Question functions.php Error

[heyzeus909]

I don't think this qualifies as a bug, so I chose 'How Do I?' instead. I was having trouble getting a Tab's menu to display its links properly, so out of not knowing what else to possibly try, I attempted to have the menu redirect back to itself.

Settings > Navigation Manager > Click on Tab to edit > 'Select The Menu To Act As The Dropdown' > and selected the very tab itself (yes, it was available as an option in the dropdown menu).

Yep, choosing to have the tab redirect back to itself resulted in an error which is displayed at the top of every page of the site, including ACP:

Warning: Illegal offset type in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 8561


Any help?

 

[Ozzy47]

I am unable to replicate the tab it's self showing up in the menu.

Could you please create and PM me with a temporary FTP and AdminCP account?

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[heyzeus909]

The error message that resides at the top of every page now is kind of a killer because it messes up the formatting of blocks, sideblocks, etc (it repeats the error listed above 14 times, double spaced). So, FYI, to get rid of the error, I tried to disable the vBNavTabs mod, but to no avail - the error remained. The error also remained even after uninstalling vBNavTabs,. And the error remains although I reinstalled the product and backed up the settings from a couple of weeks ago.

Once the error originally occurred, the tab/menu I was working on in vBNavTabs disappeared in the Navigation Manager, which made it impossible to delete.

Also, for whatever it's worth, when I went to the Dropdown menu and selected the option for the menu to redirect back to itself, all tabs AND menus were listed as options from which to select. The whole thing was weird.

 

[Ozzy47]

Looks like I need cpanel info as well, seems it is a bug in the Navigation Manager it's self not in vBNavTabs I can probably fix it for you through phpmyadmin.

 

[Ozzy47]

Sorted on the users site, it seems it is a problem with the Navigation Manager, not in the mod it's self.