Weblinks with 2.9 patch

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:24 pm

I need to look at this a bit more indepth (so I'll come back to this) but just wanted to ask the question......
Anyone experienced any looping problems when selecting the 'Visiti this website' link?
Mine seems to be looping back to the weblink category area.

I have ran out of time for today but I'll come back and post some sample urls' etc.

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:15 pm

Could be some block is messing up one of the module's variables.

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:24 am

Hmm, I had not thought of that.
I shall investigate some more.

registered · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:26 am

Actually, I had issues with the 3.0 patch and several add-on blocks. The way the code was written, it would put you into an endless loop. Here is my example:

Here is the original code. "NUKE_FILE" was the method put in place with the 2.9 patch level. With 3.0, Chatserv changed this to "BLOCK_FILE" to be more specific. Unfortunately, this caused an endless loop on my systems as it kept going back to index.php which would just try to re-build the blocks all over again and endless loop until something timed out I think...

Code:




if(!defined('NUKE_FILE')) {


  header("Location: ../index.php");


  die();


}

Here is what I had to do to get it to work with both 2.9 and 3.0:

Code:




if(!defined('NUKE_FILE') and !defined('BLOCK_FILE')) {


  header("Location: ../index.php");


  die();


}

I have no idea if this is related, but I was sure surprised at how simple the fix was. Just thought this might provide a clue...

montego