Issues after 5.1 update

[scottblackman]

I ran the updater last night for my site (blackmanphoto.com) and am getting the following error on all my main pages.

Argument 1 passed to Album::setLoginToAccessProtectedPhotosEnabled() must be an instance of bool, boolean given, called in /home4/scottbla/public_html/blackmanphoto/backlight/modules/module-publisher/application/models/Album.php on line 718 and defined in Album.php on line 1039

Not sure how to resolve this. Do I need to reinstall?

[rod_barbee]

Try reinstalling
see this similar topic

Error clicking on Galleries after update to 5.1

I just updated to 5.1 (the first time I’ve updated since upgrading from TTG3 to Backlight 5) and when I click on Galleries in the home page I get the error quoted below. Clicking on About or Search everything works normally. In fact, on the Search page I can open any of the galleries. It’s just clicking on the Galleries link that generates this error: ** Something went wrong Argument 1 passed to Album::setLoginToAccessProtectedPhotosEnabled() must be an instance of bool, boolean given, cal…

[erudolph]

Hi Rod… fwiw, reinstalling didn’t work. Ben intervened and solved the problem. After whatever he did, reinstalling module-publisher fixed the problem.

[Ben]

Hi @scottblackman, as above, please revisit the Backlight Modules page and click reinstall for module-publisher.

I also suggest changing to a newer version of PHP if you have the option to. PHP 5.6 reached end-of-life four years ago and is no longer supported with security patches. Newer versions of PHP are also considerably faster.

[erudolph]

Vis a vis Ben’s suggestion to reinstall php, I upgraded to the latest version, 8.1, provided by my host, and all is well.

[scottblackman]

Reinstalling seemed to solve the issue. I need to research upgrading PHP. Didn’t realize that was something I could control. Thought that was controlled by my website provider (Site5 in my case)