Falang - Error 500 on translate.over Topic is solved

[WolfMario]

Hello, first of all let me explain this error.

I have a website on Joomla! 3.9.3 that uses Falang 3.0.2 for the translations.
The website has no issue when you switch languages at all, actually it works very fine.
The issue is when you are in the Administrator part, when you go to Components\FaLang\Translations and try to create a translation for an article it returns an error that the request cannot be processed HTTP ERROR 500.

I tried to catch the error on the logs and it says that the POST fails when trying to return the result for the translate.over

I also tried to reply this on my local environment but here works all fine and you can do any translation you want.

I want to know if anyone had the same trouble and can give me a hint on this.

Thank you!

[Per Yngve Berg]

Mod. Note: Relocated the topic to the Extensions Forum.

Enable Debug and Error Reporting in Global Configuration. See if you can catch the php error.

[WolfMario]

I did what you tell me and I could find the exact error and fix it.
Now it's working well

Thank you very much!

[infograf768]

It may be useful for other users to explain what you did to solve the issue...

[WolfMario]

Ok, after enabling Error Report and Debug on the administrator. When I tried to do the translation I got the following error message:

Fatal error: Can't use method return value in write context in /var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/administrator/components/com_falang/views/translate/tmpl/edit.php on line 28

The line in the code was the next one:

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if (!empty($params->get('translator')) && (!empty($params->get('translator_bingkey')) || !empty($params->get('translator_yandexkey')) ) ){

After doing some research about this it seems that the PHP version that we had on the host server is not fully compatible with some instructions that the file had at that moment, the way I solved it was creating new variables for the params like this:

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$translator = $params->get('translator');
$translator_bingkey = $params->get('translator_bingkey');
$translator_yandexkey = $params->get('translator_yandexkey');
if (!empty($translator) && (!empty($translator_bingkey) || !empty($translator_yandexkey) ) ){

After saving the file it worked without anny issue on the server.

For the record, the reason I couldn´t get this error on my local environment was that my oldest PHP version is above the one the server has.

Hope this can help someone one day.