BUG FIX

Discussion in 'General Mayhem' started by Fugly, Jun 14, 2006.

  1. Fugly

    Fugly Administrator Staff Member Fugly Staff

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    Some of you have had a problem logging in to the forums. The problem was that PHPBB writes a session key to a table in mysql called 'sessions_keys'. The way the board script is written, there is a file called 'constants' that gets included in every page. This makes it easier for the people who write the software to remember what all the MySQL table names are. So they can write sql statements like 'insert into SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE blah blah blah' The SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE is defined in this 'constants' file so they never have to remember what it's called. The problem was, the SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE was not defined so when mysql looked for SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE, it really looked for SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE and not for the definition of SESSIONS_KEYS_TABLE, which is actually 'sessions_keys'.

    If anyone wants to be really nerdy and report this as a bug to the people who maintain PHPBB, you might score some brownie points.

    Anyways, it should be working now.
     
  2. one-spam-poster

    one-spam-poster New Member

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    can u translate that to english?
     
  3. Dubya 2.0

    Dubya 2.0 New Member

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    It was broken. Now it's not.
     
  4. ucicare

    ucicare Active Member

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    Brilliant Dub. There is a job at the U.N just begging your services.

    How ya' doing these days?

    Barry
     
  5. Lomotil

    Lomotil Active Member

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    How does one go about 'reporting' this to the proper people?
     
  6. Dwaine Scum

    Dwaine Scum New Member

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    Pray
     
  7. Dubya 2.0

    Dubya 2.0 New Member

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    Good Barry, yourself?
     
  8. ucicare

    ucicare Active Member

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    I'm much better now that You, Smanatha, and Grim have popped back in. Feels like old times. Nursey has been slacking lately. See if you can provoke her into posting something.
     

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