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PHP Fatal Error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function – OJS

bindtextdomain

  • Error 500 while setting distribution
  • The 500 error in registration page
  • PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bindtextdomain() in /lib/pkp/lib/vendor/sokil/php-isocodes/src/AbstractDatabase.php:87
  • Failed AJAX request or invalid JSON returned

If you get a message like this:

PHP Fatal Error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bindtextdomain() in ...

…then your PHP installation is missing support for the gettext extension. You need to install or enable it.

 

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OJS Email Sending Problem

  • There was a problem sending an email message. Please try again later, or contact your system administrator.

At first, check whether Principal Contact details were added in Journal. Then go for Step One.

Step One

Turn on SMTP in config.php

[email]

; Use SMTP for sending mail instead of mail()
 smtp = On

; SMTP server settings
 smtp_server = mail.example.com
 smtp_port = 25

; Enable SMTP authentication
; Supported smtp_auth: ssl, tls (see PHPMailer SMTPSecure)
 smtp_auth = ssl
 smtp_username = username
 smtp_password = password
;

You contact hosting provider to get the SMTP details

NB: If the above setting does not work anyway, then go for adding envelop sender.

Step Two

Allow envelop sender

; Allow envelope sender to be specified
; (may not be possible with some server configurations)
 allow_envelope_sender = On

; Default envelope sender to use if none is specified elsewhere
 default_envelope_sender = my_address@my_host.com

; Force the default envelope sender (if present)
; This is useful if setting up a site-wide no-reply address
; The reply-to field will be set with the reply-to or from address.
 force_default_envelope_sender = On

Make sure to match the domain in your default_envelope_sender with the domain of OJS installation. If it doesn’t match this increases the spam rating.

 

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The tar command is not available | DirectAdmin

Problem:

  • The tar command is not available. Please correctly configure it in your “config.inc.php”.

There are two possible solutions of the above problem, your path to Tar tool is not correct, or the system can’t access to the path. In my case, I have both problems, so:

Solution One: Fixing the path of Tar

Open your terminal

Type which tar or whereis tar

which tar

or

whereis tar

Then use the path it returns in config.inc.php. For example,

tar = /usr/bin/tar

Still receiving the same error message, follow the second step.

Solution Two:

  1. Login to DirectAdmin admin panel.
  2. Go to “Server Manager > PHP Configuration (or PHP Settings). Select the domain you want to modify and
  3. Select the option “Disable Open Basedir”

Still getting error? Follow next step.

Solution Three:

You may get one of the following issues.

  • The “exec” PHP function has been disabled on your server. Contact your system administrator to enable it.
  • The uploaded plugin archive does not contain a folder that corresponds to the plugin name.

To fix the problems, you have to enable exec() function by deleting from the disable_functions

Go to link How to enable exec()

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Deprecated: Non-static method | Application::getName() | VersionCheck::getCurrentCodeVersion() | PKPRequest::getUserVar() | PKPRequest::_checkThis()

OJS Installation

Deprecated: Non-static method Application::getName() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/bdtopten/public_html/ojs/ojs3modern1/lib/pkp/classes/install/form/InstallForm.inc.php on line 149

Deprecated: Non-static method Application::getName() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/bdtopten/public_html/ojs/ojs3modern1/lib/pkp/classes/install/form/InstallForm.inc.php on line 151

Deprecated: Non-static method Application::getName() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/bdtopten/public_html/ojs/ojs3modern1/lib/pkp/classes/install/form/InstallForm.inc.php on line 153

Deprecated: Non-static method VersionCheck::getCurrentCodeVersion() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/bdtopten/public_html/ojs/ojs3modern1/lib/pkp/classes/install/form/MaintenanceForm.inc.php on line 37

Deprecated: Non-static method PKPRequest::getUserVar() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/bdtopten/public_html/ojs/ojs3modern1/lib/pkp/classes/form/Form.inc.php on line 369

Deprecated: Non-static method PKPRequest::_checkThis() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/bdtopten/public_html/ojs/ojs3modern1/lib/pkp/classes/core/PKPRequest.inc.php on line 592

 

These are warnings, not errors, and are cosmetic if you found the errors in error log. You should be able to ignore these and can continue installation.