PHP Fatal Error in php.module(80) : eval()'d code on line 24

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PHP Parse Error in php.module(80) : eval()'d code on line 2

Problem:

The following error is recorded in the /var/log/apache2/error.log file on my server every time a page request is made on my drupal site:

PHP Fatal Error: Call to a member function session_begin() on a non-object in /modules/php/php.module(80): eval()'d code on line 24

The error occurs in the php_eval($code) function, where apparently I've got some bad php code somewhere that is not passing the evaluation.

Steps Taken to Debug:
On a test server, I took my homepage and stripped all blocks from the page. I cleared the drupal cache, refreshed the page in the browser and the error appeared in the log again. Then I added a print statement to the php_eval($code) function (in the test server only), to see what the code looked like. Here it is (I added some whitespace):

session_begin(); 

$auth->acl($user->data); 

$user->setup('viewforum'); 

display_forums('', $config['load_moderators']); 

// Set some stats, get posts count from forums data if we... hum... retrieve all forums data 

$total_posts = $config['num_posts']; 

$total_topics = $config['num_topics']; 

$total_users = $config['num_users']; 

$l_total_user_s = ($total_users == 0) ? 'TOTAL_USERS_ZERO' : 'TOTAL_USERS_OTHER'; 

$l_total_post_s = ($total_posts == 0) ? 'TOTAL_POSTS_ZERO' : 'TOTAL_POSTS_OTHER'; 

$l_total_topic_s = ($total_topics == 0) ? 'TOTAL_TOPICS_ZERO' : 'TOTAL_TOPICS_OTHER'; 

// Grab group details for legend display 

if ($auth->acl_gets('a_group', 'a_groupadd', 'a_groupdel')) { $sql = 'SELECT group_id, group_name, group_colour, group_type FROM ' . GROUPS_TABLE . ' WHERE group_legend = 1 ORDER BY group_name ASC'; } else { $sql = 'SELECT g.group_id, g.group_name, g.group_colour, g.group_type FROM ' . GROUPS_TABLE . ' g LEFT JOIN ' . USER_GROUP_TABLE . ' ug ON ( g.group_id = ug.group_id AND ug.user_id = ' . $user->data['user_id'] . ' AND ug.user_pending = 0 ) WHERE g.group_legend = 1 AND (g.group_type <> ' . GROUP_HIDDEN . ' OR ug.user_id = ' . $user->data['user_id'] . ') ORDER BY g.group_name ASC'; } $result = $db->sql_query($sql); $legend = array(); while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) { $colour_text = ($row['group_colour']) ? ' style="color:#' . $row['group_colour'] . '"' : ''; $group_name = ($row['group_type'] == GROUP_SPECIAL) ? $user->lang['G_' . $row['group_name']] : $row['group_name']; if ($row['group_name'] == 'BOTS' || ($user->data['user_id'] != ANONYMOUS && !$auth->acl_get('u_viewprofile'))) { $legend[] = '' . $group_name . ''; } else { $legend[] = '' . $group_name . ''; } } $db->sql_freeresult($result); $legend = implode(', ', $legend); // Generate birthday list if required ... $birthday_list = ''; if ($config['load_birthdays'] && $config['allow_birthdays']) { $now = getdate(time() + $user->timezone + $user->dst - date('Z')); $sql = 'SELECT u.user_id, u.username, u.user_colour, u.user_birthday FROM ' . USERS_TABLE . ' u LEFT JOIN ' . BANLIST_TABLE . " b ON (u.user_id = b.ban_userid) WHERE (b.ban_id IS NULL OR b.ban_exclude = 1) AND u.user_birthday LIKE '" . $db->sql_escape(sprintf('%2d-%2d-', $now['mday'], $now['mon'])) . "%' AND u.user_type IN (" . USER_NORMAL . ', ' . USER_FOUNDER . ')'; $result = $db->sql_query($sql); while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) { $birthday_list .= (($birthday_list != '') ? ', ' : '') . get_username_string('full', $row['user_id'], $row['username'], $row['user_colour']); if ($age = (int) substr($row['user_birthday'], -4)) { $birthday_list .= ' (' . ($now['year'] - $age) . ')'; } } $db->sql_freeresult($result); } // Assign index specific vars $template->assign_vars(array( 'TOTAL_POSTS' => sprintf($user->lang[$l_total_post_s], $total_posts), 'TOTAL_TOPICS' => sprintf($user->lang[$l_total_topic_s], $total_topics), 'TOTAL_USERS' => sprintf($user->lang[$l_total_user_s], $total_users), 'NEWEST_USER' => sprintf($user->lang['NEWEST_USER'], get_username_string('full', $config['newest_user_id'], $config['newest_username'], $config['newest_user_colour'])), 'LEGEND' => $legend, 'BIRTHDAY_LIST' => $birthday_list, 'FORUM_IMG' => $user->img('forum_read', 'NO_UNREAD_POSTS'), 'FORUM_UNREAD_IMG' => $user->img('forum_unread', 'UNREAD_POSTS'), 'FORUM_LOCKED_IMG' => $user->img('forum_read_locked', 'NO_UNREAD_POSTS_LOCKED'), 'FORUM_UNREAD_LOCKED_IMG' => $user->img('forum_unread_locked', 'UNREAD_POSTS_LOCKED'), 'S_LOGIN_ACTION' => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}ucp.$phpEx", 'mode=login'), 

'S_DISPLAY_BIRTHDAY_LIST' => ($config['load_birthdays']) ? true : false, 
'U_MARK_FORUMS' => ($user->data['is_registered'] || $config['load_anon_lastread']) ? append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}index.$phpEx", 'hash=' . generate_link_hash('global') . '&mark=forums') : '', 'U_MCP' => ($auth->acl_get('m_') || $auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) ? append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}mcp.$phpEx", 'i=main&mode=front', true, $user->session_id) : '') ); // Output page page_header($user->lang['INDEX']); 

$template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'index_body.html') ); 

page_footer(); ?>

This appears to be part of an integration with the phpBB3 forum code, based on google searches for some of the comments and sections of the code. I found some similar code here.

Conclusion:

I don't have one. I don't know where to go from here.

Thank you for any help,
Ann