[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $bbcode_bitfield

[KungFuJosh]

I'm getting the following warning on a custom home page:

[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/home.php on line 143: Undefined variable $bbcode_bitfield

This just appeared today. No changes have been made to that page in a couple years, and the function it refers to is still working. I have recent active topics listed, and there's no issues with that, just the warning in the header.

This is line 143 and 144:

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         $bbcode = new bbcode(base64_encode($bbcode_bitfield));         
         $bbcode->bbcode_second_pass($post_text, $posts_row['bbcode_uid'], $posts_row['bbcode_bitfield']);

The recent topics list has 10 rows, and there are 10 errors, but all 10 topic rows appear as expected. No idea why this error decided to start showing up.

Was on phpBB 3.3.8, now on 3.3.9.

Thanks,
Josh

[KungFuJosh]

This is pretty stupid, but it got rid of the error. I added this with the other variable definitions:

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$bbcode_bitfield = "";

The code still works, and now no errors.

[[Dimetrodon]]

You upgraded PHP, so some things are not backwards compatible. In that case, $bbcode_bitfield was probably defined somewhere else though the definition was not urgent, but for whatever reason, a small line of code that does that no longer works, requiring you to make that simple edit.

I didn't comment before because I'm a novice and I'm not exactly sure how your code works/what it does. That being said, minor fixes like that often comes with PHP updates. It's how a host forcing through an update can ultimately break an older board completely.

[KungFuJosh]

You upgraded PHP, so some things are not backwards compatible. In that case, $bbcode_bitfield was probably defined somewhere else though the definition was not urgent, but for whatever reason, a small line of code that does that no longer works, requiring you to make that simple edit.

I didn't comment before because I'm a novice and I'm not exactly sure how your code works/what it does. That being said, minor fixes like that often comes with PHP updates. It's how a host forcing through an update can ultimately break an older board completely.

That was a typo, sorry. I meant phpBB, not PHP. PHP is v7.x, nothing changed but the error was present on both versions of phpBB.