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Hi,

yes, now it works fine, was my BIG error, sorry and thx for help.

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Your welcome

I am having a problem on my board where NO top threads or Current threads are being displayed! Also the short stats shows 0 users!!! Is this a mistake on my part? or is this not working yet? I am using a upgrad version! Any help would be nice thank you..

http://www.cityofsumdall.com/waffen/ubbthreads/index.php

Everything should be working. Not sure why yours is not.

Make sure that you have all of the variables set correctly in the configpal.php script. Remember to use board keywords and not the title to specify what boards to use.

Also, make sure you have uploaded all of the 4.3 files, including the index.php file. You may be using the older index page and that will cause your short stats to not show correctly.

One thing to keep in mind is that the display is based on threads group access. If there are new threads but only in posts that members can see or specific groups then only they will see them listed in the current threads or top threads boxes.

Nice color scheme by the way. I like it.

Hrmm, well.. I checked everything and everything seems ok.. I used the new Index.php.. ugh.. I am at a loss..

This is strange, for sure. I made a test post and nothing shows up on the current post list.

What are you settings for the following:


// ----------- TOP THREADS VARIABLES ------------- //

// Top threads by "views" or by "replies"
$SortThreadsBy = "replies";

// How many days old can a thread be and still make the list?
$threadage = 7;

// Set this variable to the total number of threads that you wish to show
$totalthreads = 10;

// ----------------------------------------------- //


and


// ---------- CURRENT THREADS VARIABLES ---------- //

// How many current threads posted in the past 24 hours should we display?
$totalcurrentthreads = 20;

// Ignore sticky current threads? 1=yes 0=no
$nostickycurrent = 1;

// ----------------------------------------------- //


Everything seems to be working without error... so it makes things harder to know what is going wrong... lol

here is what I have..

// ----------- TOP THREADS VARIABLES ------------- //

// Top threads by "views" or by "replies"
$SortThreadsBy = "replies";

// How many days old can a thread be and still make the list?
$threadage = 7;

// Set this variable to the total number of threads that you wish to show
$totalthreads = 10;

// ----------------------------------------------- //

// ---------- CURRENT THREADS VARIABLES ---------- //

// How many current threads posted in the past 24 hours should we display?
$totalcurrentthreads = 20;

// Ignore sticky current threads? 1=yes 0=no
$nostickycurrent = 1;

// ----------------------------------------------- //

If you have ICQ, Icq me.. my # is in my profile..

Ok I'm drawing a blank now.

I don't have any instant messenger stuff. Let me give this some thought and see if something comes to mind.

Has anyone else had a problem simular?

Can you create a test board that allows guest access for posting? And then post a few test messages to it. It just seems like the index is displaying according to group access and nobody has access.

Also, for some strange reason I see a poll displayed on your index page but viewing the list of polls it does not show up.

http://www.cityofsumdall.com/waffen/ubbthreads/index.php?Cat=&paction=polls

At least not for me...

Did you modify the index.php script any?

the polls thing didnt show up for me either.. and I have admin access.. Hrmm.. I hadn't knoticed that one not working..

here is my index.php file. Also my random profile does not work either..

code:
 <? 
/*
        Integrated Index Page (IIP)
		Created by Dave.   1/21/2002
        [email protected]
        http://www.chattersonline.com
		
		Updated on 5/2/2002 to version 4.3

*/
	// ----------------- EDIT ----------------------
	
		// Path to the pals folder
		$palspath = "/home/sumdall/public_html/waffen/ubbthreads/pals/";
	
	// ---------------------------------------------


	include "{$palspath}configpal.php";

	if ($configured) {

		// load required files
        require ("{$index2threadsPath}main.inc.php");
		include "{$palspath}requirepal.php";

		// load variables
		include "{$palspath}configpal.php";
		
		// authenticate visitor
   		$userob = new user;
   		$user = $userob -> authenticate("U_Username, U_Password, U_Display, U_Groups, U_Sort, U_View, U_PostsPer, U_TempRead, U_FlatPosts, U_TimeOffset, U_ActiveThread, U_Post_Format, U_PicturePosts, U_ShowSigs, U_Email, U_PictureView");


	   $palPictureView = $theme['PictureView'];
	   if ($theme['PictureView']) {
	      if ($user['U_PictureView'] == "off") {
	         $palPictureView = 0;
	      }
	   }

		$Groups = $user['U_Groups'];
		if (!$Groups) {
			$Groups = "-4-";
		}

		$Grouparray = split("-",$Groups);
		$gsize = sizeof($Grouparray);
		$groupquery = "AND (";
		$g = 0;
		for ($i=0; $i<$gsize;$i++) {
			if (!ereg("^[0-9]",$Grouparray[$i])) { continue; };
			$g++;
			if ($g > 1) {
				$groupquery .= " OR ";
			}
			$groupquery .= "Bo_Read_Perm LIKE '%-$Grouparray[$i]-%'";  
		}
		$groupquery .= ")";

