Sorry if this is more than a bit off topic, but I am having trouble with some sites the use php and don’t know how to fix the issue. I am hoping that folks who program php pages may be able to tell me where to look for a solution. I cannot use the site features to contact the site for help because they appear to not work.
In short, when I try to post on a forum, I am able to log in, but none of the php formatting buttons work. When I mouse over the buttons, it is like they are not there. If I try to submit a post, or preview, the text I entered disappears and I get a warning that my post is too short. I am wondering if there is some keyboard shortcut that toggles out of php mode to plain text or something like that. I have tried clearing all of my cookies, cache, and temp files and such, by that doesn’t do anything. Another odd thing is the ctrl “B” opens the bookmarks tab in my browser, and that should happen for alt “B”. Normally ctrl “B” would be the keystroke for bold text.
I have this problem with some forums, but not others. Since I would need to post to contact the site admin, there is no way for me to pursue help through the site. I am using seamonkey 2.2 for a browser, but I have also tried with firefox 3.6 and ie 8 and found the same problem.
I don’t know what is causing your problems, but it’s not a PHP problem. PHP is a server side language. What you see in your browser is HTML/CSS and probably javascript.
There are no such things as “PHP buttons” (unless you mean the button that inserts php bbcode tags (like the ones we have in this forum)) and “PHP mode”
I’ll flag this post to be moved to a more appropriate forum (I’m not quite sure where it should go myself), so you’ll have a better possibility of getting a quick and good answer.
I guess I think of vBulitin forums as being php animals, but I guess that is on the server side. All off the links are to .php pages, so those must be html that is generated dynamically by php code? After looking at some of the forums that do work for me, the icon buttons (insert link, font coler, etc) are all .gif images and must link to some html code. I don’t see any reference to java in the message bar at the bottom of the browser when I mouse over a link. That notification area will usually say something about java script if that is what a link is hooked up to.
On the forums that work, when I mouse over a button like “insert link”, there is a blue box that appears around the button icon and I get tool tips text describing the function. On the forums that don’t work, nothing happens when I mouse over or click on a button. That is why I suspected I was in something like plain text mode, but that doesn’t explain why the submit/preview buttons don’t work. I guess it could just be bad html, but this forum has worked find for a long time and this problem has existed for a while (for me anyway). The forum in question is a programming forum, so I would sort of expect things to get fixed on their end if that is where the problem is.
Thanks for taking some time to look at this, especially since it is not posted in the right area. I guess this is probably an html or browser issue.
These are exactly the buttons I mean that don’t work, buttons for inserting code tags, text format, insert link, etc. As an aside, I don’t see any such buttons in the “reply to thread” page for this forum. All I see are smiles on the right. There is no “php mode” button. I just tried to edit my last post, and when I tried to submit the edited post, I got a message that it was too short. All the text was still in the post this time.
I have attached a capture of my browser screen for the reply page, is this what it is supposed to look like, or are there missing buttons. I guess I would like to know if there is a shortcut key for “php mode” or “plain text mode”.