Portico plugin not working

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I created an issue on GitHub here months ago: Export failed · Issue #7 · jmacgreg/portico · GitHub. I’m duplicating it here for visibility and in case others are encountering the same thing.

I’m on OJS 3.0.0.0 and using this plugin as available at Release Portico Plugin v. 3.0 · jmacgreg/portico · GitHub.

The plugin was installed successfully.

Whenever I try to send an issue to the FTP server, I get an “Export Failed” message. When I try to download an issue, the zip file is empty.

When I look at the server logs, I see the following errors:

PHP Warning:  Missing argument 4 for XMLCustomWriter::createChildWithText(), called in [truncated]/PorticoExportDom.inc.php on line 149 and defined in [truncated]/XMLCustomWriter.inc.php on line 192
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: value in [truncated]/XMLCustomWriter.inc.php on line 196
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: galleys in [truncated]/PorticoExportDom.inc.php on line 157
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [truncated]/PorticoExportDom.inc.php on line 157

Any thoughts? Thanks!

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Hi Kardeiz,

Can you confirm that you have zip functionality available as part of your PHP configuration?

Cheers
James

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Yes: Zip => enabled

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@jmacgreg, any other thoughts? Where are those two undefined variables ($value and $galleys) supposed to be defined?

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Is anyone on OJS 3.x successfully running the Portico plugin? Did you have to make any changes to the source code? Or is there an alternate Portico plugin?

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Hi @kardeiz, a quick note to inform you that the Portico plugin has recently received a fair bit of re-engineering, and should now be working just fine on OJS 3.1+. You can find the latest release here.

Cheers,
James

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@jmacgreg, thanks, I appreciate the note! However, this won’t help us—we’re still on OJS 3.0.x and PHP 5.

I just checked and this release uses PHP 7 specific operators like ?? and OJS 3.1 specific functions like getTemplateResource.

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Hi @kardeiz, yep, that’s right. OJS 3.1+ requires PHP 7 as well, not just this plugin, so in order to use 3.1+ and/or the plugin, you’ll have to upgrade PHP as well.

Cheers,
James