Visiual Verification - SMF Help Pls !

[MoreBloodWine]

I've installed atleast 7 different versions of a 1.1 RC3 forum and they all come up the same... so what the hell could be causing this... I'n no scripting knowledge so I wouldnt know whre to start but I even thought it may have been the software I DL so I tried to DL it again same thing so its either software or server side I dont know but help is appreciated... my site is a test forum im just playing with till the 1.1 final version comes out so registration is disable but I will enable it so you guys can check it out even though your just gonna se whats in the pic... also when I click listen to letters it generates a server side (host) error... which you can se below... anyway the link to my site so you guys can go check it out is as follows but any help is appreciated , Thx...

http://uotc.freeyellow.com/SMF_Test_Forums/index.php

This is the server side (host) error that generates when you try to listen to the letters... keep in mind the error is the same on every installation I've tried...

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 50295 bytes) in /hermes/web08/b642/fy.uotc/SMF_Test_Forums/Sources/Subs-Sound.php on line 80

Edit : Just noticed theres a forum side error which I believe is part of whats wrong...

Edit 2 : Forgot to mention it's not the theme bec it's the same even on the SMF default theme...

2: imagegif(): Unable to open temporary file
File: /hermes/web08/b642/fy.uotc/SMF_Test_Forums/Sources/Subs-Graphics.php
Line: 1379

[青山 素子]

It looks like you might need to raise the PHP memory limit. Are any of your working SMF boards on the same server?

[MoreBloodWine]

It looks like you might need to raise the PHP memory limit. Are any of your working SMF boards on the same server?

I dont really have any boards except for test boards right now... and I dleeted all but the one im trying to "fix" and im not gonna pretend to understand what u said but how would raising a memory limit fix the picture for not showing up ? and how do you even raise said limit.

Edit : I only have the one server / MySQL database which is hosted by http://www.freeyellow.com

[青山 素子]

Well, you can raise the limit, but only if PHP is set up as a module (not CGI).

If it is a module, you can make a .htaccess file in the SMF root directory with the folowing line in it:

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php_value memory_limit 16M


You might also want to see if PHP has gd support. You can check this and how PHP is being run as by making a phpinfo file (What is phpinfo.php?).

[MoreBloodWine]

I already have one of those GD check things from a mod I instaled... it has GD support which you can see by clicking this

Also made the phpinfo.php thing which can be found by clicking this

As for checking to see if PHP is set up as a module and not CGI as you said I dont / wouldnt even know where to start to even check that... i literally dont know much at all about this sort of stuff , lol... so any help you can provide to get this fixed is greatly appreciated ;-)

[青山 素子]

From the phpinfo you posted:

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Server API CGI


The .htaccess change won't work.

I can't think of any reason though why the process should be taking up so much memory. I have a test board that can display the image and generate the sound in the default 8 meg.

[MoreBloodWine]

Ok but maybe its not taking up so much memory maybe something else is wrong... isnt that possible... anyway... what can I do to fix this with the provided info (phpinfo) you can see by clicking the lick...

Edit : If you wana sneak a peak at the database and the forum I have a secondary login made for both...

Edit 2 : On a site note I thought I'd mention that I had the idea that if I installed the mod (advanced visiual verification) I figured it would corrent the problem and it didnt same thing no matter what...

[青山 素子]

If the included one won't work at all, a mod won't help.

I see you are using PowWeb (or at least the same system they are currently on). You can set up a custom php.ini with your own settings (like increased memory limit). The option is in Ops in the advanced scripting area. If you still have memory issues after raising to 16M, then something is going wrong and we'll need to try some other stuff.

[MoreBloodWine]

If the included one won't work at all, a mod won't help.

You can set up a custom php.ini with your own settings (like increased memory limit).

I wouldnt even know eher to start let alone how to do this... would you please be wiling to maybe do it for me ? Atleast this way it would be out of the way so as you said if it dont work then something def going wrong and we can try other stuff... hell I'll even do a fresh instal of the RC3 software so theres two forums to play with...

[MoreBloodWine]

bump from 3rd page...

[MoreBloodWine]

bump from 4th page...

[vbgamer45]

Well I think there is an option to disable visual verification.

[MoreBloodWine]

Well I think there is an option to disable visual verification.

