Note: This is not occurring at my site. The member concerned is azdriel, who posted for support in the Spanish language forum, but since I didn't know the answer I offered to repost it here to the wider audience. The thread is here: https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=7229
URL to site: http://efiction.vividcarrots.net/index.php
Version of eFiction: 3.5.1
Bridged?: No.
PHP version: PHP 4
MySQL version: MySQL 5.0.32
Have you searched for the problem? Yes
What terms? blank validation, validate, etc
Explain the problem: A fic is in the queue. Everything looks normal when viewing the submissions queue. I click validate. What shows up then in the header & footer, and then the admin panel links (the ones you get by clicking 'admin' in the menu), but no story text, and none of the validation admin links, like validate, edit story, edit chapter, delete, and so on. It looks normal except that it's missing everything it was supposed to generate. The URL is: http://efiction.vividcarrots.net/admin.php?action=validate&chapid=7 I know no one can see that, but it's to demonstrate which part of the script are at play (admin/validate.php).
Test account: I have access to an admin-level test account (but I don't want to give it out with azdriel's permission)
Try a different skin. I have a vague memory of this happening before, and it was a conflict in the CSS of that skin.
She has both the elegance and Zenlike skins from the original download up, and it's happening in both.
I forgot to mention that I had her re-upload all the admin files already.
What do you see when you do a view source? Is the information there, just not being displayed because of an html error? Is it happening with every story? Can she put the site back in english to test if it's an error in the translation file?
A view source just shows what's being displayed. It goes straight from the admin links to the footer in the same table. This is what's in elegance's 'main page' div.
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<div style='text-align: center; margin: 1em;'><a href=""series.php?action=add">Añadir" Serie</a> | <a href=""stories.php?action=newstory&admin=1">Añadir" Relato</a> | <a href=""admin.php?action=featured">Relatos" Publicados</a> | <a href=""admin.php?action=news">Novedades</a>" | <a href=""admin.php?action=submitted">Envíos</a>" | <a href=""admin.php?action=manual">Admin" Manual</a> | <a href=""admin.php?action=skins">Skins</a>" | <a href=""admin.php?action=versioncheck">Comprobar" versión</a><br /></div>
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In the original post I gave her the link to the Spanish language file, because she hadn't installed it yet. It looks like she's still got en.php on her site. Anything in Spanish has been translated in like Admin > Page Links and such.
It's not even loading the entire set of admin links from what I can see. Have her check the translation on Admin manual. It's something happening BEFORE she even gets to the validation section of the page. It looks like it's something in her admin panel links.
I think that's okay because it's an admin level 3 account she's given me access to. When you click the Submissions link, it does show what's in the queue, and when you click the other links (like Version Check) the correct content comes up. It's only after clicking "validate" for the stories in the queue that nothing appears. Here are some screenshots.
Clicked admin in menu: 
Clicked Envíos (Submissions): 
Clicked "Validate": 
I submitted that test story; the text is something that I copied from my eFic test site, and it made it through validation there with no trouble. It's in English. The OP said she tried with different stuff and nothing worked.
ETA: I submitted another story, everything identical, but I selected to validate the story in the submissions form, and it went through fine: http://efiction.vividcarrots.net/viewstory.php?sid=9&chapter=1
ETA again: When I deleted a test story I saw a message that could only have come from the language files that was in Spanish, so I think I was mistaken. It looks like she has en.php, but sp_admin.php (or more likely a translated en_admin.php), which is probably the trouble.
