PHP Fatal error on add_action('admin_area')

• reformatco

• September 16, 2013 at 7:19 pm

ACF works perfectly fine on my local machine but on client’s live hosting get the following errors

/var/log/apache2/error.log:[Fri Sep 13 21:27:40 2013] [error] [client 66.249.74.139] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function add_action() in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/core/controllers/field_groups.php on line 25
/var/log/apache2/error.log:[Fri Sep 13 21:28:45 2013] [error] [client 66.249.74.139] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function add_action() in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/core/controllers/everything_fields.php on line 31
/var/log/apache2/error.log:[Fri Sep 13 21:29:25 2013] [error] [client 66.249.74.139] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function add_action() in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/core/controllers/export.php on line 32
/var/log/apache2/error.log:[Fri Sep 13 21:30:02 2013] [error] [client 66.249.74.139] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function add_action() in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/core/controllers/upgrade.php on line 25

They all seem to be where the ‘admin_menu’ add actions are. Any ideas?

• Elliot

• September 17, 2013 at 12:17 pm

Hi @roflman79

Thanks for the error print, however, I don’t understand how this is possible.

Your error states that the add_action function is undefined. This is a core function within WP that is used all over the front / back of the CMS to alter the MARKUP.

Perhaps you have a plugin / theme code which is somehow corrupting the add_action function?

Sorry I can’t be of much help, this is a serious PHP issue which you will need to debug to find out what is going wrong.

Thanks
E

• reformatco

• September 17, 2013 at 6:14 pm

No worries @elliot, I think it could be some issue with the php configuration on the server. It is a customised server setup by a sysadmin and could therefore have some settings that don’t play well.

Thanks for the reply though.