{"id":884,"date":"2022-08-30T15:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/09\/magento-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-method-mage_catalog_helper_productinitproductlayout-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:08:47","slug":"magento-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-method-mage_catalog_helper_productinitproductlayout-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/magento-fatal-error-call-to-undefined-method-mage_catalog_helper_productinitproductlayout-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Magento Fatal error: Call to undefined method Mage_Catalog_Helper_Product::initProductLayout()-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid given the information you provide this is a little like fishing in the dark without a lamp. Like, what Magento version are you using?<\/p>\n<p>That said, since Magento 1.5 that method is implemented on the <code>catalog\/product_view<\/code> helper, (as opposed to the <code>catalog\/product<\/code> helper referenced in the error message you posted).<\/p>\n<p>I believe you must have somehow hacked the core code, messing up the <code>Mage::helper()<\/code> factory method call in the <em>Mage\/Catalog\/controllers\/ProductController.php<\/em> controller around line 67 to produce that error.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of<br \/>\n<code>Mage::helper('catalog\/product')-&gt;initProductLayout($product, $this);<\/code> you want<br \/>\n<code>Mage::helper('catalog\/product_view')-&gt;initProductLayout($product, $this);<\/code><\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2013-11-09 22:52:33. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid given the information you provide this is a little like fishing in the dark without a lamp. Like, what Magento version are you using? That said, since Magento 1.5 that method is implemented on the catalog\/product_view helper, (as opposed to the catalog\/product helper referenced in the error message you posted). I believe you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9031,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}