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Exclamation Forum Bugs

Hello everyone

These forums were skinned and hacked in a matter of a few days by myself. Along the way there will be some changes along the way.

Todo's (17 out of 20 fixed so far):

1) Smilies - Added a load and will do a few more over the next few days
2) Table bug on header in Firebird browser - Will be fixed with final header design
3) Funny table for oversized attachments - A known bug in VB which Jelsoft are working on for VB3
4) Subforum new thread not displaying - VBulletin hack limitation but Vbulletin 3 will resolve this
5) Email notification - PHP bug which will be fixed before the end of the week
6) Navigation links at the bottom of the post pages - Edited Template - Fixed
7) Forum time - Fixed
8) Private message tracking is not available - Fixed
9) Buttons - New Buttons done
10) PM max limit - Fixed. Set to 400
11) Welcome panel buttons - Minor template change, fixed
12) Double Quote in PM - VBulletin bug. Fixed with new release coming soon
13) Buttons not colouring correctly on read posts - VBulletin bug in 2.3.0, will find a workaround asap but new buttons should help which are now in place
14) Milestones showing on new posts search - Looking for a hack to do that as it is hardcoded. A week max hopefully
15) Javascript bug in quick reply - Thanks to lsevald. Should now be resolved
16) Attachment upload limit - Minor config error - fixed!
17) Ad/review images changed - Done!
18) Avatars! - To-do
19) Hot Threads - Now on the page and working
20) Downloadable PM's hack - Not compatible with VB 2.3.0

Anymore you get.. post them here and I will add them to the list and strike them off when they are resolved

///EDIT/// VB3 is ever closer. I have the almost final beta on a test board running on my private /dev server. It emcompasses a tremendous amount of new features. The final "gold" code should be here within another month or two. Then an awful of problems will be resolved ///EndEDIT///

-Dan
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  • Weird problem: If a subforum was posted in last, it shows the poster from the subforum, but is shows the title from the last MAIN forum post. Hence if I post a thread “HI” in the main forum, and you post a thread titled “GO” in the subforum, it would have the title “HI” matched with your name in the latest thread column. Also, when Marc posted in programming before anyone did in Software, his name appeared on the latest post list but no title appeared at all.
  • Blackhawk says he only gets e-mail for PMs and not subscribed threads. It’s been confirmed by mack.
  • Need the chain of navigation links at the bottom of the post pages
  • I believe the forums are reading the server’s time (in EST) as GMT. (Hence, all times are off)
  • Private message tracking is not available
  • the buttons
  • PM max limit

whew... good luck with THAT...
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What a list for ya. Keebler has everything I found so far.

And go check my thread in Feedback. You will like the pic I attached as an example.
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Not really a bug, but the "Mark All Forums Read" button is RIGHT below the "View New Posts" button. And, twice, I've already accidentally clicked the "Mark All Forums Read" instead of "View New Posts." It really kind of screws things up because you no longer know what is new.
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1) That is a limitation of the show thread hack. I waiting for an update of it called Vbulletin 3

2) Email will be live once TK can confirm the php is working correctly. That will be resolved shortly

3) Navigation.. give me a day

4) TK will fix the time by an hour (it needs to be summer time GMT)

5) Il turn tracking on tomorrow once I have finished up the PM hack for posts. Patience.. this was launched early!

6) Buttons - Tomorrow daytime

7) Pm limit is 400.
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Trekky8472 said
Not really a bug, but the "Mark All Forums Read" button is RIGHT below the "View New Posts" button. And, twice, I've already accidentally clicked the "Mark All Forums Read" instead of "View New Posts." It really kind of screws things up because you no longer know what is new.
Il move it tomorrow its 2.42am here and I've just done a two day 600 mile round trip. Go easy on me guys! Il get to all of these in the next day or so!
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No rush, pal. Go take a nap or something.
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* Lincoln adds the perrenial Milestone/View New Thread issue
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OH yeah forgot one thing. All these yellow and blue boxes that are supposed to show if you read the post or not. Well on my post above there is a yellow box which says I have not read it yet. Dont think that is right. Same goes for threads, group forums and front index page. The yellows only change to blue when you click mark all threads as read.
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I'm getting a JavaScript error in the thread views:

Line XXXX
Char XX
Unterminated string constant

I'm using IE6SP1

Looks like it's the quick reply form validation code. Possibly this line which spans over several lines (in red):

<script language="javascript">
<!--
var postmaxchars = 20000;
function validate(theform) {
   if (theform.message.value=="") {
      alert("Please complete the message field.");
      return false; }
   if (postmaxchars != 0) {
      if (theform.message.value.length > 20000) {
         alert("Your message is too long.\n\nReduce your message to 20000 characters.\nIt is 

currently "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long.");

         return false; }
      else { return true; }
   } else { return true; }
}
function checklength(theform) {
   if (postmaxchars != 0) { message = "\nThe maximum permitted length is 20000 characters."; }
   else { message = ""; }
   alert("Your message is "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long."+message);
}
//-->
</script>
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Thank you Lasse

It was copied straight from a hack on VBulletin. What is the best way to fix that?
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NP Shorty Making it into a single continous line of code should do it:

alert("Your message is too long.\n\nReduce your message to 20000 characters.\nIt is currently "+theform.message.value.length+" characters long.");
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Lasse...

You are awesome mate! Il fix that in a mo. Brill!
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Done. Hopefully that will fix that bug. Lasse you are a star mate
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Looks good Shorty

Glad I could help,
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I see the blue/yellow thing was fixed. Better colors too.
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I have about 800 avatar images if you want a browsee.

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NightShade737 said
I have about 800 avatar images if you want a browsee.

