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Fatal error: Call to undefined function: filter_tips_short() in /home/osstudio/public_html/drupal/modules/importpage.module on line 76
Getting this or simlare errors everywhere... The filter tip short is the short help
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What version?
What versions are you using? Does the module and core versions match?
You're using old modules with
You're using old modules with the new CVS. The filter tips function is called as part of the old Form error handling system. The errors you are seeing mean that the modules you are using haven't been updated to full compatability with CVS.
May be true however the modules are comming from
CVS... are you saying the modules are old as in not updated to CVS head or they are not the CVS modules. I am using modules and core from CVS as of two or three (Aug 18) days ago. Both contributions and core were updated to latest before install began. I very well could have made some error and gotten some non cvs mods and will recheck. If you are saying the former I need to know how to separate the mods that are head compliant from the modules that are just in CVS. Can it be done from looking at the tags? If so which? Or is it that all mods in CVS should be head compliant? (by head compliant I mean updated to work with CVS head) Many thanks for your help..
No I just did a new install from cvs with the latest mod
latest mod in cvs... same error.. this is as of today.. in other words i update cvs core and contrib before install.. However it was an update of a cvs version from a month ago not a clean install .. I don't know how that would cause this being that i overwrote the module and the core obviously. Any ideas.??
you cannot assume
that once a change makes it into core, that all contrib modules will be updated to reflect that change immediately. you should contact the contrib module author and ask her to update her module, or, even better, supply a patch for the module to work with core HEAD. normally, these changes aren't that hard to make - just have a look at the core changes. http://drupal.kollm.org/cvsmonitor/cvsmonitor.pl?cmd=viewBrowseModule&mo... might be helpful for this.
what I 've been doing
Here is what I've come up with for the general info. You are correct that the mods are not up to cvs.. but the confusion is in that they are in atleast in some cases up to the latest release and supposed to have been updated from a jonbob patch supplied. It was attempted but didn't take from what i see. I did the following. After the supplied patch that wasn't implimented didn't work I just hand coded the new funtcion or a function to replace filter_tips_short. Sorry I'm tired so rambling. It worked.. the funtcion was filter_filter_tip and it wanted arg 3. Got through that and it was ready to go.. Despite warnings it will work.
Can you post your fix? I've
Can you post your fix? I've got the same error.