Re: [Phpwiki-talk] "Cannot instantiate non-existent class" error

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

David Catmull schrieb:

> (I just posted this to the support request tracker, before discovering 
> this list)
> 
> I'm getting this error:
> Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: wikidb_sql in 
> /home/groups/v/vo/volleyserver/htdocs/wiki/lib/WikiDB.php on line 100
> 
> I installed the latest release (1.3.10) on a SourceForge project site, 
> following the official instructions (which don't mention the config.ini 
> file). At first I thought I had it working, but it kept getting into a 
> loop on the "virgin" initialization page. When I tried to edit a page, I 
> got a warning that the DBA data was being saved to /tmp.
> 
> It's supposed to be using SQL, not DBA, and I discovered that I had not 
> set the DATABASE_TYPE to SQL in config.ini. Once I did that, I started 
> getting the "fatal error" message above. I poked around and found that 
> the WikiDB_SQL class does exist in another file, but apparently that 
> file is not being read for some reason. Any suggestions?

SQL must be in uppercase.

The DATABASE_TYPE is case-sensitive on case-sensitive filesystems, and 
since php5 (case-sensitive class names)
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Reini Urban
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