Bugs, things I have noticed

[Brian]

Maybe some of you have found solutions so here goes.

-When users try to change profile they get error that email addy is in use by another user.

-Announcments: It only shows the most recent announcment even if you have several. Also nothing comes out formated on the announcment. IE hitting enter will not put something on a new line on the output.
-Smilys/no images on forumsummary. How can I turn on smily's but not those emoticons on the forumsummary.
-WebTV issue that they cant reply to posts. It gives error that they havent specified a forum.
-Dont index signature on search. IE dont search peoples signature with the search feature
-Dont email everyone who replied to post
-Dont email a reply to your own post unless you manually selected to get it on that post
-Cursor does not automatically show up in the reply.
-Time Zone change in peoples profile doesnt work. Unless they are entering it wrong how should it be? I would assume if the server is EST and they are in Cali they would put -3 ?

Thanks,
Brian

[Brian]

I also noticed that if you search new posts since last visit the first pge is fine, it then says something like showing 1-20 of 22, then when I hit the next page it says something like 20-40 of 3000

Guess its some type of bug..

[John]

-When users try to change profile they get error that email addy is in use by another user.

I'll have a look at that. It didn't seem to do that to me just now - maybe there is really a duplicate email?

-Announcments: It only shows the most recent announcment even if you have several. Also nothing comes out formated on the announcment. IE hitting enter will not put something on a new line on the output.

It does show just the most recent announcement yes - I thought that there was no point cluttering up the page with multiple announcements.

In the announcement, you do have to enter all the HTML code - this allows more powerful editing functions to admins and mods who are responsible enough to use it.

-Smilys/no images on forumsummary. How can I turn on smily's but not those emoticons on the forumsummary.

Hmm, you mean message icons? You can turn off message icons globally from the control panel.

-WebTV issue that they cant reply to posts. It gives error that they havent specified a forum.

Any idea where I can get a web TV cheap? I'll have a look at the HTML code and see if I can see what the problem is.

-Dont index signature on search. IE dont search peoples signature with the search feature

It doesn't index their signature

-Dont email everyone who replied to post

You can turn this off by removing the option in the newreply template. Just replace the yes/no options with



<input type=hidden name=email value=no>


-Dont email a reply to your own post unless you manually selected to get it on that post

Users can select whether or not they want to receive email notification by default or not. If you just want it off always, change the newthread template, removing the $emailchecked from this line:

<br><INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="email" VALUE="yes" $emailchecked> <B>Email

-Cursor does not automatically show up in the reply.

Don't understand you there... mouse cursor?

-Time Zone change in peoples profile doesnt work. Unless they are entering it wrong how should it be? I would assume if the server is EST and they are in Cali they would put -3 ?

Yup. I am in the UK, but our servers are on the East coast of the US. I enter +5 and get the correct times.

I could not reproduce that search problem. Maybe someone posted 3000 threads :)


John

[werehere]

I have a web tv viewer installed on one of my machines here and it will display how the page looks and acts on web tv with a normal dial up and computer. It is free for download somewhere, just cannot find where at the moment, but if I can locate the URL it will be passed on to you.

[Brian]

Noticed another thing when trying to move threads the pull down doesnt list the other forums to move it too.

-Brian

[Brian]

I also noticed that the edit time doesnt work. I put in the time for a days equivalant and it tells people that they can edit message for x hours but wont let them :(

[John]

Brain:

So it doesn't!

Add this in at about line 231 in postings.php:



verifyid("forum",$forumid);


I am gathering a list of fixes to put into the next version of vBulletin.

Thanks,

John

[Brian]

Sounds good on the update can it be well documented like, upload this file, or change this etc.

Also I already had that in that spot. Here is what I have in that area


// ############################### start do move thread ###############################
if ($action=="domove") {

//check valid username and password and get user id
$userid=verifyusername($username,$password);

verifyid("forum",$forumid);

[Edited by Brian on 04-21-2000 at 02:22 PM]

[John]

OK...totally gave you wrong fix last time. That code should aready have been there, as it was. What I meant was to add this code at line 204 of postings.php:



makeforumjump();


Sorry! :(

John

[Brian]

I dont have anything that has line number can you show it in context like I did above. IE paste that area of the code and tell me where to put it..

[werehere]

Try downloading Ultra Edit or textpad or something with line numbers, it will help out in many other ways I am sure:)

[John]

Sure:



// ############################### start move thread ###############################
if ($action=="move") {

verifyid("thread",$threadid);

makeforumjump();



I recommend Text Pad (http://www.textpad.com)

John