[Forum] Style dropdown does not display in the footer

[screenmates]

I guess all options but the dropdown does to render. When I reuploaded the files, it displayed the dropdown briefly but when I upgraded it, it stopped rendering the dropdown.

Could someone give me a hint how to enable the dropdown?

TIA

[Riasat]

you need to have more than one skin available. only then the drop down will show.

also, make sure you are not facing this: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-9505

[Zachery]

Also, users need to be able to change styles.

[CK]

However... If you meet both the requirements above and you still get the same issue then it could be a caching problem because the exact same thing was happening to me a while ago. Zachery traced the problem using the support ticket system for me

[screenmates]

There are 3 styles available on our forum:

Desktop (renamed vB style)
Mobile
Test (created from No Parent style)

Under Style & Language Settings:

Default style: Desktop
Default for modern mobile browsers: Mobile
Allow users to change styles: Yes
All other options are set to Yes

But still, the style dropdown does not display on the frontpage.

Where do I make cache settings unique? config.php?

Please help.

[Zachery]

Are you storing your datastore in the filesystem?

[screenmates]

Yes, cache/CSS stored on the file system

[Zachery]

You need to disable the datastore cache in the filesystem.

[screenmates]

Zachery,

Are you referring to commenting this setting in config.php:

$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

I am not clear. If I disable the cache, what caching will vB application use? Will it not be slow without using a cache?

Please clarify...

[CK]

Zachery,

Are you referring to commenting this setting in config.php:

$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';

I am not clear. If I disable the cache, what caching will vB application use? Will it not be slow without using a cache?

Please clarify...

That's exactly it mate.

If you comment out that code and reload your forum you'll get that dropdown back, something to do with the PHP version running on your server.

I've got it disabled and I haven't noticed any difference.

[screenmates]

Could somebody throw more light on this issue? I never heard of running a large production site without using cache! What does rendering a dropdown have to do with PHP? I don't understand.

[CK]

Could somebody throw more light on this issue? I never heard of running a large production site without using cache! What does rendering a dropdown have to do with PHP? I don't understand.

This is what Zachary said to me in the support system of and it makes no difference to the speed of my site with the datastore cache turned off.

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-9505

There is a bug, the datastore cache is slightly broken with php and storing the datastore in the filecache.

Try deleting the filecache.

There is a bug in php 5.2.14 that causes the stylee drop down not to work when you use datastore filecache. So no, you cannot un-comment it at this time.

[BibleWheel]

I'm having this same problem, but my datastore lines were already commented out in my config.php.

So what do I do now? It is a fresh generic install on my localhost with no mods. It looks like some sort of caching problem. If I add a few new styles (no parent, allow users = yes) with different header background colors for ease of distinction, they usually don't work and the style dropdown never shows. But then if I change the header color of default style, some of the new styles will show the old default header color. I'm using PHP 5.2.12

[Zachery]

Biblewheel, please start your own thread/ticket with all of the revelant information instead of hijacking others old threads.

[BibleWheel]

Sure, I'd be happy to do that. I thought it was more efficient to continue a thread that was already discussing the problem I'm trying to solve. What's there to "hijack?" This thread wasn't going anywhere.