There is but the thing is I wana be able to use it...

[Oldiesmann]

Try adding this to the beginning of index.php (right after the opening PHP tag):

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ini_set('memory_limit', '16M');

That will still work even with PHP running in CGI mode (unless your host has disabled the ini_set function).

[MoreBloodWine]

I wana do this right and I dont even know what the opening tag would be... so heres everything from my index.php file... sorry if this makes the post a bit long... if I knew how to make it scroll so its no so big I would...

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<?php
/******************************************************************************
* index.php                                                                   *
*******************************************************************************
* SMF: Simple Machines Forum                                                  *
* Open-Source Project Inspired by Zef Hemel ([email protected])                *
* =========================================================================== *
* Software Version:           SMF 1.1 RC3                                     *
* Software by:                Simple Machines (http://www.simplemachines.org) *
* Copyright 2001-2006 by:     Lewis Media (http://www.lewismedia.com)         *
* Support, News, Updates at:  http://www.simplemachines.org                   *
*******************************************************************************
* This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it     *
* under the terms of the provided license as published by Lewis Media.        *
*                                                                             *
* This program is distributed in the hope that it is and will be useful,      *
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES; without even any implied warranty of            *
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.                        *
*                                                                             *
* See the "license.txt" file for details of the Simple Machines license.      *
* The latest version can always be found at http://www.simplemachines.org.    *
******************************************************************************/

/* This, as you have probably guessed, is the crux on which SMF functions.
Everything should start here, so all the setup and security is done
properly.  The most interesting part of this file is the action array in
the smf_main() function.  It is formatted as so:

'action-in-url' => array('Source-File.php', 'FunctionToCall'),

Then, you can access the FunctionToCall() function from Source-File.php
with the URL index.php?action=action-in-url.  Relatively simple, no?
*/

$forum_version = 'SMF 1.1 RC3';

// Get everything started up...
define('SMF', 1);
@set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$time_start = microtime();

// Load the settings...
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/Settings.php');

// And important includes.
require_once($sourcedir . '/QueryString.php');
require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs.php');
require_once($sourcedir . '/Errors.php');
require_once($sourcedir . '/Load.php');
require_once($sourcedir . '/Security.php');
########## WoW Itemstats ###########
require_once($sourcedir . '/itemstats/config.php');


// TinyPortal include
require_once($sourcedir . '/TPortal.php');

// Using an old version of PHP?
if (@version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '4.2.3') != 1)
require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-Compat.php');

// If $maintenance is set specifically to 2, then we're upgrading or something.
if (!empty($maintenance) && $maintenance == 2)
db_fatal_error();

// Connect to the MySQL database.
if (empty($db_persist))
$db_connection = @mysql_connect($db_server, $db_user, $db_passwd);
else
$db_connection = @mysql_pconnect($db_server, $db_user, $db_passwd);

// Show an error if the connection couldn't be made.
if (!$db_connection || !@mysql_select_db($db_name, $db_connection))
db_fatal_error();

// Load the settings from the settings table, and perform operations like optimizing.
reloadSettings();
// Clean the request variables, add slashes, etc.
cleanRequest();
$context = array();

// Determine if this is using WAP, WAP2, or imode.  Technically, we should check that wap comes before application/xhtml or text/html, but this doesn't work in practice as much as it should.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'], 'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml') !== false)
$_REQUEST['wap2'] = 1;
elseif (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'], 'text/vnd.wap.wml') !== false)
{
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'DoCoMo/') !== false || strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'portalmmm/') !== false)
$_REQUEST['imode'] = 1;
else
$_REQUEST['wap'] = 1;
}

if (!defined('WIRELESS'))
define('WIRELESS', isset($_REQUEST['wap']) || isset($_REQUEST['wap2']) || isset($_REQUEST['imode']));

// Some settings and headers are different for wireless protocols.
if (WIRELESS)
{
define('WIRELESS_PROTOCOL', isset($_REQUEST['wap']) ? 'wap' : (isset($_REQUEST['wap2']) ? 'wap2' : (isset($_REQUEST['imode']) ? 'imode' : '')));

// Some cellphones can't handle output compression...
$modSettings['enableCompressedOutput'] = '0';
// !!! Do we want these hard coded?
$modSettings['defaultMaxMessages'] = 5;
$modSettings['defaultMaxTopics'] = 9;

