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Fatal error on activation
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upekshapriya

12:09 am December 23, 2008
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  • The browser used: Firefox 3.0.5
  • cforms version: 9.4
  • Your Wordpress version: 2.7

I get

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare cforms_activate() (previously declared in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cforms/cforms.php:59) in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cforms/cforms.php on line 61

after moving my Wordpress 2.7 installation to a new host. (I copied and replaced all instances of the host name as well as the path name in the SQL. Everything else works perfectly fine.) cforms is version 9.4.

The first problem though was the message:

"It appears that WP has corrupted your cforms settings, the settings array can not be read properly." when I go to the cforms settings page.

It shows me the array from the options table and says it will try and fix it, which it appears to do so, then asks me to deactivate and reactivate cforms. At this stage I get the above fatal error.

Any solutions anyone? Is it a bug in cforms?
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

posts 6237

9:21 am December 23, 2008
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this is the first time I'm hearing about this.
not sure why this comes up, these are the orig lines, can you confirm?:

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'cforms_activate' );
function cforms_activate() {
    cforms_init();
    require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/lib_activate.php');
}

did you also manipulate the cforms setting in SQL? If so, not a good idea, this will very likely break cforms.
cforms can adjust (the vital settings) to new hosts simply by deactivating and reactivating.

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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10:07 pm December 23, 2008
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Quick fix:

Edit cforms.php and replace this line [close to the top line~57]

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'cforms_activate' );

with this:

register_activation_hook( basename(__FILE__), 'cforms_activate' );

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upekshapriya

12:10 am December 25, 2008
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Thanks very much for sorting that out so simply.

It stopped that error but I still had a problem with the corrupted data so I went into phpMyAdmin and copied the cforms entry from the wp_options table from the old site to the new site and it all now works perfectly.
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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9:06 am December 25, 2008
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that good news. although I'm baffled why it would have corrupted your settings? or did you try to edit them directly in the wp_options table (perhaps as part of your move)?

also, did the corruption-fix option not help?

was it not offered by cforms anymore?

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