Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on a non-object

Line 87 being:

$count_raw = $link_body->find('#widget_bounds > span', 0);

yea, its one of the comment services’s is returning an empty string/error instead of the correct data or a zero if there are none … and my silly persons has not put any error checking into that chunk of code yet to watch for it …. but before 1.5.8 is pushed i for sure will

thanks

yea , its a bit crude and I’ll fix it better in the next update but you can replace that whole line with this one below and it will check for that so it wont happen again when your server or google ( i’m guessing you server ) becomes to overwhelmed ?? )


if(!empty($link_body)) {
$count_raw = $link_body->find('#widget_bounds > span', 0);
}

Cheers!

So, this (the whole section):

function comments_evolved_get_gplus_count($url = "") {
  include_once COMMENTS_EVOLVED_LIB . '/simple_html_dom.php';
  if(empty($url)){ $url = get_permalink(); }
  $link = 'https://apis.google.com/_/widget/render/commentcount?bsv&href=' . urlencode($url);
  $link_body = get_transient('ce_'.$link);
  if (false === $link_body) {
    $link_body = wp_remote_retrieve_body(wp_remote_get($link));
    set_transient('ce_'.$link, $link_body, 60);
  }
  $link_body = str_get_html($link_body);
  if(!empty($link_body)) {
  $count_raw = $link_body->find('#widget_bounds > span', 0);
}
  $count_arr = split(" ",$count_raw->plaintext);
  return trim($count_arr[0]);
}