		$query = "
			SELECT Bo_Keyword,Bo_Title
			FROM w3t_Boards
			WHERE Bo_Keyword != ''
			$groupquery
		";
		$sth = $dbh -> do_query($query);
		$boardquery = "AND (";
		$boardquery2 = "AND (";
		$g = 0;
		while (list ($BKeyword,$BTitle) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth)) {
			$palBkeyword[$g] = "$BKeyword";
			$palBtitle[$g] = "$BTitle";
			$g++;
			if ($g > 1) {
				$boardquery .= " OR ";
				$boardquery2 .= " OR ";
			}
			$boardquery .= "B_Board = '$BKeyword'";
			$boardquery2 .= "w3t_Posts.B_Board = '$BKeyword'";		
		}
		$dbh -> finish_sth($sth);
		$boardquery .= ")";
		$boardquery2 .= ")";

	
		$sth = $dbh->do_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Number >= 2");
		$registered = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth);
		$palShowregs = "{$registered['0']}";
		$dbh -> finish_sth($sth);


		// send the header
		$html = new html;
		$html -> send_header($config['title'],$Cat,0,$user); 

		// show full width?
		if (($pbsize == 2) && ($paction) && ($paction != "recommend") && ($paction != "ruthanks")) {
			echo "$fullWidthStart";
			include "{$palspath}menupal.php";		
			if ($paction == "polls") {
				include "{$palspath}polllistpal.php";			
			}
			if ($paction == "attachments") {
				include "{$palspath}attachmentlistpal.php";			
			}
			if ($paction == "membersites") {
				include "{$palspath}membersitespal.php";
			}
		}
		else {
			// create left column
			echo "$leftcolstart";
	
				if ($menupal1) {include "{$palspath}menupal.php";}
	
				if ($hottopicpal1) {include "{$palspath}hottopicpal.php";}
	
				if ($searchpal1) {include "{$palspath}searchpal.php";}
	
				if ($pollpal1) {include "{$palspath}pollpal.php";}
				
				if ($topratedpostpal1) {include "{$palspath}topratedpostspal.php";}
	
				if ($currentthreadspal1) {include "{$palspath}currentthreadspal.php";}
	   
				if ($threadspal1) {include "{$palspath}topthreadspal.php";}
	
				if ($newuserpal1) {include "{$palspath}newuserpal.php";}
	
				if ($newspal1) {include "{$palspath}newspal.php";}
	
				if ($loginpal1) {include "{$palspath}loginpal.php";}
	 
				if ($onlinepal1) {include "{$palspath}onlinepal.php";}
	   
				if ($posterpal1) {include "{$palspath}posterspal.php";}
				
				if ($lastseenpal1) {include "{$palspath}lastseenpal.php";}
				
				if ($statpal1) {include "{$palspath}shortstatspal.php";}
				
				if ($randprofilepal1) {include "{$palspath}randprofilepal.php";}
				
			if (!$paction || $paction == "recommend" || $paction == "ruthanks") {
			
				// create middle column
				echo "$midcolstart";
	
					if ($paction == "recommend" || $paction == "ruthanks") {
						include "{$palspath}recommenduspal.php";
					}
		
					if ($menupal2) {include "{$palspath}menupal.php";}
		
					if ($hottopicpal2) {include "{$palspath}hottopicpal.php";}
	
					if ($searchpal2) {include "{$palspath}searchpal.php";}
		
					if ($pollpal2) {include "{$palspath}pollpal.php";}
		   
					if ($topratedpostpal2) {include "{$palspath}topratedpostspal.php";}
	
					if ($currentthreadspal2) {include "{$palspath}currentthreadspal.php";}
		
					if ($threadspal2) {include "{$palspath}topthreadspal.php";}
		
					if ($newuserpal2) {include "{$palspath}newuserpal.php";}
		
					if ($newspal2) {include "{$palspath}newspal.php";}
		
					if ($loginpal2) {include "{$palspath}loginpal.php";}
		 
					if ($onlinepal2) {include "{$palspath}onlinepal.php";}
		   
					if ($posterpal2) {include "{$palspath}posterspal.php";}
	
					if ($lastseenpal2) {include "{$palspath}lastseenpal.php";}
	
					if ($statpal2) {include "{$palspath}shortstatspal.php";}
	
					if ($randprofilepal2) {include "{$palspath}randprofilepal.php";}
	
				// create right column
				echo "$rightcolstart";
		
