Possible corrupted Joomla database; error messages

[Steve D]

Someone (not me) created an article on "my" Joomla 1.5 website
(article/blog used throughout), and filled in the alias field with the
article title WITH SPACES EMBEDDED. Ever since, the website displays
(to the public) error messages. This has since been editted (blanking
the alias and letting Joomla create it, i.e. with "-" for each space
in the title), but the errors persist. The following three messages
appear at the start of each page (except the home page):

Warning: Parameter 3 to mb_videobot() expected to be a reference,
value given in /home/isaacst/public_html/libraries/joomla/event/
dispatcher.php on line 136

Warning: Attempt to modify property of non-object in /home/isaacst/
public_html/components/com_jomcomment/mambots.php on line 123

Warning: Attempt to modify property of non-object in /home/isaacst/
public_html/components/com_jomcomment/mambots.php on line 477

AND the first of the above (re Parameter 3) also appears just before
each article.

You can see for yourself at http://isaackalamazoo.org/ .

ALSO article manager has many pairs of the following two error
messages, followed by the usual correct list of articles:

Warning: Parameter 1 to JHTMLGrid::access() expected to be a
reference, value given in /home/isaacst/public_html/libraries/joomla/
html/html.php on line 87

Warning: Parameter 1 to JHTMLGrid::checkedOut() expected to be a
reference, value given in /home/isaacst/public_html/libraries/joomla/
html/html.php on line 87

PLEASE HELP I have no clue how to proceed.

[Steve D]

THIS INFO might help:

System Information
Setting Value

PHP Built on: Linux mvs016-020.directrouter.com 2.6.18-028stab079.1
#1 SMP Sat Nov 27 00:29:50 MSK 2010 x86_64
Database Version: 5.0.92-community
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.3.8
Web Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-
rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.7 Production/Stable [ Wovusani ] 9-
September-2008 23:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/10.0

[Jesper Dinesen]

Since the error seems to be connected with the jomcomments plugin, try and locate first and turn it off. If this fixes it, I would check and see if you have any "spam" entries amongst your comments.

Also, are you loading any video player plugins ? If so, try and turn those off too. Sometimes, third party plugins gets hacked, that might have happened to you

At least a place to start !

Jesper

Jesper Dinesen

Concierge / CEO

<engine/>

616.378.0480

www.runengine.com

[Steve D]

Jesper, thanks so much for the great ideas. It's now partially fixed
but still some issues.

Disabling "Jom Comment" removed the two public top-of-each-page
messages regarding jomcomments

Disabling "Azrul Video Mambot" removed the last of the public
messages, i.e. the two regarding videobot.

I also disabled "Jom Comment Sys", "Azrul.com System Mambot", and
"Content - AllVideos Reloaded" with no further effect.

HOWEVER there are still MANY pairs of messages in the Joomla control
panel, same as above. The functionality is still there (apparently),
but I sure would like to get rid of all these messages regarding
JHTMLGrid. Do any of the following look suspicious:

MODULE MANAGER

1 BannerNewsTest Move Down banner All mod_newsflash 64
2 Header Image Move Up banner All mod_header_image 66
3 Banners Move Down footer All mod_banners 30
4 Footer Move Up footer All mod_footer 33
5 Main Menu Move Down left All mod_mainmenu 1
6 Resources Move Up Move Down left Varies mod_mainmenu 31
7 Statistics Move Up Move Down left None mod_stats 20
8 Login Form Move Up Move Down left Varies mod_login 18
9 Archive Move Up Move Down left None mod_archive 23
10 Sections Move Up Move Down left None mod_sections 24
11 Wrapper Move Up Move Down left All mod_wrapper 32
12 AllVideos Reloaded Move Up left All mod_avreloaded 44
13 Latest News Move Down right All mod_latestnews 19
14 Micah 6:8 Move Up Move Down right All mod_custom 82
15 Mission Move Up Move Down right All mod_custom 83
16 Donations PayPal Move Up Move Down right All mod_custom 85
17 Newsflash Move Up Move Down right All mod_newsflash 25
18 Related Items Move Up Move Down right All mod_related_items
26
19 Latest Forum Posts Move Up Move Down right All
mod_simplestforum_latest_posts 54
20 Moderator Tasks Move Up Move Down right All
mod_comprofilermoderator 50
21 Donate All Pages Move Up Move Down right All mod_custom 84
22 Advertisement Move Up Move Down right Varies mod_banners
38
23 Login/CB Move Up Move Down right Varies mod_cblogin 49
24 User Menu Move Up Move Down right All mod_mainmenu 17
25 Syndicate this page Move Up Move Down right All
mod_syndicate 56
26 News Feeds Move Up right Varies mod_feed 34
27 Syndication syndicate All mod_syndicate 36
28 Popular user2 Varies mod_mostread 22
29 Top Menu Move Down user3 All mod_mainmenu 29
30 TCDropDownMenu Move Up Move Down user3 All
mod_tcdropdownmenu 81
31 Breadcrumbs Move Up user3 All mod_breadcrumbs 35

