"No text in body" when editing posts

[Sigyn]

Myself and my members have been getting the message that there is no text in the body of a post when we go to edit the post. I am not sure what is causing it. It doesn't happen on all posts, and there is nothing consistent between the ones it happens with.

We are running SMF 2.0.12 on our forum which is set up to be a roleplay forum. If there is more information you need, please let me know and I will happily provide it.

*edit* Also occasionally when previewing a post, the preview will be empty despite there being text in the body of the post as well.

[Kindred]

Do the posts start with a series of BBC entries?   If so, it's a known issue that will be patched in 2.0.13 shortly

[Sigyn]

Do the posts start with a series of BBC entries?   If so, it's a known issue that will be patched in 2.0.13 shortly

Well that would explain it; yes they do. Thank you for your quick response, Kindred! I'll mark this as solved and await the patch in 2.0.13!

[Sigyn]

So I have since updated to 2.0.13 and tried to edit the same post that was throwing this error before. I had assumed that updating the forum version would fix this (as was mentioned) but I am still getting this error.

Is there anything that can be done at this point?

[Steve]

Does the same thing happen with new posts made since the upgrade?

[Sigyn]

Does the same thing happen with new posts made since the upgrade?

I am going to go with 'no' here because people have been able to make posts with the templates that have large blocks of code -- but posts before the version update have this issue for sure.

[Kindred]

what is the post?  (please paste the first 5 lines of the failing post in code blocks here)

[Sigyn]

what is the post?  (please paste the first 5 lines of the failing post in code blocks here)

As the first lines are actually text, I expanded your request and gave down to the first large BBCode block:

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[offtopic=Creating Characters with Major and Minor Holds in their History:]As of January 2016, the main families of each [b]MAJOR[/b] Hold cannot be used in biographies. This means the Lord, Lady, their children and the Steward of the [b]MAJOR[/b] Holds cannot be included in histories. Siblings of the main families can be used, (ex. Lord Holder's brother, Lady Holder's sister, Lord & Lady Holders children can have cousins.) Lord and Lady Holders of previous turns before the current ones cannot be used. Please see Sigyn if this needs to be discussed for a history of an older rider.

Minor Holds may be used and 'created' with prior permission of the Admin and must be plotted beforehand. Characters made previous to this statement of MINOR Holds may PM the information to Sigyn to be added where necessary. For those occasions where duplicate Minor Holds were used, the character first made with that Minor Hold will take precedence and other names/plots can be worked out to fix it.[/offtopic]


[plainbox][gfont=Architects Daughter][size=16pt][b][glow=black,2,300][color=#0b00b8]T[/color][color=#231abf]i[/color][color=#3c33c6]l[/color][color=#544dcd]l[/color][color=#6d66d4]e[/color][color=#8580db]k[/color] [color=#b6b3ea]H[/color][color=#ceccf1]o[/color][color=#e7e6f8]l[/color][color=#ffffff]d[/color][/glow][/b][/size][/gfont][imgright]http://i.imgur.com/2KtBOW7.png[/imgright]
[i]Home to the [url=http://www.dragonsriseau.com/index.php?board=83.0]Seacraft & Fishercraft Hall[/url] and at least 5 unnamed Minor Holds in addition to those listed.[/i]



What it's displaying
Link to Thread

Please let me know if you'd like my login for the Admin section and I will happily provide it.

[Kindred]

No...  the first thing there is BBC...

If you put any character before the off topic BBC tag, I'll bet it works

[Sigyn]

No...  the first thing there is BBC...

If you put any character before the off topic BBC tag, I'll bet it works

You would be mistaken. I edited the code to read:

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A note on... [offtopic=Creating Characters with Major and Minor Holds in their History:]As of January 2016, the main families of each [b]MAJOR[/b] Hold cannot be used in biographies. This means the Lord, Lady, their children and the Steward of the [b]MAJOR[/b] Holds cannot be included in histories. Siblings of the main families can be used, (ex. Lord Holder's brother, Lady Holder's sister, Lord & Lady Holders children can have cousins.) Lord and Lady Holders of previous turns before the current ones cannot be used. Please see Sigyn if this needs to be discussed for a history of an older rider.

Minor Holds may be used and 'created' with prior permission of the Admin and must be plotted beforehand. Characters made previous to this statement of MINOR Holds may PM the information to Sigyn to be added where necessary. For those occasions where duplicate Minor Holds were used, the character first made with that Minor Hold will take precedence and other names/plots can be worked out to fix it.[/offtopic]


[plainbox][gfont=Architects Daughter][size=16pt][b][glow=black,2,300][color=#0b00b8]T[/color][color=#231abf]i[/color][color=#3c33c6]l[/color][color=#544dcd]l[/color][color=#6d66d4]e[/color][color=#8580db]k[/color] [color=#b6b3ea]H[/color][color=#ceccf1]o[/color][color=#e7e6f8]l[/color][color=#ffffff]d[/color][/glow][/b][/size][/gfont][imgright]http://i.imgur.com/2KtBOW7.png[/imgright]
[i]Home to the [url=http://www.dragonsriseau.com/index.php?board=83.0]Seacraft & Fishercraft Hall[/url] and at least 5 unnamed Minor Holds in addition to those listed.[/i]


So that it starts with letters, and it still throws the error.

[Kindred]

Then what you are reporting is not related to the 2.0.12 issue at all, and I suspect that it is related to your mod(s)

[Sigyn]

Then what you are reporting is not related to the 2.0.12 issue at all, and I suspect that it is related to your mod(s)

Hmm... It wasn't always doing this and I haven't put in any new mods in a long time. Do you have any idea what may cause issues like this?

[Illori]

it is possible something in the upgrade to 2.0.13 broke that mod and how it detects if it has the bbc in place and valid to not trigger that error. you would need to check the mods edits and make sure they are all in place.

[Steve]

If you list your mods maybe we can give you an idea of where to start.

[Sigyn]

If you list your mods maybe we can give you an idea of where to start.

Welp... I can do that;  just keep in mind we are a roleplay forum so we have A LOT of Mods installed xD

1.   Our Important Topics   1.1   [ Uninstall ]
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[Dzonny]

Whoa, that's quite a number of installed mods. I would be surprised if everything is working okay with that much mods
Every BBC related mod that you have may trigger the error you're getting, not really sure where to start here, but someone may have better idea though.

Anyway. not sure if you already wrote it, but is there some errors in your error log?

[Sigyn]

Whoa, that's quite a number of installed mods. I would be surprised if everything is working okay with that much mods
Every BBC related mod that you have may trigger the error you're getting, not really sure where to start here, but someone may have better idea though.

Anyway. not sure if you already wrote it, but is there some errors in your error log?

Could you tell me where the error regarding the BBCode may be located in the Error Log? I haven't cleaned this out in awhile so I wouldn't be sure what to find for you without assistance.

[Dzonny]

Well, you can't actually filter just BBC errors there. Error is most likely in Subs.php or Subs-Editor.php file, although it may be in various of files reported. If you have a lot of errors you should clean error log, browse your forum, and start with fixing one by one from a newly created error log.

[Sigyn]

Well, you can't actually filter just BBC errors there. Error is most likely in Subs.php or Subs-Editor.php file, although it may be in various of files reported. If you have a lot of errors you should clean error log, browse your forum, and start with fixing one by one from a newly created error log.

I know next to nothing about fixing errors with code; my attempts to do so would very likely break more than it fixes. I will go through the Error Log and look for mentions of those two things, however.

[Illori]

then post the errors you see in the log here and we can try to assist you with them.