I had these working in many of the forums and went to make a change on one and got an error. Now none of the Option to display these islands in between posts is working.
They only work on columns and not between post????
Well the syntax looks correct. Although the width is extremely large for a side island. Not knowing what forum you used it in. Can you provide a url link to the forum it should appear in? Does a ad show at all? Did you select the island in custom inserts for the forum? Did you enable viewing ads in the forum permissions also?
FYI, I do see a google search ad island in most of the forums.
Last edited by Ruben; 02/11/20154:48 PM. Reason: Added Comment
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I had these working in many of the forums and went to make a change on one and got an error. Now none of the Option to display these islands in between posts is working.
They only work on columns and not between post????
Please any advice would b great!
Thx Mike
If you only made the change on one of the islands then you can start with that code.
I have islands between posts and mine are working fine 7.5.8
Ive just visited this forum Click me and i can see and advert on the left side. Rotating images.
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If you can not see it when logged in then its a permissions thing with the forum settings via the control pannel. I'm not registered but i can see that advert.
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/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
Body of the custom box here
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */
Notice NO php tags <?php php?>
Yours above has when it works and does not when its broken.
I dont have php tags in my custom islands.
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It'll fail in every browser, it's checking the permissions on the webserver for that folder; it's saying that the folder isn't chmodded 777.
Sorry G i get mixed results. it even hangs the page in chrome waits about 10 seconds and then gives me the rest of the results. IE displays instantly, and green.
Not pinned down the cause and put it down to chrome version. Its possible.
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you are correct I just tried for the first time today to copy the default code into the udd control and I got this, cache_builders/custom/portal_box_41 is not writeable. You will either need to change the permissions on this file or edit it by hand.
I will now need to go back according to this, folders need to be chmodded 777, all files 666. I did not change the custom folder but did all of the portal_box_php files to 777
re ran the permission check and all is fine now,
but if the php files are to be at 666 i will need to go back and redo them.
Yes they were, and this is how, I moved the files with FTP to my pc and then reloaded them back on the server. the transfer must have auto changed them.
I do have 30 and am checking each one to make sure the code is code and I am adding Always Build to it just in case I have one in more than one area or want to in the future
OK I checked each one and all are good to go. How this started was yesterday I put bad code in and got an error upon trying to save the file so i eminently reversed the back to good code and it saved.
Then I noticed that none of the custom were showing in between threads.
I can make them show anywhere else on the site just not between the post.
1. Check permissions again via the control panel "Permissions Check" 2. Regardless if you allow certain groups to see or not see the ads they should still appear in the drop box your attempting show them. 3. I dont have <?php php?> tags in my custom island code. 4. when you get the islands to show in the drop box then think about who you want to show them too. 5. Modify the permissions for "View Ads" this is the section between 1st n second posts.
I'm over in the UK its 22:22 and i have a love life lol I'm sure one of the others will guide you.
An After thought ? Go to custom island 1 Take the code out and replace with
PHP Code
/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
Hello I am a Test
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */
6. Check your drop boxes again.
Thats it for now. What ever it is, its an oversight and can be fixed with the attention to detail. Its something stupid now.
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I am at such a loss with it, that this is why I was wondering other than just choosing it tin the forum setup is there another place in the control panel that needs to be turned on or ?
Mark, just an FYI, the only window I had open in chrome was our site, and this site for the support, so I am guessing this UBB version was conflicting with our older version and took control or something like that. As soon as I closed chrome here it started to load on my side.
I put chrome to the test to see if the UBB was the causing it and found this,
I cleared all my cache/browsing in chrome and rebooted pc, upon re entering the site I can see the custom island, after I make one change to any of the islands they all go away. In IE not so, I can still see them just fine. Chrome, oh boy this is a new one for me.
Chrome has never given that much trouble as its my browser of choice. But Since i had a crazy experience with Firefox a few years ago, it go me checking in other browsers, before i admit my self to the local nut house.
You may want to consider re-installing chrome or making sure your on the latest update.
Gald you got there in the end.
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Let me back step a little bit. First If you found that file permissions failed in the ubb control panel. The very first item is to make sure they all are correct now. And pass. Second because you had bad file permissions I would open the ubb control panel and select the clear cache option, but don't submit yet. Then use your ftp program and navigate to the cache folder(not custom builders) and delete all the files except for the html files. Then switch back to the ubb control panel and run the clear cache. That will force all the cache files to be rebuilt as well as knowing that all of them were. The cache folder holds all of your island scripts and if some are out of sync they won't update correctly after you make changes to them.
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