How I got it to work: Use some code from browse.php.

Segment:

else {
	if($searchtype == "simple") {

Replacement:

else {
	$disablesorts = array( );
	if($searchtype == "simple") {

Segment:

  </select><br /><br /><label for=\"searchterm\">"._SEARCHTERM.": </label><INPUT type=\"text\" class=\"textbox\" name=\"searchterm\" id=\"searchterm\" size=\"20\">

Hit enter after that line and add this (this is to keep the Sort drop-down menu spaced out from the Search Term textbox):

  ";

Segment:

  <label for=\"sortorder\">"._SORT.":</label> <select name=\"sortorder\" id=\"sortorder\"><option value=\"alpha\">"._ALPHA."</option><option value=\"update\">"._MOSTRECENT."</option></select>";

Replace with this:

  if(!in_array("sorts", $disablesorts)) $output .= "<label for=\"sortorder\">"._SORT.":</label> <select class=\"textbox\" name=\"sort\"><option value=\"alpha\"".(!$defaultsort ? " selected" : "").">"._ALPHA."</option><option value=\"update\"".($defaultsort == 1 ? " selected" : "").">"._MOSTRECENT."</option></select>";

This is patched on my own fork, but just letting you (and anyone reading this) know.

Amusingly, I triggered this by accident a few days ago by testing random repeating characters, and they happened to be the percent sign, lol. Confused me for a moment, like the nonexistent co-authors Error 500 PHP 8 bug in includes/userlist.php I ran into nearly two months ago.

When I update PHP from 7.4 to 8.2 my skin fails due to my initialized Poll Block.

When I click on options for Poll in the Blocks admin area, I see this error message:

A fatal MySQL error was encountered.
Query: SELECT * FROM fanfiction_poll WHERE poll_end IS NULL OR poll_end = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' ORDER BY poll_id DESC LIMIT 1
Error: (1525) Incorrect DATETIME value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

Has anyone else experienced this problem or know how to fix it?

Site: https://amalthia.mediawood.org/ebooks/index.php?skin=Berrygood

On the sidebar you can see "Ebook Poll" however there is no poll associated with the block anymore. 

I'd appreciate any all help. 

Amalthia

Bug in question: When choosing a skin, it would not save if that skin happens to be the same as the site's default skin.

Here's the patch:

1. Open user/editprefs.php
2. Line 37 - Original Line:

if($skinnew != $skin) $_SESSION = $skinnew;

3. Replace that line with the following:

if(($skinnew) != $skin || ($skinnew) == $defaultskin) $_SESSION = $skinnew;

4. Save and exit.

• New automatic updater
• PHP support between 5.6 and 8.5
• Modernization of codebase. 
• Misc security fixes here and there. 

If you have an older site, we also now have an upgrader that should be able to update your site up to 3.5.7. https://update.efiction.org/v3/3.5/efiction-upgrade.zip

Note that this is not tested with custom community forks, just the official stuff from eFiction directly. 

Also for obvious reasons, we were only able to test this locally in dev environments + remotely via DoRoyal. DoRoyal is a network we run, and is therefore pretty optimized for eFiction. I provide zero guarantees that the upgrade process will run smoothly. Upgrade at your own risk. 

Though in all testing, it was smooth and simple. Be sure to back up your website and database before upgrading. 

Consider this article our big and grand reveal of eFiction 4! While there’s not much to share as of right this second, I can at the very least confirm the following;

1. eFiction 4 will require PHP 8.3 or newer.
2. eFiction 4 is a full conversion of eFiction 3.x, rebuilt from the ground up.
3. eFiction 4 is backwards compatible with all previous 3.x stories / authors.

We’ll have more information soon.

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