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posted by JoshPet>>
Use caution and make backups when doing direct db queries. yep, you've got me; I'm with you on that. The only SQL commands I've run are queries which do not change the db (all of the queries are in these fourms - allow me to take this opportunity to thank for for this marvelous site!)
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posted by Twisty>>
I added this functionality to my boards (v6.3), and it's quite a bit more involved than you think. You've really gotta have a pretty good grasp of how things work imo. unquestionably .. and I'll freely admit I don't. This is way beyond my capabilities, and understanding.Your post confirms my suspicions that I was trying to put square pegs in a round hole. I don't want to play around with php files, as they're all unadulterated, as delivered. I think I'll abandon this, as it's an issue in only one forum, and I've gone off a tangent from the fundamental problem I've encountered.
Similar problem: following on from what SG has posted (he's a member at our boards, and webmaster of another board, which also runs infopop) this was the fundamental problem we had, which I tried to fix by inserting those blue lines.
When a member edited a post, the post would not retain its original settings; it'd revert to default [using UBBCode], e.g. a post which was made [using HTML and UBBCode] would come out in UBBCode only after the edit. To keep things running, I'd re-edit the post for them, and the original settings [using HTML and UBBCode] would be retained. If I wasn't around, some members would make a new post, rather than edit the original. This means that an admin can edit a post and the post would retain its original settings, but a member is unable to achieve the same result. I thought I'd solved that problem when I inserted the blue lines/drop down menu.
Is it correct to say that there's a routine somewhere in infopop, which permits admins to edit a post and have it retain its original settings, but that routine is unavailable to members? What's required to ensure that the original settings of a post are retained when it's edited by a member - is there something I can insert into a tmpl file?
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