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Hello,
I’m trying to use a very simple safecracker form to let my users create their entries without accessing the CP. The problem is that when I click the “submit” button I get some php errors. However the entry is safely stored and I can see it in the back end.

I’m using EE 2.1.3 (Build 20101220).

This is my form:

{exp:safecracker 
    channel="blog" 
    return="SAEF/thankyou" 
    entry_id="{segment_3}"
    rules:body="required|min_length[5]"    
    id="safecracker" 
    error_handling="inline"
}
    <div>
        <label for="title">Title</label>

        <input type="text" name="title" id="title" value="{title}" size="50" maxlength="100">
    </div>
    <div>
        <label for="url_title">URL Title</label>

        <input type="text" name="url_title" id="url_title" value="{url_title}" maxlength="75" size="50" />
    </div>
    <div>
        <label>Body</label>

        <textarea name="body" id="body" class="markitup" cols="50" rows="30" value="{body}" ></textarea>
    </div>
    <div>
        <label for="entry_date">Date</label>

        <input type="text" name="entry_date" id="entry_date" value="{entry_date}" maxlength="23" size="25" />
    </div>
    <div>
     {category_menu}
        <label for="categories">Categories</label>

        <select name="category[]" id="categories" size="4" multiple="multiple">
        {select_options}
        </select>
    {/category_menu} 
    </div>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

{/exp:safecracker}

Here’s the error reporting:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed

Filename: pt_multiselect/ft.pt_multiselect.php

Line Number: 67
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Uninitialized string offset: 0

Filename: tagger/ft.tagger.php

Line Number: 222
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Users/username/my_sites_folder/project/sys/codeigniter/system/core/Exceptions.php:170)

Filename: libraries/Functions.php

Line Number: 387

I don’t know if this is relevant, but I’m testing my install locally using MAMP, my sys folder is above the webroot, and I’m using Structure. The publish form in the back-end contains a Playa and a Matrix field, but as you can see the safecracker form contains just some basic EE fields.

I don’t know much about php, so I don’t really know what’s happening. Is there anyone who could give me a hint?

Edit: Maybe I should add that Php version is 5.2.13

lonelytraveller,

If you examine your errors you will see that they reference 2 third-party fieldtypes.
P&T’s Multiselect and Tagger?
Do you have them installed?

Try adding safecracker_head=“no” as a parameter and see what happens

Hi John, Tagger and P&T Multiselect are installed and work perfectly, and a Tagger field is used in the Blog channel publish form, but not a P&T Multiselect field.

Adding the safecracker_head=“no” parameter had no effect, I get the same php errors as before.
If I switch php error reporting off in MAMP preferences the form works and the user is redirected to the courtesy page (the one I set up as a parameter in safecracker tag). But php error reporting is there for a reason, so switching it off is just a workaround.

I left a note on the Tagger forum asking if they tested SafeCracker with Tagger. If you don’t have the tagger field in there, does the SC form work as expected?

Thread: http://www.devdemon.com/forums/viewthread/508/

Thanks Sue, I’ve bookmarked the thread on the Tagger forum. I’ll try to remove the tagger field and post the result here.

I’ve removed the tagger field and the php error related to tagger disappeared. But the P&T field error is still there. Maybe I forgot to point out that we’re using just one field group for, then we just show/hide the fields we need in the publish form, so the P&T field is indeed there, even if it’s not visible in the publish form. Maybe that php warning has something to do with that?

Possibly - I haven’t ever tested with P&T multiple select. Does is work as expected inside of EE’s control panel? Are you on the most recent version of P&T multiple select?

Just to be sure I had the latest version I downloaded and installed P&T Multiselect again, but I still have the same problem.
Strangely, when I see the php error page, if I go back to the safecracker form (by simply clicking on the “back” button in browser), change the title and url field in the form and submit it again, then Php errors disappear.

I’ve just managed to transfer the site to our staging server, which has a different PHP Version (5.2.15), and this time no errors.

Excellent. Closing this thread for now. Feel free to start anew thread if you have any more questions.