Various problems after upgrading from 17 - 21

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 10, 2006 Posts: 7

Hi guys

I'm new to setting up forums and such, so apologies for what probably seems like an easy question. Also, sorry if this is posted in the wrong area, so please feel free to move it if needs be.

I have setup up a PHP Nuke site, 7.6 (3.3 patched) to be exact. I noticed that the boards were version .17, so I wanted to upgrade to the latest version. This is where I think I've gone wrong.

There are NukeBB upgrade files which I found, that need to be done sequentially (as I know from experience that you can't use the standard PHPBB files). However, there are patched versions for the patched versions of Nuke, and there are Unpatched versions for patched versions such as mine.

What I believe I have done is downloaded the UNpatched version of 17-18 by mistake, and then continued up to 21 with the patched versions. Now that you know HOW I got here, I'll tell you the problems I'm having:

1) Private Message Icon is not showing up next to "Private Messages" in the modules block.

2) New post notification is very strange. When I go into the forums, several forums will be highlighted, showing me that there are new posts. Once I open a post and then go back to the forums, the other posts that are new are no longer 'lit up' so I don't know which other posts to read. When moving around, new posts should stay flagged as such until I read them or close the browser surely?

3) Smilies in ACP. When I got to the smilies section on the ACP, the existing smilies show up as missing files with the red X. When I right click them and go to properties, it says that the path it's trying to get the image from is:

modules/Forums/images/modules/Forums/images/smiles

I don't know why it's nesting the file structure, in the ACP, but the smilies work perfectly well when posting in the forums. The above file structure does NOT exist on my server, it is simply modules/Forums/images/smiles.

4) Lastly, colors in posts. I am able to highlight an area of text and then select, say, yellow to change the selected text to yellow. However, yellow remains selected in the color selection box. If I then highlight another area of text and select yellow, it won't work, because yellow is already selected in the box. If I choose another color, it works fine because the selection has changed and the color chooser only seems to work when the color changes. I have just tested changing color on this post, and after I chose a color, the font color box retained 'Default' in the box. That is what's not happening with my board.

Those are my issues, and if there is a way to do this cleanly, it would probably be easist for me to delete my files and start from scratch. I can't start from scratch where the database is concerned as the forums are active.

Any help with this will be very very very much appreciated!

Many thanks in advance
Mal

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12383

1) What icon? Are you using the standard modules block?

2) Check the cookie settings in Forums Configuration

3) Not sure about the smilies

4) I think its a problem with the Javascript and certain browsers. I know phpBB hasn't yet fixed the problems for Firefox