Unable to Post New Article to Home

rolfpf · New Member Joined: Feb 05, 2006 Posts: 5

I have installed the following on a Web Host.

PHP-Nuke 7.7
Patch 3.1

On Friday, I then put up about 18 Articles with the default Category of "Article" and published them to Home.

On Monday (today), I created a Category "Consulting", set all the Articles to this Category and set the show in Home as "No".

However, when I tried to set aone of them back to show in Home it did not appear.

Next I created new Articles and put them in Home, but again they did not appear.

Finally I tried everything, I could thing of including deleting the new category that I had created and setting everything back to what I had at the sstart of the day, but NO article would appear in the Home page.

What is going on. Can anyone help me. I am stumped to what to do next.

Regards
Rolf Pfotenhauer

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 2847

I will try to duplicate this. In the mean time, check your stories table and make sure those rows have 'catid' and 'ihome' fields set to 0

rolfpf · New Member Joined: Feb 05, 2006 Posts: 5

Thanks evaders99,

While I was looking I switched the Theme from "Odyssey" (the one giving the trouble) to "DeepBlue" and the Articles are appearing again. This is strange.

I also checked the Stories Table and I found the following stored there.

Mostly they are set to catid=0 and ihome=0 with the following exceptions:

entry 7, catid=0, ihome=1
entry 11, catid=1, ihome=1
entry 20, catid=1, ihome=0

What does this mean?

I guess for a start that the problem must be with the Odyssey Theme.

jmrobles · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:12 am

Hi,

The ihome field in the $prefix_stories table controls if an story (news) must be published at first page (value 0) or not (value 1).

As I could see two days ago, when I had the same problem (and when I met this thread, searching for a solution), the Odyssey theme uses the number of stories to arrange them in two columns, but there is a little error in the process: in theme.php, there is the following sentence to find out how many stories must be vissible at first page:

$kokku = $db->sql_numrows($db->sql_query("select * from ".$prefix."_stories LIMIT 0, 30 "));

(kokku must be number in estonian).

In that sentence, the stories that are present in the table but avoided from publishing at first page (ihome != 0), are erroneously considered. I solved the problem for me, using that other line:

$kokku = $db->sql_numrows($db->sql_query("select * from ".$prefix."_stories where ihome='0' LIMIT 0, 30 "));

I expect it will be useful.

Susann · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:23 am

Just don´t use theme Odysee it has several bugs and don´t work proper when you use the multilingual feature for your website.

jmrobles · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:51 am

Of course, what Susan says may be an other solution. Here, in Spain, we say "Muerto el perro, se acabó la rabia" ("Dead the dog, no more rabies").

I agree that there are themes better programmed than Odyssey; for example, the name of theme is hardcoded in Odyssey, so, if you want to clone it with a different name to customize it (as I did), you must change all the occurrences of Odyssey. Also, the poor multilingual support, I think is caused by the lack of macros. In the other hand, its appearance is very clean.

Anyway, thanks for the advice.