Ping service problem

[alexz]

When I want to update my pinglist and push the button the adresses disappears. So, maybe this is a bug that I have to fix?

[Connie]

which PP version?

[alexz]

1.5 Final

[m i k e b]

does this happen only in Internet Explorer?

[Clavain]

I had the same problem, i tried Opera, Firefox and IE without success.
After all i made the changes direct to the Database. :rolleyes:

[alexz]

I use firefox.

[abhikutty]

I have a similar problem. ping links are not saved in the box....neither in IE nor FireFox...plz help...I use pixelpost final 1.5 version.

[Dkozikowski]

Though I am of no real help, i figured i would just let whoever know that

admin_ping works for me on my hosted website (godaddy)

but does not work on my MAC (mysql 4.1 & php 5.x)

I compaired both files, one from my host, one from my MAC and they were identical.

I could care less b/c i dont use admin_ping but anyway,

Weird.

[Dennis]

I've tested it with our development version and was unable to reproduce the bug (latest version of XAMPP, local installation).

[alexz]

How do I change the pinglist in the database?

[janickg]

See this post for an alternative solution: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5977

[Dkozikowski]

Ok,

well all this talk about the pinglist not working and I finally had some time to look into it.

I am going to take a wild guess here and say everyone reporting problems with their ping list has an empty ping list text box.

If I am correct, than this is an easy fix.

The admin_ping addon uses the UPDATE command to enter values into the database. If there are no values to begin with, the UPDATE command does not work and will not enter any new information.

I can go into detail on how all this works but i'll just get to the fix:

open admin_ping.php in your favorate text/html editor.

Find line numbers 67 and 68 and remove the // from the beging of each line.

Now, goto your database and delete or DROP the pixelpost_db_prefix_ping table.

Once your table has been dropped goto your addons menu in your admin panel and you should see the following in your ping list box:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://ping.blo.gs/

Now, you can keep these there, delete them, or add to the list.

[abhikutty]

pixelpost guru,
thanks for providing a wonderful solution to our problem. it worked very well!:-)

[Dennis]

Strange enough default settings are provided when correct installed. But I agree, when you clear your box and a few days later want to add something the script breaks.

[Dkozikowski]

pixelpost guru,
thanks for providing a wonderful solution to our problem. it worked very well!:-)

Your welcome :)

[janickg]

Upon installation, the box was blank - so I don't think this a user-end problem, the admin addon is not functional upon installation itself.

[Dkozikowski]

Strange enough default settings are provided when correct installed. But I agree, when you clear your box and a few days later want to add something the script breaks.

When installing PP or the admin ping addon there is no function to populate the ping table thus there is no ID to update.

You can clear the default values in the admin_ping addon text box and leave them removed for a few days or months and you will still be able to update it later due to an ID already being created, but, if there is no ID to update nothing happens when you click the Update Pinglist button.

[Dennis]

Well it's fixed in 1.6

[janickg]

Well it's fixed in 1.6

Good to know.:rolleyes:

[japanwindow]

I also can't get the pings to work. When I add ping services in the text box they disappear on refresh.

I tried the fix above, but I can't find the table that I'm supposed to drop: pixelpost_db_prefix_ping

Is this the exact name of the table I should drop? There are 12 tables listed and that's not one of them. I can only find: pixelpost_ping

I went ahead and modified my addons/admin_ping.php but simply doing that didn't solve the problem.

I considered modifying pixelpost_ping as suggested in another thread, but there are no detailed directions. I'm afraid I'll screw up my database.

[Dkozikowski]

pixelpost_ping is the one you need to drop

[rodique]

Hello!
I have another problem with Ping_service_addon. When I add ping services in the text box it works good. Nothing disappear. But when I uploading new photo smth going wrong.
First - it takes too long time to upload, then nothing happens and finally error 500.
Any ideas?