Hi!
We run two sites on Joomla 3.7.2, PHP 7.0.20 and MySQLi 5.5.5-10.1.24-MariaDB. We have updated both consistently since they were built and only now we discover this issue. I recently restored both sites from a backup using Akeeba. Whenever trying to save a change or a new module/article or attempt navigating to Global Configuration we get the "Error decoding JSON data: Syntax error".
I have spent a day researching this issue and have now used the https://github.com/robwent/joomla-json-db-check script. It did not find any empty spaces to start with but reported a series of one type of error and one instance of another. Since I am not trained in PHP, even when looking at the code in https://jsonlint.com I still cannot understand what is wrong with it.
I am posting the code here asking for help to find out what is wrong with it.
The first error shown is in _acymailing_mail:
Row 5 is not valid JSON. Error: (Syntax error)
Content: a:3:{s:6:"action";s:7:"confirm";s:13:"actionbtntext";s:28:"{trans:CONFIRM_SUBSCRIPTION}";s:9:"actionurl";s:19:"{confirm}{/confirm}";}
Next comes 54 errors that all look to be very similar:
Row 77 is not valid JSON. Error: (Syntax error)
Content: a:3:{s:6:"action";s:4:"none";s:13:"actionbtntext";s:0:"";s:9:"actionurl";s:0:"";}
The second one is shown in _extensions:
Row 23 is not valid JSON. Error: (Syntax error)
Content: {"filters":{"1":{"filter_type":"NH","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"9":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"6":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"7":{"filter_type":"NONE","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"2":{"filter_type":"NH","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"3":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"4":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"5":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"8":{"filter_type":"NONE","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""}},}},}}}
I can edit the code myself if only someone could tell me what is wrong with it and what needs to be changed.
Best Regards
Johan Niklasson
We run two sites on Joomla 3.7.2, PHP 7.0.20 and MySQLi 5.5.5-10.1.24-MariaDB. We have updated both consistently since they were built and only now we discover this issue. I recently restored both sites from a backup using Akeeba. Whenever trying to save a change or a new module/article or attempt navigating to Global Configuration we get the "Error decoding JSON data: Syntax error".
I have spent a day researching this issue and have now used the https://github.com/robwent/joomla-json-db-check script. It did not find any empty spaces to start with but reported a series of one type of error and one instance of another. Since I am not trained in PHP, even when looking at the code in https://jsonlint.com I still cannot understand what is wrong with it.
I am posting the code here asking for help to find out what is wrong with it.
The first error shown is in _acymailing_mail:
Row 5 is not valid JSON. Error: (Syntax error)
Content: a:3:{s:6:"action";s:7:"confirm";s:13:"actionbtntext";s:28:"{trans:CONFIRM_SUBSCRIPTION}";s:9:"actionurl";s:19:"{confirm}{/confirm}";}
Next comes 54 errors that all look to be very similar:
Row 77 is not valid JSON. Error: (Syntax error)
Content: a:3:{s:6:"action";s:4:"none";s:13:"actionbtntext";s:0:"";s:9:"actionurl";s:0:"";}
The second one is shown in _extensions:
Row 23 is not valid JSON. Error: (Syntax error)
Content: {"filters":{"1":{"filter_type":"NH","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"9":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"6":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"7":{"filter_type":"NONE","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"2":{"filter_type":"NH","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"3":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"4":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"5":{"filter_type":"BL","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""},"8":{"filter_type":"NONE","filter_tags":"","filter_attributes":""}},}},}}}
I can edit the code myself if only someone could tell me what is wrong with it and what needs to be changed.
Best Regards
Johan Niklasson
