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Puamana
2007-05-29
2013-03-22
  • Puamana

    Puamana - 2007-05-29

    I've modified several themes and uploaded the phpWS files - all seems to be working correctly EXCEPT that there is a question mark appearing in front of certain links... does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

    The links in question are:

    Remember me (w/checkbox) (displays as ?Remember Me)
    Read More  (displays as:  ?Read More)

    Some of the links within the control panel are showing the same
    question marks (as below):

    ?Change My Password
    ?Change My View
    ?Personal Comment Settings 
    ?Set My Bulletin Board Preferences
    ?Set My Language

    I can't help thinking it's something pretty simple, but some
    direction would be greatly appreciated.

    Here's the url:  http://www.fairwaysmaunalani.com/

    Thanks,
    puamana

     
    • Greg Morgan

      Greg Morgan - 2007-06-04

      puamana,

      The question marks _may_ be caused by one or three things. 

      One, the graphic referenced in the modified theme may be missing.  You may have this graphic in the wrong place on the webserver's file system.

      Two, you may have forgotten to put xhtml line at the beginning of each file main theme.tpl file.  The first two lines of winxp theme are
      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
      ...
      Hopefully, the SF forum software won't strip this info.

      Three, permissions can be a problem related to the first two items.  If you don't have the xhtml lines and you don't have the permissions required during file copies, then I have seen these question marks appear.

      I hope this helps,

      Regards,
      Greg

       

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