I have asked this question once, unfortunately it was one of the posts that were lost in the 2nd of the most recent hacking attacks, so I am not sure if anyone was able to answer before hand.

I have the same problem on 2 XOOPS sites.

Both sites have the XOOPS default template set and a template set I cloned before, I now want to make more changes and require a 3rd template so that I have something to fall back on if things change...

No matter which template I clone, either the XOOPS default or the template set I currently use, the new template set has double the amount of templates that it should have. (Ideally I want to be able to clone my current template set as it has already been modifed, I just want to make further modifications, based on those that already work well for me...)

This effects all but one module (articles 0.17 does not multiply for some reason) and also effects the system templates.

The 2 sites are on different servers and are different XOOPS versions, so not really sure what is going on here.

Oh, and its not just them templates that get doubled, the table that holds the text descriptions for mylinks and the same for mydownloads has each field doubled also.

At the database end, it means the following tables pretty much double in size:

mylinks_text
mydownloads_text
tplsource
tplset
tplfile

(actually one of these template table is fine, only the ones that contain or point to templates are affected)

In admin every single template is doubled, and I can make changes to either - just a bit weird as I have to keep checking to see which template I have changed.

From the users point of view, it looks as though I have added each and every link & download on the site 2 times.

Now, I have tried this 3 times now, and had to clean the mess in the database 3 times, I don't know whats causing the problem, and I don't know how to correct the problem, do you have any ideas?

FYI: 2 sites are effected.
site 1: Windows/IIS/xoops 2.0.9.2
site 2: Linux/Apache/xoops 2.0.13

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

Any of you XOOPS gurus got any ideas on this at all?

Has anyone else seen it?

Can I provide more info to help someone 'diagnose' the problem?

Dave

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Thanks, I have PM'd you.

Also, I thought I would add a picture to this post so that anyone else can see what happens to my templates:



Unfortunately I can't add pictures of the duplicated table content or duplicated mydownloads & myweblinks as I have since corrected everything on the site, and only thought to take the one screen shot.

Unfortunately everytime I clone my templates, either the default template set or the template set I have been working with for the last year, the result is the same.

Dave

EDIT: As you can see the exception to the rule is the Articles module, which for some reason does not get double the number of templates - really not sure what caused this problem...

An update:

Both sites have now been upgraded to 2.2.3a(final)

So far I haven't tried to clone a template since the update, the mess it makes to my database takes a bit too much time to sort out...
But I accept I need to test if the update has fixed it, so I guess that will be my next action!

Stranger & Stranger:

Looking at my default templates on both sites; there is nothing inside them, if I try to view the template I get this error:



I went to module admin and updated everything and the templates I did check have reappeared, but it is kind of strange...

I did not give full details of one of the sites the other day, one of the sites (The Linux based one) has 3 working template sets, again the default one gave me the 'Selected template (ID: $id) does not exist' error so I updated all modules, and I can see the templates again.

However the second template set appears to have lost its templates, and updating the modules does not have an effect.

This is getting stranger, and is really starting to get on my nerves now as I am kind of limited in what major changes I can try (template related at least).

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Dave

unfortunately updating XOOPS has not helped, you can see from this extract that some templates have been duplicated in the process of cloning the default template (I have removed the other one from the Windows site, therefore the default template set is my only template set)


Obviously that goes on for ever, the above is just an extract.

Unfortunately my example above doesn't show many duplicates, there were many more, I just happened to pick the above by chance...

Also, this time round, it seems like only blocks have been duplicated, please see my screen dumps in following post.

Also the weblinks and downloads do not appear to have been duplicated this time round, so I guess the XOOPS update has done something for me, just not quite there yet...

Any ideas at all?


Dave

Sorry to make another post so soon, this one is just for extra images, hoping they may help someone see what the problem is.


This image shows that only some of the templates were dulpicated this time round


This image is just to give you guys an example of the cloned templates, I took this image from a screen dump I took just after I cloned my template.


Dave

ps: just in case your wondering, the screen dumps in this post are not from the same site as the image I included in an earlier post, just in case your wondering...

Problem solved, think I might have gone the long way round, but seems to be solved anyway

I posted the full details here:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=43388&start=0#forumpost191083



Dave

EDIT: The main reason I uploaded to a subdir was that I was initially thinking about just importing the content from the modules I use then remove the original installation and move the new installatio to the root of my site, therefore I may have gone about it the long way because I was thinking about a different end result when I started out, however just getting a fresh copy of the templates seems to have been good enough to correct the template and duplicate weblinks on my site.