Title: Instructor profile php error
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Instructor profile php error
* Resolved [pavarnos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavarnos/)
* (@pavarnos)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/)
* Hi
* When I click “View Full Profile” for the instructor, I see a page with
* Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Empty string supplied as input in /Users/stevep/
Documents/overseas/isv/wordpress/wordpress 2/wp-content/plugins/coursepress/includes/
classes/class.shortcodes.php on line 2327
* WP4, latest CoursePress, CoursePress theme, MarketPress lite active.
* thanks
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/coursepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/coursepress/)
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* Plugin Support [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
* (@wpmudev-support1)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/#post-5358443)
* Hi [@pavarnos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavarnos/),
* Thanks for posting on the forum.
* As described on your following topic that this is only a simple PHP warning message
and not an error therefore it is nothing to worry about.
* [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-in-content-course-overviewphp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-error-in-content-course-overviewphp)
* I have tested it on my test site by setting wp debug on but didn’t get the same
warning message that you are getting.
* It seems from your both above warning messages that it’s related with instructor
avatar.
* Have you set the instructor avatar or not?
* Are you getting any default avatar as instructor avatar?
* Please advise.
* Kind Regards,
WPMU DEV
* Thread Starter [pavarnos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavarnos/)
* (@pavarnos)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/#post-5358467)
* Hi
* Thanks for the quick response. I have disabled avatars. Seems to work OK without
avatars on the summary screen.
* I disagree with you that warnings can be ignored. Warnings highlight potential
issues in your code. They fill up server log files. Quality PHP code runs clean
and silent even with its warning level turned up to the maximum
[http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/139860/what-is-best-practice-for-log-level-in-php](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/139860/what-is-best-practice-for-log-level-in-php)
* So if you change your PHP settings to E_ALL | E_STRICT with display_errors on
you will see the message and the stack trace. An the other message i mentioned
in my earlier post.
* The full trace is below. It is too long to fit in a screenshot because it is
wrapping in the right column
* Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Empty string supplied as input in /Users/stevep/
Documents/overseas/isv/wordpress/wordpress 2/wp-content/plugins/coursepress/themes/
coursepress/content-course-overview.php on line 105
Call Stack # Time Memory
Function Location 1 0.0010 232560 {main}( ) ../index.php:0 2 0.0013 235440 require(‘/
Users/stevep/Documents/overseas/isv/wordpress/wordpress 2/wp-blog-header.php’)../
index.php:17 3 0.5432 28751392 require_once( ‘/Users/stevep/Documents/overseas/
isv/wordpress/wordpress 2/wp-includes/template-loader.php’ ) ../wp-blog-header.
php:16 4 0.5649 29063928 include( ‘/Users/stevep/Documents/overseas/isv/wordpress/
wordpress 2/wp-content/plugins/coursepress/themes/coursepress/single-course.php’)../
template-loader.php:74 5 0.6086 29189800 get_template_part( ) ../single-course.
php:14 6 0.6086 29190720 locate_template( ) ../general-template.php:179 7 0.6087
29190928 load_template( ) ../template.php:477 8 0.6092 29245264 require( ‘/Users/
stevep/Documents/overseas/isv/wordpress/wordpress 2/wp-content/plugins/coursepress/
themes/coursepress/content-course-overview.php’ ) ../template.php:503 9 0.7367
29379272 loadHTML ( ) ../content-course-overview.php:105
* thanks for your help.
its an excellent plugin: way more usable than many other
similar plugins i’ve looked at.
* Plugin Support [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
* (@wpmudev-support1)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/#post-5358498)
* Hi [@pavarnos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavarnos/),
* Thank you for your detailed reply.
* I don’t want you to ignore warnings and also we will not ignore it but will fix
it. What i was telling you that not to worry because severity of warning is lesser
than error and warning is not error, most users confused between these two.
* You will find more information about warning, notices and errors on the following
page.
* [http://php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.constants.php](http://php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.constants.php)
* I could reproduce this warning message on my test site by disabling avatar from
Discussion Settings therefore i have notified the plugin developer to fix it.
* In the meanwhile to resolve this warning message could you please try editing
the following code on line number 2325 in the following coursepress plugin file.
* **Coursepress plugin file :**
plugins\coursepress\includes\classes\class.shortcodes.
php
* **Before Editing :**
* ```
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML( get_avatar( $instructor_id, $thumb_size ) );
$imageTags = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'img' );
$content = '';
foreach ( $imageTags as $tag ) {
$avatar_url = $tag->getAttribute( 'src' );
}
?>
';
$content .= '';
$content .= '';
```
* **After Editing :**
* ```
if(get_avatar( $instructor_id, $thumb_size ) != ''){
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML( get_avatar( $instructor_id, $thumb_size ) );
$imageTags = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'img' );
$content = '';
foreach ( $imageTags as $tag ) {
$avatar_url = $tag->getAttribute( 'src' );
}
?>
';
$content .= '';
$content .= '';
}
```
* Best Regards,
WPMU DEV
* Thread Starter [pavarnos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavarnos/)
* (@pavarnos)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/#post-5358508)
* thanks. that should work. will look forward to this fix in your next version
or so?
* Plugin Support [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
* (@wpmudev-support1)
* [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/#post-5358518)
* Hi [@pavarnos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pavarnos/),
* Yes it will be fixed in the future version of plugin as i have already notified
this to the CoursePress plugin developer.
* Have a nice day!
* Cheers,
WPMU DEV
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* Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instructor-profile-php-error/#post-5358518)
* Status: resolved