Can't create new block from the admin panel

registered · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:54 am

To start with...thanks for compiling this distro. I just upgraded from PHPNuke 7.6 to RavenNuke7.6 (latest distro). Everything seems to have gone fine except I can't create new blocks from the admin panel. When I attempt to create new blocks it simply returns me to the blocks admin page. No eeror message is generated and yes I have errors turned on. I read a few other post concerning this issue with early versions so I thought I would start a new thread.

I wonder if the problem is in the admin/modules/blocks.php file:

Code:

function BlocksAdd($title, $content, $url, $bposition, $active, $refresh, $headline, $blanguage, $blockfile, $view, $groups, $expire, $action, $subscription) {


    global $prefix, $db, $admin_file;


    if($view == 4) { $ingroups = implode("-",$groups); }


    if($view < 4) { $ingroups = ""; }


    if ($headline != 0) {


   $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($db->sql_query("select sitename, headlinesurl from ".$prefix."_headlines where hid='$headline'"));


    $title = $row['sitename'];


    $url = $row['headlinesurl'];


    }


    $row2 = $db->sql_fetchrow($db->sql_query("SELECT weight FROM ".$prefix."_blocks WHERE bposition='$bposition' ORDER BY weight DESC"));


    $weight = intval($row2['weight']);


    $weight++;


    $title = stripslashes(FixQuotes($title));


    $content = stripslashes(FixQuotes($content));


    $bkey = "";


    $btime = "";


    if (!empty($blockfile)) {


   $url = "";


   if (empty($title)) {


       $title = ereg_replace("block-","",$blockfile);


       $title = ereg_replace(".php","",$title);


       $title = ereg_replace("_"," ",$title);


   }


    }


    if (!empty($url)) {


   $btime = time();


   if (!ereg("http://",$url)) {


       $url = "http://$url";


   }


   $rdf = parse_url($url);


   $fp = fsockopen($rdf['host'], 80, $errno, $errstr, 15);


   if (!$fp) {


       rssfail();


       exit;


   }


   if ($fp) {


       fputs($fp, "GET " . $rdf['path'] . "?" . $rdf['query'] . " HTTP/1.0\r\n");


       fputs($fp, "HOST: " . $rdf['host'] . "\r\n\r\n");


       $string = "";


       while(!feof($fp)) {


          $pagetext = fgets($fp,228);


          $string .= chop($pagetext);


       }


       fputs($fp,"Connection: close\r\n\r\n");


       fclose($fp);


       $items = explode("</item>",$string);


       $content = "<font class=\"content\">";


       for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) {


      $link = ereg_replace(".*<link>","",$items[$i]);


      $link = ereg_replace("</link>.*","",$link);


      $title2 = ereg_replace(".*<title>","",$items[$i]);


      $title2 = ereg_replace("</title>.*","",$title2);


      if ($items[$i] == "" AND $cont != 1) {


          $content = "";


      } else {


          if (strcmp($link,$title2) AND !empty($items[$i])) {


         $cont = 1;


         $content .= "<strong><big>&middot;</big></strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"$link\" target=\"new\">$title2</a><br />\n";


          }


      }


       }


   }


    }


    $content = FixQuotes($content);


    if (($content == "") AND ($blockfile == "")) {


   rssfail();


    } else {


    if ($expire == "") {


        $expire = 0;


    }


    if ($expire != 0) {


        $expire = time() + ($expire * 86400);


    }


   $db->sql_query("insert into ".$prefix."_blocks values (NULL, '$bkey', '$title', '$content', '$url', '$bposition', '$weight', '$active', '$refresh', '$btime', '$blanguage', '$blockfile', '$view', '$ingroups', '$expire', '$action', '$subscription')");


   Header("Location: ".$admin_file.".php?op=BlocksAdmin");


    }


}

If you scroll down to the insert into query you will see:

Code:

$db->sql_query("insert into ".$prefix."_blocks values (NULL, '$bkey', '$title', '$content', '$url', '$bposition', '$weight', '$active', '$refresh', '$btime', '$blanguage', '$blockfile', '$view', '$ingroups', '$expire', '$action', '$subscription')");

