Phillyman

1 hour ago, Adriano Faria said:

Add the group or members as Moderators in the ACP.

I think I found it, they were moderators but this was in the off position.

I cant remember how to give membergroups the ability to approve hidden posts, records, comments around my forum. Why am I forgetting how to do this?

Just now, Chris027 said:

 

Isnt an active license like a fraction of what this app brings in for revenue?

With IPB nuking physical products from Commerce, would this app even work after that? If so I am interested in a license, not sure what is going on with it not being available for purchase. Can I get a tl;dr

This doesn't happen on all image pages, but on some, cant figure out what is causing it. On 4.7.3 right now.

TypeError: count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given (0)
#0 /home/blah/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(118): IPS\gallery\modules\front\gallery\_view->manage()
#1 /home/blah/public_html/system/Content/Controller.php(50): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute()
#2 /home/blah/public_html/applications/gallery/modules/front/gallery/view.php(65): IPS\Content\_Controller->execute()
#3 /home/blah/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(153): IPS\gallery\modules\front\gallery\_view->execute()
#4 /home/blah/public_html/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher->run()
#5 {main}

https://www.retromags.com/gallery/image/784-3-for-3do-enthusiasts-issue-00-sep-oct-1994/

but doesnt happen here...

https://www.retromags.com/gallery/image/966-3-for-3do-enthusiasts-issue-03-march-april-1995/

11 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

I like both rainbows AND unicorns!

Ha, thanks for the help. This was less painful then last months task of enabling NGINX and setting up an SSL cert to point to a subdomain with a port number. 15+ years of running a website and I still feel like I know nothing!

44 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

Sounds like you need to work with your hosting provider to get your PHP8 install fixed!  You are missing some critical things that will absolutely break your site if missing. 🙂

Once it’s fixed and it shows as all green on PHP8, try your site on it then and you can move onto testing/fixing third party resources. Step one is to get the base software running with the required system modules. 

Yup, had them enable all that, now when I flip it to 8.1 PHP.....rainbows and unicorns shoot out of my website!!!!

4 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

Ok. 4.7.3 technically supported PHP8.1 (it was added in 4.7.0).  Have you disabled all third party resources/applications and switched to a default theme?  The next most likely thing that a 3rd party resource has an issue in PHP8 that does not exist in PHP7. 

Ah that makes sense. Disabled all the apps and plugins. Ran it again, still white screen, but now I see this....

So hard to troubleshoot this on a production site. My production site is a .com, but I also own the .info domain. I may copy my site over there and do the testing so I can screw around without pissing off my users.

6 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

Is the version of IPB you’re running now compatible with PHP8?  If not, you’ll need to do a manual upgrade.  
 

1. Disable all 3rd party applications & plugins.
2. Switch to a default non-customized IPS theme.
3. Switch your server to PHP 8.
4. Use the compatibility checker script to confirm you have all of the required PHP modules installed in your PHP8.   
5. Manually upload the files of the new version from your client area to your server.
6. Visit yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade and follow the prompts to do the upgrade.
7. Check if any 3rd party modifications require an update (there's a button to manually check in the applications page). After you apply the updates you can safely re-enable those modifications.
8. Go to your Support Page in ACP and fix any remaining issues listed on the page.
9. If you still have disabled applications and/or plugins after the above steps, re-enable them 1 by 1 to make sure they are compatible with PHP 8.

I am on the last version before PHP8.....4.7.3

I thought this would be simple, not sure if I am missing a step, but I change PHP from 7.4 to 8.1 and then as soon as I do that my site white screens.

Results in....

I have someone now

I wish this was native, we have a wiki in IPB and I feel like it is neglected. It is such a powerful part of the suite. It should function more like Wikipedia for rewarding contributors. Sure Badges counts new pages added, but totally ignores edits which are equally important!

In Database Revisions for IP Pages, it keeps track of revision numbers and who made each revision. I would like a mod that counts the revisions for each unique contributor. Then writes that sum back to a profile field I have setup.

User 4418 made 2,339 edits.

Right now I am manually doing this task by outputting the data from PHPMyAdmin, then manipulating in CSV with Powershell, then creating SQL statements to drop it back in. PM me if you are interested.

10 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

Badges are not automatically awarded if you manually change an owner.  You would either need to manually award the badge or rebuild the achievements...

ACP > Members > Achievements > Settings

Click on "Rebuild Members' Achievements".  

I guess I dont understand why. The count is refreshed when changing the author, why is this not a trigger for a badge check?

I was trying to leverage badges and group promotion rules. It seems as though the trigger for badge assignment doesnt fire in IP Downloads. This is the flow....

1. I upload a file to IP Downloads (I am the author)
2. From the front end of IP Downloads, I change the author to User2 (now they are the author)
3. User 2 now has a IP Files count of 1, but the badge for "First File Uploaded" doesnt fire
4. Since the badge of First File Uploaded doesnt fire, the Group Promotion rule to promote them from Member to Contributor doesnt fire

I am not sure if there is a task that catches them up at a later date, but I feel like I shouldnt have to manually run all the badge counts again. A change of author, should decrease me, and increase them, therefore giving them the badge and the promotion.

52 minutes ago, Jim M said:

You will want to disable all third party applications/plugins and switch to an unmodified theme. These are most often related to one of these being out of date or not compatible with the release you're on so eliminating this is the first step.

Bingo, I just went in and disabled all my plugins and Third Party applications and they came back up. I guess this weekend I will turn on one by one and see which are the offenders.

On 10/14/2022 at 9:33 PM, Randy Calvert said:

Check the ownership of the files.  If it has a different owner or group, that could be part of the problem.  

In reality...  the datastore contents can be dynamically generated.  So technically you could even just delete it and IPB would just create it again.  

What do I do if I cant even find those files!

Is it possible that at the start of the FTP sync job, it is doing a list of all files to download, and by the time it gets to those two files, they are already gone or replaced?

All my forum posts are doing the following, I have cleared my cache, run the support tool. I am already running the default theme. What next?

12 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

It says permission denied.  Check the ownership and permission of those files. 

Guess I should have added that I went thru that already. They are 666 just like the rest!

I have a sync job that backs up my website, every time it runs, there are always 1-2 files that will not come down....which makes my backup job have a warning rather than a good icon.

What are these doing? Why is it just these two files out of 10's of thousands of files? I get that I can probably ignore, but I want to resolve!

So I went into WHM on my server and enabled 8.1....

Do I need to change this to match the previous handlers, or leave it on this new setting?

Also can I just flip my IPB forum domain to use PHP 8.1? Then go see if anything is broken on my website. If it is, can I just flip it back to 7.4?

24 minutes ago, AlexJ said:

That's a problem right? To fix one problem, now you need to add another guest donation button.... 

 

Somewhat, I mean if I want people to be able to donate crypto, I have to have something for that anyhow. So might as well give an option for account-less donations.

23 minutes ago, AlexJ said:

That's bad actually - why would you want to force donors to register. Then deal with forum account deletion request... 

Just don't save any pending invoice/transaction for guest. If transaction is not completed, it's not completed. 

 

I am just going to have another button for Paypal for guest donations.

1 hour ago, JohnDar said:

Good news.

This issue is being addressed in the next update (4.7.2). It will no longer be possible for non-members to Donate.

Should be donate or buy, what if you have a cheap $5 product, and they just hammer that all day long

Oh my god, that may have been what was happening to me!!!!!

The same day, I had like 41 guests that did $1 charges. I just figured I got mentioned somewhere, never put them together!