Got error message when trying to add a new (old) species

[bekateen]

Hi Jools,

Farlowella gladiolus is currently considered a valid species. I tried to add it using the quick add of existing species function, and I received the following error message:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/admin/functions/add_species.php:84 Stack trace: #0 /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/admin/quick_add_species.php(43): add_species('Farlowella glad...', true) #1 /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/admin/index.php(350): quick_add_species->submit(Object(phpbb\db\driver\factory)) #2 /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/admin/index.php(297): arn_admin_guts('qas', Object(phpbb\db\driver\factory), Object(phpbb\user), '5.1.1') #3 {main} thrown in /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/admin/functions/add_species.php on line 84

Is this because F. gladiolus is already a synonym of

Farlowella amazonum

? I know of other examples in the CLOG where a specific epithet is both a valid name for one species, and a synonym for another, so I'm not clear on why this would be the hangup... in other words, I don't expect that to be the problem.

Cheers, Eric

[bekateen]

Never mind, I was able to resolve it. So apparently the error was because Farlowella gladiolus was already a synonym of another species. I deleted the synonym entry, then added the species. Once

Farlowella gladiolus

was added as a species, I re-added it as a synonym under

Farlowella amazonum

, and that task completed without problem. So apparently you can have the same name as both a valid species and as a synonym of another species (which we already knew), but you have to add the valid species first, then the synonym after.

Cheers,
Eric

[Jools]

The error should not be caused because the synonym exists already, however I can't see from the error what has caused it.

If a species is valid, it should not have a synonym entry - so have deleted it.

Cheers,

Jools

[Jools]

Think this is fixed now?

Jools

[bekateen]

Think this is fixed now?

Haven't had a problem with synonyms or adding species since then (except what happened a couple of weeks ago, which you fixed recently).

Thanks for following up.

Cheers, Eric