This is really awful. It seems to be this one user and it just affects these 2 older browsers, msie 5 and netscape 4.72 but when this one user logs in the browser window starts shivering and flickering like crazy, until I hit the stop button! This user can log in successfully in netscape 7.02 and I have one other student user who can log in to these older browsers just fine.
I have several teacher users and they all log in fine in the older browser. I have to be successful in these older browsers because the students all use a wide range of browsers and lots of them use Macs (which I'm not able to test, no access. woe is me)
I hate to delete that student user account because I have a lot of posts by it that I need for documenting this system (I'm going to a conference/workshop next month andI want to demonstrate this to my collaborative group)
The trouble started after I changed moodle/theme/mm/config.php (mm is my home-made theme) and changed moodle/course/weeks.php and also moodle/course/lib.php and in moodle/theme/mm/styles.php to create the class weekdates for weeks.php.
I will attach a file showing the three changes in the hope that someone might be able to spot my errors.
I appreciate any comments anyone can make! As I write out more documentation on what I'm learning I'll post it here.
I Broke It! One student user - on login via MSIE 5.0 and Netscape 4.72 screen flickers
by Paula Edmiston -
Number of replies: 3
In reply to Paula Edmiston
Re: I Broke It! One student user - on login via MSIE 5.0 and Netscape 4.72 screen flickers
by John Gone -
Hello Paula,
I,m gonna take a wild guess and say that this is a MySQL issue here. I think that the user has left a blank space in a field or done something odd during registration. I'd like to see the browser dance, sounds kinda cool...
Please be sure to let us in on the resolution.
Good Luck, John
I,m gonna take a wild guess and say that this is a MySQL issue here. I think that the user has left a blank space in a field or done something odd during registration. I'd like to see the browser dance, sounds kinda cool...
Good Luck, John
In reply to Paula Edmiston
Re: I Broke It! One student user - on login via MSIE 5.0 and Netscape 4.72 screen flickers
by Martin Dougiamas -
On login? Like an endless loop?
I'm pretty sure it's not your changes ... but check if they are running security software (like Norton Security or Zonealarm) that might be blocking HTTP_REFERERs
I'm pretty sure it's not your changes ... but check if they are running security software (like Norton Security or Zonealarm) that might be blocking HTTP_REFERERs
God I love this place. I once read a great book, "Knots", by a funky psychitrist, R.D.Lang. It was full of puzzles and little mind games. He had an epigram in there:
There is nothing to be afraid of
And that sucker was right.
It was nothing, after all, that was sending my browsers into fits.
See, I saw this stuff in the code about the "guest" user and how the guest had no last name. So when I created the test user I didn't give it a last name. Well, I just went into mdl_users and gave the account a last name and the durn thing works like a charm now in all my browsers.
I want to thank you both for helping me with this. I'm just having a terrific time with this stuff and burning up the wires.
There is nothing to be afraid of
And that sucker was right.
It was nothing, after all, that was sending my browsers into fits.
See, I saw this stuff in the code about the "guest" user and how the guest had no last name. So when I created the test user I didn't give it a last name. Well, I just went into mdl_users and gave the account a last name and the durn thing works like a charm now in all my browsers.
I want to thank you both for helping me with this. I'm just having a terrific time with this stuff and burning up the wires.