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Hello,

Issue: I followed the instructions and doubl/triple checked everything. When I go to hit the Install button, nothing happens.

I saw a post where someone was having the same issue. The reply was to disable everything but the menu block. I followed that and the same thing happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using 1.3.10rc2, with Windows 2003/IIS MySQL 4.1 PHP 4.3.9

What do you mean nothing happens?

Did you enable the menu block?

Did you create a menu?

I am at the screen:

Install/Uninstall Menu Plug-in
Meun Plug-in is not installed.

Press button to install Menu Plug-in.

Install

When I press the install button, it basically refreshes the page and does nothing. I go into the Plugins section under Admin and the menu plugin is under New Plug-in with the option to install it.

Look at your error log and see what is there. It should tell you if the install encountered an error.

I'm sorry...I forgot to mention that...I already looked at the logs and there are no entries that pertain to this. Any more suggestions? I can't wait to get this working...thanks.

I am at a loss

Could it have anything to do with permissions? I took a look and everything looks good to me.

IIS6 by default is very secure. Maybe I am missing something?

Just an FYI to anyone who runs into this issue: I had register_globals = off in my php.ini file. I know the Geeklog installation docs note to turn On, but missed I it - this was a new install.

So its working now.

I have the same problem installing this plugin, but register_globals = On in my php.ini too.
Any other ideas?

before installing it, disable all other plugins and it should install fine.
Re-enable them once the menu plugin is installed.

Disabled all plugins, but it also didn't help

did you check that all the proper pages are copied to your server in their proper paths? the install.php in particular

Yep, checked all paths not once and not twice...
the install.php file is in /geeklog/public_html/admin/plugins/menu/
all other files seems to be in right places...

the system is Debian/Linux
PHP 4.3.10
I had to upgrade PHP manually, and maybe I did it wrong?
Have no other ideas who to blame

I have a similar problem.
Installing plugins worked fine - until I upgraded to php 4.3.10.
The problem in my case is dur to DB_insert() not working correctly.
DB_insert basically gets the most recently generated auto_increment value using mysql_insert_id.
I've found that on my php installation mysql_insert_id doesn't work.
Rather than alter the GL core, I add the following to plugin installation scripts - normally located in /public_html/admin/plugin//install.php - after each call to DB_insert():
if ($group_id == 0){
//lets try and get the data via a different means
$jl = "select last_insert_id()";
$result = DB_query($jl);
$jl_id = DB_fetchArray ($result);
$group_id = $jl_id[0];
COM_errorLog("group_id is set to $group_id",1);
}

You need to replace $group_id with the relevant variable - in most install scripts DB_insert() is used to set $group_id and $feat_id.

I don't yet know if this is a problem with just my 4.3.10 installation or if for some strange reason mysql_insert_id() no longer functions correctly.

HTH
Jon

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if the previous entry is the solution, I would like to have it explained a bit more clearer since I don't know much about php programming itself.
All I know is that I have the same problem with the menu plugin and I run php 4.3.10 on my server. On a different server (I don't know the php version because I don't have root access) the menu works fine.
The menu plugin is the most important plugin for me so I need to get in running and I suppose a more people too.

Frank

Hello, again
Fallowing these instructions I couldn't find that DB_insert()
All I've found in install.php was DB_insertId()

What's wrong this time?

You may find that its a globals vs superglobals issue. I cant run with globals on, so I tend to weed these things out.

Try changing all lines that say:

if (isset($action))

to:

if (isset($_POST['action']))

usually at the top of pages :-)

.... it helped when installing phpBBBridge plugin.

jlawrence: I had a similar problem with installing plugins in general - I'd click the install button and be greeted by a blank screen and a log file that contained some positive looking stuff but then curiously stopped.

I tried your suggestion and that cleared the problem right up!

I'm having real problems here getting phpbbbridge to install... all permissions check out, globals on, files in the right place, and I've tried every modification suggested to install.php, yet I cannot get the blessed thing to install...

Any ideas?