Ok heres what happened. I instal 7dana-xred theme set as default and reloaded my page. At wich point my browser showed a white screen i tried to go back to admin page also blank white screen. I do not have access to the sql database directly or shell access to my host so any of that is out for me. What i want to know is if theres a way to manualy edit some file in my XOOPS install directory or do i need to flat out reinstall xoops?

Also a sugestion maybe make t so XOOPS admin section has its own log in prompt if your not already logged in. I think i could fix it by going in to admin but i cant log in

Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I just installed a 7Dana-Soft theme and I get the white screens. I also can't log into the Admin area to change the theme back to default.

If anyone has a solution to this problem, please let me know.

Thanks

to go directly to the admin area of your site:

http://www.yourdomain.xxx/admin.php

this area does not use the same theme that is set to the main part of the site, so it should work. If not...create a duplicate of the default theme, and rename it to the same name as the theme that messed you up. Throw away the messed up theme (or rename the directory), and upload the copied default theme with the new name. Now when you go back to the site after the session expiration, you will have the default theme back, and be able to correct things.

The version of XOOPS you are using may shed some light on it, as well as any modifications you have made...or any modules that require things added to your theme.

For instance, CBB requires an addition to your theme, and some of the themes you download do not have that code in place...same goes for many of the Stats modules.

Here's a pointer:
Activate the themes block, and set it to be viewable to webmasters only, and leave the default theme set to the one that works.
Install(upload) your new theme, then go to the prefs and add it to the list of 'selectable themes'.
Now back out to the home page to change the theme and see if it works. If it all goes haywire...simply delete all temp internet files and cookies...relaunch your browser and go log back in and chuck the puppy! ;)

ive had that same problem just now.
im a newbie, just trying XOOPS just now.
using 7 dana clean theme, then suddenly
white screen galore!
can't even access http://www.financemanila.net/admin.php

how do i change anything?
what do i do now?

update on my own problem.
reading on, i saw that recovery.php may be used. and php debug may be turned on after that.
doing that. my adminning page is back.

which leads to my next question..... does php debug always need to be turned on?

or should i just dump 7 dana clean template altogether>?

if you were not getting white screens prior to the 7dana theme install...then yes, you need to get rid of it, or at least look into why it kills the site.
If you had read through the rest of my post you would also have seen those instructions as well.

There's no need to run the recovery.php for a 'bung theme'...but thats just my opinion

Glad you got it back though!

(PHP Debug will display PHP errors as interpreted by the PHP system on your webhost...sometimes the web host has it set higher than is prudent and errors will show for EVERYTHING. I would not leave it turned on, as your site visitors will question the integrity of a site that has errors of anykind floating around in the footer or popping up in a new window on every page.)

Happy XOOPSING!