Hi,

In both cases the error occurs with PHP 8.0.x or 8.1.x.

FYI: I run the forum using PHP version 8.1 and it works. Today, I updated the template and checked the mail function. All mails were received, without an error. I also try PHP 8.2 and it works.

Maybe the error, i.e., not saving entries of registered users, is also related to the mail function (sending notification mail)?!

/Micha

Hello

Turning PHP errors on, I suddenly got this:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getResponse() on null in .../svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/modules/akismet/akismet.class.php:250 Stack trace: #0 .../svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/includes/contact.inc.php(176): Akismet->isSpam() #1 .../svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/index.php(149): include('...') #2 {main} thrown in .../svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/modules/akismet/akismet.class.php on line 250

I then turned akismet_mail_check off and bingo! The form now works even when you´re not logged in.

b8_mail_check is off.

I hope this helps.

Of course, it does.

At the moment I am not sure, how to analyse and to solve it, but this is a message we can work with. I expect this to be also the cause of the error, reported in the neighbouring thread. Thank you very much.

Tschö, Auge

Hello

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getResponse() on null in .../svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/modules/akismet/akismet.class.php:250 …

Following the trace of the error messages, my first check was to validate my key to exclude that Akismet possibly is classifying the forum software as a non-personal use (this is the condition for free use of Akismet). The Akismet-API provides a method to do this and even without coding the check one can perform it with a tool like Insomnia or Postman (to name an open source project and a commercial product). At least my API-key is valid.

In the second step I searched for the source of the plugin, that we use. Our plugin is meanwhile very old (from the comment box: "Akismet PHP4 class"). The version information, provided in the comment box of the plugin script file is v0.3.4, created in the year 2008. The link to the project page is dead, even the page, the project page is forwarded to, is dead.

I found an Akismet-plugin for "OJS/OMP" (Open Journal System for scientific journals), written in PHP (licence GPL 2 or later) with the latest commit in february 2022. I have no clue if it would be worth the effort to port it to our needs.

The search for "Akismet" on Github (selected language: PHP, ordered descending by the latest commit) provides several possibilities.

But also the API documentation provides code examples, written in PHP (in example for checking comments/entries) (but also simple examples for other interesting purposes like checking for (not) reaching a monthly usage limit).

Generally I found many similarities between the code in our repository and the example code in the API-documentation. The API seems to be very stable over the years. But the error message, provided by Tommy, states clearly, that there is an error in line 250 of the Akismet class file.

Tschö, Auge

Hello

After replying in your new report about another case of HTTP-status 500 and re-reading this thread, I want to come back to your error message.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error:

Call to a member function getResponse() on null in /customers/3/d/5/svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/modules/akismet/akismet.class.php:250

Stack trace: #0 /customers/3/d/5/svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/includes/contact.inc.php(176):

Akismet->isSpam() #1 /customers/3/d/5/svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/index.php(149):

include('/customers/3/d/...') #2 {main} thrown in /customers/3/d/5/svenska-lok.se/httpd.www/forum/modules/akismet/akismet.class.php on line 250

This ($response = $this->…) is line #250 of the namely file.

 /**
  * Query the Akismet and determine if the comment is spam or not
  * 
  * @return boolean
  */
 function isSpam() {
  $response = $this->http->getResponse($this->_getQueryString(), 'comment-check'); //<== line #250
 
  return ($response == "true");
 }

I am not familar with the code of the Akismet class, but does "Call to a member function getResponse() on null" mean, that there is perhaps an unhandled NULL value? In the line #250 the code calls the method getResponse() which is calling the method $this->_getQueryString() for its first parameter $request (See lines #136 ff. for the method getResponse() itself and lines #366 ff. for the method _getQueryString()). The second parameter cannot be NULL because it's the string "comment-check". So it can only be the first parameter (_getQueryString()), that could be a NULL-value.

That's the code of _getQueryString().

 
 /**
  * Build a query string for use with HTTP requests
  *
  * @access Protected
  * @return String
  */
 function _getQueryString() {
  foreach($_SERVER as $key => $value) {
   if(!in_array($key, $this->ignore)) {
    if($key == 'REMOTE_ADDR') {
     $this->comment[$key] = $this->comment['user_ip'];
    } else {
     $this->comment[$key] = $value;
    }
   }
  }
 
  $query_string = '';
 
  foreach($this->comment as $key => $data) {
   $query_string .= $key . '=' . urlencode(stripslashes($data)) . '&';
  }
 
  return $query_string;
 }
 

Could it be possible, that the code returns NULL? I mean, $_SERVER is one of PHP's own, native superglobal arrays. I would expect this array never ever to be empty.

I hope this helps.

I also hope so.

Tschö, Auge