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When doing a fresh install of 3.2, I hit the following error:

warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/xxxx/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.

The lines of code that seem to contain the problem are:

/**
     * Function to retrieve the settings values from db
     *
     * @return array $defaults 
     * @static
     */
    static function retrieve(&$defaults)
    {
        require_once "CRM/Core/DAO/Domain.php";
        $domain = new CRM_Core_DAO_Domain();
        $domain->selectAdd( );

        if ( CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'q', $_GET ) == 'civicrm/upgrade' ) {
            $domain->selectAdd( 'config_backend' );
        } else {
            $domain->selectAdd( 'config_backend, locales, locale_custom_strings' );
        }
       
        $domain->id = CRM_Core_Config::domainID( );
        $domain->find(true);
        if ($domain->config_backend) {
            $defaults = unserialize($domain->config_backend);

            $skipVars = array( 'dsn', 'templateCompileDir',
                               'userFrameworkDSN',
                               'userFrameworkBaseURL', 'userFrameworkClass', 'userHookClass',
                               'userPermissionClass', 'userFrameworkURLVar',
                               'qfKey', 'gettextResourceDir', 'cleanURL',
                               'locale_custom_strings', 'localeCustomStrings' );
            foreach ( $skipVars as $skip ) {
                if ( array_key_exists( $skip, $defaults ) ) {
                    unset( $defaults[$skip] );
                }
            }

Can anyone suggest what changes might be needed to resolve the error?

Thanks for any help.

Unfortunately it's producing this (against a very pretty pink background) when I login. Without resolving this issue it seems as if I can get no further :-(

warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.
warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Setting.php on line 182.

PHP version -- 5.2.14

That's interesting. It says  'Please make sure the folder is writable'

Can you verify if CiviCRM has write access to sites/default ? and also to sites/default/files/civicrm ?

Just post here what the permissions are for those if you aren't sure what I am asking.

Hershel - thanks for your continued advice.

The answer to your question is:

In sites/default the permissions are:

Read: available to user, group world
Write: available to no one
Execute: available to user, group, world

In sites/default/files the permissions are:

Read: available to user, group world
Write: available to user, group world
Execute: available to user, group, world

I do not have a  sites/default/files/civicrm. The only thing in the sites/default/files directory is .htaccess

I notice that in  sites/default/setting.php there is no write permission.

AFAIK CiviCRM will / needs to create a 'civicrm' directory under sites/default/files OR sites/yourMultiSiteSitename/files. If that 'civicrm' directory and the expected 'templates_c' sub-dir etc. (which is for smarty template cache) is not present - than my best guess is that the permiissions on 'files' are not allowing it to be created.

If you can't verify that permissions are the problem and you can't access any CiviCRM settings pages in your browser due to the errors - I guess I'd try one of 3 other things:
- make sure the CiviCRM schema has been properly loaded in your CiviCRM DB (should have 120-ish tables with civicrm_* names)
- issue the following SQL command in your CiviCRM DB to force CiviCRM to rebuild path / directory settings which are stored in the DB: UPDATE civicrm_domain set config_backend = NULL;
- since this is a new install, ditch it and try again - making sure you check for any errors during install (in the install UI and / or in your webserver logs)

Some progress thanks to your suggestions.

The repeating 'warning: array_key_exists() ...' has now gone. I made sure that all the files under sites/default were writable and issued the SQL command suggested by Dave G. Which of these resolved that problem I am not sure. I have also checked and the database has been installed. Although it was a fresh install, an existing database was imported.

However, neither of these has generated the creation of a directory 'civicrm' under 'sites/default'.

Because I don't have a 'civicrm' directory, i don't have the 'Config.IDS.in' that both Dave G and Eileen are referring to, no template directory has been generated.

I do, however, still have the 'Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message ...' message that I referred to earlier.

I have checked the permissions for each of the lines and although they are all writable, none of them are executable. I am wondering whether this is part of the problem.

Thanks for your continued advice.

Thank you for your continuing efforts on this.

One last go at this before I try and organise a fresh install.

I have looked in civicrm.setttings.php as you suggested.

Interestingly I found the following:

$civicrm_root = '/home/uniondat/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm';
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', '/home/xxxx/public_html/files/civicrm/templates_c/' );


When I checked this out, the directories and files that were missing from the sites/default directory are located in '/public_html/files/civicrm/templates_c/'. And this also includes the Config.IDS.ini file that Eileen was referring to.

Why that should be I don't know ... but I didn't do the installation. I don't know if this was an option that could be exercised during the set-up process.

So I am thinking that you may have cracked the problem. My only question now is how to do the necessary changes without messing up the whole programme.

Do I simply edit the civcicrm.settings.php file and point them towards sites/default which is where you are saying they should be located?