PEAR, Smarty, Fixing a custom framework

[llacook]

Here's one for ya:

http://www.webmasters-central.net/helpdesk/index.php

I've been beating this application to death for a month, trying to get it to work...it was written by another programmer, there's NO documentation, it's for a side freelance job...it uses both PEAR and Smarty; it reads from a set of configuration files via parse_ini_file(). The conf files look as they should:

[login]
module = Login
method = login
groups = anonymouses

[license]
module = License
method = license
groups = anonymouses

[send_login_info]
module = Password_Send
method = password_send
groups = anonymouses

[logout]
module = Logout
method = logout
groups = supervisors

...that's a snippet of runmodes.conf...this, as you can see, specifies different classes to be init'd, based on which runmode is called...

one problem it has is this: while i can access the database using the creds supplied, and one can successfully login, lots of other runmodes don't seem to be communicating with the database at all---also, i get a fatal "Call to a member function on a non-object " error when you first hit the page...but if you refresh, the object obviously instantiates itself...

what gives? i've been beating my head over this for a month, trying to get the application to work...i would at this point appreciate ANY suggestions...if you need further info, just holla!

bliss
Lewis LaCook

[Drakla]

Might be something like a conditional include based on whether a cookie is set, including that in a session, as I notice the page does set one. Take a look if the DB class is being included in a session check. In fact I just cleared the cookie and the page went bad again.

[llacook]

Thanks...that was my intuition to, and you just confirmed it...

I've actually found that most of the problems with this application have to do with DB methods and Smarty---whoever wrote it kinda bungled both, not using the proper methods for DB, and not writing working foreach blocks in the templates...

Thank you so much for looking at it!

bliss
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