I am attempting to install a 2.4 site - the latest from Git topped up with Composer. I am running PHP 5.4.6

When trying to build the database it fails with the following message...

[Notice] Array to string conversion
POST /silver/install.php

Line 396 in /var/www/silver/sapphire/core/model/Database.php

I have read a few posts about such issues in 2.4 and PHP 5.4.6 but couldn't find anything related to installing it in the first place. I'm stuck with 2.4 for the moment by the way.

Any help appreciated.

Are you using a _ss_environment.php file?

Are you using a global called $database in your config?

Have you defined $databaseConfig array in your config?

It sounds like one of the database details that should be a strong is set to an array instead.

SilverStripe 2.4 (early versions) do not support PHP5.4 out of the box (before it existed!) so try the post-2.4 branch from git for support. The latest 2.4.* release should also support it.

Hi there,

I just installed a fresh copy of SS 2.4.10 and i also get the 'Array to string conversion' error...see below. The server runs PHP 5.4.4:

[Notice] Array to string conversion
GET /sunnyecom/admin/

Line 386 in ...../sapphire/core/control/Controller.php
Source

377 /**
378 * Returns true if the member is allowed to do the given action.
379 * @param perm The permission to be checked, such as 'View'.
380 * @param member The member whose permissions need checking. Defaults to the currently logged
381 * in user.
382 * @return boolean
383 */
384 function can($perm, $member = null) {
385 if(!$member) $member = Member::currentUser();
386 if($this->hasMethod($methodName = 'can' . $perm)) {
387 return $this->$methodName($member);
388 } else {
389 return true;
390 }
391 }
392

Sorry for the delay - this site hates me and I couldn't get logged back in.

I was using the latest version from the Git repository all along so no progress there. In the end, I didn't have a huge amount to do so I just installed it on one of our servers running PHP 5.3. Got the job done in terminal mode and Vim - just like the good old days ;-)

Thanks anyway for the help !!

Does anyone have a fix for this?

I've got an existing 2.4 website I'm trying to work on in my local environment (latest version of XAMMP). I've upgraded it to 2.4.10 but am still getting this error when I try to logon to the admin area:

[Notice] Array to string conversion
GET /admin

Line 386 in C:\xampp\htdocs\heart-of-biking\sapphire\core\control\Controller.php

384 	function can($perm, $member = null) {
385 		if(!$member) $member = Member::currentUser();
386 		if($this->hasMethod($methodName = 'can' . $perm)) {
387 			return $this->$methodName($member);
388 		} else {
389 			return true;
390 		}
391 	}

I don't want to downgrade the PHP version in my local environment, is there any other way to fix this?

Download the post-2.4 branch from github. You can patch that file also if you need http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/7737

Thanks Will.

I added the following to line 386 on Controller.php

if(is_string($perm) && $this->hasMethod($methodName = 'can' . $perm)) {

Seems to work.