The BUGS thread

[snYpir]

Please post forum bugs here. I will get round to fixing them all eventually

Keep your description short, concise and to the point.

Bugs:

• Any more than 270 characters in signature will not be visible
• Clicking on 'send email' icon under username in messages does not send an email
• Weird semicolons in signatures
• Report to moderator not working (forum emailing broken)

Mods yet to be installed:

• View all option for boards/topics
• Customisable # of topics/messages per page
• Gmod/admin listing at bottom of page

Weird forum errors:

• If you are using the forum and suddenly receive a 'HTTP NOT FOUND' error, try simply refreshing the page (F5). Sometimes PHP skips a beat.
• If you are using the forum and a page seems to stop loading halfway, with weird PHP error messages, wait a couple of seconds and refresh (F5). Chances are that you tried to load a PHP page that I was editing right at that moment. PHP loads what it can but then crashes when the document is incomplete. After a few seconds the upload will be complete and the page will work.
• If you are having trouble staying logged in, try upgrading your browser to IE 6.0. This fixed all of my log in problems ;)

Feel free to reply with bug reports. Please, don't start discussions in this thread! The number of things i have to do is growing exponentially, and it is confusing when people are posting bug reports all over the place :-\

Cheers! :-*

[YankeeTanker]

  Hey all,

  I appear to have a hit and miss bug goin on here.  Sometimes when I log in it will let me no problem.  Then other times when I log in it will say hello Yankeetanker and then when I try to access anything it will go to the 'log in screen again' and say hello guest.  I will log in again and it will let me to the appropriate link and then I will try another link and will have to log in again with the same results...most of the time it will not access the link and that is when I am trying to access something that I actually have access to.... any ideas.

  It's a really frustrating thing and has kept me from posting anything for the last few days.

  I need back up here... I feel obliged to try and help but I am not being allowed to....whats the deal.

  Yankeetanker.

[icarus_uk]

Hey Yank...    I had that problem after I registered.  The best solution is to, when you login in, select the box to keep you logged in.  The close the browser and come back to the site.  You should find yourself now permanently logged in, and wont have to enter your details after every page change.

[snYpir]

Try upgrading to IE 6.0. That seems to fix most of the log-in problems.

[Messiah]

hmmmmm

didnt seem to help for me  - i have XP and it still logs out (XP is 6.0 as standard)

but its seems to have stopped now.... hopefully  

[KTottE]

Change your security settings, lower them to get IE to accept cookies.

[Anmac]

I am posting this for hiddnfox:

is anyone else experiencing problems with the new OFPEC.com forums?

everytime i click on a topic or even to get to the forums and it makes me re-log in as a member, i cant get in to even read the topics because it makes me log in again then takes me back out to the forum topics page.

anyone else having these problems?

He couldn't make this post due to log in problem.

I will tell him about the IE6.0 fix.

[Messiah]

<Problem Solved>

well.... same problem as last time - Myself and other peeps cant see the problem solved button anywhere - ive looked everywhere in every pos ive started and i cant see it...

this is gonna need to be addressed since we need it for flagging posts that are done (Editors Depot stuff  ;D )

cheers snYpir  

[RT-SuperTron]

"Warning: Page has Expired "

I get this, in my face sometimes when I hit the Back button.

[RT]SuperTron

[Darkninja]

Well, the local time in below the time change box differs from the forum time to the right top, without any changes.

[snYpir]

"Warning: Page has Expired "

I get this, in my face sometimes when I hit the Back button.

[RT]SuperTron

This is normal, because sometimes PHP needs certain information from your browser. If you hit the back button sometimes the information can't be sent, and you get that screen.

[snYpir]

<Problem Solved>

well.... same problem as last time - Myself and other peeps cant see the problem solved button anywhere - ive looked everywhere in every pos ive started and i cant see it...

this is gonna need to be addressed since we need it for flagging posts that are done (Editors Depot stuff  ;D )

cheers snYpir  

If you look at the following image:



you can see the 'solve' button at the top right hand corner of the message. If you start a thread, you should see that button. If you don't then there is a problem....

[Messiah]

i withdraw my original bug report  

hmmmm - my quote of 'ive looked everywhere' looks kinda dumb now  

cheers

[Noon416]

Messiah and co,

Another thought would be to see where your security levels in IE are set, in particular the cookies level.

If you don't allow cookies to be created, you don't stay logged into the forums.

Failing that, reinstate all the defaults for your browser and see if that helps as well.

And as snYpir so wisely states "Upgrade to IE6.0!"

Enjoy.

[Messiah]

oooh Noony u old dog - good to see ya back...

hmmm - its on low as it is and i dont want it on open since thats how ya get shitty stuff - the old site cookie worked fine so why not anymore?

doesnt really matter.