Who's online issue

[MATTEK]

I've made some mistakes while editing some php files and I'd like to revert back to the other day when I backed my forum up. How do I do this? - RESOLVED

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When you view who's online it shows people who are viewing the board index as "unknown action"

[ɔɔɔɔɔɔuɥoɾ]

I've made some mistakes while editing some php files and I'd like to revert back to the other day when I backed my forum up. How do I do this?

If you made mistakes with PHP files, you should not need to change the database, as their 2 different things.

Did you backup your forum files or just the database?

[MATTEK]

Got passed that. Thanks, though.

However I've run into a new problem. When you view Who's online it shows people who are viewing the forum as "Uknown Action". Know how to fix that?

[Antechinus]

It's meant to do that sometimes. Doesn't need fixing.

[MATTEK]

It's meant to do that sometimes. Doesn't need fixing.

It wasn't like that yesterday before I modified and changed my menu to drop down menus. The only time I ever got Unknown Action was when a user was playing an arcade game. Now it's constant. 5-6 people all have Unknown Action because they're viewing the forum.

[gbsothere]

I don't know if anyone's tweaked this for RC3 but I adapted this "Tip" when it was bugging me, as well.


http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=192529.msg1225427#msg1225427


At least I have an inkling, now, even if it's still a bit vague.   

[MATTEK]

hmmm, The arcade who list works for me, maybe you should look on the mod site and parse the mod, compare it to your who.english.php file

Wow. Ever since this issue started occuring, I can NOW see Arcade games being played, but when someone is viewing who's online themselves, it says unknown and when they are viewing the forum it says unknown too. It's all backwards now! lol

Compare your who.english.php to a clean one from the SMF package installer, your missing a line if it says unknown actions when people are viewing whos online.

If its missing from the languages, which I suspect it is, the line should be

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$txt['whoall_who'] = 'Viewing <a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=who">Who\'s Online</a>.';


If its not missing, then try clearing your cache, however, I would strongly suggest starting a new topic, as we have pretty much high-jacked this one lol

I'm no good at this stuff. Everytime I change a .php file I get parse errors. Does the spacing matter?

[ɔɔɔɔɔɔuɥoɾ]

You could have got a parse error simply by forgetting the  "  ;  " at the end PHP does not count spaces or white space as anything. white space will NOT cause a parse error

[MATTEK]

You could have got a parse error simply by forgetting the  "  ;  " at the end PHP does not count spaces or white space as anything. white space will NOT cause a parse error

Ok. However, I see some coding is indented or "tabbed" over. If that's wrong could it cause a parse error or is that considered a white space?

[ɔɔɔɔɔɔuɥoɾ]

You could have got a parse error simply by forgetting the  "  ;  " at the end PHP does not count spaces or white space as anything. white space will NOT cause a parse error

Ok. However, I see some coding is indented or "tabbed" over. If that's wrong could it cause a parse error or is that considered a white space?

That's just to make the code uniform and look tidy, so people can look through it easily, even it it was a complete mess it would still not cause a parse error, just would be a pain to look through.

If your getting a parse error changing this, look at the entries above the line your trying to add, you will see your error eventually, if not, attach the offending file and I will point out where your error is.

[MATTEK]

Thank you John. I'll try this when I get home.

[MATTEK]

I dont have who.english.php but i do have who.php. I'm looking in sources right?

[ɔɔɔɔɔɔuɥoɾ]

I dont have who.english.php but i do have who.php. I'm looking in sources right?

Well we have not established that's where the error is yet, when diagnosing, I usually check the languages 1st, who.english.php is in .Themes/{yourtheme}/languages/

[MATTEK]

not missing that line

[live627]

Any mods?

Did you refresh the page a few times?

[MATTEK]

A bunch of mods. But from the time it worked to the time it didn't work I did not install any new mods. And yes I've refreshed a few times.

[MATTEK]

Any Ideas?

[ɔɔɔɔɔɔuɥoɾ]

You will have to try and remember when it stopped working, if you noticed.

With lots of mods installed and no knowing which mods, its very difficult to track these issues, without been in the driver seat.

[MATTEK]

It stopped working after I changed my subs.php file to oprganize my cluttered menu into a drop down menu. However, the guy who helped me edit the file says subs.php has nothing to do with Who's Online.

[ɔɔɔɔɔɔuɥoɾ]

It stopped working after I changed my subs.php file to oprganize my cluttered menu into a drop down menu. However, the guy who helped me edit the file says subs.php has nothing to do with Who's Online.

I don't think it does have anything to do with it either, any other changes in the same time frame?