define_main_page blank in admin

14 Jun 2012, 11:47 AM

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define_main_page blank in admin

define main page is blank in admin, all of the other pages come up fine using v1.5.

When I go directly to the file via control panel, everything shows up in the file that admin told me I could go to edit. No biggie but I find it odd.

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14 Jun 2012, 12:32 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

I had exactly the same thing happen with one installation. Never did figure out what was happening.

14 Jun 2012, 12:35 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Character Set problem?

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14 Jun 2012, 1:37 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Not unless I munged something up by mistake. The original edit on define_main_page was done in the editor (Plain Text mode), saved properly and appeared on the site OK. It's just when I re-opened it in the editor, the page (in the editor window) was empty and anything entered into it after that didn't 'take'.

14 Jun 2012, 1:43 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Are there any admin .log files in the /cache directory? I've seen this issue when, as DrByte said, there was a charset-related problem with the data.

My website

14 Jun 2012, 3:14 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Character Sets must not be mismatched. If they are mismatched then the data won't be displayed.

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15 Jun 2012, 12:49 AM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

14-Jun-2012 04:36:45] PHP Warning: htmlspecialchars() [<a href='function.htmlspecialchars'>function.htmlspecialchars</a>]: Invalid multibyte sequence in argument in public_html/.com/idscanners/Rapscallion/define_pages_editor.php on line 188???

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15 Jun 2012, 1:18 AM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Exactly.

http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?313-should-i-convert-my-store-from-iso-8859-1-to-utf8

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15 Jun 2012, 2:08 AM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

while we're on the subject of cache log files.....whats this?

[11-Jun-2012 04:56:59] PHP Warning: require(includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_advanced_search_resultmain_page1_default.php) [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

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15 Jun 2012, 2:35 AM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Clicked on your link. Ambiguous directions....is it latin1 or iso-8859-1? I tried changing the two configs and english.php and nothing changed in define page editor.

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15 Jun 2012, 3:54 AM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

pixelpadre:

while we're on the subject of cache log files.....whats this?

[11-Jun-2012 04:56:59] PHP Warning: require(includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_advanced_search_resultmain_page1_default.php) [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

That will be from you typing in a wrong URL ... ie: index.php?main_page=advanced_search_resultmain_page1

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15 Jun 2012, 9:27 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

In myphpadmin this is the info about mysql:

Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server version: 5.0.92-community-log
Protocol version: 10
User: &&^%$@localhost
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Is there a way to change that to latin?

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15 Jun 2012, 9:31 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Thats odd because I don't believe I use advanced search or even regular search on my website. Could it have been a viewer or spammer?

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27 Jun 2012, 11:54 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

pixelpadre:

14-Jun-2012 04:36:45] PHP Warning: htmlspecialchars() [<a href='function.htmlspecialchars'>function.htmlspecialchars</a>]: Invalid multibyte sequence in argument in public_html/.com/idscanners/Rapscallion/define_pages_editor.php on line 188???

Hi, I experienced this problem after installing the ck editor to use on define main page. After using the ckeditor my slideshow images show they slide but don't actuallly show. Have swapped char set as instructed in the link;
http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?313-should-i-convert-my-store-from-iso-8859-1-to-utf8.
And vice versa still my images are not showing... not even the slide show images...failed to solve this with a late night help help.

This is line 188;

any ideas?

19 Jul 2012, 10:15 PM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

:smartalec:Well. Once again, I solved my own problem. Just like being back in college again.

I opened the blank files in a text editor and found a strange character shaped like a square. Deleted it and Vuola! All pages viewable now!!!!!!!!!

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20 Jul 2012, 8:09 AM

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Re: define_main_page blank in admin

Glad you found and removed the characters from the invalid character set, which then solved the problem.

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