Bug found WOL problem caused by activity.php

[dchan]

Hi all,

In the process of troubleshooting a problem with our vbulletin installation, we found a problem with an external file that was causing our problem.

I have checked with our web designer who installed a modification that included a file called activity.php

I'm not sure he can remember exactly which mod included it and if it was supported after we began doing upgrades I suspect it was installed while we were still on VB 3.5.x We are currently on 3.6.2

The symptom was that every time the "most users online" record was broken the system would reset our counters to "1" and the date would be set to 1969 or 1970 depending on version of software.

We could reset the counter by running a query to reset the counter but the symptom kept coming back.

After working with the VB Dev group we found this line in the activity.php

build_datastore('maxloggedin', serialize($vbulletin->maxloggedin));

that was causing the problem. Correcting the syntax to

build_datastore('maxloggedin', serialize($vbulletin->maxloggedin), 1);

This did resolve the issue.

I also found the same info in "error" in try.php and am not sure where this file was used.

Hope that helps either the developers or users that might have noticed this symptom.

Thanks goes to the VB Dev team for helping me find and fix the problem on our forum and

Thanks to all you developers that keep coming up with these great mods..

Me, I'm just a hack trying to keep my forum running smooth..

DC