Blank page when activating theme on Heroku

[bahoo]

Per several recommendations, I'm using https://github.com/xyu/heroku-wp as a template for my WordPress on Heroku install. TwentyTen and other default themes work great but the Bernie theme turns up blank.

I've got ACF installed and gulp build ran. Let me know if I am missing any other obvious steps.

Haven't had time to dig into it just yet; mostly making a note for myself / anyone else who might be experiencing it. i will close this or submit a PR once I get it nailed down.

[atticoos]

Have you seen any traces in the php error logs?

[bahoo]

Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /app/public.built/wp-content/themes/Bernie2016/home.php on line 25

Seems like this comes down to how to handle CDATA, either with the approach you used http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650203/getting-cdata-content-while-parsing-xml-file or casting with (string), which unfortunately didn't work with me, either.

Side note / more fun in debugging, since that heroku-wp uses HipHop, I ran into this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28015051/phpinfo-not-working-correctly-in-hhvm :D the recommended HHVMInfo has DB credentials but I'm happy to share it privately, if that might be of help.

According to http://php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php#82067 your method should work as of 5.1, and I'm running 5.6.

Edit: Looks like this has been called out https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/650

HHVM definitely seems edge case to me, but bummer that it's the one (/ recommended) way to get WordPress up and running quickly.

I'll keep digging.

[bahoo]

This is now irrelevant. Don't run this on Heroku / HHVM.

[atticoos]

Oh man, the best kind of issue closure