message board i built...

[jamslam]

Alright, basically I'm looking for some feedback on the forum I built. Remember, this is a forum that I built that you can download and install on your own site. It's been in development since last september, and i think it's stable enough to go into beta (oxymoron?).

wtcBB 1.0.0 BETA 1

The file is approximately 0.5MB, and it is PHP based. It requires PHP 4.1.0 or higher, and MySQL 3 or higher.

And thank you rob for letting me put this on here! And thanks to anyone who takes the time to give me some feedback!

[Webforumz Staff]

Ok, I've run this locally and we do have a problem it seems...

It creates the tables, etc, and then gets to step 4: Importing style information & templates... Please wait.

an error then appears:
Warning: 5 is not a valid File-Handle resource in d:\web design\apache\wtcbb\includes\functions.php on line 1143

This appears to be in an infinite loop!

[jamslam]

ouch that was a bad bug that has effect on php version less than 4.3.0... i was closing the file before i was done reading it!

I've updated the zip if you want to give it a run again..

[Smokie]

Do you have a demo hosted anywhere? I havent got PHP or MySQL installed but i would like to see what you've done!

[Webforumz Staff]

Ok, when I hit the control panel I get:

Warning: Failed opening 'functions_forums.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in d:\web design\apache\wtcbb\includes\functions_admin.php on line 12

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in d:\web design\apache\wtcbb\includes\functions_admin.php on line 576

[jamslam]

hmmm.. this must not be looking good for me right now... I have only been able to test this under two different environments, both of which worked fine.

I wouldn't understand why that would be messing up... there are a few things that I could try, and i'll update. I'll have to research that problem, as it is probably some sort of directive issues that I have to take into consideration.

But thank you though for notifying me of this.

[Webforumz Staff]

Best way to learn [:P]

[jamslam]

alright yup, i had found the problem... i was including a file inside a file, and on my server the current directory was the included file, however with your settings it was the directory of the current file. This *should* be fixed.

BTW, i've released a BETA 3 (and the bug is hopefully fixed )

wtcBB 1.0.0 BETA 3

And thank you again for your patience

[Webforumz Staff]

I've overwritten all the files inside the includes/ folder except for the config... and this error is still there. If any other files are affected then that's cool, but I'm assuming that they're not?

[jamslam]

I'd definitely advise overwriting all files... but yea that should fix the problem

can you include any files using php? i'm just curious, because what i did should fix this problem.

In your error, i notice your include_path is empty... this should at least be a "."

This might be a problem on your end, because my PHP settings are giving me an include_path of ".;c:\php4\pear"

The . would be current directory, and if your include_path is empty.. well, i don't know what could happen.

The only thing I can say, is go to your php.ini, and find include_path and make sure it's something ".;c:\php4\pear" or ".;c:\php\includes"... or even try just a "."

Other then this, I cannot possibly fathom what is wrong. I haven't had anyone else report an error like this, nor would I know how your inlude_path is empty.

[Webforumz Staff]

Ok, that's now sorted, my bad. (the error is gone)

However this still isn't working...

I can't see any of the forums I've added in the Forum Manager or on the Forum itself, despite it telling me that I've added them successfully. *Very confused*

[Trebz]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="geneva, verdana, arial" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Smokie

Do you have a demo hosted anywhere? I havent got PHP or MySQL installed but i would like to see what you've done!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

It's here dude: http://www.webtrickscentral.com/forums/index.php (which I got by looking at the download URL at the top of this thread!)

[jamslam]

When I made this thread, I agreed not to plug my community, thusly that's why I could not provide a demo, so trebz if you could remove that link, it would be appreciated, I don't want to get in any trouble

Man sirkent, I have no idea why you're getting all these problems! *thinks*

Is there any way you can check your database to see if those forums actually exist?

I'm guessing that some of the fields got screwed up, thusly they won't show.

On your first install, could you see the example forums? (There should be two, one is a category, and one is a sub-forum of that category.)

[Webforumz Staff]

They appear to be in the database (as are the ones I added) but they fail to appear anywhere.

[Trebz]

Jam, i'm sure if that link is a problem one of the admins will remove it........<-----awaits slap from admin!

[Rob]

<font color="red">Rob slaps Trebz around a bit with a large trout</font id="red">

[Smokie]

OMG LOL!

[Trebz]

Leave the trout slapping in IRC where it belongs :-)