// Wireless protocol header.
if (WIRELESS_PROTOCOL == 'wap')
header('Content-Type: text/vnd.wap.wml');
}

// Check if compressed output is enabled, supported, and not already being done.
if (!empty($modSettings['enableCompressedOutput']) && !headers_sent() && ob_get_length() == 0)
{
// If zlib is being used, turn off output compression.
if (@ini_get('zlib.output_compression') == '1' || @ini_get('output_handler') == 'ob_gzhandler' || @version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '4.2.0') == -1)
$modSettings['enableCompressedOutput'] = '0';
else
ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
}
// This makes it so headers can be sent!
if (empty($modSettings['enableCompressedOutput']))
ob_start();

// Register an error handler.
set_error_handler('error_handler');

// Start the session. (assuming it hasn't already been.)
loadSession();

// What function shall we execute? (done like this for memory's sake.)
call_user_func(smf_main());

// Call obExit specially; we're coming from the main area ;).
obExit(null, null, true);

// The main controlling function.
function smf_main()
{
global $modSettings, $settings, $user_info, $board, $topic, $maintenance, $sourcedir;

// Special case: session keep-alive.
if (isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == 'keepalive')
die;

// Load the user's cookie (or set as guest) and load their settings.
loadUserSettings();

// Load the current board's information.
loadBoard();

// Load the current theme.  (note that ?theme=1 will also work, may be used for guest theming.)
loadTheme();

// Check if the user should be disallowed access.
is_not_banned();

// Load the current user's permissions.
loadPermissions();

 // WoW-Itemstats
WoWItemstats_init();

// Do some logging, unless this is an attachment, avatar, theme option or XML feed.
if (empty($_REQUEST['action']) || !in_array($_REQUEST['action'], array('dlattach', 'jsoption', '.xml')))
{
// Log this user as online.
writeLog();

// Track forum statistics and hits...?
if (!empty($modSettings['hitStats']))
trackStats(array('hits' => '+'));
}

       // TinyPortal
       TPortal_init();

// Is the forum in maintenance mode? (doesn't apply to administrators.)
if (!empty($maintenance) && !allowedTo('admin_forum'))
{
// You can only login.... otherwise, you're getting the "maintenance mode" display.
if (isset($_REQUEST['action']) && $_REQUEST['action'] == 'login2')
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/LogInOut.php');
return 'Login2';
}
// Don't even try it, sonny.
else
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-Auth.php');
return 'InMaintenance';
}
}
// If guest access is off, a guest can only do one of the very few following actions.
elseif (empty($modSettings['allow_guestAccess']) && $user_info['is_guest'] && (!isset($_REQUEST['action']) || !in_array($_REQUEST['action'], array('login', 'login2', 'register', 'register2', 'reminder', 'activate', 'smstats', 'help', '.xml', 'verificationcode'))))
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-Auth.php');
return 'KickGuest';
}
elseif (empty($_REQUEST['action']))
{
// Action and board are both empty... maybe the portal page?
if (empty($board) && empty($topic) && $settings['TPortal_front_type']!='boardindex')
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/TPortal.php');
return 'TPortal';
}
if (empty($board) && empty($topic) && $settings['TPortal_front_type']=='boardindex' && (isset($_GET['cat']) || isset($_GET['page'])))
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/TPortal.php');
return 'TPortal';
}
// Action and board are still both empty...and no portal startpage - BoardIndex!
elseif (empty($board) && empty($topic) && $settings['TPortal_front_type']=='boardindex')
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/BoardIndex.php');
return 'BoardIndex';
}
// Topic is empty, and action is empty.... MessageIndex!
elseif (empty($topic))
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/MessageIndex.php');
return 'MessageIndex';
}
// Board is not empty... topic is not empty... action is empty.. Display!
else
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/Display.php');
return 'Display';
}
}

