By calcedon on

Hello All,

I just installed 5.0 and got the site up and running. But when I go to create a page and submit, it dosen't save the text I enter. I have Tinymce installed and at first thought that was the problem, but then I realized that if I try to save a page to a different directory, it won't save that data either.

When in TinyMCE I click the save button it says: Error: No form element found. When this error starts showing up, nothing on Drupal will save except creating menus. For some reason it creates menus, but won't save any pages I attach to menus. Or it would save edits I make to any pages.

I also found out if I log out of my drupal site and then I clear my cache of everything, cookies, etc... then I re-log in, it works for one page (it saves) but after submitting that one page, the error comes back so to edit something or create something and have it properly saves i have to log out, clear cache and relog back in for 1 more change.

As you can see this is a recipie for insanity.

Any ideas on what the problem could be?

Better yet, Any idea as to what the solution can be?

Thanks!

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calcedon’s picture

calcedon commented

I changed the theme back to the Drupal default, and it seems to have stopped causing the problem. So when it was in the Minnelli theme, the problem was there. TinyMCE also was installed and caused another problem for Firefox/Mac with the Minnelli theme.

Ideas?

Http://www.calcedon.com

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uzbekjon commented

Try some other theme as well. To make sure it is Minnelli theme. The problem might have been caused by TinyMCE as well.

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alayham commented

I got crazy too, then I restored my mind and tried to see at which stage the data got lost. It is a long story, and I still don't know the exact reason for this issue, but I think it is in textarea.js because other people have reported issues with it.

anyway, here is my solution

add the following code to your theme's template.php:

function themename_textarea($element) {
  if ($element['#id'] == 'edit-body' || $element['#id'] == 'edit-comment') {
	  $element['#resizable'] = FALSE;
  }
  return theme_textarea ($element);
}

replace themename with your theme's name.

this will prevent making the editor resizable using textarea.js, while it is still resizable using TinyMCE's resizing system.

let me know if it works for you. I am still working on it.

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piggybank commented

We were having the problem where changes weren't saving...added this code and it now works. NOTE: We were able to save fine with FireFox 2.0...it was just IE6 giving us problems. At any rate, thanks for the fix!

Scott Gingrich
www.ultimatecrmguide.com

cordery’s picture

cordery commented

I am having the same problem in Drupal 5.1 with TinyMCE installed using the Garland theme. This problem only seems to exist in IE7.0 (not in Firefox 2.0), so its probably a jscript error somewhere.

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jeanhr commented

It worked for me!

For some reasons under Drupal 5.0 and 5.1, I was having difficulties setting up TinyMCE, like text not showing up and images not showing up. I was able to correct by myself the text input but not the images.

And your solution brought back the images... Great great great!!!

Many thanks!

zjmainz’s picture

zjmainz commented

So my theme (modified bluemarine) doesn't have a template.php file..so which one do I edit:

I have:
block.tpl.php
box.tpl.php
comment.tpl.php
node.tpl.php
page.tpl.php

Just guessing i would make it to node or page or comment...or should i add to all three? Or do i need different code altogether? please help!

jerusalemLeo’s picture

jerusalemLeo commented

Hello..

I am having a similar problem after installing drupal-5.1.tar.gz (linux).

If I go to:

1)
Home › Administer › Site building › Themes
Change currently enabled Default theme from minnelli to any other enabled theme and Save Configuration, the page refreshes to the previous state where the default is minnelli.

2)
Home › Administer › Site configuration › Site information
I was able to change and save the E-mail address, Slogan and Mission, but the name of the site was behaving as in #1 (kept reverting back to My Drupal site.

No relevant errors in apache error log.

Your help is appreciated.

Thanx.

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jerusalemLeo commented

OK.. found the problem..

The settings.php in /sites/default had the following uncommented for some reason:

$conf = array(
'site_name' => 'My Drupal site',
'theme_default' => 'minnelli',
'anonymous' => 'Visitor',
);

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chrisd commented

I'm having a similar issue.
Bascially it's not saving the "Log Message" field. The title & body are being saved.

I discovered this issue trying to change my meta tag filed, I got some more details here (for now): http://drupal.org/node/146458

Also this is happening on 2 different Drupal Sites (1 bluemarine + 1 garland) running 5.1. At one point (a few weeks ago?)I was able to save value for "Log Message" & Meta Tags.

1 Site is running PHP 4.x (with basically the default modules + Google Sitemap + Meta Tags) the other 5.x. They do share the same MySQL 4.1.x

This is happening both with IE7 & FireFox.

Any clue would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

Update: meta tags do update with the bluemarine (PHP 4 site) not the other. Will do more research tomorrow....
It appears that the log message field not saving might be normal (just save when you create a revision ?) ,see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/1875

So I'm left with the Meta Tags fields (Description and Keyword) not saving on my "Garland" Drupal with uses a more module then the Drupal "that works (+CCK, +Views, +FiveStar). I will try to see is the author of the Meta Tags module can help at:
http://drupal.org/node/146458

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chrisd commented

I found the solution to my problem see: http://drupal.org/node/146458

Basically the module needed a lower weight in the System table to get a chance to write the values to the database....

Cheers,
Chris

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Als
Location Milano, Italia
commented

Anyone stumbling on this problem again, in D6 take a look at your multi-language variables.
After making some of them multi-language (site name and footer), and editing them, Drupal was not able to save any more changes to them if they were returned to single-language.

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pressing commented

I am experiencing a similar issue in Drupal 6 multilingual site whereby I cannot save changes to both footer and slogan. Someone mentioned that it has something to do with the multilingual variables but what exactly needs to be done to solve this issue. Thanks