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How many??!!
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I think the "Pop up a box when you receive a Private Message?" option is broken. I (being the cool guy I am) got a couple, and haven't gotten the popup.
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Mines been going all afternoon... lol .. check you arent being blocked by a stopper in a browser
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I'm running IE6 with no pop up stopper or w/e.
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Shorty said
Mines been going all afternoon... lol .. check you arent being blocked by a stopper in a browser
omg yes... trust me, it works!

//edit: If the page doesnt finish loading before you click a link, it will not popup.
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General Keebler said
Shorty said
Mines been going all afternoon... lol .. check you arent being blocked by a stopper in a browser
omg yes... trust me, it works!

//edit: If the page doesnt finish loading before you click a link, it will not popup.
That is also true!
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Here's some kinda little goof...no biggie but bug none the less. Its listing my folding sigs thread as the most recently posted in the folding forum, but jaz as the most recent poster. Jaz didn't post in my thread, he posted in a noteable milestones post.

Its displaying the thread and poster independant of eachother er somethin...
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That could be related to displaying the subforums on the index page. Il look into that in the next few days but I believe that is a limitation of the hack used.
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Np, just passin anything that catches my eye along!
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LawnMM said
Np, just passin anything that catches my eye along!
I *think* I have pretty much nuked 99% of any possible bugs. I could have delivered the board un-modified but I just wanted to make some cool additions to things
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I don't know what the purpose of this javascript function is, but it's broken in the same way as the previous JS bug Shorty I get the JS errors when reading my PMs:

Line: XX
Char: 96
Error: Unterminated string constant

1:<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
2:<!--
3:function aimwindow(aimid) {
4:window.open("member.php?s=&action=aimmessage&aim="+aimid,"_blank","toolbar=no,**********no,menub
5:
6:ar=no,scrollbars=no,width=175,height=275,resizeable=yes,status=no")

7:}
8:// -->
9:</script>
Lasse

EDIT: I numbered the lines to make it easier to read (word wrap kicked in). Line 4, 5 and 6 should be one line of code not three.
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That could be PM related as I had to change some of the templates for things

Thanks for the headups again Lasse! You the JS master!

Il take a look at it in a mo when my main rig is re-installed and patch the flunky script
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Yo Short One,

I did not see this posted as a bug, so here goes:

I hit reply to a post tonight but I was not logged in, so I received the log in screen. I logged in and received the attached error message. I believe this was happening on the old icrontic forum too.
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Dont know if this is a bug but....

If you look on the main page you see this...
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Once you go into the software subforum you get this...
Tried clearing my cache, still the same.
Dont know if its a problem, that I leave to you guys.
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Ahhh, its done it again. Same on IC16-UK
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MrBill said
Yo Short One,

I did not see this posted as a bug, so here goes:

I hit reply to a post tonight but I was not logged in, so I received the log in screen. I logged in and received the attached error message. I believe this was happening on the old icrontic forum too.
That is a Vbulletin bug which Jelsoft have promised to fix with the new release of VB.. version 3 We shall be upgrading as soon as a final release is available.

Necropolis_uk said
Once you go into the software subforum you get this...
Tried clearing my cache, still the same.
Dont know if its a problem, that I leave to you guys.
That is a limitation of the hack used. This is only temporary until the newest version of VB (see previous post). The core functionality you see here that I hacked into the board is already a default in the new VB. I just didn't want to deliver you guys a board without a few nice touches until a new release of the software was available. So I hacked it to the very best I could until the new release arrives to all VB subscribers.

VBulletin 3 has been a long time in production but the number of functions it provides over the existing version (2.3.0) is immense. Looking forward to upgrading to that in the next 2 months
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Does this mean that posts are dissapearing into the unknown?
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Necropolis_uk said
Does this mean that posts are dissapearing into the unknown?
No The hack is unable to determine the last thread posted on. It can however detect the last poster. That is why the poster name changes but the thread title does not.

It's a purely visual issue with subforums stacking on the forums homepage. Nothing more.
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Aha,

Now it makes sense. Had a look in the Linux, BSD & other OS subforum and sure enough, there is a post from EMT.
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There were 4 posts since my last visit, but there were not 4 (new?) threads. Is the thread count supposed to be the # of new threads, or the number posted in?
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Wierd.. Il look into that. I know there are some VBulletin bugs which are fixed in VB3.. have to check their errata on it
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I don;t klnow if this is a probelm or not or whether its my browser's fault or not. I'm running Opera 7.10. When not logged in I see a forum link I want to post on so instead of loging in I hit the post reply button and then get taken to a login screen. After filling in my name and password I get taken to a page that says No specified article has been chosen, Instead of being taken to a reply to post page. It used to work but now I just get The no article specified page. Any thoughts?
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MrBill posted about that in this thread. Its first post on this page at least for me.

It will do that to me too if I am not logged in but once I am and using cookies it works fine.
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There are few bugs in VB 2.3.0.. I have just grabbed the public beta of VB 3.0.0. VERY impressive. Very feature packed and totally awesome. Soon alot of the old bugs will dissapear

Can't wait to upgrade!
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dunno if this is on here yet, but I still get the same problem I had @ icrontic where if I type a quick reply and hit post without logging in first, it makes me log in (which is expected) but then comes back with the "no thread specified" error...
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Shorty said
That is a Vbulletin bug which Jelsoft have promised to fix with the new release of VB.. version 3 We shall be upgrading as soon as a final release is available.
Posted back on page 3 of this thread
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The two "eek" faces have the same code. They both use : eek :
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Il change one
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Now

Is... : wtf: (without the extra space)
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Thanks! I think wtf suits it more anyway.
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its nojt so much a bug, but the edge of the forum closed button doesn't really match the forum colours.... might look better if it was made transparent with the background or something

it looks alright on this background, but on the blue at the bottom it doesn't.
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