[RESOLVED] Function not being called?

AcousticJames

Okay, here's the deal. I'm doing some minor modifications to phpBB to integrate into my site. This question really has little to do with phpBB, I think. I have posted the same over there in the MOD Writer's forum, but have yet to get a response.

I have a function I wrote in "includes/functions.php" that takes a newly created topic_id and updates a separate database with the information. I am calling this function in "includes/functions_post.php" in the submit_post() method right after the line "$topic_id = $db->sql_nextid();"

It's not getting called. To test this, I put an echo at the beginning of my function and it's not displaying anywhere, so for some reason the function is not getting called. Any ideas? Thanks.

eoghain

This might be a stupid question, but it's something that I've forgotten before. Are you sure that functions_post.php [man]include[/man]s the functions.php code?

AcousticJames

Well, I assume it's not necessary as it contains other functions declared in functions.php such as add_searchwords() and message_die(). I simply can't figure out why it's not working. Thanks for the question, though, I thought about that myself but then I looked at the other functions being used and they're defined in the same file as mine, so that shouldn't be the issue.

James

eoghain

Ok, are you positive that the functions that it's calling are being included from includes/functions.php. Maybe there are the same functions, or even another copy of functions.php in another directory that is being included and thus your code is never getting loaded.

Personally I'd either add your code directly to the functions_post.php script, or put it in a separate file and add the include() to functions_post.php. Also for debugging you should add your echo statements around the call to your code, just to be sure that the functions_post method that you think is being called is actually being called.

AcousticJames

eoghain wrote:
Ok, are you positive that the functions that it's calling are being included from includes/functions.php. Maybe there are the same functions, or even another copy of functions.php in another directory that is being included and thus your code is never getting loaded.

Personally I'd either add your code directly to the functions_post.php script, or put it in a separate file and add the include() to functions_post.php. Also for debugging you should add your echo statements around the call to your code, just to be sure that the functions_post method that you think is being called is actually being called.

I'll take a look, it's entirely possible. And setting up a separate "functions" file with my custom functions might be a good idea as I'm sure I'll need to do so for a future project involving phpBB.

And I did put in an echo statement in my function and I never saw it displayed anywhere, but I thought it might have gotten overridden because of the template system. I'll try your suggestions and let you know. Thanks!

James

AcousticJames

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This is really getting super f*$&ing irritating. All I'm trying to do here is take a new topic_id after it's been generated and put it into a separate database. That's all. Why is this such a huge f!#@ing problem?????

Okay, what I've done is this. I've created a new file and saved it as "custom_functions.php" in the includes directory.

In functions_post.php, after the hacking check, I include the file like so:

include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/custom_functions.'.$phpEx);

Just like every other file is included in phpBB. I put my function in this file. Then I call it on line 264 of functions_post.php. I've even put echo statements at the beginning and end of the function.

Nothing. Everything works as it should with phpBB. The new topic is created, the tables are all updated fine, it just ignores my function.

I swear, if it's this hard to do such a simple task in phpBB, I'm finding another f'ing board. This is super simple, it shouldn't be this much of a problem.

Sorry, I'm just really irritated at this whole thing. It shouldn't be this damn hard.

James

AcousticJames

I'm such an idiot. The reason my function wasn't getting called was because about a week or so ago, I decided to move my site, including forum, to a different location on my machine. After doing so, I thought I had fixed all my links appropriately to reflect the new location (I'm still in development). The only link I didn't fix was the modified posting.php link that takes me to the posting page. So I fixed the link and was able to get everything taken care of for the most part. The only thing left are some specific phpBB errors that I need to get sorted out, otherwise everything works.

Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for the help.

James