Please not the $btime variable

Now when I look at the SQL included in the distro the entry is:

Code:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `nuke_blocks`;


CREATE TABLE `nuke_blocks` ( `bid` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, `bkey` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '', `title` varchar(60) NOT NULL default '', `content` text NOT NULL, `url` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '', `bposition` char(1) NOT NULL default '', `weight` int(10) NOT NULL default '1', `active` int(1) NOT NULL default '1', `refresh` int(10) NOT NULL default '0', `time` varchar(14) NOT NULL default '0', `blanguage` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '', `blockfile` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', `view` int(1) NOT NULL default '0', `expire` varchar(14) NOT NULL default '0', `action` char(1) NOT NULL default '', `subscription` int(1) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY  (`bid`), KEY `title` (`title`) ) TYPE=MyISAM;





INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Modules', '', '', 'l', 1, 1, 0, '', '', 'block-Modules.php', 0,  '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, 'admin', 'Administration', '<strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="admin.php">Administration</a><br>\r\n<strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="admin.php?op=adminStory">NEW Story</a><br>\r\n<strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="admin.php?op=create">Change Survey</a><br>\r\n<strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="admin.php?op=content">Content</a><br>\r\n<strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="admin.php?op=logout">Logout</a>', '', 'l', 2, 1, 0, '985591188', '', '', 2, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Who''s Online', '', '', 'l', 3, 1, 0, '', '', 'block-Who_is_Online.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Search', '', '', 'l', 4, 0, 3600, '', '', 'block-Search.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Languages', '', '', 'l', 5, 1, 3600, '', '', 'block-Languages.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Random Headlines', '', '', 'l', 6, 0, 3600, '', '', 'block-Random_Headlines.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, 'userbox', 'User''s Custom Box', '', '', 'r', 1, 1, 0, '', '', '', 1, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Categories Menu', '', '', 'r', 2, 0, 0, '', '', 'block-Categories.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Survey', '', '', 'r', 3, 1, 3600, '', '', 'block-Survey.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Login', '', '', 'r', 4, 1, 3600, '', '', 'block-Login.php', 3, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Big Story of Today', '', '', 'r', 5, 1, 3600, '', '', 'block-Big_Story_of_Today.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Old Articles', '', '', 'r', 6, 1, 3600, '', '', 'block-Old_Articles.php', 0, '0', 'd', 0);


INSERT INTO `nuke_blocks` VALUES (NULL, '', 'Information', '<br><center><font class="content">\r\n<a href="http://phpnuke.org"><img src="images/powered/powered5.jpg" border="0" alt="Powered by PHP-Nuke" title="Powered by PHP-Nuke" width="88" height="31"></a></font></center><br>', '', 'r', 7, 0, 0, '', '', '', 0, '0', 'd', 0);

I'm not a very good php coder and really don't understand the inner workings of nuke, but is there a problem with the $btime variable (i.e. $time (SQL)vs. $btime (blocks.php). Should they be the same?

I have tried changing the variable in my mysql dbase using phpmyadmin to $btime but I get the same problem.

Thanks

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:37 am

In addition I am unable to edit a block? I can however activate and deactivate blocks?

For some reason the BlocksAdd function and BlockEdit function are not working

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:52 am

Ok I figured this out. In the RavenNuke install there are three sql files:

1. core SQL
2. nsn groups SQL
3. sentinel SQL

The key to my problem was that the nsn groups SQL makes some alterations to the core SQL. In a simple install, the above code works perfectly. I was rebuilding my MYSQL dbase from bits and pieces and thus deviated from the typical install.

For those having the same problem here are the table entries that were giving me grief:

ALTER TABLE `nuke_blocks` ADD `groups` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `view`;
ALTER TABLE `nuke_message` ADD `groups` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `view`;
ALTER TABLE `nuke_modules` ADD `groups` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `view`;

registered · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:14 pm

Yup. Been addressed in a few threads before, but this is a nice succinct one. Thanks!

New Member Joined: Feb 09, 2007 Posts: 19

Thank you sir, problem solved.