Upgrade Error... please help?

[Ohiosweetheart]

I just upgraded a forum from 3.5.4 to 3.8.1. The upgrade ran smoothly, but when prompted to login to the acp afterwards, this blank page came up with the following error -

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/hairsty/public_html/forum/global.php(833) : eval()'d code
Line: 115

and this message across the top of the page -

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/hairsty/public_html/forum/global.php(833) : eval()'d code on line 115

any ideas what this could be??

Thanks in advance.

[TigerC10]

I suspect that you did not upload all of the files properly. Usually this only happens if you run the upgrade script without uploading all of the .php files correctly.

Try re-uploading all of the .php files again.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Thanks Tiger, I'm in the middle of doing that right now. I hope it works!

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No that didn't work. I re-uploaded everything, and ran the upgrade script again.
I still have the same error messages.

[TigerC10]

Once the upgrade script runs, you don't need to run it again.

According to my global.php file, this is line 115...

else
{
	$vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisitdate'] = -1;
}

Open your global.php file and scroll down to line 115. Make sure that this is the line you've got.

If you can't add the cookie data, you might have changed your forum URL. Try uploading tools.php from the do_not_upload folder. Run it, and try updating the cookie info just in case.

[Lynne]

I'm guessing there is a problem with your header template since this is line 833 in global.php:

PHP Code:

eval('$header = "' . fetch_template('header') . '";'); 


Or, perhaps a plugin that is eval in that template? Have you tried disabling your plugins?

[TigerC10]

Good call, Lynne. I like that idea more than mine now. Unfortunatly, he can't get into the AdminCP to resolve the issue... I wonder how to solve this.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Lynne I have tried to disable the plugins by typing
define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); in the config file under <?php
but that's not working either

[Lynne]

"He" is a "she".

The plugins can be disabled through the config.php file.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


edit: I didn't see that you posted when I was posting... did you try also removing any files that are not standard vb files that may be getting 'called' in one of your templates?

[TigerC10]

Originally Posted by Lynne

"He" is a "she".

My bad! I meant no offense! >.< I just didn't check on the profile.

The only way I can see fixing this error is to get the default header template and update it manually in the database.

Here's the default code, as for manually updating it in the database... There are a multitude of ways of doing that.

<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
	<td align="$stylevar[left]"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></td>
	<td align="$stylevar[right]" id="header_right_cell">
		<if condition="$ad_location['ad_header_logo']">$ad_location[ad_header_logo]<else />&nbsp;</if>
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /logo -->

<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open

$_phpinclude_output

$ad_location[ad_header_end]

[Ohiosweetheart]

yikes, I don't know how to figure out which one that would be

btw thanks so much for your ongoing help here Lynne.

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and no offense taken Tiger!

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omg I SO don't want to mess with the database if I don't have to.