Assign a style to vBa homepage problem

[JohnBee]

Everytime I assign a style to my vBa page my forum style changes
accordingly!

Once it has done this there is no way to return back to my default style
even though I choose Default on my forum control panel for that style.
it still uses the homepage style I use for my homepage.

Has anyone see this problem before?

[JohnBee]

Okay I did some more testing and discovered that

everytime I assign a style to my vBa homepage it completely reverts my default
homepage style and assigns it to my forums. sigh....

As it is I am unable to assing any styles to any vBa pages or that style will then
take over my forum styles. I can assign default style for everything but that is a
real pain in the ass because I rely on custom template changes to each page
accordlingly. :(

[Brian]

Have you added any other hacks or anything that might affect your styles? What you're describing shouldn't happen in a default installation of vB and the CMPS.

[JohnBee]

I have so many hacks that I forget what vbulletin looks like default.
I was shocked to see it again ;)

There is definately some poopoo in my style settings, I think I messed up when
I downloaded /backed up my styles with child settings and now its making things
go hairy.

I will have to backtrack to a clean indepant style backup, reinstall the vBa templates
and tables and see how that works, I have all the template data saved individually
so I am not very worried however I am somewhat concerned about the cause of this
problem.

Ill post my results here in a few.

Thanks for your reply. .thumbsup.

[JohnBee]

Well I found out that it may be deeper than templates :(
When I create styles and click on the STYLE name to view my site it never actually
displays the style (it did before) but now it just retains the last used style.

I think this is part of my problem. :(

Looks like I broke vBulletin

[Brian]

I would recommend getting a fresh, un-hacked copy of your global.php file, reapply the changes to it for the CMPS, then upload that and see if you still experience the same problem that's the most likely place the problem would be occuring.

[JohnBee]

Well I didn't make it to this thread ontime to read this.
I uninstalled vBa (re-installed) and the problem has gone away .shocked.

It was most likely some dirty files cause by my excessive attemps to
get stats in the footer etc.

Interesting problem nonetheless, its here for the records ;)

[Brian]

Weird... Glad you got it working though. :)

[JohnBee]

Well im not out of the woods yet :)

after all that restoring and re-installing, it still does the same.
As soon as I assign a custom style to the vBa homepage that
style becomes globally used, its so persistent that even if I
try to do a view style through the AdminCP it will continue to
display the style assigned to vBa :(

I am putting vBa 1.0 back to see if it does the same.

[JohnBee]

*Update

I decided to try a few things before reverting to v1.0

heres an interesting thing, if I create another page... and assign another style
the problem disapears!

If I install vBa with only the default page and assign a style to it the style issue
comes about, create a page, assign altnerate style to new page and evertyhing
returns to normal.

Can you reproduce this?

[JohnBee]

Well I am stumped.
if I remove the vBa edits from the global.php from the /forum/ dir the problem
goes away, I have to admit at this stage I have no idea what is causing this
all I know is that when vBa is active my site styles are all messed up.

I am forced to remove vBadvanced until I can trace the cause of this bug. :(
Hopefully an explaination will surface soon.

[JohnBee]

Well I installed vBa 1.0 and the problem disapeared!
either I have an edit on my site that makes this happen or, there is some sort
of bug in vBa 1.0.1 that causes it.

[JohnBee]

I want to update this seemingly personel thread regarding this issue.
I managed (somehow) to work passed it.

At this point I have no absolute idea what cause the style conflicts.

I uninstalled vBa 1.0.1 re-installed 1.0
deleted all my styles and uploaded them one by one while checking each page
function as I went along. Once I got the pages setup I then upgraded vBa
and everything has been running okay since then.

I have a feeling that using the vBulletin save style and all parent styles option
can cause major confusion if someone restores them.

Well thats it for this problem, I thought I would post and conclude it with a happy
ending :)