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I've just emailed you again. Neither email has bounced back at my end of things so far, at least.
Kevin, Since I didn't get your email, I whitelisted your address in SpamAssassin. Please try again.
Carlos, that bug is now fixed. I was trying to fix something else last night and removed a line of HTML I thought might be the problem. Although the problem was something else, I left it out because it seemed redundant. But it wasn't. So I added a new line that does the same thing more accurately.
Fergus wrote: "The menu on http://www.chessvariants.com/dpieces.dir/berlin.html is appearing horizontally to me. So it's not an instance of the wrong header being used. Can you provide a screen shot of what you're seeing to help me better gauge what's going on?" Like I've alluded to before, I'm rather out of my depth these days when it comes to computers. However, with some luck I did manage to create a screenshot icon (shortcut) on my desktop of the Berolina Pawns variant webpage, and then I emailed it to your address as webmaster of this website. Hope that suffices. If you can get around to it, in the event you missed it, I replied to your comment re: my Super4*Chess submission needing to be edited, and I asked if you could advise me (such as perhaps only clarifying that I in fact may have taken a step in the right direction). It's not a priority though, as I am going to be playing over-the-board chess all weekend, including tonight at my club, as well as Friday night, so I'll soon begin a long break from using a computer to visit here, or to visit other websites I go to, until the weekend is over, if only for the reason to concentrate better on playing chess. Take care, Kevin
All the presets have a bug that when you click "Invite" then switch to the chess preset.
The menu on http://www.chessvariants.com/dpieces.dir/berlin.html is appearing horizontally to me. So it's not an instance of the wrong header being used. Can you provide a screen shot of what you're seeing to help me better gauge what's going on?
Just now I submitted "5*4DChess (four dimensional chess)" to The Chess Variants Pages, and after I hit "Submit" a new webpage with that game's title showed up, but the page appeared to be empty otherwise (same story when I checked it under the webpage "Your Unreviewed Submissions"). :( If the webpage is indeed empty, could an editor please delete it, and after the new problem with making submissions is solved, I'll hope to resubmit it under the same title eventually.
Hi Fergus I'm using a laptop (it's the only computer available to me at home currently, nor do I use a mobile device). Here's a sample URL (if I understand that phrase right) from The Chess Variant Pages which produces a vertical menu of options on my laptop: http://www.chessvariants.com/dpieces.dir/berlin.html
Are you using a mobile device, by any chance? The mobile menu appears vertically. It is normally hidden unless you touch the ≡ sign. If you're seeing a vertical menu on a desktop or laptop, then please give me an URL to look at.
Fergus wrote: "Please let me know if you can edit your submission. I'm not familiar with whether this can be done, but I think it should be allowed." I added a couple of letters to the text of it successfully, so the answer appears to be that I can indeed edit it. In case you missed it, I slightly edited my previous comment, to elaborate on troubles for me that may or may not be caused by having an inadequate browser, as far as viewing and using this website goes. So far it seems I can get by (I prefer not to try to change browsers for now), although just now I looked at some games to see if I could unfavourite them, and in many cases the top menu of such a game's webpage appeared vertical in presenting the options. Not only that, but in some such cases I previously favourited these games by listing all its comments, i.e. getting to a webpage where the menu options happened to be presented horizontally. Now, even when that happens still, I don't see any way available by way of a heart option to favourite or unfavorite a particular game. Luckily this is not a priority to fix, but I thought I'd mention it in case you were unaware.
Please let me know if you can edit your submission. I'm not familiar with whether this can be done, but I think it should be allowed.
That page lacked a DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning. Adding one fixed it. It was not that you weren't logged in but that the page failed to recognize that you were logged in.
I just re-submitted my "Super4*Chess (four dimensional chess)" variant to The Chess Variant Pages. At first a somewhat garbled version of the text appeared, but then when I clicked on "View Submission" the entry appeared to be as I had hoped, i.e. text showing properly (with 1 Diagram Designer generated diagram included), game title included. I still am indicated to be not signed in when I try to view any unreviewed submissions of mine (on the webpage "Your Unreviewed Submissions), and I am unable sign in on that webpage, perhaps because my browser is not adequate. In the past sometimes I could sign in on certain webpages if using my (currently broken) desktop computer instead of my laptop (which I am using presently). For me, on some webpages of The Chess Variant Pages, the menu of options at the top shows as a vertical (rather than horizontal) list, sometimes when using either computer, in a way which also keeps me from using any of the options (such as to be able to sign in). However, it is possible that the problem of being indicated as not being signed in on this particular webpage is one of the glitches that may need be dealt with by Fergus. Meanwhile, I have no way of editing my now apparently tentatively accepted submission, at least until after it has been reviewed (& if accepted) by editor(s). In the meantime, could an editor please verify that indeed my submission has been tentatively accepted (i.e. by this website).
