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SMTP mail doesn’t work

dody — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:06:39 +0000

Indexu use phpmailer class to send email. By default it use mail() function. Inside admin panel, there is an option to switch to use SMTP instead if mail().

Phpmailer use socket connection to connect to SMTP mail server. So before you use it, make sure your webhost allow fsockopen() function. It this function is disabled, then email won’t be sent.

Language code, add .utf8 if it doesn’t work

dody — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:26:04 +0000

Usually language code is constructed like es_ES or fr_FR. However in some servers, usually on linux box, the server locale code need explicitly add .utf8. So if you have problem with strange characters where utf8 doesn’t work. Do the following steps:

1) rename the language folder, add .utf8.

/lang/es_ES.utf8
/lang/fr_FR.utf8

2) language switching also need to be modified to:


http://www.nicecoder.com/testrial/upload/set_language.php?lang_id=es_ES.utf8&back=/testrial/upload/

Notice that it is now become lang_id=es_ES.utf8.

Convert md5 password

dody — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:33:35 +0000

In indexu 5.x the password is stored in plain text.
If you upgrade from indexu 5.x to indexu deluxe, the installer will convert it automatically to md5.

If you experience user can not login after upgrade, then it could be that the conversion process fail.
If you have this problem, here is a solution.

Create a file called convertmd5.php


include "application.php";
 
if ($_REQUEST['c']) {
  ConvertMD5password();
}
else {
  print "Do you want to convert user password to MD5? 

         Make sure that the password is not in MD5
         Convert now
";
}
 
function ConvertMD5password(){
  global $dbConn;
 
  $result = $dbConn->Execute("select * from `idx_users` where length(password) <30");
  while (!$result->EOF) {
    $dbConn->Execute("UPDATE `idx_users` SET `password` = '".md5($result->Fields("password"))."' WHERE `username` = '".$result->Fields("username")."'");
    $result->MoveNext();
  }
 
  return true;
}
?>

Upload this file to indexu root folder, then run with browser.
After it is done, you need to delete this file for security.

Failed to load trackclick.js.php

dody — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:56:31 +0000

Today a user report that the outgoing hits doesn’t work on portal_dir template.

A quick check:
1) footer.html

11	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="<%$tpl_base%>/trackclick.js.php"></script>

2) check whenever trackclick.js.php file exist in template folder.
3) check the link that count has proper “name” attribute

If everything look good, then it should work well.

However in this user case it doesn’t work well. Somehow trackclick.js.php never been loaded. When I rename to .js file, it work well. When I try to load from other template folder (komet or kosmos), then it work well. So it should be the file access permission, the .htaccess file. For me, .htaccess file seems good too. So I decide to do a quick fix for this installation.

1) edit footer.html to load trackclick.js (instead of .php file)

11	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="<%$tpl_base%>/trackclick.js.php"></script>

2) rename trackclick.js.php to trackclick.js
3) edit trackclick.js

var base = "http://www.domainname.com";
 
var indexulinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for(i = 0; i < indexulinks.length; i++) {
	if (indexulinks[i].name != '' && (indexulinks[i].name.indexOf("link") != -1 || indexulinks[i].name.indexOf("cat") != -1)) {
		indexulinks[i].onclick = indexu_click;
    indexulinks[i].oncontextmenu = indexu_click;
	}
}
 
function indexu_click() {
  if (document.images) {
    img = new Image();
    img.src = base+"/trackclick.php?id=" + this.name;
 
    var date = new Date();
    do {
      var curDate = null;
      curDate = new Date();
    }
    while(curDate-date < 300);
    date = null;
    curDate = null;
  }
  return true;
}