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Custom Pages problems in 3.5.3

guest10763 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:23:49 +0000

I think you need to be made aware of couple of bugs that are in file admin/custpages.php in version 3.5.3

1.
When I put some text to custom page (new or old, no difference) and hit Preview button, text is shown in Preview, but it disappears from the text area, so when I click Submit, no text is put up. Yes, and it gives error for custpages.php line 83.
Solution:
In this file on line 57 was: if(strpos($thistext, "?>") === false) $output .= "

$title

nn$thistext";
Changed to: if(strpos($thistext, "?>") === false) {
$output .= "

$title

nn$thistext";
$text = $thistext;
}
That leaves the text that already was in the text area there.

2.
Whenever I hit Preview button, after submitting is made a new custom page, with new ID.
Solution:
In file custpages.php on line 56 was $id = isset($_GET) ? $_GET : "";
Changed to: $edit = isset($_GET) ? $_GET : "";

Both was tested, works alright, no problems.

Polls % bar issue.

sisterwicked — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:15:39 +0000

After running the newest (3.5.3) update, I noticed that the results bars on my poll show as only outlined clear boxes, where they used to contain the standard colored-and-outlined bar.

http://ahparchive.seraphimlabs.net
(Lower left side)

I didn't update my custom skin's files or the update's image folder, as the tutorial advised against it, and this happened immediately after the update, so..
Just thought I would mention it, in case others are having that same issue.

THIS IS SOLVED, BUT IT YOU ARE ALSO HAVING THIS OR ANY OTHER NITPICKY ISSUES AFTER AN UPDATE, PLEASE CHECK TO BE SURE YOUR SERVER DIDN'T DO WHAT MINE DID. YOUR FILES MUST BE CHMODDED TO 777 OF THE IMAGES/POST STORY THINGS WILL NOT WORK.
AND TAKE THE WARNING TO BACK UP ALL FILES SERIOUSLY. IF I HADN'T DONE AS THE FAQ/TUTORIAL SUGGESTED, I WOULD HAVE LOST EVERYTHING.

3.5.2. Bug? Page Links Missing

Michelle — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:37:53 +0000

URL to your eFiction: http://www.naiceanilme.net
Version of eFiction: 3.5.2.
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?:no
Version of PHP: 5.2.10
Version of MySQL: 5.0.67
Have you searched for your problem: yes

In accordance with the rules for the bug forum, I'm posting this here for now, but I suppose it's a bug. Since I'm currently moving house, I'm running two eFiction installs simoultaneously - one on 3.5.1. and one on 3.5.2. I just noticed that the 3.5.2. install doesn't show pagelinks on profile pages. Have an example here:

http://www.naiceanilme.net/viewuser.php?uid=12 - shows only the first 15 stories for this user, with no option to get to the next page.
http://angst.waking-vision.com/viewuser.php?uid=12 - the same userpage from the 3.5.1. install, notice the pagelinks at the bottom.

This seems to be a problem only on the profile pages - it works fine everywhere else as far as I could see.

I quickly checked another site that had upgraded to 3.5.2. and it seems to be missing those pagelinks as well: http://treknation.net/viewuser.php?uid=1 (this user has written over 70 stories).

Bug? Anyone else who upgraded to 3.5.2 who's having this problem?

viewpage.php "bug" with ?id=

Elle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:53:44 +0000

I know it's somewhat rare for an archive to use ?id=, but there's still an error with it:

$page = dbquery("SELECT message_title, message_text FROM ".TABLEPREFIX."fanfiction_messages WHERE ".($current ? "message_name = '".escapestring($current)."'" : "message_id = '".(isNumber($_GET) ? $_GET : "0"))." LIMIT 1");

It should be:

$page = dbquery("SELECT message_title, message_text FROM ".TABLEPREFIX."fanfiction_messages WHERE ".($current ? "message_name = '".escapestring($current)."'" : "message_id = '".(isNumber($_GET) ? $_GET : "0")."'")." LIMIT 1");

(Missing quote for the ID.)

Add Author as Favourite

Michelle — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:52 +0000

The bug reported for 3.4.3. in this post (https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6383.0) still persists for me in 3.5.1. I upgraded specifically in the hope of getting rid of this problem, so it was the first thing I tested after the upgrade. Sadly, I'm still getting a SQL error when I try adding a favourite author - both from the profile and from the story page.

Here's my site info again:

URL to your eFiction: http://www.naiceanilme.com
Version of eFiction: 3.5.1.
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?:no
Version of PHP: 5.2.10
Version of MySQL: 5.0.83
Have you searched for your problem: yes

possible bug in admin blocks version 3.51

Methen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:11:17 +0000

I do not know if this a bug but when you go into the admin blocks section and attemp to dissable something by making it inactive example site news the object stays active.

3.5.1. category links from the index page go to the wrong place

cadkitten — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:14:15 +0000

Instructions said to make a new thread, even if it was exactly the same problem. So here is the new thread for the same problem.

