AMP PHP error

Hello @ecronik

Thank you for reaching out!
TBH, this is the first time I am seeing this PHP Notice. Not sure what’s not working there, however, w3tc_footer_comment is called to check if ( $this->is_amp_endpoint()
If you check the source of your amp page:

<!--
Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/

Object Caching 195/257 objects using disk
Page Caching using disk: enhanced 
Database Caching 16/55 queries in 0.012 seconds using disk (Request-wide modification query)
AMP page, minification is limited

Served from: yourgames.tv @ 2022-12-22 15:03:02 by W3 Total Cache
-->

I’ve bolded the AMP page, minification is limited
Can you please share when you have started to see this PHP notice and are there any issues with serving the AMP pages or using the MAP with W3TC?

Thanks!

Hey @vmarko ,

no issues with serving/using the AMP, but will keep an eye on it, thanks!

One additional question: Did a load-test on the site, and this PHP warning occurred:

[22-Dec-2022 13:22:54 UTC] PHP Warning: filesize(): stat failed for x/wp-content/cache/db/singletables/e8a/15f/e8a15f713be1e24682a7013b86519d27.php in x/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/Cache_File.php on line 159

What’s happening there? Would also be great, if you could edit the sitename out of your previous reply.

Thanks and happy holidays!

Hey @ecronik

Thank you for your feedback. I am unable to edit out the site name unfortunately since you replied to the forum post. I’ll check with the moderators. I am sorry I thought it was ok since you shared your website URL in the initial post.
As for the warning, this suggests that the file is not there or has old data. Try manually deleting the wp-content/cache/db/singletables/ folder
As I can see you have Database Cache enabled and using the Disk caching method for this.
I would advise reconsidering this and using Memory based caching solution for DB caching, like Redis or Memcached. using disk-database caching (on shared hosting) can make your site slower. This is so because getting data from the database can be faster than getting cached data from the disk.

Thanks!

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Hello @sterndata

Thank you for the info on this.

Hm, I’m on shared and only have Disk available; everything else is greyed out @vmarko – so you would advise in this case to turn off DB caching? Using Object Caching too. Or is it another activated option somewhere that prevents me from choosing something else than Disk?

I’ve shared the URL with the post, but as far as I know it’s only visible for logged in users (so it’s not going into SE-index), right?

Hello @ecronik

Yes, if you are on a shared hosting then the memory-based caching is most likely unavailable to you. In order to be able to use Redis or memcached, you need to install phpRedis or phpmemcached module on yoru server, so that W3 Total Cache is able to use it and recognize it.

For both DB caching and Object Caching, it’s best not to use it on Disk when on a shared server. Object Caching you can keep enabled as it’s more efficient, however you should disable Database Caching.

Yes, your URL is only visible to logged-in users. The one I shared is formatted so there should be no problems.

Thanks!

Hi @vmarko – just letting you know that the PHP notices keep coming back. But unfortunately can’t tell what actions are causing it.

Thanks

Hello @ecronik

Thank you for your feedback.

Are you referring to the PHP Notices related to the AMP?
Can you please share them and again are you experiencing the problem serving amp pages?

Thanks!

Hi @vmarko

I hope you had great Christmas holidays! I was referring to the PHP notices and thought you wanted me to let you know when they keep occurring, but I misunderstood your reply. Unfortunately, I can’t say for sure when the notice first appeared. However, AMP’s functionality still doesn’t seem to be affected.

Thanks

Hey @ecronik

Sorry for the late reply, I was trying to replicate this and figure it out.
As I’ve stated in the first reply, this is related to the W3TC html snippet. You can safely ignore this notice, however, we’ll check more and investigate this to make sure AMP notice does not show up anymore in the future.

Thanks!

Hi @vmarko

I hope you are doing well! In addition to the PHP notice about AMP, there is a new warning in the logs now, that happens every couple of minutes:

[17-Jan-2023 09:08:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /www/htdocs/xxx/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/Util_AttachToActions.php on line 79

The site (you can find the link in my initial post) runs w/ W3TC v2.2.11

Another thing I could need your help with is about the AJAX functions (load more posts) of the site within articles and also on the home page, for example. After a while, it doesn’t work anymore, and the loader spins until infinity; the console shows this:

jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0:2
POST https://domain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?td_theme_name=Newspaper&v=12.2 403
send @ jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0:2
ajax @ jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0:2
tdAjaxDoBlockRequest @ tagdiv_theme.min.js?ver=12.2:281
(anonymous) @ tagdiv_theme.min.js?ver=12.2:272
dispatch @ jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0:2
v.handle @ jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0:2
c @ rocket-loader.min.js:1

I guess that’s an issue with a Nonce, but I can’t find any solution to it yet. Keeping the HTML/XML TTL under 2h seems to work so far, but not sure if that was really the fix. Do you maybe have another idea to be able to have a longer TTL? If not, do you see any problems in setting the HTML/XML TTL to 115 minutes? Cron runs every 5 Mins, and garbage collection every hour. CSS/JS and Media TTL is a year.

Thank you,

eC

Hello @ecronik

Thank you for your feedback.
I’ve had a chat with the devs and as for the AMP notice, you can ignore this as it’s only being used to call w3tc_footer_comment and as you can see it is working as expected.

Regarding the Util_AttachToActions.php we are aware of this and this will be fixed in the next release.
As a temporary fix please comment out line 33 of Util_AttachToActions.php

//add_action( ‘wp_set_comment_status’, array( $o, ‘on_comment_status’ ), 0, 2 );

The HTML&XML TTL is how long the page will stay cached in the browser. And yes, there might be a problem with nonce so therefore lowering the TTL for HTML and XML is the best solution and it will not impact the corn or the Garbage collection interval.
I can see that you are also using a rocket loader so this can also potentially cause a problem with jquery.min.js

Thanks!

Hey @vmarko

Thanks for your quick response! I would like to double-check this again: You don’t see a possible problem when having HTML/XML TTL set to 115 minutes, cron set to 5 minutes, and garbage collection set to 60 minutes? I’m just trying to avoid a possible mismatch between the timings, as it could happen with preloading.

Thanks,

eC

Hi @vmarko

commenting out line 33 of Util_AttachToActions.php did unfortunately not prevent the PHP warnings.

Thanks,

eC