Time for block content not checked properly

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jul 12, 2003 Posts: 3

I just downloaded phpnuke 6.5 and I added a new block to download recent news from Freshmeat. The problem I encountered was that every time I load a page on my site, it always calls the Freshmeat site, even though the refresh is set for 1 hour.

I discovered in 'mainfile.php' that the variable $otime is used to compare against the current time. However, $otime isn't set properly. (See below).

$sql = "SELECT title, content, url, refresh, time FROM ".$prefix."_blocks WHERE bid='$bid'";

$otime = $row[otime];

if ($otime < $past) {

The fix is to change the line that sets $otime to this:

$otime = $row[time];

What I'd like to know is, is this fixed in php-nuke 6.8? Is this a known issue?

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

Great catch! An NO to both questions! I have moved this post to Bug Fixes, because that is what it is. We will get this passed to FB with your credit in it.

BTW, under Blocks Administration, the Freshmeat RSS feed is already supplied. You just need to activate it.

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 7:42 pm

i looked at that code for a hour 'cause my nc feed was slow and i finally decided it must have been my host -LOL thanks packetmaster!

Private Joined: Jun 09, 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Denmark

Just imagin Twisted Evil

this error know for such a long time is also present in PhpNuke 7.0 Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:21 am

make sure you have the real 7.0.0 final

7.0 alpha 2 had it but its fixed in the final version of 7
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpnuke/PHP-Nuke-7.0.zip

otherwise, if youre having a blocks issue its prolly unrelated to this bug