Very weird Module oddity

Involved Joined: Oct 09, 2006 Posts: 413 Location: UK

Hi guys

We have a custom module that we made years back, works a treat. However recently, i added a simple hyperlink to the page. Worked fine, but i decided in the end i didnt want it there. So i go back into the module script and remove my hyperlink.

Clear my cookies, blah blah. reformat my pc even!! and it still shows.
I then get another admin to look at the script, and he confirmed..no hyperlink is actually there, but he too sees it on the page.

So before i start doing any more fiddling, i go into Cpanel and copy the module over to a test site on a subdomain...et voilla, no hyperlink.
Hmm me thinks...
I delete the module on the 'live' site..confirm it has gone via browsing to it. Then copy over the module from the test site (which works perfectly)....
Yup you guessed it...hyperlink re-appears, as if by magic.

2 things spring to mind for me.. 1/ im not actually editing the correct script-- but i made the original edit, so it cant be that. 2/ my temp files and cookies are showing me an old version of the page-- it cant be because ive re-formatted my pc and had others confirm the errors.

As the topic title says..Very Weird

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and what if you download the page...
delete the one on the server...
confim that by checking if you get the error that the page is missing..
then upload the downloaded one that you edited without hyperlink....

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:49 pm

I was looking at something odd sort of like this today and it was driving me nuts. I had created a new php file, let's call it abc.php based on some older code in my module. The directory it should have been in was let's say /my_nuke_root/modules/. So it should have been /my_nuke_root/modules/abc.php. Well, when I created the abc file I did a copy and paste, made some modifications and then did a save as. It seemed to work fine in the browser so I went to make some adjustments and couldn't find the file. Where the heck did abc.php go? Sometimes my editor doesn't refresh the file list so I went to Explorer and looked and it wasn't there either. Finally I did a search on the whole drive and there it was in /my_nuke_root. So the includes for it could work [include('abc.php'); but it wasn't there for the editor. I hope this isn't too convoluted; all I'm suggesting is look to see if you saved the file somewhere else in the path that your browser can find even though you don't have it where you expect it.

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:15 pm

any ideas how i can search for it on server?

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:16 pm

bump...just got back to this one Shocked

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:06 am

1. Cpanel has a file manager so look in your Nuke Root directory for a file with the name you are having trouble with.

2. Make some obvious modification to the file (like put a big echo in at the top) and reload it. See if it is picking up that version or somehow still picking up the old one.

3. I just looked on my Cpanel. There's a nice little search all files for function at the top. Put in the file name and have it search across all directories.

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:04 am

ok, i have edited the proper file and added a test echo, at the top; as suggested. The echo is not displayed.
So do we assume that, this is not the file that it is reading?

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:37 am

I would assume that yes. I'd go looking for another file with the same name thru Cpanel or other means. If you can't find it on Cpanel perhaps download the whole setup from your nuke root on down to your PC and use Windows explorer to search for a file with that name.

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:48 pm

I looked at the module index.php, and it includes only 1 file..the one i was looking at.
I d/l'd a copy and did a windows search.. It returns only 1 script, i open it and ..yep you guessed it. absolutly no reference to the hyperlink