Vanishing Modules

Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 111

I’ve finished installing several modules and tweaks to the latest version of 7.8 patched with chatserv’s 3.2. (disclaimer: I know 7.8 isn’t the most secure version. I had to use it in order to take advantage of some of the new modules I would like to use).

Everything works, and I thought I was ready to begin setting it up for launch, until;

I went to add one final module and it didn’t show up in the module administration list. I created a dummy folder and it didn’t show up either. So, I tried changing the values of the existing modules (activating, deactivating, changing their names, etc..) and everything worked just as they should...only the newly added folders/modules do not show up.

My question is: What file, and hopefully what function should I be looking at to pinpoint this issue?

Thanks

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Welcome, jazzfuser!

I suspect if you look (or ask), you'll find other modules as good or better than the "new" ones in 7.8 without having to suffer the inherent security flaws of that version...

As for the missing modules, did you also happen to add something like GoogleTap or GT-NextGen to shorten the URLs?

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:06 pm

I appreciate the welcome.

No, I didn't add either of those two.

One person, on another nuke type site suggested my modules table may have been corrupted or altered.

As I write this, it occurs to me that NSN Groups may have changed my modules table...hmm.

I'll post the results of my query.

BTW, thanks for such a quick response.

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:45 pm

Yes, NSN Groups does change your modules layout, but it should have come with instructions on how to modify the appropriate files to address that.

registered · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:32 am

I have had this issues before as well. Does the module have an admin piece to it? If it shows up in your Administration panel with an admin icon/link, click that to go into the module administration and then go back to the Modules configuration and see if it is in there now. I know this sounds crazy, but I've had this fix this before. However, I will also say that I have also had this happen to me on one of my installations where it does not seem to matter what I do, I cannot get the module to show up.

However, if NSN Groups did not come bundled in your distribution, I would initial suspect that the installation was not done properly as this is what I see more often than not.

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:36 am

No it wasn't bundled and I believe you're right. I must have screwed something up. Perhaps you can direct me further...

I didn't think version 3.1 and 3.2 would be that different in syntax, yet as I was editing the core files, the core file examples were very different than my default files. So, I would look the proper functions and add the missing references to Groups.

Should I roll my build back to 3.1? Or, is there new core file edit out there for Groups and 3.2?

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:14 pm

Unfortunately, I have never considered using anything above 7.6 given all the reported security issues and bugs... Now, with several patchsets out, I may reconsider in the future, but that doesn't help us now. So, I would try your best to either start over or at least review your changes again, possibly even keep a compare up between 3.1 and 3.2 and try to figure out the differences. The key is going to be not just replacing code, but figuring out how to best "massage" the code to work using the original examples.

I believe the last NSN Groups distribution was either done on 2.9 or 3.0 patchsets... maybe 3.1, but I am not certain (and I'm talking 7.8 here), and there has not been a new release in many, many months, so unfortunately, we are left to figure it out as patches change the base nuke code.

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:42 pm

I was afraid I would be left to "figure it out" on my own (a very dangerous prospect Smile

).

I don't know enough about script/programming to really understand how things work at this level.

Of course I'll give it a whirl and cross my fingers. If you do come up with a specific idea please shoot it up here (I'll keep an eye on this thread) just in case.

Thanks for the effort...wish me luck!

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:21 am

Solved!

Evaders99 (on another nuke script type site) noted my table had nine fields, and NSN Groups' core edit file replacement reference only acknowledged eight (I would have never figured this one out on my own). He recommended I add the following '' to my string in the INSERT INTO statement in the admin/modules/module.php file...bada-bing! Worked like a charm.

Quote:

$db->sql_query("insert into " . $prefix . "_modules values (NULL, '$modlist[$i]', '$modlist[$i]', '0', '0', '', '1', '0', '')");

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:47 pm

Great. Evaders is also here, and very active in helping develop RavenNuke. Thanks for posting the followup, in case someone else can benefit from it.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:48 pm

No problem, seemed like the responsible thing to do.

Also good to hear the community is close like this, I didn't want to throw other site's names around without permission here. Some people seem sensitive to that sort of thing.