Posts by happioca

    I resolved this issue by copying new files over everything in perch/config except for the config.php file itself. (which has custom access info for the db)...specifically the config/apps.php file, overwriting that fixed my error and Perch 3 is now functional.


    There appears to be a typo in the Perch 2 to 3 upgrade instructions (https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/upgrading/) which makes it a little confusing as to how to proceed. It says the following:


    "2. Check your apps file

    If you have a very old install to upgrade, your perch/config/config.apps file might contain lots of include() statements. You need to update it or you’ll get errors. A basic starting point apps.php file looks like this:"


    note: the filename is not "config.apps", it is "apps.php"


    My apps.php file had a call to the runtime.php file; no idea why, perhaps it's left over from a very old version of Perch or I kludged that in there when I had trouble upgrading between Perch 1 and 2...who can say, it's been too long. Anyway. I don't use add-on apps, so I didn't need anything in apps.php, basically.


    As for hyphens in content ID names, after I removed the hyphens and hit the public page, I was able to work with it in Perch. I don't know when you stopped supporting hyphens but certainly it always worked in Perch 2.

    as posted above, here's the php error.

    [16-Dec-2019 09:24:42 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare perch_content() (previously declared in /home/parking/www/dev/perch/core/apps/content/runtime.php:18) in /home/parking/www/dev/perch/core/apps/content/runtime.php on line 42


    as posted above, here's a template content snippet which has a hyphen and which has been used successfully for over five years on previous perch versions.

    <img style="float: left; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" src="<perch:content id="staff-photo" type="image" label="Photo" />" width="90" height="108" />

    just to clarify, the above errors have to do with perch 3 running on my dev site (running php7). On live, I have downgraded perch, so that public pages render, but admin is not usable, because I've upgraded to php 7.


    also, to ensure that the dev site was using a separate database from live, I modified the dev config.php file to point to the dev database not the live database.

    I get a blank page for another page that isn't showing errors in perch, so I am stumped. Because I can't hit the page after adjusting the template (removing hyphens from id names), I also can't resolve the 'disallowed characters' message. it seems that there are several issues. Let me know what I should do, thanks!

    in looking at one of my content regions in perch, it is also giving me errors about disallowed characters. we can't use hyphens anymore?


    Template tag ID ‘staff-photo’ contains disallowed characters


    <img style="float: left; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" src="<perch:content id="staff-photo" type="image" label="Photo" />" width="90" height="108" />

    I have no idea how I resolved this! I think I backed off on upgrading. Now I am running php 7 and when I upgraded perch, because I had to, I get the blank page again. the php error log says this


    [16-Dec-2019 09:24:42 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare perch_content() (previously declared in /home/parking/www/dev/perch/core/apps/content/runtime.php:18) in /home/parking/www/dev/perch/core/apps/content/runtime.php on line 42