This happened to me on upgrade as well.  I did intentionally turn on error display for trouble shooting some other modules.

Although it is correct that turning off errors will "fix" the problem, it seems like the correct solution would be to have line 87 of /engine/lib/languages.php changed to:

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

This would eliminate the generation of the notice and the isset() call would be consistant with other lines of code in the same file. For example line 31 and 114.

Just my two cents worth...

Exactly, Dustin.

It says something is wrong, or not good at least. Turning the notifications off is a workaround like plugging your ears or turning on the radio when your car makes strange sounds.

I think that the better way is to chage the script in "/engine/lib/languages.php".

Line 87

From

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

To

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

By http://howgoodtouse.com

According to the PHP documentation "The + operator appends elements of remaining keys from the right handed array to the left handed, whereas duplicated keys are NOT overwritten." Both + and += map to the same function add_function() which calls a hash merge function with the override parameter set to off.

If language file loading is a significant part of the page load time, it would seem that caching the results would be very useful.

@Cash

Your suggestion didn't work for me except that is broke anything related to that function.

@Marcus Povey

Your solution gave me this:

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /mysite/elgg/engine/lib/languages.php on line 39

I think they both should work. Mine was just the original code from Elgg 1.2. 

Try this:

$CONFIG->translations[$country_code] = $language_array + $CONFIG->translations[$country_code];

Just found this description of the problem, in which the issue is traced to an ambiguity in the HTML spec rather than a definite Firefox bug:

http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2008/01/dashing-into-trouble-why-html-comments.html

I do think that the Elgg source needs to be careful to delete HTML code that may contain user generated content rather than simply commenting it out.

After all, the content *could* have contained the string "-->" which then would have broken the layout in any browser.

I put the comment issue in Trac here:

http://trac.elgg.org/elgg/ticket/882

thanks Kevin

This happened to me on upgrade as well.  I did intentionally turn on error display for trouble shooting some other modules.

Although it is correct that turning off errors will "fix" the problem, it seems like the correct solution would be to have line 87 of /engine/lib/languages.php changed to:

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

This would eliminate the generation of the notice and the isset() call would be consistant with other lines of code in the same file. For example line 31 and 114.

Just my two cents worth...

Exactly, Dustin.

It says something is wrong, or not good at least. Turning the notifications off is a workaround like plugging your ears or turning on the radio when your car makes strange sounds.

I think that the better way is to chage the script in "/engine/lib/languages.php".

Line 87

From

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

To

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

By http://howgoodtouse.com

This happened to me on upgrade as well.  I did intentionally turn on error display for trouble shooting some other modules.

Although it is correct that turning off errors will "fix" the problem, it seems like the correct solution would be to have line 87 of /engine/lib/languages.php changed to:

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

This would eliminate the generation of the notice and the isset() call would be consistant with other lines of code in the same file. For example line 31 and 114.

Just my two cents worth...

Exactly, Dustin.

It says something is wrong, or not good at least. Turning the notifications off is a workaround like plugging your ears or turning on the radio when your car makes strange sounds.

I think that the better way is to chage the script in "/engine/lib/languages.php".

Line 87

From

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

To

if ((!$language) && (isset($CONFIG->language)) && ($CONFIG->language))

By http://howgoodtouse.com

Just found this description of the problem, in which the issue is traced to an ambiguity in the HTML spec rather than a definite Firefox bug:

http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2008/01/dashing-into-trouble-why-html-comments.html

I do think that the Elgg source needs to be careful to delete HTML code that may contain user generated content rather than simply commenting it out.

After all, the content *could* have contained the string "-->" which then would have broken the layout in any browser.

I put the comment issue in Trac here:

http://trac.elgg.org/elgg/ticket/882

thanks Kevin

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

@ Chalkiex

I've found mention of a different solution here:

http://priit.pudisoo.com/2009/03/elgg-15-and-missing-message-board/

However, I still can't reduce the size of the input box even with that suggestion.
Let me know if you find a solution

Thanks,
Ugo

@ Chalkiex

I've finally managed to fix it, contact me if you still have problems.

Hi Ugo! How did you squeeze the message box back into the right space?

Thanks!

Sean

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

thanks for the reply but is mod_rewrite cmds in the htaccess_dist file? can you help me with how and where to specifiy the path change?

you rock Dhrup!! thanks, it worked :-)

Can someone please post the directions to set this up. They seem to have been removed.

Thanks :)

No idea - I didn't code the riverdashboard and don't know how it works.

Played around a bit and now have the box from the groupprofile showing up in my riverdashboard sidebar! Have to adjust the css a bit.

I did some more boxes like online users etc., I think I post a page with some code when I think I am finished ;)

hey, it would be nice to have a checkbox to ask if it's an "every sunday", for example, event.

I mean, if i have an event that happens every one day of the week, i would set it just one time.

Just found this description of the problem, in which the issue is traced to an ambiguity in the HTML spec rather than a definite Firefox bug:

http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2008/01/dashing-into-trouble-why-html-comments.html

I do think that the Elgg source needs to be careful to delete HTML code that may contain user generated content rather than simply commenting it out.

After all, the content *could* have contained the string "-->" which then would have broken the layout in any browser.

I put the comment issue in Trac here:

http://trac.elgg.org/elgg/ticket/882

thanks Kevin

thanks for the reply but is mod_rewrite cmds in the htaccess_dist file? can you help me with how and where to specifiy the path change?

you rock Dhrup!! thanks, it worked :-)

Can someone please post the directions to set this up. They seem to have been removed.

Thanks :)