linickx

Thanks again for the plugin!

You’re very welcome, glad you got your issue sorted.

Excellent! You should be able to go through the “tick insecure box” , save , “fill in credentials” and save loop.

For some reason $wpdb->select($lnx_PRT_options['prt_phpbb_db']); doesn’t fail gracefully on your host (like it does on mine).

Any suggestions or tweaks you can do you on your test environment to keep the code in, but fail nicely would be very much appreciated.

I’m very confused on what’s happening on your host.

The plugin logic is as follows..

1) phpbb_recent_topics.php – If U R an admin run admin.php
2) admin.php – setup help, options validation & load /display/admin-options.php
3) admin-options.php – try to connect to DB and print the form.

Try commenting out the whole DB block (instead of just the 1st half) in admin-options and let me know if the form loads.

I have been using the admin to deactivate.

That will disable the plugin functions from being called… hitting the “delete” button in the admin dashboard will remove the plugin files and clean up the database.

How very odd.

I wonder I don’t know… or what’s different. I have php 5.3.3 on linux, what do you have?

Try commenting out line 40 to 49 of admin-options.php.

Another thing to try is to uninstall the plugin via the dashboard. Do not just delete the folder via CLI/FTP as the dashboard runs uninstall.php which cleans out any old phpbb_recent_topics settings stored in the WordPress DB.

I hope that helps,
Kind Regards,
Nick

Now that is new ??

That can’t select database error message is not one from the plugin, its a message from the WP core… and as you can see if very different from my screenshot.

Is there anything in your apache error_log that can help us out?

It might also be worth checking for a theme/plugin conflicts… my site (which the screenshots came from) is running the latest WP with no other plugins (and the twentyeleven theme).

Cheers,
Nick

It’s probably related to the relative links in your source.

<link href="./styles/antique_tractor/theme/normal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="A" />
<link href="./styles/antique_tractor/theme/medium.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" title="A+" />
<link href="./styles/antique_tractor/theme/large.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" title="A++" />

As an unregistered user the resulting URL becomes https://www.canadianantiquetractor.com/tractorforum/index.php/styles/antique_tractor/theme/normal.css … which obviously doesn’t work.

I hope that helps,
Kind Regards,
Nick

yes.. or better yet try the callback function as documented in the other notes section of the readme.

The results of the callback are run within the <li>.

I hope that helps,
Kind Regards,
Nick

eh???

See this screenshot -> https://cl.ly/3X033b080R1k1E361q2t

1) Tick the enable insecure mode checkbox
2) Save

See this screenshot -> https://cl.ly/420E150347211q0t0a2E

3) Fill in credentials
4) Save == done ??

Enable in-secure mode.

Paste from the FAQ..

What is Insecure MySQL Connectivity ?
Some people cannot GRANT priveliges from one DB to another; insecure connectivity allows you to store the phpbb database credentials within the WordPress database.

Why is Insecure MySQL Connectivity Insecure?
The phpbb database credentials are stored in the WordPress database in CLEAR TEXT, this is bad, as anyone with access to the WP DB can get full access to phpbb. Another reason is that usually the credentials given to the phpbb application are FULL access, we only need to read the database, so it’s much better to restrict access.

Yep, comment it out… it’s not important, it just downloads this news feed from my site ( html | rss) .

That error “means” that the download of the feed has failed, either due to outbound http being blocked or my site not responding.

I keep forgetting to look at this, so have created ticket 1370 to remind me… you’re welcome to submit a patch ??

Cheers,
Nick

Humm having updated the plugin to 0.7.1 the readme has failed to update again.

The 0.7.1 tag and trunk read me’s are the same, and the only diff between the 0.7.1 & 0.7 readme is the change log.

I’m tagging this post otto in hope to reach out as I cannot reply to the email otto sent me (Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently to otto@xxx)

… just found in the readme validator that there has been a syntax change… adding a == Upgrade Notice == section seems to have fixed it -> https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/phpbb-recent-topics/changelog/ ??

Hello,

Yeah i did -> https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/phpbb-recent-topics/tags/0.7/

I’m not sure what’s going on with wp.org, both tag readme & trunk readme have been updated, am v.confused ??

Hello,

Error excerpt: “Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Error::get_items() in /home/[…]/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/root-cookie.php on line 265”

Is fixed in 1.5.3 , seems like some versions of PHP don’t like http redirects.

I am looking into the chrome vs ffox thing.

Cheers,
Nick