error during installation - Wikitech-l

28 Apr 2003

Apologies if this is something obvious.

I tried to install the latest CVS phase3 code on RH Linux 7.2, MySQL
3.23.54, PHP 4.3.1. I got the following error when running "php
install.php":

    Enter the root password here: ***
    Creating database...

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in
    /var/www/kovi/www/wiki/User.php on line 287
    /var/www/kovi/www/wiki/User.php(287) : Fatal error - Call to a member
    function on a non-object

My guess is that it comes from populatedata() in install.php which calls:

        $sql = "INSERT INTO user (user_name, user_password, user_rights)"
        .
          "VALUES ('WikiSysop','" . User::encryptPassword(
          $wgDBadminpassword ) .
          "','sysop'),('WikiDeveloper','" .
User::encryptPassword(
          $wgDBadminpassword ) . "','sysop,developer')";
        wfQuery( $sql, $fname );

User::encryptPassword() is:
        function encryptPassword( $p )
        {
                return $this->addSalt( md5( $p ) );
        }
and User::addSalt() is:
        function addSalt( $p )
        {
                return md5( "wikipedia{$this->mId}-{$p}" );
        }

Now, I know next to nothing about PHP but what the error seems to be
saying that encryptPassword is being called as a static function (in C++
meaning) while it isn't because it calls addSalt() which isn't static
because tries to access object data so it needs an instance of the class
to operate on.
Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,