TopPosters Suddenly Starts Giving Error for All Discussions

aery

Everything was working fine untill evening, suddenly I started getting this error -

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class TopPostersModule in /hermes/htdocs/forum/plugins/TopPosters/class.toppostersmodule.php on line 84

For now I have disabled the plugin and everything is working fine.

But how come did it happen so randomly?

peregrine

Have you added other plugins recently? Perhaps one that was cloned from TopPosters.

aery

nope. I have done no activity in dashboard since last one month.

peregrine

so does that mean you have not updated version of topposters in July?

or are you referring to an older version- just to clarify things.

aery

@peregrine the last update was in July 2011.

I have the latest version.

peregrine

I suspect yhe problem occurred when you downloade the updated plugin.

look in your plugins directory and see if you have duplicates of the plugin.old versions of it even in directories you renamed, move the old version completely out of the plugin directory.

disable the plugin thru config.php.

enable it thriu the dashboard.

if that doesn't work - download a previous version - doing all the same steps.

aery

Okie, I will try these steps and let you know

peregrine

you could also go into your plugin directory.
erase the class.toppostersmodule.php.bak - you don't need it.

go to your vanilla/plugins   directory

grep -ri TopPostersModule 
this will scan all plugins that have TopPostersModule in it.



if you have more than one file that tries to create it

with the following line - that is your culprit.

    $TopPostersModule = new TopPostersModule($Sender);

theoretically the default.php file in TopPosters should be the only one that shows up with that line.