Unable to load the requested language file

[jvanschaijik]

After upgrading from EE 7.4.5 to EE 7.4.6 users began to receive this error when trying to submit entries on the front end using Channel Form:
Unable to load the requested language file: language/english/spam/stopwords.php
I was able to resolve the issue temporarily by uninstalling the Spam module.

Environment Details:

• Version: EE 7.4.6
• PHP Version: 8.1.2
• MySQL Version: 8.0.3
• Web Server: Ubuntu2.14

[bryannielsen]

@jvanschaijik I was trying to reproduce this with a simple channel form in a test site with the spam module installed but I haven't gotten an error like yours yet. Could you share a simplified version of the Channel Form template perhaps?

Also can you confirm that your spam module contains the language file at system/ee/language/english/spam/stopwords.php. The contents are here if it is missing in your install.

[jvanschaijik]

Thanks for looking at this Bryan.
I have the language file where it is supposed to be.
And this is a simplified version of the template:

{exp:channel:form 
	channel="reading_tips" 
	return="members/tips" 
	status="open|draft"
	id="mijn-formulier"
	class="mijn-formulier"
	url_title="{segment_3}"
	author_only="yes"
	include_assets="yes"
	include_css="no"
}

	<label for="title" class="form-label">Title of the piece you want to link</label>
	<input type="text" class="form-control" name="title" id="title" value="{title}" size="50" maxlength="100">
	
	<input class="form-control" type="hidden" name="url_title" id="url_title" value="{url_title}" maxlength="75" size="50">

	<label for="status" class="form-label mb-0 mt-2">Status</label>
	<select name="status" id="status" class="form-select">
		{statuses}
			<option value="{status}" {selected}>{status}</option>
		{/statuses}
	</select>
	
	<label for="categories" class="form-label mb-0 mt-2">Category</label>
	{category_menu}
		<select class="form-select" name="category[]">
			{select_options}
		</select>
	{/category_menu}

	<label for="link" class="form-label mt-2">Link (URL) to the piece</label>
	<input type="text" dir="ltr" id="link" name="link" value="{link}" class="form-control">

	<label for="why_do_you_recommend_it" class="form-label mt-2">Explain why you like it (max 200 characters)</label>
	<textarea id="why_do_you_recommend_it" name="why_do_you_recommend_it" class="form-control" maxlength="200" rows="4">{why_do_you_recommend_it}</textarea>

	<label for="tip-author" class="form-label mt-2">Author of the piece (e.g. Roger Scruton)</label>
	<input type="text" dir="ltr" id="tip-author" name="tip-author" value="{tip-author}" class="form-control">

	<label for="source" class="form-label mt-2">Source (e.g. 'Wall Street Journal' or 'Fox News')</label>
	<input type="text" dir="ltr" id="source" name="source" value="{source}" class="form-control">
							
	<input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary mt-4" name="submit" value="Submit tip">

{/exp:channel:form} 

[intoeetive]

@jvanschaijik are you also using translation files (in user/language folder)? If yes, is the spam/stopwords.php file there?

[jvanschaijik]

Not that I am aware of. I haven't touched any language settings. The user/language folder only has the index.html file in it.

[bryannielsen]

@jvanschaijik there's two strange things here -

1. You have the language file that the error says can't be loaded
2. The spam module is being loaded for you on channel form entry submission

I'm having a hard time reproducing the error because 2. doesn't happen for me on a fresh EE7 install. Could you look at your exp_extensions table and see if there are any extensions using either the channel_form_submit_entry_start or channel_form_submit_entry_end hooks?

I still think 1. sounds like a bug but I'm unable to reproduce it so far

[jvanschaijik]

Bryan, as far as I can tell, my extensions table is empty.

[bryannielsen]

There is a related report in the forums too - https://expressionengine.com/forums/topic/253919/error-when-trying-to-post-a-comment. I'm having a hard time replicating this behavior though. @robinsowell any chance you could try to reproduce this too?. Nevermind I finally got it!