[Edgemyster]

After 4 hours of pulling our hair out ... we fixed the problem.

This is the issue that some of you may get after installing the hack that basically turns your site to crap (parse errors at the top of every page - php files refusing to run, etc.).

We tracked the error to a database table that is modified by this hack. A query within this hack's installation file basically killed (removed) the 'options' data the "template" table all together. We had to restore this from an old backup.

After having done that, we still have the same problem. Firefly actually suggests in another thread to access the AdminCP, load the options, then save them - indicating that should fix the problem. It may for some of you, but we couldn't personally access our AdminCP any longer.

To make a long story a little bit longer, we did the following and got things working again:

1) Restore the 'options' data to the 'template' table from an old database backup. Try this first if you discover that your data has been erased here as well.

2) If you still have errors focusing on this line in the two global.php files (as we did) that points to the data modified in the database by the hack:

eval($optionstemp[template]);

Then comment out that line in ADMIN/global.php. And then load the AdminCP.

3) Click on your VB options, then save the options in AdminCP, as Firefly had suggested, and wah-lah - everything of ours was back up and functioning again.

A rather easy fix for something we beat our heads over for the last 5 hours.

My suggestion? DO NOT load this hack if you're operating on or around version 2.2.9 until it's problems are addressed (if ever).