HUGE problem! Please help! :(

For some reason my forums permissions no longer work. Anyone can get into any forum, no matter what I have the permissions set at. I have access masks turned on and this is still a problem.

I also no longer see the onlock and offlock pics on the forum home when logging in as a guest.



ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!

The hacks I most recently installed are:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=49100

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36991

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=38416

[amykhar]

If I were you, I would upload totally clean PHP files immediately and revert all templates. I would also take this time to upgrade to the latest version if you haven't already.

However, I am sure there is a less drastic way to do it. That's just what I would do.

Amy

[Boofo]

amykhar, not to change the subject, but what are you using for you home page? It looks great!

[007]

lol. Well anyway, that's what I'm considdering, (upgrading now.) How do I do a mysqldump through telnet? I want to make sure I backed up my whole DB before doing this...

[007]

Ok, apparently I have a db error and need to delete it and start over. (I did a complete upgrade with all new files and still have the same problem). I tested my backup and it works fine, so I jsut need to know what files I need to backup to restore my posts, users, forums, etc. I can reset the settings later, but whats the best way to do this?

I also have backed up my whole forum, like templaets and stuff, into a different directory so I can refer to it when reapplying hacks. I think all I need now it to know what parts of the db I need, since obviously I want to keep as little as possible so I can assume I'll be getting rid of whatever was causing the problem. THANKS.

[Martin64]

I'd do like Amy.

Hrm...accusing my forumjump hack? Meh...

[Boofo]

No disrespect intended, sir. I've had problems in the past with things getting screwed up by messing with the forumjump so I've learned to stay pretty well away from it.

[Martin64]

Didn't see that last post of yours. Try this:

Upload repair.php to your admin folder and run it. It will fix your database tables in case they're bad.

[Martin64]

Originally posted by Boofo
No disrespect intended, sir. I've had problems in the past with things getting screwed up by messing with the forumjump so I've learned to stay pretty well away from it.

Then you're not messing with it correctly. . Anyway, my hack only makes changes to the makeforumjump function in function.php though, so that's why it can't cause this trouble.

[007]

ok that repair.php turned up no errors. All status was "OK."

I reset the entire database by running the install.php script and once I did that everything was fine. Obviously I didn't want to keep it like that, so I reloaded the db from my back up file.

Everything now has the same problems, so I know the problem was with the database...

So what I think is the best way to fix this is to backup just the db tables that store information that I have changed, most importantly, user info, posts, profiles, and anything else I may be forgetting. What should I do now? aranoid:

[007]

OMG! I found out what it was. I had put the following in the phpinclude template:

PHP Code:

//ad banner
    $adcode="";
    if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]=6) {
    $adcode="<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=\"javascript\" src=\%22http:/www.url.com/path/etc\%22></SCRIPT><br><br>";
}
//end 


*sigh*

Well thanks to everyone who offered advice. I guess I learned a good lesson here (luckily I still have everything). The good thing that happened was that I upgraded to 2.3.0 during this, so I guess it wasn't a total waste of time.