Hi epoclaen,

Let's first do the obvious tricks.
1) uninstall the smilies plugin in Global settings -> Plugins install
2) install the plugin again
3) Hit the 'reload plugins' link
4) Wander to Tools -> Misc and hit the 'Delete prerendered item cache' link.

This makes sure everything is refreshed.
If the problem persists you may want to FTP the smilies plugin files again in between steps 1) and 2). If you still have problems, check the blog in another browser and make sure JavaScript is set up correctly in the browser.

Here are some leads you want to chack. Do report back any (odd) bahviour.

Good luck

I forgot to give the website link: http://www.amaranthsgardens.com.

I had already gathered that a reinstall might do the trick but I tried it again anyway with the extra steps of reloading the plugins, re-uploading the original plugin via FTP and deleting the item cache but I still don't see them being rendered. I also tested it in IE and made sure FireFox's NoScript plugin was allowing scripts globally all to no effect.

I tried a search for "smil" to see if any related code snippets that are included in any of the default skins have sections that needed to be included in the customized skin but failed to see any hints in the files found from the search results.

Hopefully you have more tips?

Thanks again,
Jeff

You did set the Render comments setting in the settings for the Smilies plugin, did ya?

You did set the Render comments setting in the settings for the Smilies plugin, did ya?

Confirmed. I also made sure the Use Smilies Toolbar was checked in both the admin and default user profiles.

A few other notes that might help - My web server originally installed version 1.6.? but I'm 99.9% sure that I completely deleted that before installing the v2.4.1 upgrade.

I see that the source code of this (mode=reply) page includes HTML for a table of the smiley icons and links. My comments page does not so it's not that it isn't being rendered, it's that it isn't being included. There isn't some code other than what's in the default code found in _item_comment_form.inc.php is there?

Okay, some new data...

I have the Enable Smileys checkbox selected in the backend form of the User Profiles but this option isn't even shown if I choose the Edit Profile link on the website. Does that give us any clues?

The "disp=profile" is lacking in lots of ways .... we're working on it ;)

¥

The smilies toolbar is rendered through javaScript. I don't think it's your browser that's badly set up. I can check your settings if you PM me login name & password.

Good luck

I think I found the cause of the trouble. Have a look at this snapshot and explain how this digg thing comes here ;)

http://www.blog.hemminga.net/B2evoforum/Epoclaen.png

That's a good question! I don't see the Digg icon in my backend. What I have in lieu of that is a tabbed list of "Blog All", Website (the website blog), "Blog B" and "Linkblog".
http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/files/backend1.jpg

I've seen the digg thing twice but it's not there anymore.
I had a play with the plugins without any result.
All javascript is there and looks ok. It just doesn't work.

For the moment I'm out of clues. I'll keep looking though.

I'm going to turn debugging on for a moment to see if it helps any. It won't be on for long.

I found a clue.
Firebug reports it cannot find (404 error) the following images, all used in the Dashboard:
- http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/blog/rsc/icons/dropdown.gif
- http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/blog/rsc/icons/switch-to-blog.gif
- http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/blog/rsc/icons/close.gif
- http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/blog/rsc/icons/new.gif
- http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/blog/rsc/icons/edit.gif
- http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/blog/rsc/icons/blank.gif

http://www.blog.hemminga.net/B2evoforum/FireBug.png

Can you check this lead?

Aha! Take a look at debug mode's Plugins section:

