sendVerificationMail() error on fresh install

[richardthebrave]

After following the installation instructions with suggested defaults on a local project, a TypeError is thrown when trying to submit a comment from the front end.

Environment

Plugin version: 3.7.7
Kirby version: 5.1.4
PHP: 8.2.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Follow instructions from the official docs, using recommended approach (composer, sqlite).
2. Log into Panel and see Komments view as expected.
3. Add comment form using default snippets to page.
4. Submit a new comment on the front end.

Expected Behaviour

Success message on front end. New unpublished comment in the Komments view in the Panel.

Actual Behaviour

Notice "An error occurred" on front-end. TypeError thrown.

Request:

{"comment":"hey","email":"redacted@redacted.org","author":"Mr Comments","author_url":"","url":"","replyTo":"","replyHandle":"","language":"en","pageUuid":"page://3njrkycblqgouuq8"}

Response:

{"status":"error","exception":"TypeError","code":0,"message":"mauricerenck\\Komments\\KommentReceiver::sendVerificationMail(): Argument #1 ($email) must be of type string, null given, called in REDACTED\/site\/plugins\/komments\/plugin\/routes.php on line 81","details":null,"file":"\/site\/plugins\/komments\/lib\/KommentReceiver.php","line":206}

Workaround

1. Comment out line 81 of komments/plugin/routes.php.
2. Add 'mauricerenck.komments.spam.verification.filterUnverfied' => false to config.php (or comments are not displayed in Komments panel view).

Additional Context

• Docs suggest that spam/e-mail verification defaults to false.
• If verification is explicitly disabled ('mauricerenck.komments.spam.verification.enabled' => false) the issue persists.
• Enabling and configuring e-mail verification does not fix the issue as described.
• Note spelling error in filterUnverfied config setting.

Thanks!

Thank you for your work on this plugin, Maurice! Happy to test a fix or provide more details if needed.

[mauricerenck]

Thank you for that very helpful issue description and the nice words. :)
The latest release should resolve the issue. Could you please check it out?

[richardthebrave]

Thanks Maurice! 👍

I ran composer update, confirmed I wasn't overriding any snippets, and got the expected result, though I did need to keep the filterUnverified config flag to false in order to see unpublished comments in the Komments panel view (they do appear at the page-level kommentsInbox without the config, however).

So the minimal config to get the expected result is:

'mauricerenck.komments.storage.type' => 'sqlite',
'mauricerenck.komments.storage.sqlitePath' => './content/.db/',
'mauricerenck.komments.spam.verification.filterUnverified' => false,

Not sure if this is expected or just needs to be mentioned on the installation page. I will leave it in your hands to close the issue.

Fantastic plugin! And thanks for such a quick reply.