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After upgrading from 1.6 to 2.9, I’m getting a set of the errors below when displaying a page containing images, one set for each image. I’m running PHP 5.4.x and it says “Fast CGI” after the 5.4.x.

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: upload_date
Filename: file/ft.file.php
Line Number: 303

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: modified_date
Filename: file/ft.file.php
Line Number: 304

I also had Mark Huot’s File extension running in 1.6. I “resubmitted” or updated the field type for one custom field as “File” and I also ran the fix in this thread on this one custom file field, but only the part regarding the line breaks:

https://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/218268/

and to see those in my template, I have to use the tag pair, or else nothing is output:

{myFileFieldName}{url}{/myFileFieldName}

I didn’t run the part about including the file directory, because EE is not parsing my {filedir_x} tag.

In all other cases of file fields, where I didn’t run the fix or update/resubmit the custom field type as File, I can get output by just using the stand-alone tag, but I still get the errors:

{myFileFieldName}

It’s weird: this error/warning is taking place at lines 303 and 304 of expressionengine/fieldtypes/file/ft.file.php in a function called:

replace_tag($file_info, $params = array(), $tagdata = FALSE)

and here’s where it chokes in that function:

$date_vars = array(
   'upload_date' => $file_info['upload_date'],
   'modified_date' => $file_info['modified_date']
);

I know next to nothing about PHP, but I reckon $file_info has a problem, so I did an echo on $file_info and it returns what looks like just a string: “Array”. The upload_date and modified_date columns in exp_files table are filled with data, so I can’t imagine what’s up.

I had to do two things to resolve the issue:

Apply both steps (adding the {filedir_x} and searching replacing new lines/line breaks) of the fix from this EllisLab forum thread across the board, to all File fields not just to one File field: https://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/218268/

I went into the Admin for channel fields and re-submitted each custom field that was a File field type.

Something about that exercise appears to have fixed the issue. Hope this helps someone else.