Free memberships changed for 4.5?

[redgar]

We have both paid memberships and free memberships. We use the free memberships for inquiries.

My last successful free inquiry was on September 24th. Just after this I upgraded to 4.5.0. (I still need to upgrade to 4.5.1).

The way they used to work is that a contact would be created with a membership as current and no associated payment would be created. The September 24th membership is this way.

Now when I test it I get a contact created, a pending payment (of 0$) and no membership at all - not even a pending membership.

I don't see this as an issue in the forum, nor I have I found a bug reported - but I'm positive I haven't changed any settings for this membership.

The free membership is set having a $0 payment with no payment processor selected, "Execute real time monetary ..." is unchecked, "membership Section Enabled" is selected,  I'm running 4.5.0 with Joomla 2.5.27.

[redgar]

I just tested it on the civicrm demo site and it worked they way my site used to work. The demo site however is at 4.4.6.

Can someone who has a free membership option please let me know if it works with 4.5.0 or 4.5.1?

[redgar]

I was partially incorrect. There is already a bug for this: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/i#browse/CRM-14968

However if I'm reading the bug correctly it should be part of 4.5.0 already? I've taken a look at the checkins for the changes to Membership.php and it looks like my install includes these corrections?

Is anyone able to try a free membership with 4.5.0 or 4.5.1? How often do they update the demo site?

[redgar]

I just tried it with the drupal 4.5.2 (beta) site at http://d45.demo.civicrm.org/

It did the same thing. The error is still here and the bug 14968 probably shouldn't have been closed. If I don't get any other guidance here I'm going to reopen or recreate a bug.

Of note on 4.5.2 is that I also got an error:

Error message:
•Notice: Undefined index: pay_later_receipt in CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution_Confirm->preProcess() (line 269 of /srv/buildkit/build/d45/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contribute/Form/Contribution/Confirm.php).
•Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in CRM_Member_BAO_Membership::postProcessMembership() (line 1285 of /srv/buildkit/build/d45/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Member/BAO/Membership.php).
•Notice: Undefined index: pay_later_receipt in CRM_Contribute_Form_Contribution_ThankYou->preProcess() (line 73 of /srv/buildkit/build/d45/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contribute/Form/Contribution/ThankYou.php).

I'll try this again with 4.5.0 on my server with logging turned up and see if I get any errors.

Anyone else see this problem? Or even better is anyone running post 4.5.0 and has free memberships working correctly?

[redgar]

The original bug has been reopened and is being resolved for 4.5.3.

Thanks to David Greenberg and Jitendra Purohit for reopening the bug and resolving this. I couldn't even figure out how to reopen the bug!

I just tried to make a financial contribution as thanks - but https://civicrm.org/contribute seems to be broken? After I select the country I am unable to select the state. (the in-progress spinner just keeps going). I'll post this problem in the proper forum.