[Forum] Quick style Chooser

[hipster]

As of yesterday this used to display at the lower left of every page on the forum..
nothing has changed..
I checked the admin logs to confirm this..

I have 3 styles..

default style..
dark styles
and a untouched stock test style..
as a admin you would see the drop window with all 3 styles in it ..
as a member you would only see 2 styles..

today
noone can see any
no settings have changed..

anyone have a idea..
thanks for any information..

[Steve Machol]

That is most likely due to a modification.

To troubleshoot this, first reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version and that none show 'File does not contain expected contents':

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]

Next, disable all products (except vB Blog and vB CMS if you are running the Suite.)

Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Disable

Then manually uncheck all plugins that are not for 'vBulletin Blog' and vBulletin CMS' here:

Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager

You must do BOTH of those steps in order to disable all non vBulletin Modifications.

Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it.

Do you have the same problem?

[hipster]

thanks for your reply
this is very weird....Suspect File Versions all good..

anyway I uploaded all the original vb non-image files..

disabled all products

the quick style chooser came back...

but here's the thing..

I could change it via web site any page..

I turned the products back on..

still worked correctly..

I changed the style via admincp..
the style changed
but the quick style chooser was gone again..

checked the Suspect File Versions
again .. all still good.

cleared cache .. still nothing

so I re uploaded all the files again... anyway

the style chooser came back..

this is weird by far..
as long as I don't change the style via admincp
the quick style chooser remains..

[hipster]

let me correct a couple things

the style changer stays good till you log into the admincp..
after uploading all fresh files..

I narrowed it down to the datastore_cache.php

once it writes to this..
the quick style chooser disappears

disabling $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache'; in the config.php
everything works..

once thats enabled again ..

this problem persists

[Steve Machol]

To get that to work, you need to make sure this directory and file is chomd'd to 777:

...includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php

[hipster]

has been for years ...
nothing has been done to the board in months...
that dir and file has always been chmod'd to 777

[Steve Machol]

As I understand it, the problem goes away when you disable 'vB_Datastore_Filecache' and reappears when you enable it. Is that correct? If so, then in my experience that is the cause of this issue, unless you have a strange add-on that is interfering with this.

[hipster]

yes but it has been enabled and writing to the datastore_cache.php
..
when I over wrote the files before it over wrote that file.. in return the style chooser re-appeared