The problem with submissions was that the POST data would not go through the first time. I could see this from the empty strings in the SQL it showed me. When I simply reloaded membersubmission3.php, I would see the POST data in the SQL, and it would get recorded in the database. So it appeared that the problem was not with membersubmission3.php but with the process of getting the POST data to it. Since it previously helped in another case, I changed the ACTION URL in the FORM that goes to membersubmission3.php to the full URL. Making that change to membersubmission2.php seems to have fixed the problem with submitting games.
Both msdisplay.php and the footer included code for displaying comments. It hadn't previously been in the footer, because David had used a Perl footer that just gave a link to the comments. Since I replaced his footer with a PHP footer that includes comments, I removed the code for including comments from msdisplay.php.
I have just noticed that old-style pages are displaying comments, so it might be that mechanism that is causing PYOs to display them twice. If anything that suggests that it less likely to be connected with the issues in posting updates, but it still makes for a lot extra being displayed on the page.
I have started the transition to PDO. First, I wrote a test file to make sure I knew what I was doing. Then, I rewrote the connect_to_database() function to connect through both mysql and PDO. This did not break anything using mysql. I then rewrote the itemid() function to use PDO, and it is working. So we can transition to PDO without doing it all at once. We can do it one function or file at a time. With that in mind, I can make some fixes while also changing the database code to use PDO.
One thing I want to work on, perhaps while fixing the scripts for making submissions, is to switch from mysql_* functions to PDO* functions. The mysql_* functions have been deprecated in PHP, and they will be removed from a future version of PHP. So I looked into the alternatives, these being Improved MySQL (mysqli_*) and PHP Data Objects (PDO*). Both have the advantage over mysql_* of allowing prepared statements. PDO has two main advantages over mysqli. The one I think will help most is that it allows named parameters in prepared statements. The other is that it supports more database formats than just mysql. This is not so important right now, since I will continue to use the mysql format, but if the mysql format were ever deprecated, or something much better came along, it would be easier to make the change if the code were already using the PDO* functions.
What I have just noticed is that the comments are appearing twice at the foot of the page. I do not know whether this is significant, but it is an anomaly and detracts from the page's appearance.
This seems the logical thread to continue the discussion started <a href="http://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?subjectid=422706f7808776e0">here</a> as it exactly describes what I have encountered. I have not yet had an opportunity to try updating on a different computer, but I hope to do so soon.
Thanks for the info, Fergus. I'll try to get around to re-submitting the variant for this website at some point after the problem is known to be solved. Meanwhile, for anyone who is curious and/or impatient, I can give the CFC website link I wrote of regarding my blog entry there for this variant (the blog entry looks different slightly than what I had tried to submit to The Chess Variant Pages, as for one thing I only gave a primitive diagram for the setup position of the game): http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/entry.php?100-Super4*Chess-(four-dimensional-chess) Furthermore, here's a link to my CFC blog entry for the second 4D variant of mine that I wrote of that was finished being invented in the year 2016 as well (the variant is yet to be submitted as an entry to The Chess Variant Pages in some form, likely with a nicer diagram included too). FYI it is a 5x5x5x5 4D variant: http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/entry.php?101-5*4DChess-(four-dimensional-chess)
The page exists, but it's empty. The same goes for another new submission. We're still working on getting some things to work on the new host. Since the submission scripts are something David wrote and which I have rarely ever used, it may take some more time to get them fixed.
I sent the following email to an editor (Ben) a couple of hours ago, but I then realized others might be interested in the contents asap, including any future author, or perhaps especially Fergus: "I just submitted a new 4D chess variant I invented to The Chess Variants Pages website, but I could not exactly see it after clicking on ‘Submit’ (when a new page popped up, the title of my submitted game appeared in large print, but underneath was a page full of Amazon corporation ads for books). Then, when I tried to find a hopefully more complete version of my submission by looking under ‘Your Unreviewed Submissions’, it was indicated to me on that webpage that I was not signed in, nor was I able to sign in on that particular webpage. If nothing else, please check for me that you can see my submission entirely from your end of things. It took almost an hour and a half to prepare my submission, including using the Diagram Designer, so on that note I’ll certainly put off submitting a second new 4D variant I invented this year until after I get your reply. Meanwhile, I wish you a Happy New Year." The name of the submission in question is "Super4*Chess (four dimensional chess)". If I'm the only one having trouble making a submission, I could eventually give a link to my Chess Federation of Canada blog entry concerning the variant, if anyone is willing to try to author a submission for it on The Chess Variant Pages instead of me (& then please note that I'm the inventor).
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