Guestbook has disappeared (Nuke 6.9 - GB 5.0.2)

New Member Joined: Sep 08, 2003 Posts: 4 Location: England

Hi

The guestbook has completely disappeared, it used to work fine.
Looking at the served page source code, the last lines are-

</head>
<body VLINK="" LINK="" ALINK="">
<form name="kisgb_view">

I removed the guestbook code completely so that Nuke did not know it was there and re-installed it from scratch.
Guestbook still not available.

I suspect that the ISP has changed something.

MySQL is V3.23.56 [but PHPinfo - client API version 3.23.58].
PHP is V4.3.5
System is FreeBSD 3.10-BETA #3 Tue Apr 2 i386
Build Date is Apr 9 2004 (which is why I suspect a code compatibility problem).
Server software Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/ 1.28 PHP/4.3.5
Guestbook is V5.0.2
phpNuke is V6.9
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to see where guestbook used to be.

Please tell me - why mend it (upgrade it) when it was not broken!

In anticipation of greater minds than mine knowing why - thanks.

Bob Finch

Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:03 pm

We better wait for Raven to look at this it might be the globals have to all be converted to the newer "Super" globals.
Like instead of
if (!eregi("modules.php", $PHP_SELF)) {
die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}

to
if (!eregi("modules.php", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}

and
$PHP_SELF = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF'];
to
$PHP_SELF = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

But I'm not 100% sure this is the trouble.

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

PHP v4.3.5 was/is buggy and MANY applications were affected. That's why 4.3.6 was quickly released. Chances are that is your problem. Get your host to either back down to 4.3.4 or upgrade to 4.3.6. If it still persists after that, let me know. I am running 6.9 with 4.3.4 and 4.3.6 w/o any changes at all.