4583
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eeventum-developers/eventum/trunk/revision/4583>

--
glen

[Elan Ruusamäe (glen666)]

fixes to undefined constants made (pointed in comments), original reported bug does not exist