Trying to troubleshoot some problems

[final kaoss]

well on the main page (http://vgchat.info/forum) at the very top there is "< " showing. And on one board (http://vgchat.info/forum/f109-pokemon) in particular this is showing

pokemon chat room Pokemon" />

Now whenever you click a forum (other than the pokemon forum) this little opening arrow "<" is nowhere to be found. I don't know what's causing it because someone here transferred this template from mybb to vb. Any ideas?

[Lynne]

It's probably in some template. To find the template of interest, do this - vboptions > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments > set to Yes . Then go back to your page and view the source code and you will see the name of the template called around your part of the code. (Sometimes the template is the one mentioned at the very top of the page source.)

[final kaoss]

Got it. Turned out to be this. But the pokemon board still shows

pokemon chat room Pokemon" />

<<title> <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase> </title>
<meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description] " />

ok next thing I'd like to try to solve is somehow the dropdown menus are gone... and if you view a thread it's alot more noticable...

So far I've tried:

Disabling vb optimize
Disabling and removing vbenterprisetranslator
Reuploading the entire site (with no dropdown menu's returning.....) (not the database just files from a backup 3-4 days ago)
Flushing vb optimize
Repairing & recounting every option available (still no luck after that..)

[Lynne]

Create a new style with no parent:

Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Add New Style
Parent Style: No Parent Style
Title: Default vBulletin
Allow User Selection: Yes
Save

Then browse the site using that totally default vbulletin style - do you still have the same problem?

If it is still happening - Try disabling your modifications/plugins and see if you still have this problem.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

[final kaoss]

yep still have same problems after both steps...

[Lynne]

If you are using a default style and absolutely no plugins, then the only way it can be getting there is through a file. So, redownload the default files from vbulletin and reupload the totally default files. That does NOT show up in default vbulletin, so it has to be from a template, a plugin, or a file.

[final kaoss]

If I do that it would probably wind up getting further messed up somehow... it started doing that today and the only new mods introduced are vboptimize and vbenterprise translator. Before that these were there

Vbulletin 4.0 seems to be right around the corner. Even with it right around the corner however, I don't plan to upgrade to vbulletin 4.0 until most of these mods have been upgraded to be 4.0 compatable.

vBulletin 3.8.4

Affiliation 4.0 Show all of your affiliate(s).

Ain - Advanced Google AdSense 7.0 advanced system to show adsense on forums

Automatic Thread Tagger 1.2.0 Extracts keywords from thread titles and uses these as thread tags.

Cyb - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count 4.4 Cyb - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count

Insert Copyright 1.0.0 Insert Copyright Text Into Post

KX - Spider Permissions 1.0.0 This allows spiders to be placed in a special usergroup or select the features you want them to use.

Limit Links In Signature 0.5.5 This hack allows to set a maximal number of allowed links in signatures for each user group.

Limited Guest Viewing 2.0.1 Limit guests to view a set number of threads before being locked out.

MARCO1 H1 Tags 2.0 Add H1 Tags on your threads/forum display

Members who have Visited 3.8.002 Display members who have visited the forum.

Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - V1.8.0 1.8.0 Allows extensive control of how SubForums lists are displayed (vBulletin 3.8.x)

Spider Display 2.0.0 Show the spiders browsing your board in the What's Going On box of your Forum Home Page.

Usergroup Color Bar 2.0.0 http://www.tvpano.com/

Username HTML Markup 2.0

vBSEO :: Sitemap Generator 2.5 Generate a Google & Yahoo Sitemap for your Forums

Welcome Thread 1.2.2 Creates a welcome thread when a new user registers

YABBSEO[vB] v1.1 YABBSEO[vB]

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also upon inspection the thread part looks like this.

<a href="#goto_threadtools">Thread Tools</a>


</td>

<td class="vbmenu_control" id="threadsearch" nowrap="nowrap">
<a href="#goto_threadsearch">Search this Thread</a>

</td>


<td class="vbmenu_control" id="threadrating" nowrap="nowrap">
<a href="#goto_threadrating"><span id="threadrating_current">Rate Thread</span>

while the correct version looks like this


<a href="/forum/showthread.php?t=233560&amp;nojs=1#goto_threadtools">Thread Tools</a>

<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("threadtools"); </script> <img alt="" title="" src="images/misc/menu_open.gif" border="0">
</td>

<td style="cursor: pointer;" class="vbmenu_control" id="threadsearch" nowrap="nowrap">
<a href="/forum/showthread.php?t=233560&amp;nojs=1#goto_threadsearch">Search this Thread</a>
<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("threadsearch"); </script> <img alt="" title="" src="images/misc/menu_open.gif" border="0">
</td>



<td style="cursor: pointer;" class="vbmenu_control" id="threadrating" nowrap="nowrap">
<a href="/forum/showthread.php?t=233560&amp;nojs=1#goto_threadrating"><span id="threadrating_current">Rate Thread</span></a>
<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("threadrating"); </script> <img alt="" title="" src="images/misc/menu_open.gif" border="0">

So basically (I think it's called an html bookmark) was created with the javascript part gone. And since I can view the source of it in this forum my javascript is indeed turned on..

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UPDATE

ok, I've completed all of the steps but still get the error and here is the error from one thread in particular, it's in a board that you must be logged in to see.

Files from a fresh download have replaced the old ones like you said to.
All plugins are disabled (and the hook plugin is off too)
New skin created
Cache & cookies cleared
invalid sql and javascript dropdown (in the last ticket) still have errors.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT thread.threadid, thread.forumid, thread.title, thread.prefixid, thread.taglist, postusername, postuserid,
thread.lastpost, thread.replycount,
forum.title AS forumtitle
,post.pagetext AS preview


FROM thread AS thread
INNER JOIN forum AS forum ON (forum.forumid = thread.forumid)
LEFT JOIN post AS post ON (post.postid = thread.firstpostid)



WHERE thread.threadid IN (15365, 15399, 1695, 14003, 11925, 13258, 10766, 10757, ) AND thread.visible = 1



ORDER BY lastpost DESC;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND thread.visible = 1



ORDER BY lastpost DESC' at line 13
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Wednesday, January 20th 2010 @ 12:40:18 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, January 20th 2010 @ 12:40:18 AM
Script : http://vgchat.info/forum/showthread.php?t=11930
Referrer : http://vgchat.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=102
IP Address :
Username : final kaoss
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.87-percona-highperf