Record online users not working!

[flup]

Hey guys,

since I've updated my forums from 3.5 to 3.7.2 it seems that the most users ever online function isn't working anymore. Perhaps anyone that knows where the problem lies? any DB changes or something during the upgrade perhaps?

Thanks in advance!

[Lynne]

Did you make sure to replace the index.php file for the site and also update all the templates? Why do you say it isn't working - it usually doesn't change every day for most sites.

[flup]

It remains at 'Most users ever on line was 1, 01-01-1970 at 01:00 AM.'

All files where replaced with the updated ones, templates should not be involved with this issue as it is controlled by code. The 'Users that where on line today' works flawlessly.

I just see that 'todays birthdays' returns 'Array' instead of the people that are having their birthday.. seems there's an issue aswell.

[Lynne]

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

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


[flup]

Found the solution today, didn't spend any attention to it for a while I guess :-)

The 'maxonline' record in the datastore table was messed up and contained different kinds of charachters before the actual serialized data. Therefor the unserialize returned a false value causing the forum software (index.php on line 352 for a vB3.8.2) to take the current day and 1 user as information for the template.

Cheers.