plugins:
    * Loading plugin events.
    * Trigger event SessionLoaded
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event CachePageContent (first true)
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event AlternateAuthentication (first true)
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event AfterLoginAnonymousUser
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event BeforeBlogDisplay
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event GetProvidedSkins (first return)
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event SkinBeginHtmlHead
    * Registered plugin IDs: 6, 14
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 6).
    * Loading plugins table data.
    * register(): code_highlight_plugin, ID: 6, priority: 80, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/code_highlight_plugin/_code_highlight.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: code_highlight_plugin
    * Calling code_highlight_plugin(#6)->SkinBeginHtmlHead( )
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 14).
    * register(): collapsable_categories_plugin, ID: 14, priority: 90, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/collapsable_categories_plugin/_collapsable_categories.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: collapsable_categories_plugin
    * Calling collapsable_categories_plugin(#14)->SkinBeginHtmlHead( )
    * Trigger event ItemViewsIncreased
    * No registered plugins.
    * Loading plugin events.
    * Loading plugins table data.
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 20).
    * register(): smilies_plugin, ID: 20, priority: 15, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/_smilies.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: smilies_plugin
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 3).
    * register(): autolinks_plugin, ID: 3, priority: 60, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/_autolinks.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: autolinks_plugin
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 7).
    * register(): videoplug_plugin, ID: 7, priority: 65, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/videoplug_plugin/_videoplug.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: videoplug_plugin
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 2).
    * register(): auto_p_plugin, ID: 2, priority: 70, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/_auto_p.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: auto_p_plugin
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 6).
    * register(): code_highlight_plugin, ID: 6, priority: 80, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/code_highlight_plugin/_code_highlight.plugin.php]
    * get_by_ID(): Instantiate Plugin (ID 4).
    * register(): texturize_plugin, ID: 4, priority: 90, classfile_path: [/home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/plugins/_texturize.plugin.php]
    * Loading plugin class file: texturize_plugin
    * Trigger event SkinEndHtmlBody
    * No registered plugins.
    * Trigger event AppendHitLog (first true)
    * No registered plugins.

The "/home/epoclaen/public_html/" part is the root FTP upload location of the files on the web hosting site, but not the http location. Any idea if this is the issue and where I can change this? It actually looks like it's being set up properly in /conf/_advanced.php and the plugins appear to be being found so maybe this url is the way it should be.

This is being called from my custom _html_header.inc.php file in the

<?php $Plugins->trigger_event( 'SkinBeginHtmlHead' ); ?>

line.

Good catch Afwas! Those files are certainly missing although I can't imagine why. I re-downloaded the latest version of b2evolution and those files are there and maybe other more crucial files need updating or weren't updated properly too but now I'm stuck reinstalling the b2evolution system? I hate to have to do that but maybe it's the only answer.

The skinBeginHtmlHead thing works fine. I know because one of the plugin is the Collapsable Categories. What is does is inject some lines of code in the <head> section. In the case of that plugin it's a call to the javascript file. As you can see on your blog, that works fine.

If I click on the links for the images in my previous post I get a 403 error (permission denied). Have a look at the perms for the /blog/rsc/ folder. It may be the images are there, but the permissions are set wrong. Do you have a protection clause in your .htaccess? Any measures you took to prevent others to get at your pictures?

As for the path: the blog and related files should be in /home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/ In /blog/config/_basic_config.php check the $baseurl, but if that was set wrong other things would not function (in fact nothing would).

Good luck

epoclaen wrote:

Good catch Afwas! Those files are certainly missing although I can't imagine why. I re-downloaded the latest version of b2evolution and those files are there and maybe other more crucial files need updating or weren't updated properly too but now I'm stuck reinstalling the b2evolution system? I hate to have to do that but maybe it's the only answer.

No need to re-install, make sure (all) the files are on the server.

You have some funny PHP settings regarding ownership and permissions. have a look at Tools -> System where it shows this error:

PHP
PHP running as USER:
xxxxxx (uid 33911) 

Warning: posix_getegid() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/epoclaen/public_html/blog/inc/tools/system.ctrl.php on line 287

You have some funny PHP settings regarding ownership and permissions.

Interesting. Is the group ID set by the server? This is on a free PHP hosting site at the moment and they do have some limits on certain PHP commands. I'm not sure why they'd deny using posix_getegid() though.

The good news is that uploading any missing files in the rsc directory did the trick! I cleared the pre-rendered items cache and it even rendered smileys in my previous posts. I just wish I knew why I was missing so many files. I'll have to review each and every other folder now too just to be sure.

I do have special .htaccess permissions and a special one for the /files/ directory to allow users to browse the directory manually but I guess they weren't the issue.

Now I just need to get the Social Bookmarks plugin working. Likely it's another issue with missing icons again but we'll see.

Thanks so much for the help Afwas!!! You saved me tons of potential hairloss.

Jeff :D

Hi Jeff,

Great job. Glad you sorted it out in the end.

Happy blogging

(the social bookmark plugin may be outdated. I don't know if there is a 2.0 version of it).

The bookmark plugin just needed its paths to the bookmark icons changed to reflect where I have the blog installed.