Patch for a Critical Bug in Version 3.5.6

A rather serious bug was brought to my attention a couple of hours back, that would prevent users from posting comments (I had been wondering why I had received no comments yet on my last announcement!). This bug was causing the ill-famed “white screen of death” whenever users tried to post comments. I took quick steps to resolve this and I have provided the patch at two places:

1. The original post reporting this on support forum.
2. At the WordPress forum itself.

And for good measure I am reiterating the fix here:

1. Open the file comments.php.
2. Look for this block of code near the top:

   
          global $suffusion_unified_options, $post;
          foreach ($suffusion_unified_options as $id => $value) {
             $$id = $value;
          }
   

3. Either delete it or comment it out.
4. Use this code instead:

   
          global $options, $suffusion_options, $post;
          foreach ($options as $value) {
             if (isset($value['id']) && isset($value['std'])) {
                if (!isset($suffusion_options[$value['id']])) {
                   $$value['id'] = $value['std'];
                }
                else {
                   $$value['id'] = $suffusion_options[$value['id']];
                }
             }
          }
   

5. Save and you should be fine.

I have already submitted version 3.5.7 to address this, but given that 3.5.6 took such a long time to get approved I wanted to provide this code to users upfront.