phpnuke 7.9 numerous problems

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 20, 2005 Posts: 2

I just installed phpnuke 7.9 yesterday after having to redo the entire site, I had everything up and running just fine but however once I added in a theme or any kind of custom block I am no longer able to make blocks, make changes to blocks, make new story posts add in any topic graphics nothing. I am not sure what is going on but this did not happen the other day before I redid the site it was working just fine.

I am not a phpnuke wiz so I am going to need some serious help with this, I have not used the patch file in fear of losing stuff on the site. Please someone give me a hand.

Thanks,
Ette

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

I'm not sure what it could be. You are describing very strange symtoyms. If you cannot duplicate it, my guess is that it is a server stablity issue, not necessarily phpNuke. And if you don't have it Patched, we don't know if any of these bugs were already fixed

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 20, 2005 Posts: 2

I actually tried the patch and it actually screwed up my site, I just seem to be having an all around horrible time with php this time around. I guess I will be speaking to my host about this since there really is not much that anyone has said that can help me out.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

Yea, 7.9 is another untested buggy release from FB. So good luck with that

Nuke Soldier Joined: Feb 18, 2005 Posts: 16

Evaders99 wrote:

Yea, 7.9 is another untested buggy release from FB. So good luck with that

Another poster jumping in and adding a related question to the thread.

Been thinking of upgrading from 7.5 to something. Any thoughts on that?

7.5 seems stable but I've been having problems with users not being able to access their accounts and profiles that are private becoming public. Thought perhaps 7.7 .8 or .9 might be more stable?

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

G.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

At this point, 7.6 is the most recommended - pretty stable. If you absolutely need the WYSIWYG editor, then you could use 7.7 or higher

Make sure you use the Patched files too - will keep things secure and fix many bugs - http://www.nukeresources.com

Nuke Cadet Joined: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 3

I upgraded from 7.2/phpbb 2.07 TO 7.9 and 2.0.19 recently and I wish there was a better alternative to phpnuke. I had so many headaches it took a week to get it reasonably working. I still have problems. Like everytime I enter a single quote in a tinymce textarea the output is multiple single quotes everywhere I had only one. I installed tinymce on my old 7.2 site and it worked great. So when I write "it's" it will show up on the page as it''''s and some words on the same page will be it''''''''s. Rediculous annoyances like this. I won't be giving Burzzi 10 bucks anymore when new releases come out, I've paid dearly in all the frustration for the next 20 years.

To fix your Topic images not appearing in your news stories in 7.9 even though they show up in your admin edit topics page and even though you have img tag in your AllowableHTML list you need to do something with this code in mainfile.php.
The variable $topicimage i.e. $t_image = $t_image . $tipath . $topicimage in your theme.php gets toasted by the function gettopics in mainfile.php.

7.9 mainfile.php

Code:

function getTopics($s_sid) {
global $topicname, $topicimage, $topictext, $prefix, $db;
$sid = intval($s_sid);
$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT t.topicname, t.topicimage, t.topictext FROM ".$prefix."_stories s LEFT JOIN ".$prefix."_topics t ON t.topicid = s.topic WHERE s.sid = '".$sid."'");
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
$db->sql_freeresult($result);
$topicname = filter($row[topicname], "nohtml");
$topicimage = filter($row[topicimage], "nohtml");
$topictext = filter($row[topictext], "nohtml");
}

Replace it with older code such as:
7.2 or maybe 7.6 is the same as 7.2 I dunno

7.2 mainfile.php

Code:

function getTopics($s_sid) {
global $topicname, $topicimage, $topictext, $prefix, $db;
$sid = $s_sid;
$sid = intval($sid);
$sql = "SELECT topic FROM ".$prefix."_stories WHERE sid='$sid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
$sql = "SELECT topicid, topicname, topicimage, topictext FROM ".$prefix."_topics WHERE topicid='$row[topic]'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
$topicid = $row[topicid];
$topicname = $row[topicname];
$topicimage = $row[topicimage];
$topictext = $row[topictext];
}

It worked for me. I guess it ain't much of an upgrade when I have to resort to older code snippets to get stuff to work Mad

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12403

Try this:

in mainfile.php, comment out or delete this line

Code:

$what = str_replace("'","''",$what);

I don't use 7.9 myself, nor pay FB for any such release.
There are a lot of alternatives to phpNuke, all kinds of CMS systems. A good site to view and demo them is at http://www.opensourcecms.com