Old Themes - Upgrading issues?

Client Joined: Dec 04, 2004 Posts: 757

Hello all, in the ravennuke releases prior to this release you were able to still use old themes bur commenting out a piece of code in main.php I think it was Question

If I upgrade do I still get the option to do this as I have used a certain theme for as long as I can remember and would still like to keep with it.
Cheers all
mrix

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:09 am

Yes , you can still do that.
in mainfile.php , But I strongly recommend you don't do it.Because it slows down your site.

Code:

/*


 * The following two lines of code were moved and commented out in RN 2.30.00 to "test the waters" on


 * finding out what old modules/blocks/hacks/etc. are still using this SQL layer that is so


 * old it should be obsoleted.  If you really need these back, uncomment them back.  We will keep this


 * code this way for one more major release as well as keep the includes/sql_layer.php script.


 */


//@require_once(INCLUDE_PATH.'includes/sql_layer.php');


//$dbi = sql_connect($dbhost, $dbuname, $dbpass, $dbname);

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:25 am

I have not got much choice really apart from getting the theme updated and I cant seem to find anyone who can do that for me Sad

I dont mind paying as long as its not too expensive Smile

Thanks
mrix

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:27 am

paste your index.php content of the theme in here.
between [ code ] [ / code ] ( no white spaces)

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:51 am

BTW, the sql layer was deprecated in release 2.3.x, so this is not a 2.4.0 issue... just didn't want there to be any confusion on that matter.

Involved Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 269

Ill update it for you

just email me at ped @ clanthemes.com attach the theme as well, I presume you want it updating to RN2.4

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:05 am

I have sent the theme xGSTQ
Its a very old theme so I hope you can do your majic Very Happy

Many thanks and fingers crossed.
Cheers
mrix

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:07 am

Ill have a look for you first thing Monday m8, shouldn't be a problem at all

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:04 pm

Many thanks very much appreciated Very Happy

Cheers
mrix

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:07 am

Well ive done it,

the code is very old and not compliant, i would have had to recode it all to get it complaint !! so all ive done is a few quick fixes and checked to see it all works with RN 2.4 for you.

Blocks work fine, ive made them bigger from 160px wide to 190, ive also updated the banner to work in the footer correctly to set at position 0.

I added in all the missing forum .tpl and also made the nukeNav.css for the block, if you wanted the header links for nukeNav the header navigation would need recoding to replace the custom default style f header navigation.

apart from that it wasn't that bad to be honest, my biggest complaint though is the coding compliance, but it would have taken me all week to sort that out ! hehe

hope you enjoy it... I presume the google adds were yours, so ive left them in place for you, not going to release it to the community because its a fishing related theme for his personal site sea-fishing.org up to mrix if he wants to share it.

Ped

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:53 am

Nice job xGSTQ.

I looked at this theme before and started trying to make it compliant etc, but gave up in the end.

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:57 am

jakec wrote:

Nice job xGSTQ.

I looked at this theme before and started trying to make it compliant etc, but gave up in the end.

hehe, don't blame you... would have been a good few days coding Confused

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:24 pm

Hello just wanted to say a big thanks again for the time spent for a complete stranger doing what you have managed to Very Happy

Really appreciated
Thanks again
mrix

Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 12, 2004 Posts: 46

I'm sorry to tag on here, but I too have quite an old theme. Having just uploaded it to RN I've got these error messages:

Code:

Warning: themeheader(banners.php) [function.themeheader]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /**removed by admin**/themes/BiteMe/theme.php on line 46





Warning: themeheader(banners.php) [function.themeheader]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /**removed by admin**/themes/BiteMe/theme.php on line 46





Warning: themeheader(banners.php) [function.themeheader]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /**removed by admin**/themes/BiteMe/theme.php on line 46





Warning: themeheader() [function.include]: Failed opening 'banners.php' for inclusion (include_path='/usr/lib/php:.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /**removed by admin**/themes/BiteMe/theme.php on line 46





Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sql_query() in /**removed by admin**/themes/BiteMe/theme.php on line 50

What do I need to do to get this theme to run please?
Many thanks

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:10 pm

If you send me a copy, I'll make the needed changes and email it back to you.

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:18 pm

That's very kind of you Nuken - thank you. Smile

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:43 pm

OK, I sent you a PM with my email address.

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:52 pm

PM replied to and email sent now. Thank you very much. Smile

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:57 am

Vampyra, I removed the full path details from your post above. For security reasons, you do not want to ever expose that information. Wink

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:45 am

Thank you Montego - sorry I am suffering with tiredness at the mo. No excuse I know! Sad