Hi everyone!
I’m getting a PHP error message when trying to import contacts from a CSV file.
The error is the following:
NOTICE: [8] Trying to get property of non-object on line 428 in file /var/www/html/suitecrmgcoop/modules/Contacts/Contact.php
I’m using version 7.9.11
Thank you!
If that error is shown on screen, then just turn it off.
Your error_reporting should be set to E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED in php.ini.
You can also try changing display_errors to false.
Notices aren’t really errors, so this shouldn’t be a problem.
Tell me if that fixes the import for you.
Actually, both options (error_reporting and display_errors) are set as you said. Nevertheless, it kept throwing this notice and interrupting import on about 10% of progress.
So I checked the line 428 on the script Contacts.php. It goes like this:
// Set campaign name if there is a campaign id
if( !empty($this->campaign_id)){
$camp = new Campaign();
$where = "campaigns.id='{$this->campaign_id}'";
$campaign_list = $camp->get_full_list("campaigns.name", $where, true);
$this->campaign_name = $campaign_list[0]->name;
}
The block above starts at line 422 till 429. As commented by devs, it sets campaign_name property only if there is a campaign id. None of my contact has a campaign id, as we don’t use this feature. In the Contacts CVS exported from PHPMyAdmin, some of the lines had this field empty and others NULL.
So I changed importing parameters not to map campaign_id field when importing contacts. Guess wot??? It worked!!!
Finally, I performed 2 tests: importing a dummy CVS, this time mapping campaign_id field. The first test would have campaign_id = NULL and the second campaign_id = ‘’ (empty). I thought maybe the lines with NULL would be the problem. But no. Both were imported correctly.
It’s strange. I will try again in order to find where was the problem. The weirdest thing is: why did it keep showing that notice even after I deactivated it in php.ini? After changing the config option, I rebooted.
Thank you for your time
If you can reproduce your bug in the live demo, with as short a CSV file as possible, and then open an issue on GtiHub describing it and providing that CSV, the developers can have a look at this.
I’ll do my best. The CSV with troubles had 11k contacts, more than 4MB.
Thanks. There’s a technique called “bisection” that I once learned for narrowing down the source of problems that works like this:
In your case, that’s 14 iterations:
11000
5500
2750
1375
688
344
172
86
43
21
11
5
3
1
It’s boring to do, but it’s not endless, or hopeless 
I think I just crashed demo server!!!
First, I tried my list with 1200 contacts. I knew the notice appeared near line 1000. It appeared on demo!!! So, I started your advice: bisection. But first I wanted to delete all contacts in order to avoid duplicates (if I used the duplicates find in SuiteCRM maybe the result would be different). There were some demo contacts, I think about 100. I deleted it all. During this process, server threw 504 Gateway Time-out.
Now I can’t login. It keeps throwing 504.
I’m really sorry… I didn’t mean to crash it!!! 
Don’t worry, that is probably just the Demo refreshing itself. It happens every hour (I believe) and you should be able to use it again after a few minutes.
The whole thing is reset once in a while to make sure people don’t mess it up too much. You probably just had the bad luck to be using it at that time. Try again in a few minutes…
Hahhaha great to know that!
I could reach the problematic register! I’m filling an issue on GitHub. Thank’s for your time. Tchau! See you next trouble… 