fiblack3d - Can't see

temporalillusion · **fiblack3d - Can't see -** 03-08-2005, 11:36 AM

I've been fighting with the fiblack3d theme for a while now and I'm about to give up.

I've used it once before and never had a problem, but I'm moving a site and with the new host I couldn't get it to run at all at first (I'd change the default theme to fiblack3d and everything would be blank).

I changed the PHP version I was using from 4.3.10 to 5.0.3 and that seemed to help (I can see the theme now), but I still can't see the content for most of the blocks...

With any other theme I put on it seems fine, but with fiblack3d the modules, survey, login, all the blocks show up but have nothing in them.

http://foog.ca.sharedssl.info

Any ideas?

temporalillusion · 03-09-2005, 03:30 PM

No ideas? I really like this theme and would like to use it.

Marty · 03-09-2005, 04:01 PM

Are you sure everything is in its right place and activated, wheres your forums ? & or are they activated ?

If you really really what this working, msn me

temporalillusion · 03-09-2005, 06:17 PM

Just wanted to thank Marty for his help, we couldn't get it to work but at least I confirmed that I'm not losing it

I think it's something with PHP and my host provider. I'll have to dig into the theme.php file as I think the place where it renders the contents of the block isn't executing properly to try and find out what is wrong with the php install.

temporalillusion · 03-09-2005, 08:05 PM

Alright, I think I have it working. I'll post what I changed here.

I started looking at the php code for the theme and figuring out where things were rendered. In the theme.php there's a function themesidebox($title, $content) that seems to handle putting together the blocks (html, css etc).

$content seems to be in some cases a file name to the actual block php file and then the function opens it and incorporates it. But in my case for whatever reason the $content already contained the correct content (haven't figured out the logic in the main.php yet), but somehow even though $content contained HTML the file_exists method is still returning true, going through the process of loading a file and changing the $content to be the contents of a non-existent file.

No idea why the file_exists doesn't work properly in this function on my server...

So what I did is basically comment out that part that checks for a file name and it works fine.

Bizarre, but works for now.

labadore · 03-31-2005, 01:32 AM

Im trying to use the theme and Im getting the same exact problem...I tried modifying that function and commenting out portions but I cant seem to get it to work...can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me exactly what you did to fix it....

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

temporalillusion · 03-31-2005, 10:47 AM

This is what my function looks like in the theme.php

Code:

function themesidebox($title, $content) 
{
	        /*if (@file_exists($content)) {
                $fp = fopen ($content, "r");
		print filesize($content);
                $content = fread($fp, filesize($content));
                fclose ($fp);
                $content = "?>$content<?";
                $content = eval($content);
        } else if (eregi("^http", $content)) { 
                $fp = fopen ($content, "r"); 
                $content = fread($fp, 65535); 
                fclose ($fp); 
        }*/
    $tmpl_file = "themes/fiblack3d/blocks.html";
    $thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
    $thefile = addslashes($thefile);
    $thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
    eval($thefile);
    print $r_file;
}

labadore · 03-31-2005, 11:09 AM

that worked!!!

thank you very much

moparmarcus · 10-19-2005, 01:32 PM

you, my friend, are a god. I just tried it and it solved it for me too!

Thanks

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