Php_Incomplete_Class Issue

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi folks,

I inherited a Yii project that is working on a production server but I am seeing a mysterious error locally. I need help.

This is the error:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type __PHP_Incomplete_Class as array in /var/www/myapp/app/protected/controllers/NotificationController.php on line 144

The culprit seems to be that the previous developer is trying to access an array value like this:




$user = $this->getLoginUser();

$user['role_id'];

The file private/components/Controller.php is defining getLoginUser() with this method:




    public function setLoginUser() {

        $this->loginUser = Yii::app()->session['primaryLoginUser'];

    }

The problem is that if I try to print_r $user I get the following PHP Incomplete Class Object.




__PHP_Incomplete_Class Object

(

    [__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name] => users

    [_md:CActiveRecord:private] => 

    [_new:CActiveRecord:private] => 

    [_attributes:CActiveRecord:private] => Array

        (

            [id] => 1

            [role_id] => 1

            [profile_pic_name] => 

            [first_name] => Admin

            [last_name] => Admin

        )


    [_related:CActiveRecord:private] => Array

        (

        )


    [_c:CActiveRecord:private] => 

    [_pk:CActiveRecord:private] => 1

    [_alias:CActiveRecord:private] => t

    [_errors:CModel:private] => Array

        (

        )


    [_validators:CModel:private] => 

    [_scenario:CModel:private] => update

    [_e:CComponent:private] => 

    [_m:CComponent:private] => 

)

So, how is it possible he is getting the value as an array in the production server? I can’t even get it with $user->role_id. Help?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with Nginx. Attached is my 5749

phpinfo.html

2

Maybe this can help:

You should check for Yii class autoloading, or for some path configuration that are not being able to declare User class before the framework retrieves it from session.

3

Solved.

The previous developer had a mix of lower and upper case declarations for the Users model. Sometimes they used Users::model()->method(); and sometimes it was users::model()->method(). Notice the difference in casing for the u in users.

To make matters worse, the class was defined as class users extends CActiveRecord, in lowercase, while the file was saved as uppercase. Thus, I assume Yii had difficulty autoloading the file. Clearly by switching from a Windows to a Linux environment, letter casing became an issue.

Thanks Newton for your reply. It was the hint that fueled me to check the Users model. :)