Here we go again

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:20 am

'nuff said

Client Joined: Dec 04, 2004 Posts: 757

Ok so all the warnings with phpnuke 7.7 how do we feel about 7.8???
Um am deff not installing it until I know some positive feedback etc.
Cheers
mrix

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:16 am

I still don't know why people follow the neverending upgrade path with so few new features. If you have something that works, is patched well, why keep upgrading? Upgrading seems more like a good way to spend all of your time re-patching, re-fixing stuff instead of just operating a website in my opinion. No offense intended.

Worker Joined: May 18, 2005 Posts: 119 Location: SVCDPlaza

Thanks to chatserv and all the others that are helping on his site 7.7 feels good and is faster than 7.2 that i was using BUT the same bugs of the older verzion's of PHP-NUKE are still in 7.8 and that is siad

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:53 am

I'm quite happy with my 7.5 patched, with Sentinel, two morters and an old gattling gun.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:00 pm

*LMAO* Indeed! I have spent a lot of time maintaining mine and patching etc... so much so that when I compare the new features against having to remod, repatch etc..well it just isn't a big enough pay off.

Worker Joined: Aug 16, 2003 Posts: 107 Location: USA

well that the upgrade

CurtisHancock is right why upgrade if it not broken, im happy with 7.4

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:39 am

I'm still trying to figure out how to unzip it. It downloaded as a *.tar.tar file here. When I open it up in WordPad, it shows a *.bz (bzip2?) file.

*grumble*

-drmike

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:53 am

Never mind. I got it figured out. *grumble*

-drmike

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

You can also download winrar and use it instead. MS screwed up tar and tar.gz files.

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:48 am

Yup, that XP SP2 - sp called service patch has a lot to answer for.

Worker Joined: May 15, 2004 Posts: 119 Location: Germany

Hi,

but what to do if I want to have a easy working WYSIWYG editor ?

The patch for 7.7 to activate the 'new' editor for only selected modules in 7.7 is great !

I saw some notes that bugs in the new editor are solved in 7.8, that is what I want to have ...

Norbert

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:35 am

CurtisHancock wrote:

I still don't know why people follow the neverending upgrade path with so few new features. If you have something that works, is patched well, why keep upgrading?

LoL! I'm still running 6.5 Final... ROTFL

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:03 pm

You need to keep in mind that there is NO validation in the TinyMCE editor and FB (being FB) didn't add an external validation function. Using it should be considered highly unsafe! Furthermore, by using it pages that would otherwise be HTML 4.01 Transitional compliant can become NON-COMPLIANT by anyone inserting any non-compliant data.

What's that mean? It means your backend.php for RSS feeds WAS compliant, but isn't now. It means that your avantgo function which was compliant isn't now. It means any blocks that feed data were compliant but aren't now. And the list goes on and on.

Again, no validation = non-compliance and certainly a possible security risk.

USE Nuke 7.7 and 7.8 AT YOUR OWN RISK / PERIL!

Stripping slashes doesn't equate to security. Any idiot can bypass that.

P.S. Don't say nobody warned you.

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:10 am

Hi,

not all useres are familiar with html tags, therefore a WYSIWYG editor is what they need.
I do not like it as admin, but most of my users need formatting tools to design there layout ...

It is a sad situation, giving some more service means getting higher risk.

Getting more security means downgrade to wich version ? And how can a 'normal' admin do a downgrade without corrupting the whole page ...

I not very happy about your answer, even you are right Sad

Thanks for help, Norbert

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:34 am

Bob Marion has created a "Downgrader" from v7.7 and/or v7.8 to v7.6. See this news item for more information: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:45 am

If you really wanted a wysiwyg edior you could try the Spaw Editor from Kodetech. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
I have used this for about a year without any problems and their documentation gives advice on incorporating the editor within other modules which might not be included with the standard package.

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:21 am

Raven wrote:

You can also download winrar and use it instead. MS screwed up tar and tar.gz files.

Maybe you can but getting fired from my job isn't something I care to do. Smile

This might help. What is the proper extension of the PHP-Nuke 7.8 file? That way all those people who see this thread will just rename it. That's a lot easier than having to download an install a program that's not necessary.

-drmike

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:03 pm

Getting fired for using winrar? What am I missing here?

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:17 pm

Hello,

I tried the downgrader, and it seams that it worked fine.
But after copying all 7.6 file to my server (local test installation with previouse 7.8 installed) the right blocks are gone.
It does not make a difference what theme I use, there are no right blocks shown anymore ...

Do you heared about that problem before ?

Thanks, Norbert

P.S.: If I select a module like 'Download' or other, the blocks appear at the right site, but not on the main (index.php) site ... ????

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:45 pm

Open index.php in a text editor and you will find a section that looks like:

Code:

    if (file_exists($modpath)) {


   include($modpath);


    } else {


   $index = 1;


   include("header.php");


   OpenTable();


   if (is_admin($admin)) {


       echo "<center><font class=\"\"><b>"._HOMEPROBLEM."</b></font><br><br>[ <a href=\"".$admin_file.".php?op=modules\">"._ADDAHOME."</a> ]</center>";


   } else {


       echo "<center>"._HOMEPROBLEMUSER."</center>";


   }


   CloseTable();


   include("footer.php");


    }

At the end of the line:

Code:

    if (file_exists($modpath)) {

Press the return key, this will give you a new line. On that new line type in:

Code:

$index = 1;

Now save the file and reupload it. You should now have your right side blocks back.

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:47 pm

drmike wrote:

Raven wrote:

You can also download winrar and use it instead. MS screwed up tar and tar.gz files.

Maybe you can but getting fired from my job isn't something I care to do. Smile

This might help. What is the proper extension of the PHP-Nuke 7.8 file? That way all those people who see this thread will just rename it. That's a lot easier than having to download an install a program that's not necessary.

-drmike

Depends on where you download it from but if it is coming down as .tar.tar is should be .tar.gz . This is the almighty MS that thinks no one with windows will download a tarball file Smile

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:06 am

Quote:

Now save the file and reupload it. You should now have your right side blocks back.

Thanks again, but I found a bug in one of my blocks. This block died and therefore I didn't had right blocks and footer.
As I saw the missing footer (late, I know), I found the bug.

Now it ist running 7.6 local and it seams to work fine. After a fullbackup I will downgrade my site online ...

Next step will be the editor function ...

Best regards, Norbert

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:09 pm

That's the fun part of PHP, one small minor typo and the whole thing dies Wink

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:40 pm

Quote:

That's the fun part of PHP, one small minor typo and the whole thing dies

right, : != ; Smile

and they are very close ...