Jord:
"upgrade" doesn't upgrade your front page (html/user/index.php).
You need to update that manually, tracking the changes in
html/user/sample_index.php
For example:
show_news(0, 5);
I'll look at the outdated SVN stuff in the admin page.
-- David
On 02-Feb-2013 6:35 PM, Jorden van der Elst wrote:
> After updating the DrugDiscovery@Home back-end and forums, I found a
> couple of problems that I had to fix by hand.
>
> 1. There were two "RSS feed is available" links. This is due to there
> being one in \inc\news.inc and one in \user\index.php
> I commented it out in the index.php file, as doing so from news.inc
> would break the whole front page.
>
> //echo "
> // <p class=\"smalltext\">
> // News is available as an
> // <a href=\"rss_main.php\">RSS feed</a> <img
> src=\"img/rss_icon.gif\" alt=\"RSS\">.</p>
> // </td>
> // </tr></table>
> //";
>
> It also helps to comment out require_once("../project/project_news.inc");
>
>
> 2. Getting News to work is quite fickle.
> After trying to run the ops/create_forums.php script, it would always
> come back to me stating "can't create category".
> In the end I resorted to adding a table in the database and making the
> news forum that way.
> However, this then gives problems when trying to convert old news. The
> news_convert.php script now stops on "News forum already exists".
>
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectNews then states to
> "include show_news(0, 5);" in the index.php file.
> Well, that'll break your home page again, as there's a line stating if
> (count($project_news) > 5) to move older news to older_news.php.
> To keep that working, and not continuously have the highly cryptic
> line "You have not changed show_news() to use 0 instead of deprecated
> \$project_news as the first param." on the front page, best change
> that line to if (count(show_news) > 5) and then it'll work.
>
> Full code:
> echo "
> <tr><td id=\"news\">
> <h2>News</h2>
> <p>
> ";
> show_news(0, 5);
> if (count(show_news) > 5) {
> echo "<a href=\"old_news.php\">...more</a>";
> }
>
>
>
> 3. The **other** index.php file, in ops/index.php, for the project
> management page still expects a Subversion revision number.
>
> function svn_revision($path) {
> $out = array();
> $cmd = "svn info http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/$path";;
> if (defined("SVN_CONFIG_DIRECTORY")) {
> $cmd .= " --config-dir ". SVN_CONFIG_DIRECTORY;
> }
> exec($cmd, $out);
> foreach ($out as $line) {
> $x = strstr($line, "Last Changed Rev: ");
> if ($x) {
> $y = substr($x, strlen("Last Changed Rev: "));
> return (int) $y;
> }
>
> 4. As does the server status page /html/user/server_status.php
>
> $version = null;
> if (file_exists("../../local.revision")) {
> $version = trim(file_get_contents("../../local.revision"));
>
>
>
>
>
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