I admit it, I'm one of those

[maggie3298]

pain in the neck people who always has to do things the hard way, but I'm wondering how much trouble it would be to basically just put the modules that I want on my own front page? I've got mine coded in html, and I like the set up, but it's not really that much like any of my "styles"... and when I set the portal page to the style that's closest (because it goes with my "stuff") it changes the default for others, when they go back to the forum... any way around this?

[Brian]

There shouldn't be any reason why the style would change from the user's default when they go to the forum..

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[maggie3298]

I dunno why it happened, I just know the guy that was testing it for me wasn't pleased... he likes his style... :o

[KW802]

Maggie,

Do you have a site address you could give as an example so we can see what you mean about the styles changing?

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[maggie3298]

LOL It's not all set up yet, but I couldn't get it to duplicate the problem? Looks like I'll have to talk to the "tester" again, see how he did it... :crazy:

[KW802]

LOL It's not all set up yet, but I couldn't get it to duplicate the problem? Looks like I'll have to talk to the "tester" again, see how he did it... :crazy:
Just remember the programmer's creed: If the problem can't be demonstrated then it doesn't exist. :D

[maggie3298]

LOL! :D
Unfortunately, I'm not a "real programmer", and they know it... :uhoh: :D

[KW802]

Murphy's law has struck..... my test site is now having issues with styles also when switching from the portal front page to the forums. :p

[maggie3298]

Oops! Sorry about that! :o
LOL Never fails, does it? :D

[KW802]

Oops! Sorry about that! :o
LOL Never fails, does it? :DYeah, I'm really starting to hate the Murphy fellow. :D

The final answer seems to have been something screwy with my cookies and/or cache. I was rapidly installing, deleting, & re-installing one skin last night over & over again to test some changes when the problem started. Thinking it was the skin I was playing with I removed it but still the same problem. I ended up removing one-by-one each of the custom skins from the test site in the order that I installed them, rebuild the indexes, etc. and then installed just one custom skin that I didn't have problems with before. Same thing. I was going nuts, ended up searching vb.com for possible answers when a moment of clarity struck: I closed all of my browser windows, deleted all cookies, and cleared my cached. Bingo! Everything is working fine again.

So, if your tester is having the issue again but you aren't just have him purge everything and go back fresh to see if that clears it up for him. :)

[maggie3298]

Ah... cookies! and they taste so GOOD! :D
Btw, I have been having a little bit of "cookie issue" since I installed this... sometimes when I log out (I really need to figure out a way to set up one of the other computers where I can just turn from a logged in one, to a not-logged-in one!) it pops up a screen that says "there was a problem deleting your cookies, please click here"... any ideas where I might need to adjust something? I had to run the fix_login.php, and another one I found here, the night I installed it...

[Zen]

Ah... cookies! and they taste so GOOD! :D
Btw, I have been having a little bit of "cookie issue" since I installed this... sometimes when I log out (I really need to figure out a way to set up one of the other computers where I can just turn from a logged in one, to a not-logged-in one!) it pops up a screen that says "there was a problem deleting your cookies, please click here"... any ideas where I might need to adjust something? I had to run the fix_login.php, and another one I found here, the night I installed it...


Did you enter your domain name in the "cookie domain" box in Vbulletin Options in AdminCP?

Cookie Domain
The domain on which you want the cookie to have effect. If you want this to affect all of example.com rather than just forums.example.com, enter .example.com here (note the 2 dots!!!). You can leave this setting blank.

:)

[mholtum]

yea use .yourdomain.whatever

[maggie3298]

Yeah, I got that one... I don't know whether it took a few tries to get all the cookies sorted, but it wasn't doing it last night... maybe it'll cut it out now! :D

[Brian]

sometimes when I log out (I really need to figure out a way to set up one of the other computers where I can just turn from a logged in one, to a not-logged-in one!) it pops up a screen that says "there was a problem deleting your cookies, please click here"...
Double check that your 'Log Out' link that you are using has "http://yoursite.com/forum/login.php?do=logout&u=X". The "u=X" part was added in a somewhat recent version to solve some type of logout bug. If it's not there, just find that logout link and add "&u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" at the end.

[maggie3298]

I saw this somewhere and it seems to fit here...
"You're so sweet, that you think I know what that means" :D
Ok, where do I check that? :)

[Brian]

Just hold your mouse over the link and then in your status bar you will see the URL that link is pointing to. If it's missing the u=x part, then that's the offending link. ;)

[maggie3298]

LOL!:D Ok, I have the "u=(my userid)"... Is that what I'm supposed to have? :)

[Brian]

Yup. :)