PLUGIN MANAGER

1 Authentication - Joomla Move Down authentication joomla 1
2 Authentication - LDAP Move Up Move Down authentication ldap
2
3 Authentication - OpenID Move Up Move Down authentication
openid 4
4 Authentication - GMail Move Up authentication gmail 3
5 Content - AllVideos Reloaded Move Down content avreloaded
37
6 Content - mosforme Move Up Move Down content mosforme 39
7 Azrul Video Mambot Move Up Move Down content azvideobot 41
8 Jom Comment Move Up Move Down content jom_comment_bot 43
9 Content - Page Navigation Move Up Move Down content
pagenavigation 17
10 Content - Rating Move Up Move Down content vote 13
11 Content - Email Cloaking Move Up Move Down content
emailcloak 14
12 Content - Code Hightlighter (GeSHi) Move Up Move Down content
geshi 15
13 Content - Load Module Move Up Move Down content loadmodule
16
14 Content - Pagebreak content pagebreak 12
15 Editor - No Editor Move Down editors none 18
16 Editor - TinyMCE 2.0 Move Up Move Down editors tinymce 19
17 Editor - XStandard Lite 2.0 Move Up Move Down editors
xstandard 20
18 Editor - JCE 1.5.0 Move Up editors jce 34
19 Editor Button - Image Move Down editors-xtd image 21
20 Editor Button - Pagebreak Move Up Move Down editors-xtd
pagebreak 22
21 Editor Button - Readmore Move Up Move Down editors-xtd
readmore 23
22 Button - AllVideos Reloaded Move Up editors-xtd avreloaded
46
23 Search - Events Move Down search eventsearch 45
24 Search - Simplest Forum Posts Move Up Move Down search
simplestforum 48
25 Search - Content Move Up Move Down search content 6
26 Search - Weblinks Move Up Move Down search weblinks 11
27 Search - Contacts Move Up Move Down search contacts 7
28 Search - Categories Move Up Move Down search categories 8
29 Search - Sections Move Up Move Down search sections 9
30 Search - Newsfeeds Move Up search newsfeeds 10
31 Simple Captcha Move Down system simplecaptcha 47
32 System - SEF Move Up Move Down system sef 27
33 Azrul.com System Mambot Move Up Move Down system
azrul.system 42
34 Jom Comment Sys Move Up Move Down system jom_commentsys_bot
44
35 System - Debug Move Up Move Down system debug 28
36 System - Legacy Move Up Move Down system legacy 29
37 System - Cache Move Up Move Down system cache 30
38 System - Log Move Up Move Down system log 31
39 System - Remember Me Move Up Move Down system remember 32
40 System - Backlink Move Up Move Down system backlink 33
41 System - Smartsef Move Up Move Down system smartsef 38
42 System - sh404sef Move Up system shsef 49
43 User - Joomla! user joomla 5
44 XML-RPC - Joomla Move Down xmlrpc joomla 24
45 XML-RPC - Blogger API Move Up xmlrpc blogger 25

[Jesper Dinesen]

Steve,

Send me a joomla super admin and ftp to jes...@runengine.com and I will look it over !

Jesper

[Steve D]

MORE SYMPTOMS

MENU ITEM MANAGER appears to be fully broken i.e. unlike the other
problems, this set of error messages interferes with functionality. It
starts out with the following:

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Warning: Parameter 4 to JHTMLMenu::treerecurse() expected to be a

reference, value given in /home/isaacst/public_html/libraries/joomla/
html/html.php on line 87

Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /
home/isaacst/public_html/administrator/components/com_menus/models/
list.php on line 143

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/isaacst/
public_html/administrator/components/com_menus/models/list.php on line
147

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/isaacst/
public_html/administrator/components/com_menus/views/list/view.php on
line 65

Filter: Max Levels

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/isaacst/
public_html/administrator/components/com_menus/views/list/tmpl/
default.php on line 69
# Menu Item Default Published Order Save Order Access Level
Type ItemID

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THEN finally, none of the actual menus are listed under those column
headings.