[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Events Calendar Pro Error Establishing Database Connection

Hey Jonah,

I have updated both plugins to 2.0.7 and I’m still getting hung up when I attempt to access the “Events” or “Add Event” tabs. This only occurs when I have the Pro plugin activated, the plain events calendar works fine. Anything else to try?

Thanks,

Thomas

I’m also now getting a fatal error on the site:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Admin_Bar::add_group() in /home/calvaryr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php on line 2556

Hey Jonah,

This is getting strange, so I was going to try to revert to the 2011 theme and I notice now that I can’t install a new theme from the backend, or even see all of the themes that are in the wp-content folder. Also, since updating The Events Calendar standard, I notice a lot of the javascript in the backend is not functioning (quick edit, edit post status, upload image, etc.). I just started working on this site, so I did not write the theme or set it up, it’s part of a multi-site if that helps. Any ideas as to what’s causing this?

Thanks,

Thomas

So I’ve figured out the problem with the normal events calendar. On line 2556 – 2574 of the file lib/the-events-calendar.class.php there’s a series of $wp_admin_bar->add_group calls. I’m not sure why that’s throwing such an error (this site is running wp 3.2.1 for fear of some custom plugin compatibility, but when I upgraded the-events-calendar to 2.0.7 it listed it as having 100% compatibility with wp 3.2.1). Not sure if it’s helpful, but the final answer to this question (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-after-updating-1) seemed to be on track. So I’ve commented out that code and now the javascript works on the backend and I’m not getting a fatal error anymore, but if I activate events calendar pro I still have the same troubles as before (inability to access “add event” or “events” tab and whenever I do try to access them the front-end goes down for a time, even if I deactivate the Pro plugin).

Any thoughts on a fix?

Thanks,

Thomas

The file in question is located in wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php and I commented out lines 2556 to 2574 (anything with the wp_admin_bar). This is the code I commented out, in case your line numbers don’t match:

$wp_admin_bar->add_group( array(
    'id' => 'tribe-events-group',
	'parent' => 'tribe-events'
) );

$wp_admin_bar->add_group( array(
	'id' => 'tribe-events-add-ons-group',
	'parent' => 'tribe-events'
) );

$wp_admin_bar->add_group( array(
	'id' => 'tribe-events-settings-group',
	'parent' => 'tribe-events'
) );

$wp_admin_bar->add_group( array(
	'id' => 'tribe-events-import-group',
	'parent' => 'tribe-events-add-ons-group'
) );

I’m sure I’m missing some sweet admin bar functionality, but otherwise the site is working fine again (though my events calendar pro is still not working).