Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status: Open
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Priority:
Trivial
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 4.4.4
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Fix Version/s: Unscheduled
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Component/s: Core CiviCRM
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Labels:None
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Versioning Impact:Patch (backwards-compatible bug fixes)
Description
On a clean minimal Ubuntu build, php5-curl is not installed. This causes the News Dashlet to be blank. CRM_Utils_HttpClient::get returns a status of dl-error which causes CRM_Dashlet_Page_Blog::_getFeed to return null, resulting in an empty page.
There is a commented out CRM_Core_Error::fatal in get. The difference in behaviour between get() and fetch() is noted in a FIXME comment.
If the News Dashlet cannot load the feed because of missing curl functionality it would be better to provide an error/help message than leave it blank - particularly since the News Dashlet is enabled by default on a new install.