E107: Unable to change site preference setting "User class which can email links to items on site" under comments/posting section.

[nalicko]

Bug Description

Tried to change the "User class which can email links to items on site" setting from Members user class to No One (inactive). However, when attempting to change the setting to any other user class and submitting the changes, it prompts an error stating "Settings not saved as no changes were made." I am using the latest version 2.3.0 and have tried using Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Internet Explorer with no success.

How to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'Site Preferences'
2. Click on 'Comments/Posting'
3. Scroll down to 'User class which can email links to items on site'
4. Change setting to another user class
5. Error "Settings not saved as no changes were made."

Expected Behavior

Setting should have changed to the selected user class.

PHP Operating System

Linux s21.fused.com 2.6.32-754.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 27 15:30:33 UTC 2020 x86_64

PHP Version

PHP Version 5.6.40

MySQL Version

MySQL Version 5.7.31

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Client Information

Your user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36
Other HTTP headers
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Host: duckduckgo.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36
SEC-FETCH-DEST: document
SEC-FETCH-MODE: navigate
SEC-FETCH-SITE: none
UPGRADE-INSECURE-REQUESTS: 1

Additional Information

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[Jimmi08]

Confirmed.
$_POST is correct
$newValue = $tp->toDB($value);is correct

it fails on this line:
$core_pref->update($key, $newValue);

Note: this prefs 'email_item_class' is not listed in core prefs in default_install.xml

[CaMer0n]

Thank you @nalicko

Please update your e107_core/xml/default_install.xml file with the one in github and then run the core preference update found here:

(your-site.com)/e107_admin/db.php?mode=db_update

[CaMer0n]

Closing this, but please re-open if it occurs again.