PHP, vBulletin: Fatal error: Call to a member function clean_array_gpc() on a non-object

Question

With vBulletin in PHP, I'm getting this error

Fatal error: Call to a member function clean_array_gpc() on a non-object in C:\inetpub\forum\includes\class_bootstrap.php on line 124

on the following line of code:

    $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
        'referrerid' => TYPE_UINT,
        'a'          => TYPE_STR,
        'nojs'       => TYPE_BOOL
    ));

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I can appreciate that either $vbulletin or $vbulletin->input hasn't been instantiated yet; but my question goes a bit deeper and is perhaps a bit vBulletin-centric:

• If not in class_bootstrap.php, where do $vbulletin (which, of course, is global) and $vbulletin->input get instantiated?

Answer 1

This happens in .\includes\class_core.php.

In my particular installation, it occurs on line 3100 in the vB_Registry() function.

    function vB_Registry()
    {
        {...}

        // initialize the input handler
        $this->input = new vB_Input_Cleaner($this);

        {...}
     }