An "Other" Prisoner

[dairyman]

Really a tough issue spent 12+ hours trying various things yesterday and it appears that today may be the same.

+12 Hours?! 
I wouldn't have had the patience to fix it!

But working fine now.

[street1 (RIP)]

Great job Nathan.Sorry if it ruined your holidays.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Man alive it always seems that the hardest issues are caused by the stupidest things doesn't it. The forums are in fact back up and running after a lot of work with the webhost, who are the true hero's. After a lot of work they tracked down the cause of the issue being the calender PHP file that parses the birth dates getting stuck up on users who have their birth dates as 0-0-0.

What triggered it on the 24th right before Christmas is still a Mystery but hopefully with the fix should not happen again.

I must say I wasn't happy with Santa's gift this year. 

[Computer Hope Admin]

One final note. In trying to find the cause to this issue I reset, re-uploaded, pretty much reset as much as I could without having to resort to restoring a backup and loosing posts. Sooo.. If something is abnormal or a feature that was changed it the past is missing let me know and I'll fix it again.

In addition I ran a full recount on everything so post counts, board counts, etc. may be different, but are accurate.

Finally, I'll be also be going through and deleting older members more frequently now at the suggestion of the webhost. I do this usually at least once monthly but will be a little more strict on deleting old users (year+) who will likely never be coming back.

Speaking of that *big congratulations* and thanks to everyone for their help in reaching 300,000+ forum posts.

Happy new year.

[michaewlewis]

Good job nathan! We knew you could do it.....

[Zylstra]

Great job, did you report that to SMF?
That ought to be affecting a few people.

[dairyman]

Great job, did you report that to SMF?
That ought to be affecting a few people.

Actually, COMODO Forums use SMF and they weren't having problems.

[Computer Hope Admin]

I think the situation was unique to Computer Hope and it's users and after looking at the birthdates as I'm doing cleanups it appears that a lot of people have birthdays on or around the same time (strangely a lot of 38-year-olds too)??

[Broni]

Thank you for all your time, and getting us back to normal.

[homer]

where would CH be without the odd bug(s) plaguing it?

i still remember the ex-member bug, what a hoot that was...

[Computer Hope Admin]

Heh ugh, now I'm going to have nightmares tonight Homer. Thanks!

[Zylstra]

where would CH be without the odd bug(s) plaguing it?

i still remember the ex-member bug, what a hoot that was...

I remember turning into an ex-member once... that was fun.

I am more than glad to see the forums up, looking at the statistics was fun though... it seems there is an abnormally high amount of users posting today as well...

[homer]

Heh ugh, now I'm going to have nightmares tonight Homer. Thanks!

this will chase away those nightmares.



who else got baileys for christmas?

[patio]

Nathan,
Could it be that the trigger for "listing" the BDays is set to eight or nine days prior to the actual date ? ?

Just a thought.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Patio,
I believe the calender.php file runs each night and checks  for birthdays set at the amount of days set to be viewed. In the past I've had this setting at seven, which is why I think it happened on Christmas because it's seven days (assuming ran at 12am) before the 31st where all the birthdays that didn't seem to get changed properly seemed to be.