Admin panel showing up as a bulleted list

[johnbmcdonald]

Hi All,

I've got a site I've been working on for a while, and it started acting strangely. one minute the admin panel was showing up as the normal graphical interface and then it started showing up as a bulleted list. firefox 2.0.0.6, does the same thing in IE. It was on ver 1.1 I went ahead and upgraded to 1.1.2 but that had no effect. I tried logging into the admin interface from another computer. same thing..

Could this be a memory issue related to the amount of memory allocated for a script to run under php? If I remember correctly it was set to 8mb I've got a bunch of other sites running at 8mb (but this one may have more modules installed than the others)

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks
John

[liudaz]

hi!
This used to be the problem (sometimes) with the older cms ms versions.
Try editing the defaultTheme.php  ... particularly the line 97, where the style sheet is attached. For 1.1.2 it says:

You might want to put an absolute address to the style.php file..
That might help.

[johnbmcdonald]

Hi liudaz,

Thanks for the tip.

I tried:

and


Also tried modifying line 102



and then looked at it with IE. Unfortunately none of those changes made a difference

John

[KO]

Try giving it path like:



This might bring it back to normal but still something is wrong your system. This could be caused by broken modules, tags or UDT's. Once I saw this with UDT that was not even used but still was on the list. This was after php upgrade.

br, K

[davur.net]

I am experiencing a similar problem as John here, and as in his case liudaz' suggestion to edit line 97 of the defaultTheme.php to refer to the style.php with its absolute address did not help. But KO's suggestion to change the reference to refer to the 'siteurl/admin/themes/default/css/style.css' does seem to fix it.

But it doesn't feel all that great just leaving out a file like that and pretending nothing is wrong. How could I fix what ever problem that's causing this?

This problem started when I was trying to install a module called 'PicasaWebAlbumBrowser' (The style dissapeared as I clicked install in the Module Manager).

I am not too sure about versions and such but I downloaded the newest version of cmsms from the  website less than a week ago and it seemed to be working fine.

[KO]

True. This only "hacks" styles to be visible in admin. The real problem still is there and it might be difficult to find. And could cause some other things (for me it was editor) to break you cannot fix by hardcoding styles path.

Br, K

[liudaz]

Do you have all dependencies of the models installed? For example, if you install some model, that has dependencies with CGExtensions, and you dont have CGExtensions installed before, you get the same bullet menu.
Maybe this might be the cause?

Hope this helps.


liudaz

[calguy1000]

Check your httpd error log.  If you don't know where that is, talk to your host.
when styles don't get loaded, etc. it's often a sign of something else being wrong. 

[johnbmcdonald]

KO,

That worked great, Thanks!

I am wondering if I should export the database and reinstall the whole thing.

Anybody else tried that as a solution?

John

[reidjazz]

I just had this happen the other day on an install in which I included the Picasa Web Album module. As soon as I installed that, the admin turned into a bulleted list.

reidjazz

[Gregor]

While installing Picasa, the same happend here. Logon, bullet menu -> extentions -> menu

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/gregor/domains/uisge-beatha.eu/public_html/modules/PicasaWebAlbumBrowser/PicasaWebAlbumBrowser.module.php on line 588

I'm using php version 4.4.4 Unfortunatly I'm noyt able/allowed to upgrade to version 5.

Temporary solved it by renaming the installed Picasa-directory on the server and got the 'old' menu back again. I don't know if there are any database correction required???

Anyone with a solution for using Picasa inside CMSMS?

Thanks,
Gregor

[reidjazz]

While installing Picasa, the same happend here. Logon, bullet menu -> extentions -> menu

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/gregor/domains/uisge-beatha.eu/public_html/modules/PicasaWebAlbumBrowser/PicasaWebAlbumBrowser.module.php on line 588

I'm using php version 4.4.4 Unfortunatly I'm noyt able/allowed to upgrade to version 5.

Temporary solved it by renaming the installed Picasa-directory on the server and got the 'old' menu back again. I don't know if there are any database correction required???

Anyone with a solution for using Picasa inside CMSMS?

Thanks,
Gregor

Gregor,
Yes, I just got it up and running today. My host is running PHP 4, so I had to come up with a work around. Here's what worked for me. At the root level of your site, make an .htaccess file that contains fhe following (or add the following to an existing .htaccess file at root):

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

You should now be able to install Picasa, no problem.

Let me know how it works out!
reidjazz

[Gregor]

Thanks Reidjazz,

This works for me as well I managed to install picasa. Now it is running, I have posted a question on modifying the template for the album tumbnails. After playing around, I could not find a way to show the
thumbnails more structured.
http://www.wsv-herkingen.nl/index.php?page=test

Gregor

[frankd]

Dear all,

Yes, I'm facing the same 'Admin panel showing up as a bulleted list' too.
Tried: 1.0.6, 1.1.1 & 1.1.3.1.... and all of them:  no luck at all.

Adding the full path as suggested did not help.

The strange thing is that version 1.0.6 did work properly when installed a few months before

Bulleted list in both FF 2.0.0.6 & IE 6.

Well, mabey any of you has a clue??

Regards from the Netherlands.

Frank

[KO]

Does it find any stylesheets. I mean that can you see the stylesheet info with tools like web developer?