I used phpbb2drupal to import my phpbb DB and that worked great. Upgraded to 5.0 Beta1 and all was great. I've been trying to implement the flatforum module and was messing with Garlands template.php and style.css when I realized that I could no longer adjust my custom colors. I have backed up to all original files in /modules/ and /themes/ But when I go to configure Garland (where the color picker should be) this is what I see. I can't select Base Color, Link Color, etc... only the Color Set drop down menu seems to work. I've enabled and disabled both flatforum and color modules many times with no luck. I am at a loss...

I thought it might be something with my browser, but it does not seem to be. Tested in Firefox 2.0 (Ubuntu Edgy), and Firefox 1.5 and IE 6 (Windows XP on my other laptop).

Does anyone have any ideas??

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VM’s picture

and if flatforum is removed ? does the color picker come back ?

if so, it would seem to me that flatforum is not quite ready for drupal 5.0 ?

millerl’s picture

No. I disabled it and removed it from the /modules/ directory completely with no luck. Then I downloaded the newest cvs version thinking it might be a bug, but with no luck. Same issue.

"2006-10-02: Flatforum CVS has been updated for Drupal 5.0, and the stylesheet has undergone a remake!" - from the flatforum project page.

Thanks for the reply. :o)

VM’s picture

the only other suggestion i have is to use a comparing tool, and compare the original betas template.php & css file with the one you have to see if there is anything glaring obvious that shouldnt have been changed.

sillygwailo’s picture

What do you see when you click Administer » Logs » Status report? My local computer (my Powerbook) couldn't display the colour picker unless it had the GD library. It meant I had to both install GD and recompile PHP, which was not pleasant.

(On the plus side, my install of PHP is completely up to date...)

(Username formerly my full name, Richard Eriksson.)

millerl’s picture

I'm somehow wondering if something in /files/color/ got screwed up. I'm going to try to remove those and see if it doesn't fix the problem as well.

Thanks so much for the ideas! I'll get back with the results.

sepeck’s picture

color module has a weird-ism at this time. You need to set files to Public for it to work. So if you have files set to Private, change it to Public, set your colors, then change it back.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

Fishysan’s picture

That was KEY - I was baffled. I couldn't get the color module up. Everything was set right, but no go.

That did the trick (going to public). Right after installing I immediately turn on private by habit.

Thanks!

sepeck’s picture

I was testing update.php and the color module was always failing so after discussing it with some others we finally hit the right person. :)

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

Fishysan’s picture

I suspect it is... I hope so. :)

Thanks.

PS: Finally got to try it - VERY slick.

millerl’s picture

For some reason, this permissions issue just decided to pop up.

I've narrowed it down to this. It seems the color module is having trouble reading/writing to the files/color directory to save any custom themes. And I had to play with the permissions simply to get the color picker to display again. Don't know what would have caused them to change. But I'll look into it!

And thanks Steven, it was your idea about the private/public files that lead me in the right direction!

rbl’s picture

Thanks! =) I thought I was going crazy!

millerl’s picture

To fix this problem, I ended up having to have my system admin give me ownership of this directory (apache had created this under its own user) so I could move it (rename it) after I disabled the color module. Once I had moved it, I re-enable the color module having it re-create the files/color/ directory. That seemed to "fix" it. Though the permissions on the newly created folder were the same as they were before I moved the files/color/ directory. So I'm not sure what the real problem was, but I think it was some kind of permissions problem.

Thanks everyone for their input. Your comments led me to ultimately getting it work again! Thanks :o)

Miller

phemmen’s picture

I had the same problem. I switched the method for files to "public" and
switched to another theme, then I disabled the color module and switched
back to the garland theme. After I enabled the color module , I went to
the settings for the garland theme. Drupal created the color directory
and now I can change the color.