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Argonath RPG Community => Speakerbox => Topic started by: Norrage on June 10, 2011, 01:23:56 am

Title: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Norrage on June 10, 2011, 01:23:56 am
It is so irritating, when i try to post or send a PM I get the error that something is wrong with the database, and that I have to contact an administrator if I saw the screen again.

This is the error:

Database Error
"Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator."
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: [SE]Dr_Pepper27 on June 10, 2011, 06:08:05 am
I get it a lot too.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Que on June 10, 2011, 06:24:43 am
Because you're using letters that is not allowed on the forum. I have to agree, it's pretty annoying.
Please allow more letters..
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Julio. on June 10, 2011, 09:15:19 am
I tried sending a post, no noticable bad Characters and it would not let me send.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Exclusive. on June 10, 2011, 09:16:02 am
Haven't got a single one, yet...
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Gandalf on June 10, 2011, 09:19:24 am
It reacts on "special" characters. Often such are created when a post is written with a non-English language keyboard. Also making a post in Word and copying it can cause this.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Julio. on June 10, 2011, 09:20:18 am
I use an English Keyboard and it did it to me.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Norrage on June 10, 2011, 11:08:25 am
It was just english I wrote.. Not any special characters..
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: SugarD on June 10, 2011, 11:24:00 am
It reacts on "special" characters. Often such are created when a post is written with a non-English language keyboard. Also making a post in Word and copying it can cause this.
I believe if you set the forum database style to UTF-8 and from MySQL to MySQLi, it should fix this issue. The only thing is once in a while you'll have to run the maintenance thing that converts UTF-8 code to UTF-8 characters.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Alsatian on June 10, 2011, 03:06:55 pm
It took me like three days to finally submit a considerabely long post, all because the forum won't accept the pound sign.  :gd:
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Gandalf on June 10, 2011, 03:20:07 pm
I believe if you set the forum database style to UTF-8 and from MySQL to MySQLi, it should fix this issue. The only thing is once in a while you'll have to run the maintenance thing that converts UTF-8 code to UTF-8 characters.
It has been set like that from the beginning.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: SugarD on June 11, 2011, 04:42:43 am
It has been set like that from the beginning.
Have you run a UTF-8 conversion yet?
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: 9r2e5i3k on June 11, 2011, 04:20:34 pm
It has been set like that from the beginning.
Have you run a UTF-8 conversion yet?
If it was set to UTF-8 form the beginning, what's to convert?  :poke:
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Joey_DeRossi on June 11, 2011, 04:31:56 pm
If it was set to UTF-8 form the beginning, what's to convert?  :poke:
UTF-8 code to characters. ;)
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: SugarD on June 11, 2011, 08:48:48 pm
UTF-8 code to characters. ;)
Bingo.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: 9r2e5i3k on June 13, 2011, 07:46:43 pm
What's the difference between 'code' and 'characters'? It's one thing (character encoding system/format) - UTF-8, isn't it?
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: SugarD on June 13, 2011, 10:14:41 pm
Characters are text that are simply displayed. Code is text that is executed.
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: Norrage on June 21, 2011, 09:56:20 am
So is this fixed or..?
Title: Re: CONSTANT Database errors..
Post by: SugarD on June 29, 2011, 11:29:58 am
Nope. Appears the issue was made even more common by the forum restoration and upgrade. My guess at this point is the files are getting messed up from the upgrade with mods being installed throughout the events because the same issue broke the search function on FBI forums, and messed up the theme in a few ways. FBI forums themselves seem to have since fixed their search issue, but it seems the theme issues still exist, just as Argo Forum has it's own. Unfortunately SMF 2 stopped auto-uninstalling mods during upgrades a few RC versions back, so people didn't notice and they had been upgrading their forums while incompatible mods, or just mods in general, were still installed, thus bugging up all the code. :P
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