					if ($menupal3) {include "{$palspath}menupal.php";}
		
					if ($hottopicpal3) {include "{$palspath}hottopicpal.php";}
	
					if ($searchpal3) {include "{$palspath}searchpal.php";}
		
					if ($pollpal3) {include "{$palspath}pollpal.php";}
		   
					if ($topratedpostpal3) {include "{$palspath}topratedpostspal.php";}
	
					if ($newuserpal3) {include "{$palspath}newuserpal.php";}
		
					if ($newspal3) {include "{$palspath}newspal.php";}
		
					if ($loginpal3) {include "{$palspath}loginpal.php";}
		 
					if ($onlinepal3) {include "{$palspath}onlinepal.php";}
		
					if ($currentthreadspal3) {include "{$palspath}currentthreadspal.php";}
		
					if ($threadspal3) {include "{$palspath}topthreadspal.php";}
		   
					if ($posterpal3) {include "{$palspath}posterspal.php";}
					
					if ($pastthreadspal) {include "{$palspath}pastthreadspal.php";}
	
					if ($lastseenpal3) {include "{$palspath}lastseenpal.php";}
	
					if ($statpal3) {include "{$palspath}shortstatspal.php";}
	
					if ($randprofilepal3) {include "{$palspath}randprofilepal.php";}
		
			}
			else {
				
				// create wide right column
				echo "$widerightcolstart";
				
				if ($paction == "polls") {
					include "{$palspath}polllistpal.php";			
				}
				if ($paction == "attachments") {
					include "{$palspath}attachmentlistpal.php";			
				}
				if ($paction == "membersites") {
					include "{$palspath}membersitespal.php";
				}
			}	
		}
	
		// end columns   
		echo "$endcolumns";

		// send the footer
		$html -> send_footer();
   
	} else {
	
		echo "$closed";
	
	}

?>

 [/code]

Never mind.. it seems that the commands from the admin area don't work. The columns are there via phpmyadmin.

Here´s a little feedback on the "Top 10 Threads" box:
From a user perspective. Currently you look at it, and at the bottom you see a link that says "...by replies". So then you know that you can see the top 10 by replies, but you wonder... "how is it choosing the top 10 now?". You have to click on "...by replies" to see what system is the other one for deciding the top 10.

Maybe it should state it somewhere. Example, box tittle: "Top 10 most viewed", "Top 10 most replied".

You know I had often thought the same but wasn't sure how to word it in the title without it looking strange. I think that the it should still state that it's threads? Such as "Top 10 Viewed Threads" or "Top 10 Replied Threads" or something like that... How do those sound?

Getting this error from my index page

code:
Fatal error: Failed opening required 'main.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/www/michiganjeepers/index.php on line 21

---

And line 21 reveals this:

code:
require ("{$threadspath}main.inc.php");

---

Did you upload the new index page that was packaged with 4.3?

Line 21 looks like this:

if ($configured) {


but the related line in question has been changed to this:


require ("{$index2threadsPath}main.inc.php");

thanks dave.. stupid me, I was so upload happy I uploaded the index.php file to the pals folder, so the old index was still in there, haha

No problem.

Did you notice my signature? Seems to be working again.. lol

I did notice that.. wow, and what is the difference from yours working and not mine? I don't get it

Is this a bug?

Go to my index page:
http://www.michiganjeepers.com/index.php

notice in the center column where the news is displayed... the last one displays NO text, and the first one doesn't display half of the text.

After careful inspection of those topics you will notice with I used the bold tag, that and nothing after it shows up. The last one I started the topic with a bold heading, so obviously nothing was displayed.

You can turn off the striping of html. I may remove this option now that I have "smart cutting" when only X number of characters are to be displayed for the body. In the configpal.php script find this and set the variables to 0:

// Strip HTML? 1=yes 0=no
// Disabling this for boards that do not allow html or mark up will help
// speed things up here. (not enabling on boards that do may break the display)
$postcodestrip[0] = 0;
$postcodestrip[1] = 0;
$postcodestrip[2] = 0;

ahh, gotcha. When I glanced through I just saw HTML, didn't know it applied to both markups. Thanks!

The post is stored with HTML in the body so there's no need to strip markup. But your right, I should mention HTML along with MARKUP and probably UBBcode so there's no confusion.

[]I may remove this option now that I have "smart cutting" when only X number of characters are to be displayed for the body[/]*Is really looking forward to this feature.

hmmmm didn't 4.3 have that in?

I think it is... I'll look.

Yep it's in there. It's still in the early stages but seems to be working. I have tweaked the current version a bit as it was leaving the < character at the end of the cut. You would see and probably can still see this at the end of some of the posts on the main page here:

<...

