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[IDMDerek]

I am working on developing a new module so that a customer of ours already using X-Cart can use our payment system. I am following the tutorial in Webinar 3, running xcart under Apache on a Mac -- Yosemite.

When I try to use the load-yaml.php script I get the following:

PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to XLite\Core\Database::detectDirectives() must be of the type array, null given, called in /Library/WebServer/Documents/xcart/var/run/classes/XLite/Core/Database.php on line 803 and defined in /Library/WebServer/Documents/xcart/var/run/classes/XLite/Core/Database.php on line 1274

Any ideas what this is? My install.yaml file is the same as webinar 3 example (before the settings are added) but with my classes listed instead. I can provide more data if necessary.

Thanks!

[qualiteam]

Hello Derek,

It looks like there is an error in your yaml file - for some reasons the script can't parse it.

[IDMDerek]

It seems the inability to parse the install.yaml file was from some unprintable characters (don't know if tabs or spaces must be consistent).

I made a new copy of the example file from Webinar 3 and replaced the module name with mine and it worked. I was using PHPStorm to create my files, and the editor tries to show an outline of the entries in the yaml file -- my file the indicators were not always present but in your sample file they were. Something in the "white space" was different.

[qualiteam]

Another thing to check is quotes - sometimes I have to go through all the source code (that was copied&pasted) and replace quotes with their correct ' and " versions manually.