That is true, attempt to access user that has been created but does not have profile will cause fatal error.
Regarding your question, yes, it is possible to have the user without profile. The profile view is created on the first user login, see auth/user.php, load_views() call from authenticate(). ** Changed in: mahara Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: mahara Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885588 Title: user/view.php PHP Fatal error in non-auth access Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed Bug description: This is Mahara 1.4.0: Each 4 minutes or so, I was getting the following error on PHP error log: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in [MAHARA_DIRROOT]/user/view.php on line 67 To reproduce just access /user/view.php without being authenticated. The access log shows GoogleBot trying to access user's profile page. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/885588/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp