facebook plugin error on base_facebook.php on line 54
Hi! have the same issue. Somebody know why?
Thanks in advance,
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Jan Dembowski
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@anibal.aguila, Please start your own thread. It’s considered impolite to interrupt someone else’s thread like that.
Hi @jan, thanks and sorry. Is my first time on the forum. Can you explain me why is impolite? I have the same problem and think this thread is collaborative and consistent.
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Jan Dembowski
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Not a problem and when you create your own thread, I’ll be happy to explain. 😉
http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/facebook#postform
In the meanwhile for the original poster: It could be a conflict with your theme or another plugin, or your site requires updating. All of these reasons are why this is good troubleshooting advice.
Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.
Also consider giving this a good read too if you’ve upgraded to 3.4.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-34-master-list?replies=4
Thank you for your reply, Jan Dembowski :))
Unfortunately, I can’t get any access to WP-Admin, every page that I try shows the same message above with the Fatal Error. Another problem is that the website is a college one and I don’t have access to the main FTP but will try talking to the IT department see if they can help out.
Will keep you posted, when I try the suggestions above.
Thank you very much again for your quick reply 🙂
Have a lovely day :))
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Jan Dembowski
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I can’t get any access to WP-Admin
*desisilva has an IT department..? Fortunate! 😉 *
Show your IT department that link, once they get access to the file system they just have to delete wp-content/plugins/facebook directory. You should be able to get back in right after that.
Please make sure they only delete that one facebook directory only.
Hi @jan & @desisliva, here my solution: (add this code before the line 54)
if(!is_int($code)) {
$code = 0;
}
the explanation:
http://blog.robert.mcfrazier.com/facebook-wordpress-plugin-error-install
Hi @anibal.aguila, sorry to interrupt your thread. I was desperate. It will never happen again. BTW, I solved my fatal error… I was not able to access ANYTHING on my site or in my Dashboard… So, “fixing a line of code” wasn’t an option – even if I did have a clue how to do it.
Here’s what corrected my problem. If you’re a rookie, like me, this might be helpful…
1.Access your site using FTP.
2.Find the facebook plugin in the plugin folder… (wp-content/plugins/facebook)
3.Delete the entire folder
4.Start from the beginning – but this time don’t install the first plugin listed for facebook – that’s the one that killed my site, the second facebook plugin listed seeems to have the correct code and it walks you through the steps needed to create your facebook app and then it workds like its supposed to.
So far, no problems and it is an awesome plugin (so far).
Hope this helps and sorry again for interrupting the thread. I appreciate the instruction about the proper etiquette
I registered just to post in this thread.
1st of all, just to clarify: @jmunchbach, just because you cannot access anything on your site, the solution is what anibal.aguila proposed: just fixing some lines of code, exactly in the file
/wp-content/plugins/facebook/includes/facebook-php-sdk/base_facebook.php, line 54
Please note your solution took 4 tedious steps and it just made your WP site work again, but it didn’t solve the bug in the Facebook plugin. Instead of that amount of work, you just would have need to edit one single file and upload it by FTP (or edit it directly through SSH) – both site and plugin would had beed working after some seconds.
About the “interrumping the thread” matter: Jan, please tell us why this is not the correct place to put our comments on this question. After more than 15 years using the Internet and posting on forums, I think I know how to use them and, to my understanding, it’s nonsense to start a new thread each time a user has the same problem as another one (actually THAT would be a reason to complain). That being said, anibal.aguila, jmunchbach and myself did the correct: they commented on the matter and contributed to solve it.
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Jan Dembowski
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Sorry, did you just chime in to help or just complain about the rules…?
Jan, please tell us why this is not the correct place to put our comments on this question.
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After more than 15 years using the Internet and posting on forums
Welcome to the WordPress forums. Please review this link.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome
I asked anibal.aguila to start his own thread because I doubt that he’s on the same server, running the same exact PHP version, with the same Apache version and same Facebook info as the original poster desisilva.
When you post into someone else thread and not contributing to solving the OP’s problem, then you are being impolite. Start your own thread instead as I indicated, that’s how support is offered here.
Both things 😉
Mainly I came here searching for help, since I had the “Fatal error” problem.
I was near to solve it by myself; I outputed the value of $code and $msg, noticed the 1st was a string and looked at the documentation of the Exception class in PHP but didn’t realized it was expecting an int; insted, I assumed the error was at Facebook’s server (that’s what “http_failure” suggested me).
Then suddenly I read anibal.aguila solution and realized it was much easier than I thought, which I confirmed after reading the explanation in the link he posted.
So Jan, I wanted to thank him and confirm his answer was right and give him the credit he deserves.
To me, the final result proves he came to post in the right place 🙂
Also wanted to advice jmunchbach that he could haved saved a lot of work!
Just wanted to thank each of you for helping me fix my fatal error at MoneyBible.org This was my first time to post a WP problem and I’m impressed with the community service here. Take care all… Jim
Hello again!
@jan Dembowski Thank you so muuuuch :)) I deleted the folder and everything is back to normal. Thank you again, life saver! :))
@desisliva
Did you read the entire thread? You could had gotten both your site and the plugin working if you simply did what @anibal.aguila told: edit a few lines in wp-content/plugins/facebook/includes/facebook-php-sdk/base_facebook.php. Much cleaner, much easier. To edit a file you just have to download it by FTP, then open it in you favorite editor in your computer then upload it again. Or edit it directly in your hosting if you know how to connect through SSH.
@perepandel,
If you read the entire thread, you would know I wanted to uninstall the plugin, not to fix it :))
Thanks for the advice though 🙂
Have a lovely day!
