User Custom Block Bug?

Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 02, 2005 Posts: 32

I just looged in to my user account on my new installation of nuke 7.6 with patch 3.1

Then I went to the 'Your Home' page and checked the 'Activate Personal Menu' check box.

I was happily 'playing' with this and trying some html tags etc, but the last code I entered has stopped the function from working. The current code in the field is as follows:

<A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok" TARGET="_blank">BBC</A>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ebay.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank">eBay</A>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/" TARGET="_blank">Virgin Atlantic</A>
<A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok" TARGET="_b</textarea><br><br><input type="hidden" name="username" value="webmaster"><input type="hidden" name="user_id" value="2"><input type="hidden" name="op" value="savehome"><input type="submit" value="Save Changes"></form></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
<br></td><td><img src="themes/DeepBlue/images/pixel.gif" width="10" height="1" border="0" alt=""></td><td valign="top" width="138" bgcolor="9999CC">
<table border="0" align="center" width="138" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td bgcolor=23224C background="" width="138" height="20" ALIGN="CENTER"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Survey</b></font></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="138">
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<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="138">
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<form action="surveys.html" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="pollID" value="1"><span class="content"><strong>What do you think about this site?</strong></span><br><br>
<table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"><input type="radio" name="voteID" value="1"></td><td width="100%"><span class="content">Ummmm, not bad</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><input type="radio" name="voteID" value="2"></td><td width="100%"><span class="content">Cool</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><input type="radio" name="voteID" value="3"></td><td width="100%"><span class="content">Terrific</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><input type="radio" name="voteID" value="4"></td><td width="100%"><span class="content">The best one!</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><input type="radio" name="voteID" value="5"></td><td width="100%"><span class="content">What the hell is this?</span></td></tr>
</table><br><center><span class="content"><input type="submit" value="Vote"></span><br><br><span class="content"><a href="modules.php?name=Surveys&op=results&pollID=1&mode=&order=0&thold=0"><strong>Results</strong></a><br><a href="surveys.html"><strong>Polls</strong></a><br><br>Votes: <strong>0</strong> <br> Comments: <strong>0</strong>

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I pasted the first part of the code in repeatedly because the box is limited to 255 charcters and I wanted to see what happens if a user tries to entre more code than is allowed. However I do not recall pasting in the rest, but maybe I did just as some 'random' text and to see what would happend if the box had too much content added etc.

What I have found is that the above code has now stopped the SAVE CHANGES button from appearing, so I am now no longer able to use the function and I am stuck witht the aformentioned code.

Does anyone know how I can restore this to working order and eliminate the bug?

I am hoping this is not a MySQL problem as I have absolutely no clue on how to make any manual changes to the database.

Once this is resolved, it would be good if I could make the number of characters acceptable, more than 255.

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:20 am

Hey Guy's,

I just seen that my web host has a facilily to restore the MySQL Database to an ealier time of day.

Because I have no important info in the database, (because this is a new installation), I decided to give the restore facility a go.

I restored the database to an earlier time before I made changes to the 'User Custom block' and everything is working again!

So it appears this was indeed a database problem.

Can anyone explain what it was and how I can prevent this from happening when future users of my site make such a 'mistake'?

Is it possible to allow people to enter more than just 255 characters to the box?