Magento: Fatal error: Call to a member function getModelInstance() on a non-object in app\Mage.php on line 432

Question

I want to call a PHP file using ajax where in that PHP i will place order by the ajax call. But it throws error while i am using app/Mage.php from that file

require_once '../../../../../../../../../../app/Mage.php';    
$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer');

then it says

Fatal error: Call to a member function getModelInstance() on a non-object in app\Mage.php on line 432

Can anyone please help me???

I have solved it by using $customer = new Mage_Customer_Model_Customer(); instead of using $customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer'); — itsazzad, Aug 22 '11 at 09:34

score 39 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:42

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Your proposed solution is not optimal. You have not initialized Magento so module XML is not loaded yet and the factory pattern does not work.

Simply use either:

Mage::init(); // 1.5+

or

Mage::app(); // (pretty much anything) below 1.5

before using getModel.

answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:42

Daniel Sloof

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its shows me this error "Mage registry key "controller" already exists" – Tahir Yasin Dec 04 '12 at 12:34
Thanks Daniel Sloof. I struggled a lot with this error. +11111111 – ParekhAbhishekN May 02 '16 at 18:53
Thanks Daniel, that helped. – Brad Fellows Jun 07 '17 at 20:52
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8 years later you're still helping people with this answer... +1 – Henry van Megen May 29 '19 at 11:08

Alex · Answer 2 · 2013-01-07T21:25:51.890

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You should initialize the Magento Framework first:

/* Store or website code */
$mageRunCode = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_CODE'] : '';

/* Run store or run website */
$mageRunType = isset($_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['MAGE_RUN_TYPE'] : 'store';

Mage::init($mageRunCode, $mageRunType, array());

edited Jan 07 '13 at 21:25

answered Aug 22 '11 at 09:44

Alex

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It seems like `Mage::init($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);` would be more appropriate, but +1! (But note, I'm using Mage EE 1.12. Might be different for different versions :) Thanks, solved my error. – Nick Rolando Jan 07 '13 at 20:01

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '13 at 15:00

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you need to initialize magento. the safest way to initialize it is by using initializer before your actual call to the model

Mage::init();

$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer');

answered May 15 '13 at 15:00

Emil Reña Enriquez

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 03 '14 at 11:40

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I got the same error message. The solution was different. I forgot to give the permission on the magento folder to the Apache.

chown -R apache:apache magento

answered Jun 03 '14 at 11:40

30thh

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 22 '15 at 03:57

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I personally had solved it by using

$customer = new Mage_Customer_Model_Customer();

instead of using

$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer');

answered Feb 22 '15 at 03:57

itsazzad

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Magento: Fatal error: Call to a member function getModelInstance() on a non-object in app\Mage.php on line 432

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