// Here's the monstrous $_REQUEST['action'] array - $_REQUEST['action'] => array($file, $function).
$actionArray = array(
'activate' => array('Register.php', 'Activate'),
'admin' => array('Admin.php', 'Admin'),
'announce' => array('Post.php', 'AnnounceTopic'),
'ban' => array('ManageBans.php', 'Ban'),
'boardrecount' => array('Admin.php', 'AdminBoardRecount'),
'buddy' => array('Subs-Members.php', 'BuddyListToggle'),
'calendar' => array('Calendar.php', 'CalendarMain'),
'cleanperms' => array('Admin.php', 'CleanupPermissions'),
'cleanwowitems' => array('Admin.php', 'CleanupWoWItems'),
'collapse' => array('Subs-Boards.php', 'CollapseCategory'),
'convertentities' => array('Admin.php', 'ConvertEntities'),
'convertutf8' => array('Admin.php', 'ConvertUtf8'),
'coppa' => array('Register.php', 'CoppaForm'),
'deletemsg' => array('RemoveTopic.php', 'DeleteMessage'),
'detailedversion' => array('Admin.php', 'VersionDetail'),
'display' => array('Display.php', 'Display'),
'dlattach' => array('Display.php', 'Download'),
'dumpdb' => array('DumpDatabase.php', 'DumpDatabase2'),
'editpoll' => array('Poll.php', 'EditPoll'),
'editpoll2' => array('Poll.php', 'EditPoll2'),
'featuresettings' => array('ModSettings.php', 'ModifyFeatureSettings'),
'featuresettings2' => array('ModSettings.php', 'ModifyFeatureSettings2'),
'findmember' => array('Subs-Auth.php', 'JSMembers'),
'help' => array('Help.php', 'ShowHelp'),
'helpadmin' => array('Help.php', 'ShowAdminHelp'),
'im' => array('PersonalMessage.php', 'MessageMain'),
'jsoption' => array('Themes.php', 'SetJavaScript'),
'jsmodify' => array('Post.php', 'JavaScriptModify'),
'lock' => array('LockTopic.php', 'LockTopic'),
'lockVoting' => array('Poll.php', 'LockVoting'),
'login' => array('LogInOut.php', 'Login'),
'login2' => array('LogInOut.php', 'Login2'),
'logout' => array('LogInOut.php', 'Logout'),
'maintain' => array('Admin.php', 'Maintenance'),
'manageattachments' => array('ManageAttachments.php', 'ManageAttachments'),
'manageboards' => array('ManageBoards.php', 'ManageBoards'),
'managecalendar' => array('ManageCalendar.php', 'ManageCalendar'),
'managesearch' => array('ManageSearch.php', 'ManageSearch'),
'markasread' => array('Subs-Boards.php', 'MarkRead'),
'membergroups' => array('ManageMembergroups.php', 'ModifyMembergroups'),
'mergetopics' => array('SplitTopics.php', 'MergeTopics'),
'mlist' => array('Memberlist.php', 'Memberlist'),
'modifycat' => array('ManageBoards.php', 'ModifyCat'),
'modifykarma' => array('Karma.php', 'ModifyKarma'),
'modlog' => array('Modlog.php', 'ViewModlog'),
'movetopic' => array('MoveTopic.php', 'MoveTopic'),
'movetopic2' => array('MoveTopic.php', 'MoveTopic2'),
'news' => array('ManageNews.php', 'ManageNews'),
'notify' => array('Notify.php', 'Notify'),
'notifyboard' => array('Notify.php', 'BoardNotify'),
'optimizetables' => array('Admin.php', 'OptimizeTables'),
'packageget' => array('PackageGet.php', 'PackageGet'),
'packages' => array('Packages.php', 'Packages'),
'permissions' => array('ManagePermissions.php', 'ModifyPermissions'),
'pgdownload' => array('PackageGet.php', 'PackageGet'),
'pm' => array('PersonalMessage.php', 'MessageMain'),
'post' => array('Post.php', 'Post'),
'post2' => array('Post.php', 'Post2'),
'postsettings' => array('ManagePosts.php', 'ManagePostSettings'),
'printpage' => array('Printpage.php', 'PrintTopic'),
'profile' => array('Profile.php', 'ModifyProfile'),
'profile2' => array('Profile.php', 'ModifyProfile2'),
'quotefast' => array('Post.php', 'QuoteFast'),
'quickmod' => array('Subs-Boards.php', 'QuickModeration'),
'quickmod2' => array('Subs-Boards.php', 'QuickModeration2'),
'recent' => array('Recent.php', 'RecentPosts'),
'regcenter' => array('ManageRegistration.php', 'RegCenter'),
'register' => array('Register.php', 'Register'),
'register2' => array('Register.php', 'Register2'),
'reminder' => array('Reminder.php', 'RemindMe'),
'removetopic2' => array('RemoveTopic.php', 'RemoveTopic2'),
'removeoldtopics2' => array('RemoveTopic.php', 'RemoveOldTopics2'),
'removepoll' => array('Poll.php', 'RemovePoll'),
'repairboards' => array('RepairBoards.php', 'RepairBoards'),
'reporttm' => array('SendTopic.php', 'ReportToModerator'),
'reports' => array('Reports.php', 'ReportsMain'),
'requestmembers' => array('Subs-Auth.php', 'RequestMembers'),
'search' => array('Search.php', 'PlushSearch1'),
'search2' => array('Search.php', 'PlushSearch2'),
'sendtopic' => array('SendTopic.php', 'SendTopic'),
'serversettings' => array('ManageServer.php', 'ModifySettings'),
'serversettings2' => array('ManageServer.php', 'ModifySettings2'),
'smileys' => array('ManageSmileys.php', 'ManageSmileys'),
'smstats' => array('Stats.php', 'SMStats'),
'spellcheck' => array('Subs-Post.php', 'SpellCheck'),
'splittopics' => array('SplitTopics.php', 'SplitTopics'),
'stats' => array('Stats.php', 'DisplayStats'),
'sticky' => array('LockTopic.php', 'Sticky'),
'theme' => array('Themes.php', 'ThemesMain'),
'trackip' => array('Profile.php', 'trackIP'),
'about:mozilla' => array('Karma.php', 'BookOfUnknown'),
'about:unknown' => array('Karma.php', 'BookOfUnknown'),
'unread' => array('Recent.php', 'UnreadTopics'),
'unreadreplies' => array('Recent.php', 'UnreadTopics'),
'updatewowitem' => array('UpdateWoWItem.php', 'UpdateWoWItem'),
'viewErrorLog' => array('ManageErrors.php', 'ViewErrorLog'),
'viewmembers' => array('ManageMembers.php', 'ViewMembers'),
'viewprofile' => array('Profile.php', 'ModifyProfile'),
'verificationcode' => array('Register.php', 'VerificationCode'),
'vote' => array('Poll.php', 'Vote'),
'viewquery' => array('ViewQuery.php', 'ViewQuery'),
'who' => array('Who.php', 'Who'),
'.xml' => array('News.php', 'ShowXmlFeed'),
               'tpadmin' => array('TPortalAdmin.php', 'TPortalAdmin'),
               'forum' => array('BoardIndex.php', 'BoardIndex'),
               'tpmod' => array('TPmodules.php', 'TPmodules'),
);

