Topic: Shoutbox not send sohuts

[Sages]

Hello!
I run SMF integrated with Joomla.

Joomla version is 1.5.18
SMF version is 1.1.11
Italian UTF-8 translation for SMF
SP versione is 2.3.2
Italiani translation for SP version 2.3.2

I have added the shoutbox in a section of the forum but i have problem when i try to send a shout: i type the message and I press "send", but the shoutbox never ends its work: the refresh/load icon in the top-right corner continues to round and the message is not sent.
I have to manually reload the page to stop this, but obviously the message is not published and is not in the archieve.

I also tried to set the auto-refresh but this only cause the "upload" of the message to stop when the auto-refresh occurs.

If you need a test account i' ll PM it to you!

Thank you for the help

Bye

[DeathSign]

Hello!

I'm new here but I'd like to see as I just fixed a similar error

DeathSign

[Sages]

What was your error?
How did you fix it?

[DeathSign]

Well it is not the same because you are using UTF-8 and my shout got posted

If you like to see http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=3371.msg34593#msg34593 (sorry it is in french ^^ but I explained the issue). Tell me if you get Javascript error.

[Sages]

Using Firebug Console i get 2 errors when i try to send a shout:

1)

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contenuto illegale dopo l'elemento
[Break on this error] <div align="center" style="margin-top:...ipt:history.go(-1)">Indietro</a></div>The first sentence means: "Illegal content after the element"


2)

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XMLDoc.getElementsByTagName("smf")[0] is undefined
[Break on this error] var shouts = XMLDoc.getElementsByTagN...")[0].getElementsByTagName("shout"); The second error comes from the file "portal.js?23b1" -> In my template folder i have the file "portal.js", what is the "?23b1"??

[DeathSign]

Well I can't see how you can get a back button, maybe with the Joomla bridge. I don't know enough SP to reproduce the error so I wish someone else can help you.

But the second error is a consequence of the first.

[Sages]

Here is the url and the source code which i can see if i click on the error in Firebug's Console:

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http://www.clanhsdl.netsons.org/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&action=portal;sa=shoutbox;xml

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<div>
<table border="0" width="80%" cellspacing="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" class="tborder">
<tr class="titlebg">
<td>Si è verificato un errore!</td>
</tr>
<tr class="windowbg">
<td style="padding: 3ex;">
Ci spiace, ma lo Shoutbox esiste solo nella tua mente.
</td>

</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-top: 2ex;"><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)">Indietro</a></div>

[Sages]

Ehm.... Any help? Admins?

[Nathaniel]

I don't have any experience with the Joomla/SMF integration process, or much experience with Joomla itself. Although I can make one observation.

The url that you posted in your last post, contains both ampersands "&" (the normal separator for GET variables) and semicolons ";" (the SMF separator for GET variables), that could be the issue. Can you compare that url to the other urls in your forum? I need to know if Joomla normally expects ampersands to be used instead of semicolons. (within the forum that is)

A link to your site would be useful (and a test user if possible). With such javascript issues, it makes debuging much easier.

[Sages]

Yes, i saw the strange url and i posted it because of it. Joomla normally use & and inside SMF it's the same. All url are with &, no semicolon used.
Maybe it could be necessary to change the http header used by the shoutbox's script?

Nathaniel, I have sent you a PM with data to log-in into my site.

Thank you

Bye

[Nathaniel]

I think that it may be related to the url issue, perhaps in a subtle manner though.

Could you see if the following edit to your "Themes/default/portal.js" file helps at all?

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sendXMLDocument(smf_prepareScriptUrl(smf_scripturl) + 'action=portal;sa=shoutbox;xml', 'shoutbox_id=' + shoutbox_id + '&shout=' + shout_body + '&' + sSessionVar + '=' + sSessionId, onShoutReceived);

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sendXMLDocument(smf_prepareScriptUrl(smf_scripturl) + 'action=portal&sa=shoutbox&xml', 'shoutbox_id=' + shoutbox_id + '&shout=' + shout_body + '&' + sSessionVar + '=' + sSessionId, onShoutReceived);

[Sages]

It seems no... I also tried to edit the other lines of code after that one, because there were semicolon in the url created by them(delete shout and refresh shout functions) but the behaviour is the same. The url is now correct, but it still gives me errors in the console.

