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Ran into this one today while setting up a local environment with DDEV:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function cache_get() in /var/www/html/includes/module.inc:754
 Stack trace:
 #0 /var/www/html/includes/module.inc(954): module_implements('system_theme_in...')
 #1 /var/www/html/modules/system/system.module(2511): module_invoke_all('system_theme_in...')
 #2 /var/www/html/includes/theme.inc(798): _system_rebuild_theme_data()
 #3 /var/www/html/includes/theme.maintenance.inc(57): list_themes()
 #4 /var/www/html/includes/bootstrap.inc(2922): _drupal_maintenance_theme()
 #5 /var/www/html/includes/errors.inc(179): drupal_maintenance_theme()
 #6 /var/www/html/includes/bootstrap.inc(2634): _drupal_log_error(Array, true)
 #7 [internal function]: _drupal_exception_handler(Object(Error))
 #8 {main}
 thrown in /var/www/html/includes/module.inc on line 754
 Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error.

It’s not very obvious at all what’s going on here. Clearly, Drupal is somehow failing to load. I at first thought it was the database connection details not getting loaded properly and ensured that they were OK. But the error persisted.

“Strange,” I thought. “The DB connection info is definitely correct.” So I went back to https://www.drupal.org/forum/support/post-installation/2016-06-23/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-cache_get, which had some up in search, again. Everyone hitting the error seemed to have syntax errors in their settings.php. I figured that, logically, I must too, and just not be seeing it.

Sure enough:

if ($file_exists($dir . '/settings.local.php')) {
  require_once($dir . '/settings.local.php');
}

❝I think you’re looking for the file_exists() function there, buddy.❞

So I removed the extraneous $ and, sure enough, the site started working.

This has been another episode of the ongoing worldwide series Is It Plugged In?

I wanted to echo the blog post from FillPDF Service here. I’m working on a brand new version that is going to be way easier to use, and won’t be de-facto limited to use via the Drupal module. I’m starting a private beta test soon and opening up an early version to testers.

Sign up for the private beta.

It’s going to (finally) be a real REST API! Use vanilla PHP, Python, Elixir, whatever, and fill in PDFs without having to upload them to a server first. Most similar services either require that you upload your PDF template in advance or are hard to use. FillPDF Service doesn’t need that, and it won’t begin to. I may add similar features later on, but it will be on top of what’s already there.

I’m very excited about what’s to come. It will be a big change for FillPDF Service.

Anyway, beta testers will get free usage up to a certain point (most likely equivalent to the Clipboard plan, 600 merges) and can pay for more after that. The existing flexible billing features, like flexible overages, will come later. The beta is basically the API without the billing system set up. I’ll be setting that up while people beta test.

Sign up for the private beta.

I wasn’t planning on Drupaldelphia OR Drupal Dev Days this year, but I’ll be going to both. If you are too, and want to meet up or talk, get in touch via my contact form above or on Twitter.

P.S. I’m strongly considering going to DrupalCamp Nordics in Stockholm early September and Drupal Iron Camp in/near Belgrade mid-to-late October. Playing with the idea of WordCamp Vienna, too, but that’s much less likely 🙂

You may notice that I haven’t blogged in quite some time. I was busy with a long-term client, so I was focusing more on that than this website. Things changed a bit, and I’ve decided to be more active here.

I have a couple blog posts in the pipeline, one on avoiding a nasty issue when PHPUnit in Drupal 8 to test an API powered by another Drupal 8 site.

I also want to give my impressions of DrupalCamp London 2018, which I attended.

Meanwhile, I’ve updated the site a bit. The old Services page is now the Solutions page. There is also a new Pricing page, which is still in progress.

I plan to make it easy to book time with me over the coming months.