Fantastico help

[iLoveMacs]

Hey guys, I am trying to make a Xoops site using Fantastico, and currently have been running into a lot of problems trying to install modules etc. There are many times when the newBB module would just lead me to a blank page.

Would upgrading the PHP to version 2 help solve the problem?

 

[Livewire]

I'd be willing to bet it'd solve a lot of the problems, if not all of them.

Many php package programs (SMF, shopping cart things, etc.) like to put the @ symbol in front of some statements (such as @mysql_connect(blah,blah,blah)). This supresses the error - if it happens to be one that'll stop the entire script from processing, it wills top, but it WON'T give you an error message.

Which in turn can lead to a blank page with NO source whatsoever (viewing the source code returns an empty html document 0 bytes in size - nothing, in other words).


In any case, updating to php2 should fix SOME if not all of the errors. Theres a chance somethings not configured right, but right now I'm putting my money on disabled features and suppressed errors

 

[iLoveMacs]

Thanks for the quick response, I have put in a request to upgrade to version 2 and I hope this fixes things. Thanks very much!

Would I be better off reinstalling the entire Xoops package? Or just the sections I have been having trouble with such as NewBB?

 

[Livewire]

Thanks for the quick response, I have put in a request to upgrade to version 2 and I hope this fixes things. Thanks very much!

Don't thank me till it works I've never used Fantastico, so I'm just guessing that it's cause of the PHP changes (seems a lot broke when they did that, wouldn't be surprised of some of Fantastico went with it).

 

[Corey]

You shouldn't have to re-install anything. Let us know if it works.

-Corey