UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Differences in database security from 6.0.3 to 6.1

In your mysql.inc.php file change this:

code:
 
      $What = find_environmental ("SCRIPT_NAME"); 
      if ( ($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator") 
         && ( (!stristr($What,"createtable")) && (!stristr($What,"altertable")) 
         && (!stristr($What,"ubbimport.php")) ) ) { 
            $error = "Database error only visible to forum administrators"; 
      } 
      else { 
         $this->errordesc = mysql_error(); 
      } 
 

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to this:

code:
 
      $What = find_environmental ("PHP_SELF"); 
      if ( ($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator") 
         && ( (!stristr($What,"createtable")) && (!stristr($What,"altertable")) 
         && (!stristr($What,"ubbimport.php")) ) ) { 
            $error = "Database error only visible to forum administrators"; 
      } 
      else { 
         $this->errordesc = mysql_error(); 
      } 
 

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And see if that will give you a more descriptive error message. Then post the error message here.

I think I'll mention this change to Scream and see if this needs to be added to 6.1 as I have never been able to get a descriptive error message either. This could be do to how php is set and what environmentals are avialable to the users too.