// Get the function and file to include - if it's not there, do the board index.
if (!isset($_REQUEST['action']) || !isset($actionArray[$_REQUEST['action']]))
{
// Catch the action with the theme?
if (!empty($settings['catch_action']))
{
require_once($sourcedir . '/Themes.php');
return 'WrapAction';
}

// Fall through to the board index then...
require_once($sourcedir . '/BoardIndex.php');
return 'BoardIndex';
}

// Otherwise, it was set - so let's go to that action.
require_once($sourcedir . '/' . $actionArray[$_REQUEST['action']][0]);
return $actionArray[$_REQUEST['action']][1];
}

?>

[MoreBloodWine]

Bump from page 3...

[Harzem]

Ok, this time, install Advanced Visual Verification Mod,

Open Verification.php and find:

if(!in_array('gd', get_loaded_extensions()))

replace:

//if(!in_array('gd', get_loaded_extensions()))

[MoreBloodWine]

Read the last two posts on page one bec I wana try that first to fix what should already be working but doesnt seem to be... without needing to use a mod...

[MoreBloodWine]

Ok, this time, install Advanced Visual Verification Mod,

Open Verification.php and find:

if(!in_array('gd', get_loaded_extensions()))

replace:

//if(!in_array('gd', get_loaded_extensions()))

Suggestion tried and applied... working soto speak but one thing still wrong... sound for playing letters doesnt work... any "suggestions" to get this working ;-)