I am using a group of theme packs from here on three of my sites. I am encountering the same troubles on all of the sites, even when I am running a brand new copy of PHP Nuke. The sites are all equipped with PHP Nuke 6.5 or higher. The only core modifications are for NSN Users Config, NSN User Groups, and Artifical Intel's module hack. I also have the Nuke Cop's SQL Layer file installed, but have been having the same troubles since before I installed it. I also have all current security patches installed at my site that I could find at Nuke Cops, and PHP Nuke's main site.

The first trouble comes in randomly. If anyone checks out my personal domain, (Tempest Gate, http://www.tempestgate.net) you will find that randomly as you go through the site, PHP Nuke seems to mess up the theme royally, and not display any of the graphics, as well as mess up most if not all of the links. It appears that it is putting a \" before things where it doesn't belong, but I am not sure. Almost every time you can do a contrl-f5 to reload the page (or hold down control, while clicking on reload) and it will reload the page just fine. Every now and then, you need to do it a couple of times to get it right. I have tested this with both Netscape, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer, and variants there of.

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The second trouble is a persistent trouble in my footer. I keep getting the following code printed out at the very bottm. Best guess I can make is it is from the theme, as I have tried de-activating all of my blocks one at a time, in order to figure out where it was coming from. (Some of the information below is due to the Nuke Cop's SQL Layer file. It shows extra info on where something comes from.

I would appreciate any help I can get in squashing these two bugs, so I can focus my attention on getting my built-in phpBB forums to work right...

Dark Tempest

Disable your album block and see if it removes the errors. You are getting the following on your index page when people aren't logged in.

Have you tried turning debugging on? Can you turn it on and post the complete error please.

Do the images display for you in admin/topics? If they don't check the spelling of the images, and the location of them.

The error in the footer is independent of the random image block. I have been having the footer error since I switched from DeepBlue, to fiblue 3d for the theme of the site. The random image block was only installed a couple of days ago, without any troubles, other then when I placed it in the NSN Center block module, and opened the forums module up, it forgot which database to use. (Actually both modules I am using from Warp-Speed.de seemed to forget when I placed them in the center block system, and was in the forums module. I haven't tracked that error down yet, and just moved them to the right hand side for now, which has fixed that problem.) As for the center block module from NSN being the source, I installed it after the troubles with the footer, and theme screw-ups began.

Here is the only output I get from debug mode being turned on:

I have corrected the problem with the random image block. It was due to having the module set to registered users only, and the block to all users. I found a similar conflict with the calendar block and module. Now both are set for registered users only, as the modules are.

The admin images seem immune to the problem, while the topic images are affected. It seems that only images from the theme, such as the outer lines, and topic images are affected. The images called from blocks, such as user info, random image, the printer friendly, send to a friend, and the banner image are unaffected. Everything else seems to go. I am curious if PHP Nuke is some how filtering the output from the theme. If so, why is it doing it seemingly randomly? Why not every time? I notice on every image with an alternate text that does not show, PHP Nuke has escaped the double qoute before and after it. Also any links such as those in the user's custom block cease to function, and point to invalid locations, regardless of whether or not they were hardcoded or relatively coded.

The only modules that seem to be immune to this trouble so far are the forums, your account, member's list, and the two I have written, and the banner display. (The the banner display did fail when I enabled debug, and had the problem occur, but no info was given on it.) I have tried enabling and disabling each module, and still get the troubles, I have also tried the same with blocks to no avail. I have also tried tracking which modules I was in at the time, to see if it was a given module, without luck, other then the ones I mention below. I do not get this trouble when using one of the themes that came with PHP Nuke, such as DeepBlue, which is what I used to do almost all of the base line setup, before I removed all themes, other then fiblue 3d, and disabled the ability to change themes for each user in the admin side.

The following is a sample of how the image location is being messed up, causing them not to load:

The correct coding should be:

The alt text from an incorrect image such as the one I have posted the link for above will read:

Instead of:

Out of very odd curiousity, could this be a problem of the database itself? When I opened the SQL file up in my editor that I use for programming, and such, the color coding for it didn't go right, as it found problems with double qoutes and such, that were part of the original database file. Having seen the same on prior versions of PHP Nuke, from the images and such that were coded into the database file, and ran without troubles, I didn't do anything about such, and just installed the database as is.

I have had this trouble with PHP Nuke, and themes, since 6.0... The only themes that have worked without any troubles are the ones that came with PHP Nuke's core package.

PS: If any theme designers wish to work with me on a few themes based off of ideas I have and am putting to use on the Tactical Nuke project / fork, please drop me a note at my site, or a quick post in reply to this one. No real graphics expertise is needed, but knowledge of PHP Nuke's theme system, and filtering systems is a must. I don't have the time to learn everything with all I have going on at the moment...

This is going to seem like an odd question, but what prg do you use as an editor?

It is not an odd question at all... Usually I use Source Edit. If for some reason that will not load on my system, (usually because my system has been on for over 48 hours or so straight, and I have been working on my sites, and such), I use Syn Edit. Both are designed for programmers, and are set to save files in MS-DOS format... (with carriage returns and linefeeds, versus UNIX format which only puts the linefeed at the end of each line.).

I am debating on backing up everything in my nuke root directory, and replacing the files with a new copy straight from the original archive I have on my system, and making each change to them manually, instead of just running the install scripts that came with each of the tweaks and patches I have applied. I have Beyond Compare on my system, so it will be a simple matter to compare two versions of each file, and spot the differences between them, to see what edits to make one at a time, instead of en-mass by installing a full patch. Doing it that way though would probably take more time then I have... I am about to start twelve hour days for school come Tuesday...

I believe I may have found part of the problem.

Rename your images to remove the _ in the name. I think there is a problem with that in 6.5.

The only images which have the underscore are those in my gallery. There are no theme images, or topic images with the underscore.

I am establishing a sub-site at my personal domain of Tempest Gate, to begin what I consider extreme testing, applying patches either piece by piece, or in segments that I know are safe, in order to isolate exactly which patches or alterations are the cause of the troubles I have listed above. I am starting with a brand new copy of PHP Nuke 6.5, the only thing I am deleting from this install is the language files for all languages other then english. I also will be using the default SQL file, with no edits, (even though I know of a few errors.) For any interested in helping with the tests, leave me a PM here, and I will let you know the details.

That looks like a PHP problem possibly.
Download and load analyzer from http://www.nukecops.com
Let's see what version of PHP your server host is runing.
Also, make sure that you uploaded or let your FTP program upload the images in BINARY mode. PHP and script files should be uploaded in ASCII. Most FTP clients will autodetect the file accordingly. HOWEVER, in some cases they can fowl up.

As far as the Fotter error message is concerned. That is morew than likely the result of a Module that you installed where your footer.php was affected and it is NOT built for Nuke6.5
uid is the variable used in Nuke6.0 with phpBBport.
user_id is the variable NOW used in the users table in Nuke 6.5
If you applied any hacks or mods, check them with your text editor for any instances of uid.

mikem

I mentioned the images with underscores before, because when I checked the properties on a couple that didn't want to display the first time your page loaded they showed as having _

That doesn't explain why your logo is doing it though, and displaying a different name. What happens if you remove the alt designation from your pages? It looks like it is the text that is displaying to me with an additional /.

For the footer msg, chech the wysiwyg editor. There is one out there that says it is 6.5 compatible, but throws errors in the footer. I didn't actually see that error when I was on your site.