Body field is not displayed in Comment Views

Question

I have a comments listing view. When I make the the row style as comments everything is displaying fine. But when I make the row style as fields and add the comment:comment field to the list, the comment body is not showing up.

Things I have checked

1. There is no field access for this field.
2. The field is using the default template, so it is not being overridden.
3. Checked the body field display settings, it is configured to show and format plain text is enabled.
4. I am previewing the view as admin so there should be no access concerns as well.
5. The view is showing other fields normally.
6. "Exclude this display" box unchecked.
7. Changed the theme to Bartik and also disabled the javascript to be double sure.
8. Comment related modules I have are ajax-comments and onecomment module. I disabled both, rebuilt permissions and cleared the cache :)

Answer 1

Sometimes permissions are declared as constants... and sometimes constants are declared this way:

define(MY_MODULE_PERMISSION,'My module permission');

Depending on the PHP configuration the name of the constant will be assumed as 'MY_MODULE_PERMISSION'... but not always.

Using this constant in hook permission will lead you to very weird problems. Check your custom modules and make sure you declare constants with its name as string, like this:

define('MY_MODULE_PERMISSION','My module permission');

Hope that helps.

PD: The code which I'm referring worked fine on Acquia but throw problems on Platform.sh. You can imagine how difficult it was to find the culprit.

Answer 2

Well.. at this point you may have to resort to the following.

First of all, make a backup of your database.

Plan A) Disable views and uninstall it (so all the database tables are erased), then delete the views folder. Download it again, upload the folder and enable it. If this fixes your problem, you can use the view's export/import to quickly import all the view's you had.

Plan B) Disable every module you have in sites/all/modules folder except for Views. Then if it works now, enable them one by one to see which one is causing this.

Plan C) If A or B doesn't work, well... I hate to say it, reinstall Drupal :(