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[Digital Jedi]

I did indeed try that. But no error when saved when inactive. I can actually recreate the error by linking you to the same page you get after editing: http://www.cogonline.net/forums/show...025#post351025

I may just have to go through my HTML with a fine tooth comb.

--------------- Added 06 May 2008 at 12:51 ---------------

Hrm, I think I know what was wrong. I think I was missing the $post[scrolltothis] variable. Just a guess, but I'm not getting the error now.

[Digital Jedi]

If I might ask an additional question related to this, I thought I was being pretty smart here, but apparently, reality is determined to prevent that from ever happening.

What I was trying to do was change the first post in the thread using this plugin, then I made the forum I was using it in use a child style. I pasted in the postbit code into postbit_legacy of the child style, and set the plugin to include that forum. The intention, was to keep the rest of my forum in postbit_legacy, have the specific forum use the postbit layout AND alter the first post of threads in that forum.

Well, it works. Problem is, I get one of those dreaded repetative errors at the top of the page. Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in forum/path/forums/includes/class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 224.

I've managed to use the plugin several times with no problems and with different postbit designs. Is the child style my problem now?

Maybe there's was a simpler way to go about what I was trying?


EDIT: And if I might add, the posts look kind of funky. The content is off center.

[Lynne]

Let me see if I understand what you've done.

You have a site with several forums. One forum, x, you want to have shown with a new template as the first post and the rest of the posts in the thread show the postbit template. For all the other forums, you want the postbit_legacy template to be used.

So, you have postbit_legacy set to be the post template used, then you created a new style, a child of your main one, and replaced the postbit_legacy template with the postbit template. You set this style as the default forum style for that forum in the Forum Manager. And, you have a plugin that says when in forum x, use a new template for the firstpost in the thread.

The way you have done it *should* work. However, there seems to be a problem with another plugin you have that uses the postbit_display_complete hook (executed on line 296 of class_postbit.php as shown in your error.) You may want to try disabling any other product using that hook and see if you get that error.

[Digital Jedi]

You got it. That's exactly what I was trying to do.

Okay, strange happenings. I didn't realize the error was site wide. Some forums wouldn't show at all. Disabling each one using that hook didn't have any effect. So I turned off the forced style in the Forum Manager, to no effect. I deleted the child style, and still kept getting the error. So I just decided to delete the plugin and try again...

And it's working okay now.

Is it possible that when I first saved the plug, it didn't save right? Can a plugin be corrupted somehow? I quadruple checked the code to make sure it was correct the first time. (DJ's school of coding. When all else fails, delete everything.)

[Lynne]

Do you have any other plugins using that hook? I wonder if two plugins are conflicting with each other.

What about, are you sure your new postbit is correct? Maybe try testing it out on a test site or on a style that only you have access to and see if it is your postbit causing the error.

[Digital Jedi]

I did try that, but continued to receive the error until I deleted the plugin altogether. But like I said, it's working fine now. The solution seemed to require me to delete the plugin and make it again. The thing is, I'm sure the code was correct the first time. I resaved it four times. But making it over seemed to be only thing that helped. I guess it was corrupted, or maybe my steps where in the wrong order?

[Lynne]

For some reason I missed that line that said it was working OK now. (I swear I had my glasses on, but.....). Anyway, I'm glad it is cuz I really couldn't think of why it would not work for you.

[Digital Jedi]

Anything like that happens to me, and I blame it on either the absence or deficiency of caffeine related products.

In any case, many thanks for sharing the plugin with me. It has been the means to a great many ideas that I previously didn't know how to implement.

[tsuNami]

thank you, Lynne.

your solution works like a charm for my board!

regards.