dbconnect.php line 6 error

[Yankidank]

I'm getting this message when using the updated dbconnect.php file included with the beta 5.7 release. Not sure if this is something new to 5.7, since I haven't updated dbconnect.php for a long time.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _() in /home/.fetchit/scad/scadart.com/libs/dbconnect.php on line 6


dbconnect.php line 6:
function _($s) {return $s;}

I removed line 6 and everything is working fine to my knowledge.

[cryptkeeper]

wish I could code I dropped out off compsci in college 8 years ago, regret it to this day.

edit: looked it up on google, apperantly everyone that got the same error (in wordpress) says that commenting out the offending code fixes the problem, however they do not know what is affected by commenting it out. dunno if that's usless info to you

[AshDigg]

You're not supposed to use the dbconnect that's included. You need to use the one that was created when you ran the installer.

The installer add's the line "function _($s) {return $s;}" to your dbconnect ONLY if you need it (like my test box does).

[weblord]

i was also having the same problem and after removing this line:
function _($s) {return $s;}

from dbconnect.php that fixed it. thanks as well

[LG-2]

Yea that function is needed by the normal spanish script I don't know about Pligg's script. I left mine up because without it it doesn't work.