URL to your eFiction: http://fannation.shades-of-moonlight.com/archive/authors.php?list=authors
Version of eFiction: 3.4.3
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: No
Version of PHP: support for both 4/5
Version of MySQL: 5-something it seems
Have you searched for your problem: yes
If so, what terms did you try: "favorite authors" "favorite authors admin"
State the nature of your problem:
First the problem was that you got an error whenever adding an author from the profile, but I searched the site and found a solution to that problem, but the second problem is that while adding a favorite author now works, the site only adds the author with the userId 1 to favorites, no matter what author you try to add. Here that user is "admin". It's the same whether you try to add an author from the dropdown menu of a story or use the add-link on the author's profile.
There is also the matter of another error where we get the following message whenever viewing the favorite authors of a user:
Notice: Undefined index: add in /home/.camry/fannation/fannation.shades-of-moonlight.com/archive/user/favau.php on line 37
Do you have a test account for us?
Not anymore.
Okay, I have solved the situation of always adding the admin as favorite author, when I searched for the problem that didn't add favorite authors from the profile, I found the following suggestion:
to find the following in "user/profile.php":
<a href=""user.php?uid=".USERUID."&action=favau&author=".$userinfo['uid'"]."">"._ADDAUTHOR2FAVES."</a>
and change it to:
<a href="""._BASEDIR."user.php?action=favau&add=1&author=".$stories['uid'"].($stories['coauthors'] ? ",".$stories['coauthors'] : "")."">"._ADDAUTHOR2FAVES."</a>
this solved the problem of not being able to add a favorite author, but the new problem was that it now always added the admin as favorite author, what I did was change it to this:
<a href="""._BASEDIR."user.php?action=favau&add=".$userinfo['uid'"]."&author=".$stories['uid'].($stories['coauthors'] ? ",".$stories['coauthors'] : "")."">"._ADDAUTHOR2FAVES."</a>
And the problem of adding a favorite author from the profile was solved.
However, this did not solve the problem of adding an author as a favorite on a specific story, for that I had to locate the following code in "viewstory.php":
<option value="user.php?action=favau&add=1&author=".$stories['uid'].(count($storyinfo['coauthors']) ? ",".implode(",", array_keys($storyinfo['coauthors'])) : "")."">"._ADDAUTHOR2FAVES."</option>
and change it to:
<option value="user.php?action=favst&add=1&sid=$sid">"._ADDSTORY2FAVES."</option><option value="user.php?action=favau&add=".$stories['uid']."&author=".$stories['uid'].(count($storyinfo['coauthors']) ? ",".implode(",", array_keys($storyinfo['coauthors'])) : "")."">"._ADDAUTHOR2FAVES."</option>
I haven't yet solved my last issue of an error displaying whenever viewing someone's favorite authors, but that one was less critical.
I think I found a quick solution to the last problem I presented:
The reason this message was displayed:
Notice: Undefined index: add in /home/.camry/fannation/fannation.shades-of-moonlight.com/archive/user/favau.php on line 37
Is because the script tries to access $_GET['add'] regardless if it exists or not and then tries making it into an array. If you open "user/favau.php" and replace the following code:
$author = explode(",", $_GET['add']);
with:
$author = ($add) ? explode(",", $_GET['add']) : array();
The problem cease to exist.