* Links to pages supplied below in the context of what is happening.
* There are no sql or php errors.
* I searched the forum extensively for over a day before posting and tried the other 'solutions', as will be outlined below.
* Relevant threads: https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6872.0 and https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6192.0
* I do not believe there is any option to be turned 'off' that would do this.
* Debug is turned on, just as asked. (Hopefully this does nothing in the way of harming my site should someone malicious want to do something to it?) I will turn it back off within 48 hours if I receive no response, just in case.

I upgraded from 3.3.? to 3.5.1 and I have this problem. I fixed it in one location only by following the 'Solution' in the other thread that is linked to from this one.

http://www.cadkitten.com/eFiction33/index.php (the current skin is an after install one. The other skins are just color and header edited from one of the ones provided in the original skin pack, nothing more.)

Example:
Click Celebrity from the index page.
You get http://www.cadkitten.com/eFiction33/browse.php?type=categories&catid=115 as the link it takes you to, which supplies you with the same exact list of categories you had before.
If you click Celebrity there, you get taken to http://www.cadkitten.com/eFiction33/browse.php?type=categories&id=115 which is the correct link and the place you should have been taken to before.
(By they way, before the 'solution' was put on there, the links here did EXACTLY what they are still doing. There was NO change in the behavior of these links whatsoever.)

Now, the place it DID get fixed at is here (for example):
http://www.cadkitten.com/eFiction33/browse.php?type=categories&id=75
First story, click the category Celebrity in any of these stories and it takes you to here: http://www.cadkitten.com/eFiction33/browse.php?type=categories&id=115 which is the correct page. Before I used the 'solution' that was provided, these links also redirected to the link that included 'catid' rather than just 'id'.

Where else should I edit my coding in order to get the index page listing working? That is actually the main place that it would be nice to have working... I mean, considering it's the first thing a new user clicks and all.

Note: Yes, I'm aware the link says eFiction33. I just didn't change the folder because that started screwing with links I had elsewhere. So it really is 3.5.1, I swear.

Now, I also have a clean install of 3.5.1 here: http://www.cadkitten.com/jrockbigbang/eFiction/index.php without using the 'solution' from above.
In this case, when you click the category, it takes you to the category in question.
Click 'the gazette' and you are taken to http://www.cadkitten.com/jrockbigbang/eFiction/browse.php?type=categories&catid=2, which, in this case is the right category.

This all led me to believe it was a problem with the breadcrumbs when you have sub-sub categories. So I created a sub-category and a sub-sub category on this fresh install. However, this behaves perfectly fine, just like it should.

So, in conclusion, it's something about the upgrade from 3.3.? to 3.5.1. But I'm not sure how, considering I actually replaced every single file on the site except the ones I was explicitly told not to in the install files.

Yeah... so... where else should I change the coding so that the main page categories go to the right places? Please? Anyone? Thank you in advance.

Hyperlinks in the news do not save with tinyMCE WYSWYG

wimvincken — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:15:19 +0000

When you use hyperlinks in the news, they are not being saved.
And additionally, every time when you save the news, it ads additional empty lines at the end of the news item

Nothing else to say about this bug and no idea of a work-around.

Solved, Categories NOT showing Sub Categories and Captcha input not working.

sa278 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:11:21 +0000

Hi There,

Praise the Lord! :-D Solved for efiction Version 3.5.1 problem in sub-categories and Captcha.

After trying reinstalling the certain old scripts, tweaking some code, still having problem with Main Categories not showing sub-categories no matter what I do. Also, the CAPTCHA was not working. So I decided to look at the error on Page showed in Explorer. First error scripts is includes/xmlhttp.js I download from a Free source and it work but another error turned up, includes/javascript.js So I uploaded the javascript.js from the efiction 3.0 version. By the way the error message has something to do with the Ajax Object.
Now is working great.

Here the 2 scripts that helped me solve both problems, "sub-categories not showing" and "CAPTCHA error input".

Click link below to download and upload both files to your efiction directory includes/

Download:-
www.homestanley.net/downloads/xmlhttp.js (this script is from www.chirp.com.au )
www.homestanley.net/downloads/javascript.js (this script is from efiction 3.0 version)

Good luck and enjoy.

Printable View coming out Bold

plague — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:19:57 +0000

Hi,

I did a search but if this topic has already been discussed, I apologize for missing it.

I noticed that when I do a printable view of the entire story, the first chapter seems to be normal but the 2nd chapter onwards are all bold text. I checked the code and I couldn't find where the problem is. I looked up the chapter in the normal mode and they seem to look normal. And when I did a printable view of the chapter, it seems to be normal too. This seems to happen for a multi-chapter view.

Does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it. I printed it out and it came out as bold too.

Oh. And this problem is happening only in IE8. Otherwise its fine in Firefox and Chrome.

Here is the URL. http://phoenixalley.com/fictions/viewstory.php?action=printable&textsize=0&sid=1&chapter=all#9

Hope someone can tell me the solution for this.