Error about class.base.php after implementing security patches

[skippydog]

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class base in /usr/home/bedtoyz/public_html/includes/classes/class.base.php on line 17

Anyone have any ideas on why im getting that after the patch was put on?

Version 1.3.0.2

[Ajeh]

There are a number of reasons that this can happen ... a comparrison of your files to v1.3.0.2 would be a start ...

If all else fails, put back the files you just changed and get your site back to running then apply the updates carefully ...

[skippydog]

Well Found my error. It was my own stupidity.

When I was editing the application_top. I put
$autoLoadConfig = array();
include($base_dir . $loader_file);
include($base_dir . $loader_file);

Instead of
$autoLoadConfig = array();
include($base_dir . $loader_file);

Guess I should exam what im doing closer before I post. Working great now.

[DrByte]

Good catch.

[Solarisbooks]

I had exactly the same error line, I think we're only meant to paste the first line of the patch: includes/application_top.php:

this line: $autoLoadConfig = array();

above this line which is already there:
include($base_dir . $loader_file);

If you paste in both lines the second line is duplicated, when I deleted the duplicated line everything worked fine.

[redheads]

I post this since I had a differnt fix to a similar issue after installing a hack... I could not locate the problem file (the one calling the class again) and was getting this message:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class NameOfYourFileHere in path\to\the\NameOfYourFileHere.php on line XX

I found this in another forum:
This error sometimes appears after installing hacks or making certain other edits to your cart's files. Each page must process the code contained in the path/to/NameOfYourFileHere.php file once. If a page tries to process this code a second time, the error above appears.

Fortunately, this is an easy error to fix. First, you need to locate this line in your NameOfYourFileHere.php file.

CODE:

class NameOfYourFileHere {

Now add this code before the line you just found...

CODE:

if ( class_exists('NameOfYourFileHere') ) 
{ 
   return; 
}

The new code will prevent repeated processing of includes/NameOfYourFileHere.php and therefore put an end to this error.

Many thanks to the folks in the PHPBB forums for helping me with this code - applied it to my cart and it worked like a charm.

I do not know of any security issues raised by this fix... if anyone knows why this should NOT be used please speak up!