Geo Plugin - Fields in Post.php not showing up and blocking rest

Hi (hope I am posting it right aswell),

I have to report the same problem under WP 2.0.5

My Host (Host Europe; www.hosteurope.de) changed PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.2.

Deactivating the Geo-plugin brings the "advanced editing options" back (in the Administration > Options > Writing Sub-Panel) but shows a "Fatal error" (which comes from the geomashup-plugin) at the normal website:

-> Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_lat() on line 519

So, what to do next?

Hi,

you probably get an error because the get_lat function is only available when the plugin is activated.

I've read something about date and timezone changes from PHP 5.0 to 5.2 and I thought that this could cause the troubles but I don't have enough experience to find the problem myself.

Can anyone help us?

Hi,

So, ... I think we are not the only ones with such problems (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/92967). It comes together with PHP 5.2 and it could be a Wordpress bug (!? - but I am not a programmer and cannot say for sure). I asked my Hoster to change my account back to an earlier PHP Version but for security reasons they don't do that. After that I tried changing the status of the php-extensions:

PHP4 -> phtml php4 php3 php PHP5 -> php5

Should have worked because WP uses PHP 4.2 or higher, but did not. (It brought the alarm shown on this screenshot: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/attachment/ticket/575/pic_02.jpg )

I talked aswell to Dylan (http://www.cyberhobo.net) who is the programmer of the geomashup-plugin. We (or better: he :-) ) are still searching for an answer.

By the way: The same problem was with the older geomashup-plugin version 0.5.

Has anybody got anymore ideas?

Would be cool if Dylan could help us...

I somehow think it's just a problem of the geo plugin.... since all others work fine in my installation...

By the way... I don't get your screenshot.... that's no error...that's just the source code what's inside the index.php file that's located in your wordpress installation... (??)

(The screenshot just shows the code which was shown in my browser after changing the status of the php-extensions -> so nothing very important )

;-)

I am not sure, but could it be possible that I found something?

In PHP 5.2.0 there was a bug with the ob_start function (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40259) which was only fixed in 5.2.1 (see changelog: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php).

The ob_start function is being used in the plugin - could this cause the whole problem?

Is there a possibility to use another function instead? (I don't think my host is gonna do another upgrade only 'cause I have this plugin not working....)

so, ... it is working again.

Dylan (http://www.cyberhobo.net) - the programmer of the geomashup plugin - was kind enough to help me out -> I still don't know what he did but when I find out I'll post it!

cheers, Felix.

Mine is still not working :-(

Did he send you another geo.php file? If so, could you post the source code?

So I could compare myself and see where there are changes....

Thanks a lot! Cheers, Merano

He wrote me in the last mail: "I don't think what I did on your blog is the best solution. After some more research, I think I would tell people to try the latest version of cache.php from the WordPress source repository (http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/cache.php). I don't know if that will work, but there have been fixes to it.(...)" As a reminder: I gave him an admin-account on my blog so that he could test around. The geomashup-plugin-version on the server doesn't use the geo-plugin anymore. I put it into a .zip-file to download from: http://www.felix-beck.de/geo-mashup.zip

felix