UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? General Tab in Control Panel

I tried to access the *general link* in the Display Options in the control panel, and I come up with a white page ...

Any idea of what I should be looking for to troubleshoot and figure out how to get it to show?

Thanks.

Are you still getting a white page and have you added modifications to the cp? Need the info

Hey Allen~

Sorry I've taken so long to get back ...

I tried to mirror the hacks that I did on my test board that I did with my main site. On my test board, the general tab works; on the main site, it doesn't.

I don't know what I would've messed up, but if someone could point me in the right direction on what to check ...

As far as mods, I've done a lot of the usual suspects -- like megamod, news fader, calendar, modifications, backup UBB ... the graemlin pulldown ...

Those mods are the ones that I've played with that have a connection to the Control Panel ...

To a lesser degree, I've also played with the UBB code, so I guess that has a bit of an impact with the control panel ...

Can't recall what else.

Then again, my brain's been fried the past 3 weeks.

I'm beginning to think that making modifications and me are a crazy/dangerous combination that spells j-i-n-x.

Not only do I have the white page at the general tab in the control panel, but it seems as if more and more threads at my board are coming up with white pages as well.

In the past, it seemed as if these pages would occur whenever we posted an extremely long piece, but recently, even simple, short posts in new threads are generating white pages.

Without tearing apart all of the hacks and starting over, is there anyway of checking on the cause of these?

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I also have encountered another problem of sorts--it doesn't bug me too much--except that I hate having anything wrong with my site.

This is happening in threads that I close ... I get an Error on Page notice ...

It reads:

Any idea what to look for, how to fix?

*sigh*

I have tried really hard to stay away from hacks that would be a huge drain on CPU usage on my site's server. Namely--stats, hit hack, et al. I don't even run "who's online" because I know it's a drain on the server's CPU.

It seems as if Mondays are a big traffic day at my site, and as a result, I get a lot of white pages and other crap going on that causes my host to shut down my site to conserve CPU.

*sigh*

They believe it's because of the hacks I've installed.

I'll try to list here the hacks I've installed ... if there is a CPU killer, please let me know ... if there is a *bad hack* - please let me know ... if there are hacks that are incompatible, please let me know.

Thanks.

1. Separated the posts on a page (like you see here at UBBDev; each post is its own separate box)
2. Mod wordlets
3. Pulldown smilies
4. Calendar
5. Calendar anchor (hack to the calendar hack that allows you to go to the bottom of the calendar to see the details of specific dates)
6. News fader
7. Advanced UBB code
8. Advanced IP tracing
9. To the top (click on icon, takes you to top of thread)
10. Megamod
11. Move calendar position to top of forum summary
12. Back up board
13. More custom rank fields
14. Change public name in CP
15. View password in CP
16. Quick quote
17. Actual member totals
18. Post index
19. Additional Custom Title Field
20. CP Mod Add-on
21. Posts don't count
22. PM Folders
23. PM notification
24. Move mod position (where their names appear)
25. Spoiler hack
26. Message icon hack
27. Added Links add-on last night (it's a stand alone)
28. Changed mainbutton area

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I know it's a lot, but many of these are just small changes that I designated as a hack/modification because I changed a little bit of code. In addition, I know that many others have boards even more hacked up than mine, and they aren't experiencing these problems (to my knowledge ).

How can I test to see if a hack is bad or not compatible with another one?

I really like the hacks I've installed, but if one is killing my site, then I'll back it out.

the error message from the post above sounds like it's a javascript error - maybe a conflict with the quickquote and smilies pull-down? You've got several that involve the topics and posting pages.... could be one or 4 of them causing the problem.

Okay, thanks for the feedback, Allen.

I disabled the "quick quote" box for the time being simply because I'm heading into the busy part of my week (i.e. packing 50 hours of work into 4 days ) ...

When I did this, I am noticing this error message whenever I click on a link:

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I was receiving this error before only when I was working within a thread I had closed.

How can I track down this error and fix it? Could it be the *issue* behind my problems (could live be that *easy*?!)?

Thanks.

Disabling the quick quote probably doesn't remove the javascript, just changes it. You probably need to remove that and the other mods that add javascript to the topic until you can find out where the error is.

The problem is with my icon mod, I'm gonna try to have a fix Friday. It only errors out on closed threads

Hey Ian, thanks ...

It may error out on closed threads, but I'm also experiencing the error message in open threads ... when I click on -- say the Active Topics link ... I didn't get error message in open threads until I shut down the quick reply box!

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As always, I really appreciate all of the advice and help I receive here.

You guys are the best.

if you have quick reply disabled, remove any code I had you add to public_topic_page.pl.

I'll post a formal fix soon

Ian, you buggy monkey lol; at least i can post on your forums :glances at brett's site;