no menus on site or in menu manager - new install of 1.5.12

[chriswherley]

Fresh Install of 1.5.12 on PHP 5.3.0 and MySQL 5.1.36
Menus are not showing up on the site or in Menu Manager.
Menu Manager shows 9 published items for Main Menu and published items for the other menus from the sample data. but they are not individually listed.
I can see the menu data in the mysql table for menus and menu types.

Everything else seems to be working ok. Articles, etc.

thanks,
chris

[vjtemplates]

Have you enabled the mod_mainmenu module?

[AlexLab]

I can confirm what chriswherley said. The same strange thing with me and with the same config. All settings as default, clean install. All modules are published and enabled. But there are none menu items.

May be this is a compatibility issue to PHP 5.3 or MySQL 5.1 ?

[chriswherley]

here is data from apache's error log after accessing my joomla frontend site

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[Sat Jul 04 12:02:30 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for '-5.0/DST' instead in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\utilities\\date.php on line 56
[Sat Jul 04 12:02:30 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for '-5.0/DST' instead in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\utilities\\date.php on line 198
[Sat Jul 04 12:02:30 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for '-5.0/DST' instead in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\utilities\\date.php on line 198

[Mod Note: Deleted further repetitious warnings for ease of reading]

[AlexLab]

These data are redundant, they will not help solve the problem.
All records within your apache.log are not errors, it's just a warning of PHP interpreter.

I have try different system configuration, and here the results:
PHP 5.3 + MySQL 5.1 = not worked!
PHP 5.3 + MySQL 5.0 = not worked!
PHP 5.2 + MySQL 5.1 = worked!
PHP 5.2 + MySQL 5.0 = worked!

It seems to me, it looks like a PHP 5.3 compatibilty issue. All that I can recommend you need to revert to an older version of PHP (back to 5.2.x) until the developers solve this problem and will announce support for new version of PHP (v5.3.x).

[chriswherley]

Menu Manager errors
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[Sat Jul 04 13:04:56 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Parameter 4 to JHTMLMenu::treerecurse() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\html\\html.php on line 87, referer: http://localhost/joomla/administrator/i ... =com_menus
[Sat Jul 04 13:04:56 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\administrator\\components\\com_menus\\models\\list.php on line 143, referer: http://localhost/joomla/administrator/i ... =com_menus
[Sat Jul 04 13:04:56 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\administrator\\components\\com_menus\\models\\list.php on line 147, referer: http://localhost/joomla/administrator/i ... =com_menus
[Sat Jul 04 13:04:56 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\administrator\\components\\com_menus\\views\\list\\view.php on line 65, referer: http://localhost/joomla/administrator/i ... =com_menus
[Sat Jul 04 13:04:56 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\administrator\\components\\com_menus\\views\\list\\tmpl\\default.php on line 69, referer: http://localhost/joomla/administrator/i ... =com_menus

[chriswherley]

Frontpage errors after adding a timezone to the php.ini file
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[Sat Jul 04 13:08:13 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\cache\\handler\\callback.php on line 99
[Sat Jul 04 13:08:13 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\cache\\handler\\callback.php on line 99
[Sat Jul 04 13:08:13 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Parameter 1 to modMainMenuHelper::buildXML() expected to be a reference, value given in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\joomla\\libraries\\joomla\\cache\\handler\\callback.php on line 99

[z0idlite]

I don't know if you've gotten this figured out yet, but I was having exactly the same problem with PHP 5.3, and menu items not showing up correctly. I then installed this patch: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=17150 and it seems to have fixed my problems. :-)

Also see this topic for more information: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=199&p=1783564

[humvee]

Joomla! is not currently compatable with PHP 5.3. which introduced a number of system changes that directly impact on the Joomla! code

[humvee]

I don't know if you've gotten this figured out yet, but I was having exactly the same problem with PHP 5.3, and menu items not showing up correctly. I then installed this patch: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=17150 and it seems to have fixed my problems. :-)
Also see this topic for more information: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=199&p=1783564

Thanks for the feedback you might want to add a comment to the Tracker item with full details of your system.
Please note however that this is currently an unapproved patch and should not therefore be used on live/production sites.
If anyone does run the patch and test it please provide feedback to the Tracker

[franky_verynew]

i received parse errors in both files.

[Transient]

No problems with it (:

Cheers, and thanks loads guys (:

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=17150

[humvee]

Anyone interested in helping to test Joomla! and PHP5.3 compatability please look at this request Testing Help with PHP 5.3.0