When a reply is posted to a topic this error occurs although the post appears. Email notifications and moderation emails are not received.

Has anyone seen this before? Thanks.

[User Error] Uncaught Exception: Object->__call(): the method 'fortemplate' does not exist on 'Member'
POST /members-login/forums/general-discussion/PostMessageForm

Line 750 in /var/www/vhosts/ctla.123abc.co.nz/httpdocs/framework/core/Object.php
Source

741 default :
742 throw new Exception (
743 "Object->__call(): extra method $method is invalid on $this->class:"
744 . var_export($config, true)
745 );
746 }
747 } else {
748 // Please do not change the exception code number below.
749 $class = get_class($this);
750 throw new Exception("Object->__call(): the method '$method' does not exist on '$class'", 2175);
751 }
752 }
753
754 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
755
756 /**

Trace

Object->__call(forTemplate,Array)
ViewableData.php:439
Member->forTemplate()
ViewableData.php:439
ViewableData->XML_val(Author,,1)
call_user_func_array(Array,Array)
SSViewer.php:178
SSViewer_Scope->__call(XML_val,Array)
SSViewer.php:524
SSViewer_DataPresenter->__call(XML_val,Array)
.cache.forum.templates.email.ForumMember_TopicNotification.ss:19
SSViewer_DataPresenter->XML_val(Author,,1)
.cache.forum.templates.email.ForumMember_TopicNotification.ss:19
include(/var/www/vhosts/ctla.123abc.co.nz/httpdocs/silverstripe-cache/zctla12327663nz/.cache.forum.templates.email.ForumMember_TopicNotification.ss)
SSViewer.php:927
SSViewer->includeGeneratedTemplate(/var/www/vhosts/ctla.123abc.co.nz/httpdocs/silverstripe-cache/zctla12327663nz/.cache.forum.templates.email.ForumMember_TopicNotification.ss,ViewableData_Customised,,Array,)
SSViewer.php:994
SSViewer->process(ViewableData_Customised)
Email.php:370
Email->parseVariables()
Email.php:470
Email->send()
ForumThread.php:312
ForumThread_Subscription::notify(Post)
Forum.php:941
Forum_Controller->doPostMessageForm(Array,Form,SS_HTTPRequest)
Form.php:358
Form->httpSubmission(SS_HTTPRequest)
RequestHandler.php:288
RequestHandler->handleAction(SS_HTTPRequest,httpSubmission)
RequestHandler.php:200
RequestHandler->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
RequestHandler.php:222
RequestHandler->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
Controller.php:153
Controller->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
ContentController.php:203
ContentController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
ContentController.php:186
ContentController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
ContentController.php:186
ContentController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
ModelAsController.php:68
ModelAsController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,DataModel)
Director.php:325
Director::handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,Session,DataModel)
Director.php:143
Director::direct(/members-login/forums/general-discussion/PostMessageForm,DataModel)
main.php:189

This would indicate the template includes a $Member, $Author or $CurrentMember variable which is trying to render (whereas you should have $Member.FirstName). Have a look at ForumMember_TopicNotification.ss to see if that has any issue with that.

Thank you Willr - this fixed the problem.

I wonder if you could help clarify what you changed in order to fix this?
I have a very similar issue - posting replies throws up this error

[User Error] Uncaught Exception: Object->__call(): the method 'fortemplate' does not exist on 'Member'
POST /members/forum/general-discussion/PostMessageForm
Line 750 in …/framework/core/Object.php

Except that posting a new topic works fine AND posting a reply to that topic then works fine too... but trying to post a reply to an existing topic gives this error (and email notifications don't get sent)

Any ideas how I might go about fixing this?

@Neil, in the template there might be a <p>$Member </p> or if $Member == "" which is triggering the forTemplate() call. In your back trace you'll see a template file to look into.

Thank you - yes there was a few lines in the ForumMember_TopicNotification.ss that I had to remove.

Firstly I removed

<% if Author %><% _t('BY', "by") %> $Author.Nickname.<% end_if %>

but then I got a whole new error message

[User Error] Uncaught SSTemplateParseException: Parse error in template on line 1. Error was: Malformed opening block tag sprintf. Perhaps you have tried to use operators?

So then I removed the entire first line

<p><% sprintf(_t('ForumMember_TopicNotification_ss.HI',"Hi %s,"),$Nickname) %></p>

And now it's working. I had added an 'issue' on the Github page for the Forum Module - should I update the issue with this info or delete the issue?

Update the issue with that info as it'll still need to be fixed.