[Done v1.5.3] PHP Warning: Couldn't find constant in admin_access.php

[EdsGoodStuff]

I set up my first Zen Cart this October and thought everything was running pretty smoothly, but just looked in the "logs" folder and see about 11,000 identical messages. Example of a file name is myDEBUG-adm-1354337184-103753.log. The messages started about 17 days ago and all look like this except it's repeated 4 times:

[30-Nov-2012 21:41:11] PHP Warning: constant() [<a href='function.constant'>function.constant</a>]: Couldn't find constant in /home/content/24/XXXXXXX/html/MY_CART/adminXXXXXX/includes/functions/admin_access.php on line 38

I checked in /MY_CART/adminXXXXXX/includes/functions/admin_access.php and this is what it says on line 38:

if (constant($result->fields['main_page']) == $page && $result->fields['page_params'] == $page_params) {

If anyone can explain what is happening and how to fix this it would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Ed

[DrByte]

What plugin did you install on the day that those messages started appearing?

[EdsGoodStuff]

Thanks for the quick reply DrByte.

Am pretty sure that no plugins were installed on or around that date. Believe the last plugin added was Edit Orders back in October/early November-am trying to add as little as possible until I set up a test cart.

I did add a second Admin user but thought that was more recently- in December and the myDebug messages started on Nov. 30th. I was thinking about deleting that Admin username and seeing if anything changed with the error messages but figured I would ask here first in case there was a known issue and simple solution. Any suggestions very much appreciated.

[DrByte]

I suppose it could be related to things the second user is doing. But if that's the case, deleting the user and recreating won't solve the problem.

Can you list all the plugins/addons you've installed? I'm mainly interested in the ones that would need/try to add anything to the admin menu.

I've seen others post a similar error message, but was never able to reproduce the symptoms in order to test anything. Most puzzling. But more information about your setup can't hurt.

[EdsGoodStuff]

OK, am 99% sure I have tracked down and solved the problem.

My new Admin username was an email address - [email protected] . I had a specific reason for using an email address for my new Admin username- but since it cause issues am just going to delete it and make a new Admin. I checked my logs folder in almost real time when logging in and out and using Who's Online. The myDebug errors only showed up when I used the Admin with the email address username.

I assume you are not supposed to use special characters like "@" and "." in username because they can cause errors like what occurred here- never looked into it because it seemed to be working OK. Live and learn, glad it was something simple. Thanks for the responses.

Ed

[DrByte]

Hmmm ... While I've never used an @ symbol in an admin username, I can't think of any reason why that would cause a problem. Will have to test that sometime.

But if that's what fixes it for you, that's great news.

[EdsGoodStuff]

After some more testing it appears that any Administrator account creates the myDebug errors when logged in. A Superuser account does not. I created another Administrator account with a normal username and got a couple errors a minute.

So I upgraded the Administrator account with email address for username to Superuser account and no errors. The "@" character was not the problem.

I am currently the only user of the site and mainly created extra Admin accounts in case I couldn't log in for some reason- want to have two other usernames/passwords just in case. Are there any potential problems to making the accounts Superusers instead of Administrators? Would still like to solve the issue in case I ever want to give someone else limited access to site as Administrator.

Using Cherry Zen template. My Plug Ins are Image Handler, Zen Lightbox, Edit Orders, Easy Populate, and Keepalive Timer. I think that's it.

[DrByte]

Are there any potential problems to making the accounts Superusers instead of Administrators?

No, that's fine, as long as they have secure passwords.

[EdsGoodStuff]

Seem to have found a solution.

I went to Admin Access Management> Admin Profiles and clicked on Edit for the Administrator User Profile. The BOX_HEADING_PRODUCT_TYPES category at the bottom of the page has four check-boxes of which three were checked by default- Product-Music, Document-General, and Document-Product. When I uncheck these boxes and update the profile I can log in as Administrator and not get any myDebug errors.

[DrByte]

Thanks. We'll dig into it.

Did your site start out as v1.5.1, or is it an upgrade from a prior version?