Actually I don’t see how that notice can be remotely possible!
Can you tell me (a) what sp theme you are using and (b) clear the SP error log and tell me exactly which view produces the notice? And I guess a (c) would be – is there anything odd or different about the point at which the notice is generated?

Hello Andy,

Sorry for reporting these weird notices. In some ways  I hope I am not the only one to get those errors, as I am running a rather standard setup (Debian, PHP, latest versions, dedicated host).

a/ I am running a modified version of the default theme, I have currently made all my changes on the latest default. The problem also happen when running the original default theme.

b/ It’s hard to see which page triggers the problem as there is some trafic on my forum. I get from 5 to 20 hits on this notice every minute, but I currently unable to see where it comes from. Maybe a stack trace of some sort in the error log could help.

c/ The notice started to show with latest SP upgrade. I don’t think I have done any changes on SP setup when upgrading.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers.

sptab said

Sorry for reporting these weird notices. In some ways  I hope I am not the only one to get those errors

You’re not alone!

Don’t worry – I will try and track it down. They are of nuisance value mainly.

I have the same error, but at different lines.

It happens, when I select a forum, but not on the first page.

Started happening after the 5.0.1 update. I have 3 plugins (Editor (TinyMCE – Rich Text), Private Message System and Template Tags and Widgets. Default theme (shades of gray overlay), all updated.

Hi

I’ve been having trouble with receiving a “500 Internal Server Error” when trying to load certain topics. This was happening before upgrading to the new version as well as after upgrading to the newest version. The forum error log contains several of  the following entries:

file: /simple-press/forum/content/sp-common-view-functions.php
line: 70
function: sp_SectionStart
Notice | Trying to get property of non-object

Yes we know. These are notices and non-fatal. Mainly a nuisance in this case.

So are the 500 Internal Server Error’s I’m receiving not related to this then?

No – there would be no connection.
Your site php error log might give more details on that. If they are rare and random then it could just be something simple at your hosting. If they are regular then you need to have a chat with your hosting support.

the notices ended up being exposed when we corrected another problem…  this code wasnt getting run before the correction which is why our notice sweep of 5.0 didnt reveal them…

I have been running version 5.0.2 (build 8166) for few hours and do not get notices anymore.

Thanks for the fix 

good to hear! thanks for the update! dont like to push out too many releases, but that harmless notice was making for large error logs… and, well, that wp updater thingy makes it easy to do releases…