How to fix 'Call to undefined function node_load() in menu.inc' fatal PHP error?

Question

Copied my live site to my local computer. From Windows server 2008 to Windows 7. Took a backup of the database via mysqldump. Restored the database on the dev-db-server. Now I'm trying to get my local copy up-n-running. Browsing index.php gives me

Fatal error: Call to undefined function node_load() in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\my_drupal\includes\menu.inc on line 577

My hunch is that I have missed some web server settings allowing parent path or similar?

I have installed PHP and 5.3.13 and URL Rewriter via Web Platform Installer. According to CHANGELOG.TXT I'm running Drupal 7.0

However phpinfo(); works fine.

Edit / Update: I tried to narrow down the error. Following code fails on line 3. If I change the path on line 2 to something wrong the require_once will fail. Apparently IIS is able to find bootstrap.inc, but bootstrap.inc cannot find user_access()

define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

Answer 1

Problem was the file encoding from mysqldump. My solution: Downloaded the sql file to my local computer. Saved it in UTF-8 with Sublime Text 2. Run the script. And things worked fine with the original drupal files copied from web server. Did not need to run registry_rebuild etc.

Answer 2

Here are few tips:

• Make sure your Drupal core has all the files in the right place (especially the Node module)
• Upgrade your Drupal core to the latest version (drush fr && drush up drupal)
• Clear all your caches (drush -y cc all), including your memcached (killall memcached)
• Rebuild your registry by using Registry Rebuild
• If you're using modules which are implementing drupal_bootstrap() (such as Secure Site), disable them
• Try disabling your PHP cache engines (such as XCache, Zend optimizer) to see if that's the problem
• Test it in a different environment/machine
• Check your database collation (it should be case insensitive, e.g.: general_ci).
• Eventually restore your database from the point where it was working before.

Answer 3

I have also encountered the same error. Even if I export using UTF-8 charset the problem was there.

The problem was with HeidiSQL (version 8.3) for me. When I imported it using mysql command everything started working fine.

Answer 4

Had same issue, due to a silly typo mistake in settings.php

As you see in the wrong example below

$databases = array (
  'default' =>
    array (
     'default' =>
       array (
         'database' => 'd7_mydb',
         'username' => 'dbusername,'
         'password' => 'c1v5fnfavcb',
         'host' => 'localhost',
         'port' => '',
         'driver' => 'mysql',
         'prefix' => '',
   ),
),
);

... once moved the comma in the right place,

'username' => 'dbusername',

my Drupal 7 came back to life

Answer 5

I had this error appear rather suddenly on one of our Drupal 7 sites. Went through a lengthy verification process of other things listed, but in the end, all I did was flush my cache manually as described here.

MySQL:

TRUNCATE TABLE cache;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_block;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_bootstrap;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_field;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_filter;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_image;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_menu;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_page;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_path;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_token;
TRUNCATE TABLE cache_update;

SQL Server:

DELETE FROM cache;
DELETE FROM cache_block;
DELETE FROM cache_bootstrap;
DELETE FROM cache_field;
DELETE FROM cache_filter;
DELETE FROM cache_image;
DELETE FROM cache_menu;
DELETE FROM cache_page;
DELETE FROM cache_path;
DELETE FROM cache_token;
DELETE FROM cache_update;