PHP5 - Postbit Variables missing and 'postbit' appears in div

kall · July 13th, 2006, 03:16 AM

a-la: http://www.nzboards.com/photos/image299?styleid=280

See the 'postbit' at the start?

Code:

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And.. the extra variables aren't being pulled.

(Yes, I realise I use vBSEO. It is not the culprit. The culprit is PHP5 upgrade.

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KW802 · July 13th, 2006, 11:05 PM

Interesting. With your "seoed purple sidebar" style I see the following error but not the "postbit" text...

Code:

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What results occur with the default style?

kall · July 13th, 2006, 11:09 PM

Is that as a guest? I don't get the error, and the postbit is still visible as plain text, just centered.

Actually.. yes, I get the error AND the postbit thing.

KW802 · July 13th, 2006, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kall

Is that as a guest? I don't get the error, and the postbit is still visible as plain text, just centered.

Actually.. yes, I get the error AND the postbit thing.

Yes, as a guest. I flipped between the three styles and got the postbit text two of the three and the error with the third.

So with the default style you're getting both the postbit text and the PHP error? Before I start looking around at the code... do you have any hacks or anything installed with the gallery code?

kall · July 14th, 2006, 12:48 AM

Default style - only getting the postbit text.

I am guessing that the error comes on that style because of the customised navbar.. it isn't really required because of the header and the sidebar. Reverting it (or commenting out the following line) fixes the php error...which occured everywhere (not just the gallery).

Code:

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On a default (totally stock) style, the 'postbit' text is definitely still visible.

Not being an expert, I am still guessing that the $ is being stripped from the postbit variable somehow.

kall · July 14th, 2006, 07:09 PM

Hmm... after moving the entire site to my new server (running PHP4), the issue still occurs.

Good chance I just never noticed it but.. do custom fields in Postbit 'normally' get displayed by vBGallery?

KW802 · July 14th, 2006, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kall

Hmm... after moving the entire site to my new server (running PHP4), the issue still occurs.

Good chance I just never noticed it but.. do custom fields in Postbit 'normally' get displayed by vBGallery?

Wait... by custom field do you mean a Gallery custom field or a vBulletin custom field? Or some other variable?

kall · July 14th, 2006, 07:24 PM

Ones that are added to vB by hacks.. points, Zoints.. things that don't rhyme with oints..

(Local time and date in profile is another).

kall · July 14th, 2006, 09:27 PM

BTW, this is 1.0.1.

My members access has expired, you don't accept anything but CC, and mine has gone walkabout... so I can't renew to check if it still happens with 1.0.2/3.

kall · July 17th, 2006, 02:17 AM

Okay, still happening after Upgrade to 1.0.2 (found the credit card...fell behind PC desk

).

Please help.

KW802 · July 17th, 2006, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by kall

Ones that are added to vB by hacks.. points, Zoints.. things that don't rhyme with oints..

(Local time and date in profile is another).

OK, now we're getting closer.

I'm not familiar with Zoints to know what exactly their installation instructions involve (I submitted one of my sites but never heard back) but since they have some type of variable at the postbit level in the forums then I'll assume that they're either using a plugin at the postbit level or they have a code hack.

vBGallery does not store it's comments in the forums (in the forums DB, yes, but not in the same tables as the forum threads) so the best way to consider it's postbit is as a "vb work-alike" postbit so that it pulls from the same templates, etc. but the actual PHP code behind the scenes is different.

If you don't mind, can you provide a link to what the variables are supposed to look like when they do work and/or a copy of the installation instructions so that we can see how the variables are being populated?

kall · July 17th, 2006, 03:14 PM

http://www.nzboards.com/forums/7140-1-post/ - what my postbit should look like.

http://dev.zoints.com/ - Zoints Developer API.

I hadn't come to the theory it was caused by Zoints yet...

kall · July 18th, 2006, 01:44 AM

Kevin mate.. you are good!

Disabling the zoints Product fixed it!!

Here's the offending Plugin:

Code:

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kall · July 18th, 2006, 01:54 AM

My post over at Zoints:

Quote:

Hey guys,

Something that has caused me no end of headaches and a hosting change (thinking it was PHP5-related) is the fact that when Zoints' 'parse_templates' hook is enabled, the <div id="posts">$postbit</div> gets its $ stripped, leading to the postbits with the ACTUAL word 'postbit' appearing once at the top of the first post, in an ugly white line.

I am guessing the offender is this piece of code:

Code:

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Can you provide a fix for this?