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Just upgraded from EE 2.4 to 2.5.1,  and am now getting random whitescreens of death on certain pages on my site.

Turning off “GZip Compression”  reveals php errors,  all having to do with Conditionals in my templates,  but not in any particularly consistent way.

Has anything changed in EE 2.5.x with regards to parsing conditional statements,  and if so,  are there any upgrade notes regarding this that I’ve missed? 

A simple point upgrade shouldn’t take down my entire site,  and require me to hunt through thousands of lines of template code,  hoping to find what EE doesn’t like all of a sudden…

*bump*

Any news?

Hello ira42,

I have not seen any other threads on this topic.

I tried to reproduce this, but I am unable to do so.

Can you list out your Add-Ons for me?

Would you mind showing me a few of the errors?

Thank you,

Hi Shane,

This is not add-on related,  so I won’t list all of mine here…  I’ve been able to repro this (and others have mentioned conditional troubles in 2.5.1 on Twitter as well…).

On my local MAMP test installs,  the following conditional works on a clean 2.4.0 install,  but not 2.5.1:

{exp:channel:entries limit="1" status="not Closed" disable="member_data|trackbacks|pagination"}
 {if "{entry_date format='%Y'}" != "{expiration_date format='%Y'}"}
  trace…<br>
 {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

The issue seems to be related to the single / double quote combinations.  On 2.5.1,  I get the following error (note the double quotes in the error message):

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: User Warning
Message: Invalid EE Conditional Variable: {if "{entry_date format="%Y"}
Filename: libraries/Functions.php
Line Number: 2843

It’s odd that there are double quotes on both elements in the error,  no?  Like 2.5.1 is trying to sanitize the quotes?  The following code works in both 2.4.0 and 2.5.1 without the error:

{exp:channel:entries limit="1" status="not Closed" disable="member_data|trackbacks|pagination"}
 {if '{entry_date format="%Y"}' != "{expiration_date format='%Y'}"}
  trace…<br>
 {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Any ideas?

I’m seeing similar issues with conditionals in EE 2.5.1.  For example, this code generates a PHP error:

{if "{event_first_date format='%Y%m%d'}" != "{event_last_date format='%Y%m%d'}"}

But this code does not:

{if "{event_first_date format="%Y%m%d"}" != "{event_last_date format='%Y%m%d'}"}

Note that the only difference is the use of double quotes around the first date format.  The PHP error I’m getting is:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: User Warning
Message: Invalid EE Conditional Variable: {if "{event_first_date format="%Y%m%d"}
Filename: libraries/Functions.php
Line Number: 2843

These have worked previously on EE 2.4.

Hey guys,

Thanks for your patience on this. I was able to reproduce with your code. Thank you for providing that.

I have filed a bug and marked it as a show-stopper.

Please comment on the bug to stay up to date on it’s progress.

Cheers,