I recently had to deploy vTiger CRM 5 on a machine running PHP 5.2. Turned out that vTiger does not like PHP 5.2 because of some differences between PHP 5.0 and 5.2. As soon as you start the install script, you get the following error:
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Cannot redeclare class DateTime
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The problem is that vTiger defines its own DateTime class and so does PHP 5.2. The solution therefore (see vTiger wiki) was to rename the class in vTiger source. To do that, all you need to do is to run the following commands from the vtiger source root (e.g. /var/www/html/vtiger):
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mv modules/Calendar/Date.php modules/Calendar/Date.php.back
sed s/ DateTime/ com_vtiger_DateTime/ < modules/Calendar/Date.php.back > modules/Calendar/Date.php
mv modules/Calendar/Appointment.php modules/Calendar/Appointment.php.back
sed s/ DateTime/ com_vtiger_DateTime/ < modules/Calendar/Appointment.php.back > modules/Calendar/Appointment.php
mv include/utils/RecurringType.php include/utils/RecurringType.php.back
sed s/ DateTime/ com_vtiger_DateTime/ < include/utils/RecurringType.php.back > include/utils/RecurringType.php
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This script modifies the files Date.php, Appointment.php and RecurringType.php by first taking the backup of the file and then replacing all occurrences of “ DateTime” with “ com_vtiger_DateTime”. The backup is kept in the same location.
After that, you can run the install script and get to the login screen. When you login, you get a new error (something to this effect):
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Catchable fatal error: Object of class <ClassName> could not be converted to string in /var/www/xxx on line yyy
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The solution of this came from this great post. You need to create a custom error handler (called ErrorHandler.php) in the vtiger source root with the following content:
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<?php
function compatibilityErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline)
{
switch ($errno) {
case E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR:
break;
default:
echo “Unknown error type: [$errno] $errstr n”;
break;
}
}
// set to the user defined error handler
$old_error_handler = set_error_handler(“compatibilityErrorHandler”, E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR);
?>
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Finally, you need to include this error handler through the config.inc.php. For that, execute the following commands:
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mv config.inc.php config.inc.php.back
sed “/include(‘vtigerversion.php’);/ a
require_once(‘ErrorHandler.php’);” < config.inc.php.back > config.inc.php
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Notice the line break after the a. The first command makes a backup. The second inserts the require_once directive after the line with the include directive.