Dave (or anyone else),

I am fiddling with a few options for 4.3, and am experimenting with the pals folder in a sub folder.

When configuring up configpal.php,

// path to threads directory from pals directory (no trailing slash / )
$pals2threadsPath = "..";

would be fine for going up one level

but what would it be for going up two levels or more? '../..' does not work, and for the life of me, I cannot think what it should be.

Ian.

I would have thought "../.." would have been ok to go up 2 levels.. strange that it doesn't.

Anyone else?

Had a few users complain since the upgrade lastnight.. the index page is loading very slow while the rest of the board is fast, if not faster than before. Here are the stats:

Generated in 2.901 seconds. 26 queries. <-- index.php
Generated in 0.065 seconds. 23 queries. <-- ubbthreads.php

What is the dramatic difference? The old PAL I was using never had a problem, and the old one had headers and footers with graphics in them. Right now I don't have the graphics up yet, so its purely text for the most part.

zlib is disabled, but shouldn't matter, as the threads index loads like lightning, but the index doesn't Any ideas?

"../" makes a request from the root.

True, but how about two levels up, where the root is three levels up.

Ian

There are others that have had the same experience. You may have to disable individual pal boxes one at a time till you find what's slowing things down. The pollpal has been pointed out before but that's not always the case as then at other times things such as "top threads" have been pointed out. One of the problems may be that the index is looking or having to look through to many posts for various info. You have over 34,000 posts.

I just did a search on your board for the word "the" from all forums, searching all posts. The time it took was this:

Generated in 3.344 seconds. 5 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

What version were you using prior? I'll have to look at some things and compare them. Perhaps I changed a query that was better left alone.

If it would be possible I would love to have access to your site so I could test some things out and get a better idea of what's needed to speed things up. (or anyone else's site that is having the same problem)

One other idea I have had that would help speed things up is being able to move posts into an archive area after a certain age. This isn't my actual idea though as it has been mentioned and requested a few other times that I have seen. My idea was that I can see how to accomplish such a task. This would help quite a bit as there could be much less for the index to have to pull from.

THanks for the reply. I was previously using threads 5.5.1 with whichever PAL was the latest one for that version, I can't remember. I also had thought it might be to do with certain pal boxes. Right now I think the only one different I am running now that is different from before was the user spotlight.

But I will first look into playing with different boxes and different numbers of items listed and see if that has any affect on speed. I will let you know what I find out

I did a simular search here and got these results:

Generated in 0.371 seconds. 4 queries. Zlib compression enabled.


There are only 15,000 posts here though.

Hoping not to interfere too much with current conversation:
[] You know I had often thought the same but wasn't sure how to word it in the title without it looking strange. I think that the it should still state that it's threads? Such as "Top 10 Viewed Threads" or "Top 10 Replied Threads" or something like that... How do those sound? [/] Yes, that sounds good. The shortest it goes the better (to make sure it doesnt wrap in a new line), maybe even "Most Viewed Threads", "Most Replied Threads" (you already see its 10 anyway).

Dave:

First off, can you fix whatever post in this thread that's causing it to be stretched out? Really annoying.

You're correct that it's working, but it still isn't handling the UBB and HTML codes very well. Ideally, it would be better if it first checked to see where the break falls, and then, if it's in the middle of an HTML code, either break it before or after so as to avoid breaking it in the middle of the code.

use "../nextlevel/

I think 348 Posts is long enough for one thread.
How about releasing 5.0 with the shoutbox so we can start a new thread.

Wraith, it already does check to see if it's cutting in the middle of html and moves to the end of the closing tag. It is still in the early stage and I know I can fine tune it some but as far as I can tell it's working? That is, the post information such as views replies and read more are not being dragged into the post because of a unclosed html tag. If you have a post this is not working on please let me know so I can see what html tags it's messing up on. I will work on improving it.

only 348?

I was shooting for the 500 club. LoL

I'm working on having the display use templates right now with 5.0 and I haven't started any new features. I wont do that untill after it's templated. Will make it easier if I have less to convert up front.

I may how ever, give creating an archival system a try this week so sites can move older posts they want to keep into a mirrored w3t_Posts table. Some of the speed problems with the index is the fact that some sites have a huge post table to have to search.

[]Yes, that sounds good. The shortest it goes the better (to make sure it doesnt wrap in a new line), maybe even "Most Viewed Threads", "Most Replied Threads" (you already see its 10 anyway). [/]

I like that idea to remove the 10 from the title. What I'll do is place the related ranked number next to the thread.

1. some thread here
2. another thread title here
3. and yet another title

I think that would work out great.