Randy Calvert
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Have you checked to make sure you have the appropriate writable permissions on your uploads folder? One of the common reasons for failure to do activities like this is to not have the correct permissions on a folder in which the system is trying to access.
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Dangerous PHP Functions Enabled Fix?
Randy Calvert replied to JacobM's topic in Classic self-hosted technical help
I don't believe disable_functions is available via the user side of the cPanel MultiPHP INI. https://features.cpanel.net/topic/add-disable_functions-to-multiphp-ini-editor-basic-mode https://serverok.in/php-disable_functions-php-fpm-cpanel (this is in reverse of what you what, but shoes it's not a user level activity, but instead a server level function meaning WHM or admin level SSH is needed) You might need to make the request to your host to disable this for you potentially if they're willing to do it. -
Info is posted at: If you're changing paths, etc... you might need to clear your system cache after updating your conf_global.php file. Also make sure you're using TESTINSTALL on your key postfix as indicated in the URL above to make it reflected as your test instance.
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I'm glad that just picking a color with the color picker worked for you! If you need help with something more "robust", feel free to post the specific opening and closing tags you're trying to use. Someone might be able to give you some feedback on it!
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This typically happened because you applied the closing tag incorrectly. For example: FIRST BOX <span style="color:purple;font-weight:bold"> SECOND BOX </span> You would not want the close span included in the first box (as it would not apply anything to the group name itself. If you forget to include the close span in the second box, it will also break the HTML and not render correctly and possibly output like you described above. Another example would be something like IPS used to do for the Customer group by putting a red + mark in front of their name and making it italic. It might look something like: FIRST BOX <span style="color:red"><strong>+</strong></span> <i> SECOND BOX </i> And the output might look like + Randy Calvert
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Hi there! Click the Pencil icon next to your new theme. In the "General" tab will be "Default Front-end Theme?", set that to be enabled. Make sure Guests and other member groups that you want to access it are set in the "Available for" section. That should do it for you!
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Within forums, a moderator can reward a person for their post contributions with a badge and/or points. Is there a way to do something similar for gallery or blog contributions? I can't seem to find it if there is. If it's not possible, could this topic be moved to the Feature Suggestion forum for future consideration? Thanks!
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Well... still a 3rd party issue, but able to be fixed by IPS! They should technically not be calling the method that way even though it's "works". 😇
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Take a look at: Edit: @Adriano Faria beat me to the punch by mere SECONDS! 🤣
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How is the title of a topic going to describe a picture within that topic? What happens if there are multiple pictures in that topic?
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No, this is not currently possible within forums. It only is supported within Pages and Blogs.
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Yes and yes. Now remember… it’s only supported currently by search engines like Bing and Yandex. It’s not supported (yet) by Google. So depending on how you get your traffic, it might or might not make a big difference.
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Just to understand the ask... what are you asking them exactly enter into the alt tag field? Easily understanding what the image means typically involves describing the contents of the image. For example... A caption might be "A Bored Cat". Now... if a user uploads an image, how is IPS going to know what the image is about for it to apply a proper caption. When a user adds an image, there is already a spot for them to describe the image... that's what the image title is for. Now... if they just added "User uploaded image" as the description, it puts something in the field, but it defeats the intended purpose of the field, which is to actually DESCRIBE the image. Just saying it's an uploaded image does not help an accessible user understand what is inside of the image.
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Undeclared static property error since upgrading to 4.6.10
Randy Calvert replied to at_a_glance's topic in Technical Problems
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A lot of those errors look related to themes. I assume you’re using a custom theme. Most likely something in the theme is out of date. While it may not be breaking the site, it could still be throwing errors.
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It sounds like you're trying to do password reset activities through screen scraping. It might be better to look at doing this through the REST API. It would not be subject to CAPTCHA requests, etc. It's also designed to be interacted with in a programmatic way.
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If everything is working on your site for now, I would just keep going. You might want to consider sharing the error logs with the respective app authors so they can investigate and possibly provide an update.
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Are you a self hosted customer or cloud hosted? If self hosted, download a copy of your MySQL database and also download a copy of all of your site files. Your host might be able to generate a full backup of your account as well. So check with them too for guidance!
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Check out https://invisioncommunity.com/online Just add /online to your board address. There is also an online member widget to add this info to the homepage in the sidebar!
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It sounds like you don’t have a full upgrade package. Not being able to reply to posts sounds like a JS might be missing. Try downloading a full copy from the client area and uploading them. If the updater did. It run, hit yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade and see if it wants to do anything extra. Once that completes, clear your system cache from the support section of the ACP.
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Look at creating a stream. One of the default out of the box streams is just unread content. On this site an example is: https://invisioncommunity.com/discover/unread/ You can customize this to show only specific forums, show all content, content you started, content you participated in, etc. There are lots of ways to slice and dice the data. You can define new default streams in your AdminCP.
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Just make sure to keep up with the updates and they should be relatively painless. Your biggest risk is that with plugins breaking things. Make sure you’re familiar with recovery mode to disable plugins and you’ll be able to recover pretty quickly in the event you run into problems you did not see in a testing environment.
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The minor point upgrade will be SUPER easy. It literally took all of 2-3 minutes. These sub releases are generally pretty safe. Just to make sure to take a snapshot first in case you have to roll back. I literally have not had to roll back once in any of the point updates. By the way... upgrading from 3-4 is a BEAST. Once on 4 though, it's been super easy. As long as you keep up with the upgrades, it generally is smooth. It's when you get years out of date and versions of php/mysql change, etc that you encounter difficulty.
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Don't you love those moments of looking at the release notes and saying to yourself "yup... that was me!!"
