Forums/Private Messages Non Functional *Update-new problem*

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

I have never had my forums work correctly. When a user goes into the forums they see only the forum header with the faq, search, etc links as well as a link to login...even if they are logged into the site.

The forum is set up with categories and topics but no one can see them. I have done no tweaks to the module, templates...anything. I have tried completely reinstalling it and did the updates to take it from 2.04 to 2.06.
I have made sure it is active in admin, checked & rechecked the configuration & permissions. I even looked over the table structure in phpmyadmin.

Private Messages obviously do not work either. If a person clicks on Read Messages they get the Your_Account navbar and then the header as mentioned above and the links say to login.

In otherwords..I give up. Can anyone give me any clues where to look next or what to do? It sucks not having the forums or private messages work at all.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:12 am

Ok,

I had a site that had this problem recently, but only AFTER I installed the admin patches. I had to manually go in, restore the files from the admin patches and manually put the edits in.

If I remember correctly it had something to do with one of the files in the includes directory. userregcp or something.

-sting

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Thanks Sting,

I will start checking it out from there and hope I can catch something!

I was beginning to think there is a problem with the user table even though things look correct.

Shalida

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

well, this is interesting. I have gotten it to the point where visitors can see the forums but registered users cannot. If a registered user goes to the forums they get the header & links with login as mentioned above. If you enter the forums as a visitor however you can see all the categories & topics.

I went in as a visitor and then tried to login at the bottom login boxes and got the error "You have specified an incorrect or inactive username, or an invalid password."

So, something is not "talking" to something else. Can anyone give me some clues/help/pointers on what to check.

thanks!

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

One more thing, and this is weird...I created a new user and they can see the forums. Old users cannot.

So, the question becomes how do I fix it do old users can see the forums?

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:27 pm

You might try having them delete their cookies and see if that fixes it. Alternatively you could try changing the name of your cookie in the phpBB config to see if it will do the same thing. Make sure you make a note of the original cookie name just in case something goes wrong so you can change it back.

-sting

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Sting, one thing I noticed when going over the nuke_user table is that for newly registered people user_active is set to 1, same for anonymous (which an anonymous user can see forums) and that older registered users user_active is set to 0.

Could it be that I need to set older users to 1 in the user_active table?

This is the only difference I saw between accounts in the nuke_users table other than things like preferences, sigs, etc.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:48 pm

I have two websites, one using 6.5 and one using 6.0. The one using 6.0 was doing the same thing, when clicking on the Private messages it would redirect to your account. Also when they logged into the site and went to forums it would ask them to login again. I found the problem was in one of the 3 files after installing Chatserv's patch for the SQL injection. The problem is either in the modules.php, mainfile.php (Probably here) or in the index.php. I uploaded my original files from backup and everything started working again. I checked the intval and trim functions for each file and all seemed to be set up correctly. I would suggest replacing these files with the original's if you are using 6.0. I am looking into what the problem is, and I will post a fix when I get around to finding it. Hope that helps you out a bit.

-Bill

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Audioslaved wrote:

I have two websites, one using 6.5 and one using 6.0. The one using 6.0 was doing the same thing, when clicking on the Private messages it would redirect to your account. Also when they logged into the site and went to forums it would ask them to login again. I found the problem was in one of the 3 files after installing Chatserv's patch for the SQL injection. The problem is either in the modules.php, mainfile.php (Probably here) or in the index.php. I uploaded my original files from backup and everything started working again. I checked the intval and trim functions for each file and all seemed to be set up correctly. I would suggest replacing these files with the original's if you are using 6.0. I am looking into what the problem is, and I will post a fix when I get around to finding it. Hope that helps you out a bit.

-Bill

Well, that is what is happening however I have never used 6.0. The first install I did was 6.5. would this perhaps still apply?

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:58 pm

I am looking into this, I think it resides in the modules.php not passing the $nukeuser variable as which was previously defined, I check the Private Messages index.php and it seems the function is looking for this variable, but since it was taken out of the modules.php, it is no longer being passed to my knowledge. I will be in touch in a little bit.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:02 pm

Do me a favor and go into your modules.php and see if this code exists

Code:

global $nukeuser;
$nukeuser = base64_decode($user);

If it doesn't exist, try ading it right under this code

Code:

if (isset($name)) {

This happens to be the case on my 6.0 files, from what I can see the 6.5 files should be correct, but it is still worth the look.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:09 pm

This fix worked 100% on my 6.0, I have started the following thread for it.

http://www.nukecops.com/postp61118.html

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Audioslaved wrote:

Do me a favor and go into your modules.php and see if this code exists

Code:

global $nukeuser;
$nukeuser = base64_decode($user);

If it doesn't exist, try ading it right under this code

Code:

if (isset($name)) {

This happens to be the case on my 6.0 files, from what I can see the 6.5 files should be correct, but it is still worth the look.

Well, in mine it says

Code:

if (isset($name)) {
global $nukeuser;
$nukeuser = base64_decode($user);

should I switch it to

Code:

global $nukeuser;
$nukeuser = base64_decode($user);
if (isset($name)) {

did you see my post about about user_active in the user_table? Those that have user_active set to 1 can see the forums. (this would be new users and anonymous) Old users have user_active set to 0.

I took one old account and switched their user_active to 1 and they can now see the forums. Private messages is still screwed up however so I don't know if this is a real fix to the problem or not.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:29 pm

Keep your code the same, It does not appear to be the problem on the 6.5 sites. Hmmmm, I installed the patch for 6.5 and everything is working right. Try putting your original modules.php back in place and see what happens, I will look at the 6.5 files and see what I can find. Let me know if your original file fixes the problem, if not, try adding your original mainfile.php back into the mix. Let me know the results, we can go from there.

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Oooh, you are going to hate this one....the files there are the originals.

Sad