pope framework messes with apache error code & displays php errors

Hello there ??

first thanks a lot for your awesome plugin!

tried to submit earlier and it reported an error so will leave some stuff out marked SKIPPING. hope the message gets transported?

I want to report a really strange issue with nextgen gallery plugin.

I’m running an OpenSuSE Box 15.1 with PHP 7.2.25 but also testet with PHP 7.3.14

And I’m 100% sure that this is because of nextgen gallery plugin because if I disable the plugin all is fine.

What is the problem?

I have PHP setup to not show any errors via php.ini display_errors = off
If I then force an error by calling a wrong function name, e.g. add_filter123() the PHP error gets displayed right in the browser.

Error thrown
Call to undefined function add_filter123()

Which I really don’t want as I don’t want to leak any error infos via the web browser.

another really strange thing is that Apache does not report the error with a 503 error code as it should
apache simply gives a 200 status which is really not what I want.

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So i checked and looked and double checked and double looked to find out what causes the error?

If i de-activate nextgen gallery plugin and produce the same error as above via add_filter123() apache then reports a 503

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and no php error is displayed in the browser as it should as php.ini says display_errors = off

I then did a bit more digging by renaming folders / files to find out which part of nextgen gallery plugin is causing this weird behaviour?

My search ended up with the pope framework /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/pope/lib

in that folder thers’s an autoload.php
If i then rename e.g. class.pope_cache.php to class.pope_cache.php.123 to produce an error all goes back to normal.

Apache reports an error:

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PHP reports an error

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and no php errors displayed in the browser

If i rename the file class.pope_cache.php so it gets loaded all is back to strange behaviour

the php error is displayed in the browser

Error thrown
Call to undefined function add_filter123()

apache gives me a status code of 200 instead of a 503

SKIPPING

and the error log doesn’t report any errors at all which is really not what I want.
php should report an error as it does once I disable the nextgen gallery plugin:

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I double and triple checked everything! the error is in the pope framework and I can reproduce this strange behaviour all the time.
from what i can see pope framework seems to be a couple of years old?

https://bitbucket.org/photocrati/pope-framework/src/default/lib/

perhaps it is not compatible with newer PHP versions?

I would really, really love to get this fixed.

as php errors not being reported by apache as 503 instead sending a 200 status code?
and displaying the errors in the browser even though display_errors is set to off?

this is really strange! Can we fix this?

thanks & greetings
Becki

• This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Becki Beckmann.