D0T-C0M wrote on Mar 17^th, 2009 at 8:57pm:

Why not enable User Tools? Thats AJAX

Jeff wrote on Mar 17^th, 2009 at 8:59pm:

great , I did not know that. You learn something every day around here.


What I meant that the list could could update or refresh automatically without refreshing the whole page.

No undefined errors ever for me in FF. I realize they are in IE but that is because IE doesnt like my split that I've used apparently. I'll try to fix that so we can see the numerous other errors that IE presents  

And by the way theres no AJAX in User Tools That's just straight javascript. The menus are loaded before that page and displayed when clicked, they arent loaded dynamically.

However, favorites, notifications, expand collapse, and the add moderator link when adding a board through the admin center are all AJAX that I've done 

Oh fun ... here is where we are at the moment.

1) the site is still up, and working in general. Forums that are on, and are not being used for testing are still fully available, though probably cannot be accessed by anyone who has been server-banned.

2) my current host, who has been for the most part very good at keeping my boards running smoothly, have had their own site down for two days. Which means I have general and ftp access, but since I log into cpanel from their website, and it is down, I do not currently have access to more behind the scenes stuff, and trying to un-ban people.

3) Though without quite the same exact error, I have been banned from the website once in the past. This is connected with a known possible YaBB issue, where some servers consider it a security risk to do some things with urls which have too many ';' in their path. There are a couple of lines of code in one of the YaBB files which fix this by replacing ';' with '&' if you remove the '#' in front of the lines.

For safety's sake, we may want to remove the # from these two lines in Subs.pl, if they are currently there, just to lessen the chance of problems from this.

	# $output =~ s/($scripturl\?)([^'"]+)/ $1 . &URL_modify($2) /eg;
	# sub URL_modify { my $x = shift; $x =~ s/;/&/g; $x; } 

In the meantime, I am trying to see if I can find a way to get deeper access to things, to clear any banned people, so you all can access the test boards again. Sorry for the delay on this, but the timing on kalypsoweb having their site be down is unfortunate.

If its too much trouble then it is no big deal. We'll have to figure out whats causing this on Jon's website no matter what anyway because we dont want this happening to others. Although I have never experienced this at all. Jon did you check the Guardian and make sure autobanning is not enabled? Also check the list of ips. Maybe its yabb specific... As in YaBB banned us but did it through some method that prevents out access to the site in general.

I'm thinking that somehow the code is generating server errors while not reporting them because YaBB does not handle these. CORE::exit is required at the end of subroutines that print ajax reportable data so it wouldnt cause server errors for my other AJAX features I have made. I have that at the end of each sub I call...Maybe the server doesnt like it...

I still dont understand how my code caused this. Literally the only thing different is that it returned some more html than before and the javascript is printing undefined errors. The server should not have experienced an error as it was just doing its job, while the client side was the one causing issues...

@batchman My home ip is still banned on your site.  Can you check IP      142.167.*.*  and unban it.

D0T-C0M wrote on Mar 13^th, 2009 at 9:50pm:


Can you attach these modifications please.....

@batchman
your site still down.