is it just me or is the featured member image on the left column broken?

it's a bug feature that has been around for awhile

I think I remember Ruben bringing it up once. Or was that "Random Images?"

Ruben has been on that all along

Oh yeah

ONCE!!!.
It is my pet peeve.
I even post in the shout box.
Sometimes it is due to a remote avatar. Where the file is now missing. But not always.
But even then it should default to the nopicture.gif. IMO.

The random image is a different issue. Where orphaned pictures appear in the island but not in the gallery.
But the island was just a simple hack to show some pictures.
Hopefully v8 will clean up the orphaned files and they both will work fine.

I really would like this resolved one day.

Today's server error log which is flushed after 300 entries.

Ok, here is the deal. In your stock UBB you have a nophoto image. If you have several styles that your users can select you have to have that in every style image folder or it will come up with that error and a broken image.

Already did that. Or at least I think I did.

As far as I know the nopicture.gif is copied to every style folder.
I could check again I guess.

Okay I found one style that was missing the gif file . But nobody is using the style.
So we will see but still this site has the same issues on featured members.

I have the same problem on my site and ended up just hard coding it to fix the problem. It isn't entering a value for {$style_array['general']}.


In cache_builders/featured_member.php on line 58 I replaced:

with:


That obviously isn't the best solution, but it will fix the issue.

Figuring you could probably enter an if/else statement above $avatar, if $style_array['general'] is blank, then use default, blah blah blah...

I'd try adding:


Above:


So that if the portion of the array is blank it'll be changed to default, versus always setting it to default.

Thanks for the additional code Giz.

Here is an an actual code change that will work. Gizmo was close, but just needs to be a bit different and it needs to be general/default I've added it here as well so it should no longer break, unless someone just has a link to an avatar that doesn't exist.

Open up your cache_builders/featured_member.php script. Line 57, you'll see this:



Change that, so it reads:

I think Ruben gona have a new best friend, lol. Good job Scott

My idea, his fix to my lack of /default

ROFL aww Gizmo we all know you rock don't sweat it!

Hey, I said you were close

Awesome. Maybe Rick should go on vacation more often.

they real question for me is ..

did that modification also make it into the current downloadable .zip of 7.5.5 ?

would also apply to other known bugs.. i'd wager there are at least 10 of em..

:2c:

Inserted and waiting.
Hopeful thoughts.

Inspiration for a 7.5.6?

Scott, the Random Image island is also randomly broken.

It's looking pretty good when Catherine Zeta Jones is in it.

Well 24 hours and no errors so far on the featured member.
I am a happy,happy,happy,happy camper so far.

Dave, as far as the Random Image issue. I think it has to do with the sql query just looks for any files including orphaned thumb files from past versions. But the normal resolution files are missing. So it breaks when you attempt to open them.

Yep I have seen this before. In fact I think I commented on this once.

Where minor bug fixes that did not warrant a version change and just was added to the existing zip.
Without any mention that the zip was changed.
So how are we supposed to know?

This happened only once to my knowledge though. And I think it was a F5 alert that I installed it, like the very first day of the release. Then in a day or two a file was changed without any notice.

I think a "refresh" only really occurs when minor issues are fixed on the day (or so) of the release...

Probably so.
But still on the one and only one case I had. This is what happened and there was no indication the zip was updated.

This fix seems to have worked.
Several days and no server errors.

Thank You very much Scott.

Darn,Now I need to research on something else I can fixate on. He He He

Don't fret. You'll come up with something!

Well I did find something. To nag about
Since I posted my error log for the featured member issue I am under constant attack by potential spammers trying to find access to phpmyadmin.
I won't do that again.

Just noticed that Rick must have removed my log.
Thanks Rick.

We'll working on a 7.5.6 right now. Have found 7 so far, so you're close

hrm.. i should go thru my 'list' to make sure they're in there too

dunno where your list is, so i can compare though

Need to get a changelog going but this is what we have so far. One isn't necessarily a bug.

Fixed an issue with RSS feeds showing the UBBCode instead of the HTML.
Fixed an issue with the featured member sometimes showing a broken image.
Fixed an issue where sometimes an invalid entry would be added to the css files causing css errors.
Fixed a bug when trying to delete a user group.
Fixed a pagination problem when viewing user subscriptions
Fixed a bug with the moderator flag sometimes not showing up in certain forums that a user moderates.
When a subscription expires for a user, it will also send a private message to the primary admin notifying them of the expiration.

- portal.tpl -- add post_inner class
- also see same problem with images in profile comments, but i'd think another class might be needed there, since there is less room.. at least append a class, so cssers can compensate
- subscription pagination change from 1 to 25 per page
- html.inc.php ($v == 3) issue for mod vs global mod (line 1988ish)
- postlist.inc.php -- add proper language for teaser forum. (line 166ish) right now it uses BAD_GROUP, but should give teaser language, if it's teaser forum..
-- cosmetic - when you display a user profile, alphabetize the ubb buddies..

Got the subscription pagination one already. Thanks for the info on the others, will get those fixied.