Missing categories in admin area

[Jade Elizabeth]

So for some reason some of my mods aren't showing in the menus to the left of the page, or when I switch it to drop downs.

Where are these made? I want to see if maybe there's some sort of mucked up code from a mod that might have broken it.

There are no errors in the log.

[kat]

Which mods, Lizzy? Worth reading their support topics, or posting, there?

[Jade Elizabeth]

Not worth it because none of them are showing. I need to work out where the code is and check it out.

I noticed it well after it happened...so yeah. I have no way of knowing when it happened or if a mod even did it. Do you know where the code is that makes up the menu items?

[kat]

"Home, "Help" and all that ******? Subs.php.

Look for the section labelled "// All the buttons we can possible want and then some".

[Jade Elizabeth]

No, where the admin menu is made. The menu with these options:

Configuration
Core Features
Features and Options
Security and Moderation
Languages
Server Settings
Related Topics
Tags Configuration
Post Scheduler
Current Theme
Themes and Layout
Pretty URLs
Modification Settings

[Illori]

admin.php

but a lot of mods use hooks to add their menu options so you most likely will not find them in that location and your best bet to get them back if they are hooks is to uninstall/reinstall the mods.

[Jade Elizabeth]

Hmm. Okay one mod is the Links Directory mod. It says this in the code:

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'settings' => array(
'label' => $txt['links_admin_settings'],
'file' => 'Links.php',
'function' => 'links_main',
                                        'custom_url' => $scripturl . '?action=admin;area=settings;sa=settings',


When I go to there though it doesn't exist.

There's a couple of other mods but I can't recall their names. This sucks .

[kat]

Could your host have the dreaded "mod_security" enabled?

[Jade Elizabeth]

My host is Liroy (CoreISP).

http://www.jades-world.com/info.php

[kat]

I wouldn't imagine that he'd have that enabled. But, stranger things have happened...

[Chalky]

Same thing happened to me when Liroy updated to PHP 5.4 with my mods whose code is not PHP 5.4 compliant.  Have a look at the Subs files for those mods in your Sources folder and look for something like this example taken from Subs-ThankYou.php belonging to the Thank-o-matic mod:

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function ThanYou_add_admin_areas($adminAreas)

where the variable is called but there is no declaration to modify it (or something like that - I'm paraphrasing the explanation I was given because I'm not a coder  )

Try sticking an ampersand & in it like this:

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function ThanYou_add_admin_areas(&$adminAreas)

It worked for all mine 

[kat]

There speaks the voice of experience.

Ta, your royal Chalkiness!

[Chalky]

I can't take any credit. Arantor showed me how to fix it, I just recognise the symptoms 

[kat]

It's the remembering that matters, though, innit?

[Jade Elizabeth]

Well now I have to go through every freaking mod to find it?

Why is it happening? Is it Liroys fault and I should beat him up, or the mod authors faults and I should beat them up? lol


(Thanks heaps for the fix though I will try it out tonight )

[kat]

You can beat Liroy up, anyway, if you like. I'm sure he'd enjoy it...

[Jade Elizabeth]

Wow I can't believe this was still marked as unsolved...aren't you support guys supposed to do that/follow up? :/

Anyway I just ran a search for any mention of the following, for my entire forum, and it has zero results for each:

$adminAreas
add_admin_areas

So I'm a bit lost and I really need these menus now lol.

[Jade Elizabeth]

Closest to finding any info is this:

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$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['title'] = $txt['links_admin_settings'];
$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['description'] = $txt['links_admin_settings_description'];


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// We need this
require_once($sourcedir.'/ManageServer.php');

$config_vars = array(             
    array('check', 'links_maintenance', 'subtext' => $txt['links_maintenance2']),
        array('text', 'links_maintenance_reason', 'size' => 30),
array('check', 'mylinks_index'),
array('check', 'links_random_index'),
        array('check', 'links_recent_index'),
array('check', 'links_stats_index'),
array('check', 'links_no_index', 'subtext' => $txt['links_no_index2']), 
);


if (isset($_GET['save']))
{
saveDBSettings($config_vars);
redirectexit('action=admin;area=settings;sa=settings');
}
$context['post_url'] = $scripturl .'?action=admin;area=settings;sa=settings;save';
prepareDBSettingContext($config_vars);
}


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function links_admin_submit($return_config = false)
{   
global $txt, $scripturl, $context, $sourcedir, $modSettings, $db_prefix;

$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['title'] = $txt['links_admin_settings'];
$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['description'] = $txt['links_admin_settings_description'];


[kat]

Wow I can't believe this was still marked as unsolved...aren't you support guys supposed to do that/follow up? :/

We have an auto-updated list of unsolved topics, Jade. Oddly, this one isn't on that list and I have no idea why...

However, even if it had been there, I'd kinda assumed we were waiting on you coming back with a follow-up to...

Well now I have to go through every freaking mod to find it?

and

I will try it out tonight.

So

[Illori]

Wow I can't believe this was still marked as unsolved...aren't you support guys supposed to do that/follow up? :/

We have an auto-updated list of unsolved topics, Jade. Oddly, this one isn't on that list and I have no idea why...

if a topic was last replied to by a team member [which this one was] it does not show in the list.

[kat]

Oh, of course.

Doh!

[Jade Elizabeth]

Wow I can't believe this was still marked as unsolved...aren't you support guys supposed to do that/follow up? :/

We have an auto-updated list of unsolved topics, Jade. Oddly, this one isn't on that list and I have no idea why...

if a topic was last replied to by a team member [which this one was] it does not show in the list.

Well that is a smart idea!

But I am still screwed cause nothing is helping me get these menus back. I don't know how many mods have them. I have 200+ mods installed.

[kat]

Did you go through the mods, just to see if the code actually exists?

If it doesn't, could the file be write-protected, preventing the mods from installing properly?

[Jade Elizabeth]

I went through everything, the closest I can find for the specific mod I want to edit is:

Closest to finding any info is this:

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$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['title'] = $txt['links_admin_settings'];
$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['description'] = $txt['links_admin_settings_description'];


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// We need this
require_once($sourcedir.'/ManageServer.php');

$config_vars = array(             
    array('check', 'links_maintenance', 'subtext' => $txt['links_maintenance2']),
        array('text', 'links_maintenance_reason', 'size' => 30),
array('check', 'mylinks_index'),
array('check', 'links_random_index'),
        array('check', 'links_recent_index'),
array('check', 'links_stats_index'),
array('check', 'links_no_index', 'subtext' => $txt['links_no_index2']), 
);


if (isset($_GET['save']))
{
saveDBSettings($config_vars);
redirectexit('action=admin;area=settings;sa=settings');
}
$context['post_url'] = $scripturl .'?action=admin;area=settings;sa=settings;save';
prepareDBSettingContext($config_vars);
}


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function links_admin_submit($return_config = false)
{   
global $txt, $scripturl, $context, $sourcedir, $modSettings, $db_prefix;

$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['title'] = $txt['links_admin_settings'];
$context[$context['admin_menu_name']]['tab_data']['description'] = $txt['links_admin_settings_description'];


I did a search of my entire website for the source code:
$adminAreas
add_admin_areas

Zero results.

[Deaks]

jade dumb question but I read the whole topic cause it was you

But are the text strings in the language files?

[kat]

What's mod's that?

[Jade Elizabeth]

jade dumb question but I read the whole topic cause it was you

But are the text strings in the language files?

I don't know, I'm a moron lol.

What's mod's that?

SMFpacks Links Directory




So. I found the code, it was really easy to find to so it's so embarrassing to say I found it XD. It was $admin_areas or something LOL. Oops XD.