I run again the firebug console with accurate warning analysis and i get this one:

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reference to undefined property XMLDoc.getElementsByTagName("smf")[0]
[Break on this error] var shouts = XMLDoc.getElementsByTagN...")[0].getElementsByTagName("shout");
It' s a warning, not an error, but it belongs to the same code line(95 of portal.js) of the error:

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XMLDoc.getElementsByTagName(
[Break on this error] var shouts = XMLDoc.getElementsByTagN...")[0].getElementsByTagName("shout");
Dunno....

[Nathaniel]

Well, those javascript error messages are saying that the xml document returned by the ajax request is invalid, which it is. Its returning an error message not the normal xml document (which lists the shouts to be shown/updated). That particular error message is shown when the shoutbox id in the ajax request is invalid (hence why I was looking at the url with interest).

Can you please make this edit (for debugging purposes) then post the output which you can see with the Firebug Console when you try to post a shout?

Code: ("Find (Sources/PortalShoutbox.php)") [Select]

if (empty($context['SPortal']['shoutbox']))

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echo $shoutbox_id, '\n';
echo $request_time, '\n';
var_dump($context['SPortal']['shoutbox']);
if (empty($context['SPortal']['shoutbox']))

[Sages]

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non well-formed
[Break on this error] 0\n0\narray(0)
Is all empty...

[Nathaniel]

Well, its clear that the issue is with SimplePortal getting that data.

Could you please repeat with the debug edit below?

Code: ("Find (Sources/PortalShoutbox.php)") [Select]

if (empty($context['SPortal']['shoutbox']))

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var_dump($_GET);
var_dump($_POST);
var_dump($_REQUEST);
if (empty($context['SPortal']['shoutbox']))

[Sages]

Code: [Select]

array(6) {
  ["option"]=>
  string(11) "com_jfusion"
  ["Itemid"]=>
  string(1) "2"
  ["jfile"]=>
  string(9) "index.php"
  ["action"]=>
  string(6) "portal"
  ["sa"]=>
  string(8) "shoutbox"
  ["xml"]=>
  string(0) ""
}
array(0) {
}
array(7) {
  ["option"]=>
  string(11) "com_jfusion"
  ["Itemid"]=>
  string(1) "2"
  ["jfile"]=>
  string(9) "index.php"
  ["action"]=>
  string(6) "portal"
  ["sa"]=>
  string(8) "shoutbox"
  ["xml"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["start"]=>
  int(0)
}

com_jfusion is the bridge component of Joomla.

[Nathaniel]

Well, from firebugs output, the correct POST data is being send by the javascript for the shoutbox, however the php script isn't even picking it up. This implies that something has gone wrong on the PHP side of the script, before SimplePortal's code for the shoutbox even executes. Normally this doesn't happen for SMF, so I suspect that there is an issue with the Joomla integration. If you want to properly fix this bug, then I would suggest asking whoever made the integration.

In the interest of getting it to work, the following edit should be sufficient (you may need to undo the earlier edit first):

Code: ("Find (Themes/default/portal.js)") [Select]

sendXMLDocument(smf_prepareScriptUrl(smf_scripturl) + 'action=portal;sa=shoutbox;xml', 'shoutbox_id=' + shoutbox_id + '&shout=' + shout_body + '&' + sSessionVar + '=' + sSessionId, onShoutReceived);

Code: ("Find (Themes/default/portal.js)") [Select]

sendXMLDocument(smf_prepareScriptUrl(smf_scripturl) + 'action=portal&sa=shoutbox&xml' + 'shoutbox_id=' + shoutbox_id + '&shout=' + shout_body + '&' + sSessionVar + '=' + sSessionId, '', onShoutReceived);