Bug Problem March 2021

[Midnighter]

There is something wrong with the links in this topic. It is probably due to the forum software update: when you open them, you totally lose any formatting of the phpBB theme. Maybe it's because the links are http and not https?

[Russ Chappell]

Looks like it's a little more than that. It appears that links have to include not only the "s", but "www". In other words, the full link, no shortcuts.

Links have to start with: "https://www.chronologyproject.com/"

I'll look into that.

[Russ Chappell]

Hmmm.... struggling with this.

I've successfully added statements to the htaccess file for phpbb and forced the secure setting (adding the "s" to http), but after trying several options for forcing the www, I'm coming up empty.

[Somebody]

Hmmm.... struggling with this.

I've successfully added statements to the htaccess file for phpbb and forced the secure setting (adding the "s" to http), but after trying several options for forcing the www, I'm coming up empty.

Well, this is another thing which does not affect Prosilver. I think you need to rebuild the Chronology theme from the new Prosilver rather than trying to patch the old one. (Before I checked this and realised, I was going to suggest forcing an absolute rather than relative URL for the CSS <link>s in the header, but...)

[wolverine7230]

Indeed, I'm now stuck with the entire forum site in that weird state, and am unable even to access the user control panel to revert back to the other theme!

[Russ Chappell]

Well, this is another thing which does not affect Prosilver. I think you need to rebuild the Chronology theme from the new Prosilver rather than trying to patch the old one. (Before I checked this and realised, I was going to suggest forcing an absolute rather than relative URL for the CSS <link>s in the header, but...)

Somebody, thank you for the insight, but Chronology is not a patched theme. It is a child of Prosilver. It only contains 4 files, all of which are necessary for customization.

1. style.cfg
change made to identify the name of the style.
The parent is Prosilver (no change needed, because the parent of Prosilver is also Prosilver)

2. colours.css
change made to the html body element to display and position the background image (cover of FF@ 2)

3. overallheader.html
change made to add a link to the site name, to point to the home page

4. overallfooter.html
change made to add the navigational links to bottom of every page, to point to every page on the site

The images directory contains two files: one is an added file (the background image), the other is a replaced file (replaces the php logo with the site logo).

That's it. Those are the only files in the Chronology theme. The forum inherits all other files, images and styles from Prosilver. And all of the four edited files are the 3.3.3 versions of Prosilver.

Chronology is not a "patched" theme. The old Chronology theme doesn't exist anymore.

Your experimentation has pointed out that since Prosilver doesn't have this problem, the problem most reasonably lies in the Chronology template, but you do me a disservice when you accuse me of simply dropping an old version of the template into phpbb.

(Now there's also a problem with only one of the two unread icons showing up on the topics view page, but I'm not as concerned with that one, since it's mostly cosmetic.)

I've completely disabled the Chronology theme, until these issues can be worked out. This means we lose the navigation links at the bottom of the pages, but...

[Somebody]

Your experimentation has pointed out that since Prosilver doesn't have this problem, the problem most reasonably lies in the Chronology template, but you do me a disservice when you accuse me of simply dropping an old version of the template into phpbb.

Sorry, I get some of my exercise from jumping to conclusions

[Russ Chappell]

We're cool. I'm a little testy right now. We're having to go through a lot of changes right now--that I didn't ask for; they were thrust upon me. And I'm having to juggle a lot of problems that are cropping up because of it. Didn't mean to come off as snippy.

[StrayLamb]

Indeed, I'm now stuck with the entire forum site in that weird state, and am unable even to access the user control panel to revert back to the other theme!

Somehow the top two topics have become merged as well.

I managed to revert back to Prosilver by re-installing Google Chrome. Prosilver seems to be the default setting.

Good luck, Russ! I'm sure you'll conquer it.