#75 Wierd Bulletin Board behavior after upgrade of PHP

[Obie]

My site hosting company decided to suddenly upgrade
their version of PHP to 5.1.4. As a result, I am
getting some wierd behavior with my site. I first had
to fix the "splitDateObject not found" error, due to
the case of the 'Date' string.

Once that was fixed, my site is up, but the Bulletin
Board module has some wierd behavior. It no longer
shows who posted last, and what thread they posted on,
it just shows numbers instead. Also, all of the buttons
available while writing a topic or repling to one are
gone, only the save button remains. The functionality
of the board itself seems to be working, you can create
topics and reply to them.

Does anyone know what changed in PHP that would cause
this? Would an upgrade to PHPWebsite 1.0 fix this
behavior?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Obie.

[Shaun Murray]

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Update the core phpWebSite classes in /core with those in cvs

Then also install the phpwsbb from cvs. It should work fine as long as you
avoid the new functionality with private forums which is a little rough still and
will most likely change before release.

You might also need to update fatcat too.

Most of the issues are to do with case sensitivity in the class names. They
weren't in php4 but are now. Anywhere using the getclass() php function may
have issues.

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.get-class.php

[Obie]

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I have done what you have suggested, but I was still getting
errors, and similar behavior, so I took a chance and
uninstalled the bulletin board, and reinstalled the 1.0.4
version from CVS.

Beforehand, I backed up my site and database so I can
restore if I can't get it to work out.

After installing the newer version, I restored my database,
but the forums I had already created in 1.0.3 don't show up
in the list. When I look at the data in the database
tables, the forums are all there.

What do I need to do to restore the forums?

Thanks a bunch for your help!
-Obie

[Obie]

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Sorry for all of the replies... And disregard my last
message - apparently it took a while to update the database,
because the data appeared in the tables after about an hour.

However, I am still getting the same behavior with the 1.0.4
version of the bb, and the newer Core and Fatcat.

Please take a look at the screen shot attached. It shows
that the "Last Post" info just shows a bunch of numbers, not
the actual person and topic that was last posted to.

Thanks again!!
-Obie

[Obie]

Screen shot of error

[Shaun Murray]

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I'm not sure what else needs to change. Make sure you killed your browser
session and restarted to flush out any objects hanging about.

[el1179]

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I have these same problems and weird behavior following an
upgrade to php5, has there been any work around or
resolution yet?

[Shaun Murray]

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Use php4 or do as I say in this bug report. It works for me. Don't know why the
other poster is having issues still.