Todd: Suggestion for Bonk Page Replacement.

peregrine · June 2012

replace error.master.php with this file or something like it.

   <?php
    @ob_end_clean();
    echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'; ?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-ca">
    <head>
       <title>Bonk</title>
       <?php
       if ($CssPath !== FALSE)
          echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="',Asset($CssPath),'" />';
       ?>
    </head>
    <body>
       <div id="Content">
          <div class="SplashInfo">
             <h1>Bonk</h1>
             <p>Something bunky happened. Please bear with us while we iron out the kinks.</p>
             <?php
             if (Gdn::Session()->CheckPermission('Garden.Settings.Manage')){
                     echo "to further debug put these lines in config.php";
                     echo "<br />\$Configuration['Garden']['Debug'] = TRUE;";
                     echo "<br />\$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php\';";
                     echo "<br />";
                     echo "if you are changing a theme, the permission the following directories must exist and have permissions of 755.  If 755 does not work for you try 777";
                     echo "<br />";
                     echo "cache/ <br />  cache/Smarty/
     <br />   cache/Smarty/cache";
                   }             

             ?>
          </div>
       </div>
    </body>
    </html>

422 · June 2012

Good idea !

peregrine · June 2012

also a change to your help sidebar

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422 · June 2012

Not sure about the something bunky happened

peregrine · June 2012

that was a residual when I was testing to make sure I was hitting the page I thought I was - it was "funky".

leafmonster · June 2012

Something bonky happened...

Really good idea, peregrine. I'm sure this would have saved me some trouble sometime back in the day... Yikes, come to think of it I've been using Vanilla for six years.

x00 · June 2012

Even better a debug cookie, to be restricted to and turned on by admin. All they have to do is click on a link in the message.

Xarcell · July 2012

Vanilla newbie here. Where do I replace the file "error.master.php" in my vanilla directory?

peregrine · July 2012

Xarcell said: Vanilla newbie here. Where do I replace the file "error.master.php" in my vanilla directory?>

After the fact. This was mostly a suggestion to Vanilla folks, not for you to do at home :).

Lincoln · July 2012

During a bonk, you cannot assume any Garden assets are available at all. Otherwise, it defeats the purpose of a having a graceful failure page.

Lincoln · July 2012

@Xarcell You don't, you add a NEW one to your theme, which overrides the existing one.

Also, 'bonk' has had a more professional-looking revision for 2.1. (Makes me sad, but I'm sure many will appreciate it)

Sheila · July 2012

Lincoln said: During a bonk, you cannot assume any Garden assets are available at all. Otherwise, it defeats the purpose of a having a graceful failure page.

I like the term 'graceful failure'! Sorry for the off topic, please continue.

Lincoln · July 2012

"Graceful" in the sense that it's covering its mouth and burping instead of puking errors and code all over you. :D

UnderDog · July 2012

Lincoln said: Also, 'bonk' has had a more professional-looking revision for 2.1. (Makes me sad, but I'm sure many will appreciate it)

Oh, so finally we can get rid of the "I changed 1 line in conf/config.php and nothing happened" questions?

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