Multiple "Notice: Undefined index: type in" errors

Hello All:

I am trying to join the Joomdle community, but facing problems with my installation.
I could sure use some helpful advice/ suggestions.

I have set up Joomdle on a Joomla 1.5.23 platform on a dedicated server. I have Moodle 1.9 set up on the same server
I have followed the configuration steps for both Moodle and Joomdle as they are written.

The system health check says E_DEPRECATED errors are enabled in your PHP configuration
I have had my dedicated server manager disable this in the server PHP configuration, but I still get this notice. (?false positive)

When I add a moodle course to the menu, I get multiple "Notice: Undefined index: type in.... errors. I have attached screenshots to help diagnosis.

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO RESOLVE THIS?

Thank you in advance for those who take the time to try to help this Joomdle baby.

You can ignore the E_DEPRECATED notice. This is most likely because you are running an older php version on your server.

The other notices, I have not seen before. A quick search on the net suggests the following:
- Problem creating the database tables when using FTP as your Joomla install method. I suspect this has been fixed as these errors were reported with Release Candidates of Joomdle about 1 year ago.
- Your php reporting configuration - just showing notices rather than suppressing them
- File permissions in the server
- SEF URL alias. Are you using SEF? IF so, what happens when you turn off SEF?

Hello Chris

Thank you for your quick response.

- Yes, I am running PHP Version 5.2.17. Glad I can ignore it.
- I've asked my server support to ensure that the php reporting config is suppressing notices
-File permissions in server are set to 755 for directories and 644 for files
- I am not using SEF

You can see the mess at
www.machar.org/index.php?option=com_joom...view=course&item=373

Appreciate your interest and support!

Interesting.... when I click on the above URL, it says "No course selected."
But when I am logged into the site front end as administrator, it shows errors and shows links to course materials. however, if I click on them, I get either a 404 or I get sent to Moodle directly....

Hmmm.....

But if I type in


machar.org/index.php?option=com_joomdle&view=course&Itemid=373

I get the errors page

Maybe a problem with www. vs no www? somewhere?

SOLVED: Just in case anyone else has a similar issue:

Change:

JOOMLA ADMIN > SITE>GLOBAL CONFIGURATION> SERVER> Server Settings> Error Reporting>Maximum

To:
JOOMLA ADMIN > SITE>GLOBAL CONFIGURATION> SERVER> Server Settings> Error Reporting>System Default

:blush:

Thank you for your kind attempts to assist me.

Great, glad you have found your answer. This appears to be suppressing messages.

I do note two things that you may wish to be cautious of, based on your thread above:
- if you are using www, ensure you use it everywhere in joomdle and moodle configurations, httaccess, joomla, etc. similarly if you are not using www than do not everywhere. the combination of sometimes yes and sometimes no can cause problems because technically www. and no www are different domains (subdomains). For me I rewrite mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com in httaccess and include the www in all my configs.

Logging in to the front end using admin. Be careful of this as Moodle doesn't have the ability to log in two users at once like joomla (frontend & backend). So if you have moodle logged into admin and then try to log a user into joomla frontend it will get screwy. I suggest that you run two browsers at once. One for admin work, say chrome and then for testing users, say FF. Thus you eliminate any chance of session confusion.