Web links categorie field dispears [Solved]

I've the same problem, but no error message on the screen...

Same problem here. No categories displayed on input form. No error message.

Web Links 5.x-1.8
Drupal 5.7
PHP 4.4.2
MySQL 4.1.21

I think I am having similar problems with a similar Drupal 5.7 setup, but its hard to tell since I migrated my data over from Post-Nuke.

Eric

I seem to have found a fix - maybe. I removed all of the 5.x-1.8 Weblinks module. I installed the 1.7 version and added a few categories and links. I then checked to see if everything functioned correctly.

The I upgraded to 1.8 and now the module seems to be working.

Eric

Hi Eric,

Thanks for posting a possible solution. When you did it, did you lose your existing weblinks or categories, and have to manually re-enter them?

Oh, and which Drupal version are you running?

Thanks,
Jim

Hi,

No, I did not lose anything when I did the weblinks upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8. Am running Drupal 5.7...

Eric

Drat, now it is broken again!

Things were working fine - I added a few links with no problem. Then I added some non-weblink nodes.

Now when I post a link, the node is created but no row is created in the weblinks table.

The term_node table has the correct nid & tid for the node to be a weblink, the term_data table has the right tid & vid for the categories..

But in the weblinks table, what should the vid be? The node revision or the vocab id?? In my table the vid=nid...

Hmm... this looks odd. Any idea why these rows are in the variables table? Never saw them before... see attach.

This is really frustrating.

Dagnabbit! But thanks for the info anyway. I'm not really familiar with the database workings, so can't really offer any insight there. :-\

Hope the Web Links developer is still around...

Cheers,
Jim

Are you still seeing this issue? I have seen reference to this else where but I can't repeat. I would like more info on your setup so I can try and repeat to try and fix the issue.

Thanks
Robert

Hi Robert,

Thanks for looking at this. I'm still getting the same problem when I try to create a new Weblink: no categories. There's no error though, unlike some of the other posters. The Weblinks I created before this issue appeared are still displayed correctly.

My setup:

• Web Links 5.x-1.8
• Drupal 5.7
• PHP 4.4.2
• MySQL 4.1.21

Please let me know if you need any more info. :-)

Jim

I wonder if some php5 only or mysql 5 only code has slipped into the module? Mysql 4 and php 4 are pretty rear. I need to see if I can get a build setup to test that.

Thanks
Robert

Thanks again, Robert.

I hope the solution is something simple(?) like that. I've not been able to add any new Weblinks for months, and have been thinking of coding a static "Links" page, if Web Links remains disfunctional.

I didn't know that MySQL 4 & PHP 4 are rare. I've got a shared hosting account, that's just what they provide. They have promised a future upgrade to MySQL 4/ PHP 4, but that hasn't materialised yet...

Anyway. Thanks for looking into it! :-)

JIm

Mistake

No Major Linux Distro ships with php4 / mysql 4 at this time.

The development team of PHP announced the End-Of-Life of PHP 4. There will be no more releases of PHP 4.4 after Dec 31, 2007. Critical security fixes will still be released on a case-by-case basis until August 08, 2008.

Mysql 5 is much better then mysql 4 but I am guessing the issue is more php4 then mysql4.

Thanks
Robert

Its not. Found a box with php4 4.4.4-8 and mysql 5 and it works fine. Now looking for a box with mysql 4.

Thanks
Robert

hbar

Can you take a screen shot of the screen that isn't working. I want to make sure I am not missing something this module has so many menus that I just might not be looking at the right one.

Thanks
Robert

Hi Robert,

Here's a grab of my "Create Weblink" page. No categories displayed. Hope this helps. And thanks again for investigating... :-)

Jim

hbar,

I was looking at the code an realized we have made several changes to the code that could effect this problem and that 1.8 no longer represented the latest code base so I released 1.9 doesn't include everything I wanted in 1.9 but try and see if this cleans up your issue.

Thanks
Robert

Robert,

Thanks for the update. Unfortunately, the problem still exists. :-(

Actually, it seems not to be a MySQL 4, PHP 4 problem. I also installed your update onto my local test site which is running MySQL 5.0.41 and PHP 5.2.3. The categories were nowhere to be seen.

Thanks for looking at it anyway! :-)

Jim

Jim,

Can you go to /?q=admin/content/taxonomy/ and confirm that "Web Links" existings and that items are listed under the group.

Thanks
Robert

This is wired as I can't dupe but I have seen a few reports.

Thank
Robert

Man, you solved it! I went to the page you said, and sure enough, Weblinks was listed. Then I went to the Edit vocabulary page for the Weblinks category. In the Types section, there was nothing ticked, even though there was a little red asterix indicating a selection is required (I guess). I enabled Weblinks and saved.

Now it's working! Tested on MySQL/PHP 4 & 5.

So maybe something in Web Links or Drupal changed? I really don't recall deselecting Weblinks in the Types section, or selecting it, for that matter! Is that page new, somehow?

Whatever, this is great! I hope it works for other users. This is what I did, again:

1) Go to /?q=admin/content/taxonomy/
2) Click on Edit vocabulary for your Weblinks category
3) Enable Weblinks in the Types section
4) Save

Thanks again Robert, I really hope this does prove to be the culprit. :-)

Jim

Jim,

I am glade we found the issue. The install script creates the term and assigns it to weblink types but you can remove the check and that would cause the taxonomy vocabulary to disappear. I should have checked this 1st. Glad you are now able to add items into your list.

Thanks
Robert