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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008 18:35
I'll try and explain the problem as best I can....
Basically, a user claimed that he couldn't edit his posts, I demonstrated to him where the buttons where, but he said he could not see them. I logged on as him in firefox and could see them, he said he was using Opera, so I downloaded Opera, tried it and there not there, however he now says that they are there again and says it seems as if they (the edit and quick edit buttons) randomly appear and not appear.
I've never experienced this problem as an admin, they are always showing and the problem has only been experienced in Opera, although I would assume that it was something to do with the permissions, rather than the browser, after all, its all called through php isn't it, so shouldn't be browser related.
However, after a bit of experimenting, I found that when I logged in as the user using a capital "Marsh" (that is how his username is displayed) the edit options appear, when I log in as "marsh" without capitals, it doesn't give that option, so either login case sensitivity needs to be changed, or the query to decide whether or not to display the edit option has some sort of case sensitivity issue.
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 13:07
Right this is baffling me, but the basic thing is, when editing a member, type in the email, get a prediction, click it.
The email was: leekieclark@hotmail.com, however when I get in there:
1) The url is no longer friendly
2) the name of the user is Leekie Clark, which is understandable.
3) However the email is lynnesinclair@hotmail.com and there's no mention of leekieclark@hotmail.com at all.
I then click verify member and submit and it comes up with the usual:
Error!
I'm sorry, you tried to carry out an action that resulted in an error. The error returned was:
* Your session has expired. Possible causes could be:
o You took to long to submit your post/message.
o You opened the same page twice and tried to submit information on the first page
o You attempted to submit information to this site from an external source.
To rectify this problem, please go back and refresh the page you were on, and then try again.
I did it quickly, there were no other pages open of the forum and the back button wasn't used at all, so I can't see it getting messed up from that perspective.
So I think there must be some sort of bug when grabbing the member info, possibly something to do with the url? But that's more unlikely.
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007 18:29
Hey up, just wondering, could people using babbleboard compare the number of their users verifying their accounts to mine, as i'm getting a strangely high number of members not verifying, and i'm not sure if that's a problem in regards emails being set from my server, or a general some people are just idiots and register but never verify.
To find out how many people are being verified or not being verified per day run this sql query in phpmyadmin:
RAW CODE SELECT count(*), verified, date(from_unixtime(`register_date`))
FROM forum_members
group by verified, date(from_unixtime(`register_date`))
order by date(from_unixtime(`register_date`)) desc, verified
This won't edit your database at all, just output results from your DB.
As you can see from my last few days:
count verified date
45 0 2007-12-26
90 1 2007-12-26
61 0 2007-12-25
105 1 2007-12-25
50 0 2007-12-24
98 1 2007-12-24
1 being verified and 0 being not verified, so basically about 33% of my registrar's aren't even verifying their accounts after registering.
Is this usual throughout the net or is something wrong?
Comparison to your own experiences would be most helpful 
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007 17:36
Another registration thing, admittedly i'm not sure I want people stupid enough to do this registering on the site but meh, basically can there be a check to see if it's a real email address, I suppose the only way to do so would be to look for "@", just because i've had loads of people signing up and just putting in "davem" or "george68" or "tottenham1", obviously idiots, but still.
It'd be particularly awesome to have a "regular error check", for typos, so if it is hotmail.couk then it says "do you mean "hotmail.co.uk", you'd have to produce a list of common typos of course, but I don't suppose there'd be that many if you focus only on the most popular email providers such as gmail, yahoo and hotmail.
Of course this isn't a big feature, but is just one of those things which would make you go "wow" and that nobody else offers.
But yeah main point is to check if its actually an email address they're putting in when registering.
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Monday, Dec 24, 2007 16:28
Basically the rss feeds, if there could be an option in admin or something to overwrite the link to the original, then that would be great.
Sort of like an RSS management page in Admin CP.
You can see the rss feed for each of forums in an input box e.g:
http://support.babbleboard.co....p?forum=34
You can then copy that into feedburner, get it set up over there instead and in admin overwrite that url, with the new one (although that will still work, it will just mean that, when the little orange icon appears it links to the feedburner link rather the original).
This would be great, due to the features offering by feedburner, in regards optimizing, publicising and earning money through feeds, and would also be great for babbleboard, if on the feature list you could put something like "feedburner integration" (although could easily be done for any feed site not just feedburner).
It wouldn't necessarily be great for babbleboard just because its a great feature, but because people are naive like that and think omg feedburners awesome and this like totally works well with feedburner like zomg I must download and use it now!
If you get my drift.......
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Sunday, Dec 23, 2007 21:19
Right, i've no idea how to explain how to recreate this problem, so i'll just go through exactly what's happening.
Basically, someone told me that they were getting an error where by all the quick edit boxes were down by default, not only for his posts but for all, so every post was appearing twice, quick reply was also down.
I wasn't getting this problem, so I put it down to being a cache problem (this was just after upgrading to 1.1.5)
However, i've just made a quick reply and suddenly this is happening.
Firebug tells me that basically all the js files are 404 not found, this is because they're looking for it under my root:
footballmanagerportal.co.uk/scripts/js/prototype.js
rather than the forum folder:
footballmanagerportal.co.uk/footygamer/scripts/js/prototype.js
Like I said this worked perfectly before but now doesn't work, so I can only presume, there is some problem in regards the use of '+location.hostname+', I presume its something to do with the server, however it worked fine, then suddenly stopped working, which is what is most strange.
It works for now as i've changed the use of '+location.hostname+' to footballmanagerportal.co.uk but that's not really most helpful is it?
Is there another way to do what '+location.hostname+' without any problems?
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007 16:44
Right, you already know about my email problems.
However if I validate people manually in phpmyadmin they still can't log in, if I change their password in admin cp, it still won't let them log in with the username and new password (i've tried it myself not just them).
So I'm presuming there's a problem with choosing which password encryption to use etc, iirc correctly, I might be getting my acronyms a bit off, but by default bb uses mhash, I don't have mhash, so it should revert to md5, I presume its this area of the code which is faulty.
Like I said obviously this isn't an email problem, as this is me just changing the email in admin cp and it still doesn't work, and the user has been validated via phpmyadmin.
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Friday, Nov 30, 2007 14:07
Basically, when it comes to pruning, there's always the chance of it going wrong and you losing a valuable thread or member.
So I was wondering, would it be possible to have a backups table within the database.
It wouldn't be grabbed everytime someone loaded a topic etc in the same way as members, so it shouldn't effect the loading times, but it would be accessible via the admin cp, to see a list of pruned members and topics and erm, balls i've forgotten the word, basically be able to select it and say re-instate this thread/member from the backup into the database.
This is obviously easier than downloading an entire backup of the forum before pruning and would prove very useful I would have thought.
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Rob
Posts: 167
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Potters Bar
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Friday, Nov 30, 2007 13:07
Just a little thing, which would be rather good imo.
On the registration it's very simple at the moment, which is great.
But it'd be nice to get a check box where you can select the different fields under "my controls" and put them as fields upon registration, such as nationality, location msn etc.
Just a page in admin cp, where you can select the fields using tick boxes, obviously username, password and email will have to be there by default, but all the others you should have the option for asking for upon registration 
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