UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Bug Reports New posts are the old posts!

Some posts are persistently display new post icon although they have been viewed already. The new post dissapears after the viewing then after log off log on it shows that it is new post again but it is not. And no, the posts have not been edited in between.

Has anyone noticed the same? It happens on my board and on this board. I am using Firefox 1.0.

This has been a well known persistant long standing never solved bug since 6.5 .

Really? Do you know what causing it?

This is one of those things that I've *never* had happen to me. Usually I can isolate and fix a bug fairly easily but when I can't duplicate it do debug what's causing it, it makes it almost impossible <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I have a similar problem here in this board. Every day I see the yellow light bulb on for the classic to threads boards. The last new post schould be in the thread ' Re: Renaming URL's in MYSQ... '

If I enter this forum there is no new or unread for me and if I go back to main Index the light bulb switches to off.

I can repeat this nearly every day. I try to clear the cookies but this doesn't help. I use FireFox too, but I think its not browser related.

[]This is one of those things that I've *never* had happen to me. Usually I can isolate and fix a bug fairly easily but when I can't duplicate it do debug what's causing it, it makes it almost impossible <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> [/]

It goes like this for me:
Locate a forum that has one new thread or post in it, and access it via ubbthreads.php last post.

Then close the browser and reload ubbthreads.php.
The forum will be marked as having new posts, albeit it doesn't, since you took a look at that one post already.

As soon you access the forum via postlit.php, then the forum is marked as having no new posts.

Same here, if you do not load postlist and go directly to showflat (which the last post links to) then it stays unread. I've looked into the code and OMG, I am surprised it is actually working. For example there is variable $notread = ''; But there are no more $notread variables anywhere instead there are $unread, well same thing really but try to explain this to php interpreter <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> then there is $read variable which get passed to a function but does not exist in the function anywhere. Then there is $color variable and $Color variable, this just tells me it's a recipe for disaster. Lots of stuff is commented off so I wonder, maybe something was commented off by mistake?

postlist

if ( (isset($Main,$_SESSION['topicread'])) && $Sticky == '2')

should it be

if ( (isset($_SESSION['topicread'][$Main])) && $Sticky == '2')

instead?

showflat

is this correct

$query = "
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
WHERE B_Main = '$current'
";

should $current be not included in '' ?

Yes, that's a definite buggie, refering to the postlist.php one.

$current being surround in quotes is fine. It doesn't have to be since it is an int value but doesn't cause any problems when it is.

[]This is one of those things that I've *never* had happen to me. Usually I can isolate and fix a bug fairly easily but when I can't duplicate it do debug what's causing it, it makes it almost impossible <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> [/]

I may have found what was causing this...need to test a bit more though.

[]showflat

is this correct

$query = "
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM {$config['tbprefix']}Posts
WHERE B_Main = '$current'
";

should $current be not included in '' ? [/]

So what should this look like???

This should look exactly as it looks at the moment.