OK, great! I've PM:ed you.

This is really a long shoot from my side but I can not just let my community fade away without trying to reach for help. Unfortunately I have reached "way's end" with XOOPS because I can not fix PHP-problems myself. There are three options for me:

1. Getting help from a dedicated Xoops-developer to clean up and fix all the serious bugs in my XOOPS 2.2.x-community.

2. Getting help to downgrade from XOOPS 2.2.x to 2.0.x because the downgrade script is not working for me and some important modules as the discussion board won't be downgraded.

3. Getting help from a skilled PHP-programmer to port my Xoops-community to Joomla. (Unlikely I suppose)

The site I am running is a Xoops-community in Swedish, dedicated to "the old ways/belief", i.e. norse mythology, folk lore and heathenry. It started around 2001 and has been up running with XOOPS since the beginning of 2004 and is pretty well known within the Swedish and Scandinavian heathen society. Among other things it contains a rather comprehensive textarchive/library, a discussion board that is a good source of knowledge to contemporary norse heathenry and folk lore, a norse folk lore and mythtology dictionary, a picture archive and a lot more.

The main problems with the community are:

- The Inbox/PM-function is missing completely since the unfortunate upgrade to v. 2.2.x.

- The admin pages are pretty unstable and Admin-Modules are very unstable and looks really odd.

- The whole site is pretty unstable: Recently the News module admin stopped working for no reason at all. Modules does'nt show up at all in the admin for installation or won't function as they should, even though they are developed for v. 2.2. The level/exp etc in the discussion boards suddenly was reseted for no obvious reason. Most modules runs with different small but annoying errors. And so on.

We are an informal community with no income at all so we can not pay more than a very symbolic amount of money (out of my own pocket). But it would be sad to bury this rather vast documentation of norse heathenry, mythology and folk lore without trying to do all things possible to save it. I have, among with lots of other members, put thousands of hours to get the community up running and creating all the content. I am rather close to give up though, since I can not fix the problems myself and especially since it is getting increasingly hard for me to develop the site with Xoops.

If anyone feel dedicated to this project, please let me know. I know it would be a lot of unpayed work so I have no expectations. But at least I have to try.

Best regards,

/Karl Schultz
The Gimle Network
http://gimle.drengskap.com

So suddenly without any reason my News module admin stopped working:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/dreng/public_html/gimle/modules/news/admin/index.php on line 558

Whats wrong? I've tried to empty the cache and templates_c. I am running XOOPS 2.2.x and News 1.44. I have had a lot of problems with this Xoops-version but never before with the News-module...

I just installed the Lexikon-module v. 1.16. Unfortunately I am running XOOPS 2.2.x but this module seems to ork fine - except for the admin - all I get is blank pages.

Anyone got a clue?

With PHP-debug this shows:

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Notice [PHP]: Use of undefined constant _MI_ARTICLES_BNAME4 - assumed '_MI_ARTICLES_BNAME4' in file modules/articles/xoops_version.php line 83
Notice [PHP]: Use of undefined constant _MI_ARTICLE_GLOBAL_NOTIFY - assumed '_MI_ARTICLE_GLOBAL_NOTIFY' in file modules/articles/xoops_version.php line 119
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Yes but no, that did'nt work. And I can't remember nor check if I use custom sessions because of the redirection problem.

Anyone? My users are getting rather impatient and I can't do anything about it...

BTW: In my MySQL database admin the following code is viewed:

Connection strings

$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "dreng_karl", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("dreng_gimle");

I have checked the mainfile.php and it uses the correct db_user/name/password. A similar message is shown under all of my db:s (even at my other domain where I installed the mirror site).

Thanks, but unfotunately it does'nt seem to work. I have never experienced this problem before making this backup of the site. I have no idea whats going on...

Hi

The past week it has been impossible to login on my XOOPS-community. This goes for users as well as myself being and admin. I can actually login but the redirection does'nt work. The strange part of this is that the only thing I know I have done is to back up my site, downloading a complete backup zip-file and downloading a copy of the database.

The reason for making this backup was for installing a copy of the site. I am using v. 2.2.x and have never got it working properly. A year ago I tried to downgrade but that only resulted in a total mess. So now I installed a mirror of my site at a different domain, just for trying to resolve this downgrade problem. The mirror site has the same problem with the log in/redirection.

I have been talking to my web hosting support and they clame there is no problem at the server side.

Greatful for any help to solve this problem as soon as possible!

bump...

Do anyone have a clue why my PM-module won't show even though I uploaded it (several times)? I have never experienced that a uploaded module won't show up at all in the Admin--> Modules. Missing files or errrors, yes, but not this. Confusing!