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Hello !
Today I updated 6 Joomla 5.4.0 sites to version 6.0.0 sucessfully (on all of them Akeeba Backup is installed)
When I run the update to the 7th site evrythiong went well until I called the frontend of my website
Instead of the homepage following error message appeared
Call to undefined method Joomla\Database\Mysqli\MysqliQuery::castAsChar()
My host and I investigated the issue and a member of support changed mysqli to mysql, telling me that mysqli is not supporting the function castAsChar()
Unfortunately this lead to another issue and I had to restore the backup of my version 5 site.
Nevertheless, I will want to update my website at some time, so I investigated further and found an article on your website regarding a very similiar case
Then I searched my installation of Akeeba backup for this string and found it in
/administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/vendor/akeeba/engine/engine/Driver/Query/Base.php wondering if this nay have caused the issue
/**
* Casts a value to a char.
*
* Ensure that the value is properly quoted before passing to the method.
*
* Usage:
* $query->select($query->castAsChar('a'));
*
* @param string $value The value to cast as a char.
*
* @return string Returns the cast value.
*/
public function castAsChar($value)
{
return $value;
}
As mentioned before, there was no issue updating the other sites, so probably it's not Akkeeba Backup which cazsed the issue.
It will also help if I can exclude it from the list of extensions which maybe cazsed the issue.
Thank You
P.S. I have no log file because site is restored to yesterdays state to keep it up and running.
