Savings not Saved while logged in as Amin - SOLVED

Regular Joined: Jan 15, 2007 Posts: 66

Hi Guys,

I've been searching for a while now trying to find a solution for this issue...

I'm not sure what it could be and i've read a whole heap of stuff on this very site like http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postp35030.html#35030 or http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postt9093.html and numerous others, but no one seems to have the exact same problem i'm having!!

I log in through admin.php and i get the admin CP, all looks well, however i notice on the top left, it does not say "Welcome user!" it says "login or register"

next, i check the Who's online and it shows me loads of guests - right now there is only me on the site and i think everytime i load a page it increments the number of guests for some reason!

I do not see any members logged in - even though i am supposed to be logged in, i can see all the admin CP and menus etc...

next if i click on "Your Account" it takes me to the login page for normal users?!

Finally, if i try to change the messages for example to deactivate one of them, i click save and it reloads the page but the setting has not changed.

I know this has something to do with the sessions, however this is a fresh install, no upgrade, only thing i did differently was after DB was created, i imported data from an old forum (used to be phpnuke 6.5) but i did not do an Upgrade - it was fresh install with just the data in the tables being moved across (users, topics, posts, privmsgs, etc...)

Please help!

Thanks

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:18 pm

khaled_dxb wrote:

I log in through admin.php and i get the admin CP, all looks well, however i notice on the top left, it does not say "Welcome user!" it says "login or register"

That would seem to be normal behaviour. The 'Welcome [username]' is derived from detecting a logged in user account not an admin account.
A normal user account and an admin account are different.

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next, i check the Who's online and it shows me loads of guests - right now there is only me on the site and i think everytime i load a page it increments the number of guests for some reason!

You should only see this at the bottom of the forums and is a bug with the forums code. I do not think a permanent fix was ever established for this weird behaviour.

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I do not see any members logged in - even though i am supposed to be logged in, i can see all the admin CP and menus etc...

Are you logged in as a normal user or an admin?

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next if i click on "Your Account" it takes me to the login page for normal users?!

Yes thats correct. What behaviour were you expecting?
Were you already logged in as a normal user (not an admin)? If thats the case then you have a cookie issue.

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Finally, if i try to change the messages for example to deactivate one of them, i click save and it reloads the page but the setting has not changed.

I know this has something to do with the sessions, however this is a fresh install, no upgrade, only thing i did differently was after DB was created, i imported data from an old forum (used to be phpnuke 6.5) but i did not do an Upgrade - it was fresh install with just the data in the tables being moved across (users, topics, posts, privmsgs, etc...)

Don't forget that the tables structure is different between these two versions, I suspect this is where the problem is.
Did you just over write your exisiting files or delete them before installing this version? I ask because the admin files structure was changed significantly in 7.5

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:11 am

Dude... MANY MANY thanks for your reply, your response gave me a starting point for my investigation.
After examining every single table, there was a field missing in the nuke_message table called 'groups'

I put it in and voila - its working now.

As for your other responses, i gues what i thought was strange behaviour was indeed normal behaviour while logged in as an admin, beacuse when i login as a normal user it works perfectly - so it wasnt a cookie or session issue after all.

Thanks again for your help!!!