Parsed Hack On Forum Index Causing Problems With PMs

Hiyis

I have the active topics hack on board - I did have them displayed only on my nonVB main site page, but I decided I wanted them on my forum index as well -- except now, whenever anyone sends a PM, instead of the set subject, the subject is replaced by the title of the last topic displayed by the parsed PHP.

At first I thought it might have been because I have multiple parse groups (ie, :

require("review20.php");
$reviews = ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();

(I had a couple for different things - $livegigs, $songs etc)

But I cut it down to just one, and it still caused problems...

Any ideas? Am i going about having active topics on a vB completely arse-about-tit?

Help

[Admin]

You forgot to start output buffering:

ob_start();
require("review20.php");
$reviews = ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();

[MarkB]

Sorry - I pasted incorrectly. Each block of code had ob_start(); as required...

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the reply

[Admin]

Ok, I'm guessing there's a variable in the new script that's called $title or something like that, and because the PHP include template is parsed before anything else in vBulletin but after the form, the variable is set a bad value.

Annnnyway, can you attach the hack file here?
Or just give the link to the thread.

[MarkB]

Spot on! There was a $title variable in the include files changed it, and now it works fine

Thanks yet again You rock!

[Admin]

My pure pleasure.

BTW, this might not be the end of it.
Go through the script and make sure there are no variables that might interfere with vBulletin... like $message, $userid, etc.

[MarkB]

Err...

Here's one of the files, in case you want to take a look

[Admin]

Umm ok, I just skimmed through it and I think it's fine.

[MarkB]

Actually, there was one problem - the include files had '$query' specified, which was causing search to come up with no results! doh!

Changes it to $query1 and now all is working Huzzah!