Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Lars-Erik Edstom -
Number of replies: 20
I run lates stable moodle on my Debian Sid machine. After a system upgrade mysql 5 was installed instead of mysql 4 (due to security reasons I belive).

However, after that, forum doesn't work properly. When I add a new post i doesen't appear in forum discussions. The post can only be viewed from the course site were "latest news" can be seen.
Unfortunatly "older news" can't be viewed.

Is there a known incompabillity between mysql 5 and mod forum?
Anyone else who got the same problem?

/Lars-Erik
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In reply to Lars-Erik Edstom

Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Jonathan Woods -
Hi Lars-Erik,

I can confirm that this doesn't work on my MySQL5-based Moodle installation.  I did a new install of Moodle yesterday and my forums won't display new discussion topics.  They are in the system (e.g. in 'new forum posts') but are not displayed under the appropriate forum.

Please post any more info here and I will try to do the same.

Jonathan Woods
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Max Stenlund -
I have the same problem...
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Lars-Erik Edstom -
It is possible to change some settings i mysql 5. I will try those changes as soon as I get som time off.

If I'm successful, I post back.

/Lars-Erik
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Max Stenlund -

Im not an expert in MySql (not even close...) but could it be this "bug" in MySql: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=13551

There seem to be a workaround...

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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Max Stenlund -

The Error message reads:

Unknown column 'd.usermodified' in 'on clause'

SELECT p.id,p.subject,p.modified,p.discussion,p.userid, d.name, d.timemodified, d.usermodified, d.groupid, u.firstname, u.lastname, u.email, u.picture , um.firstname AS umfirstname, um.lastname AS umlastname FROM mdl_forum_discussions d, mdl_forum_posts p, mdl_user u LEFT JOIN mdl_user um on (d.usermodified = um.id) WHERE d.forum = '10' AND p.discussion = d.id AND p.parent = 0 AND p.userid = u.id ORDER BY d.timemodified DESC

Is it possible that it should be (Based on the "bug" in MySql) :

SELECT p.id,p.subject,p.modified,p.discussion,p.userid, d.name, d.timemodified, d.usermodified, d.groupid, u.firstname, u.lastname, u.email, u.picture , um.firstname AS umfirstname, um.lastname AS umlastname FROM (mdl_forum_discussions d, mdl_forum_posts p, mdl_user u) LEFT JOIN mdl_user um on (d.usermodified = um.id) WHERE d.forum = '10' AND p.discussion = d.id AND p.parent = 0 AND p.userid = u.id ORDER BY d.timemodified DESC

I cant find the file (Im a newbee u know) so I can´´t test it myself...is it lib.php in mod/forum?

In reply to Max Stenlund

Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Jonathan Woods -
Hi Max,

Adding those brackets seems to work.  Thanks for the research.  The file to modify is mod/forum/lib.php.  Search for 'forum_get_discussions' to get to the function.   The lines to modify are  about the 56th and  58th.  I've copied this section of the function below to show where I put the brackets.

    //TODO: there must be a nice way to do this that keeps both postgres and mysql 3.2x happy but I can't find it right now.
    if ($CFG->dbtype == 'postgres7') {
        return get_records_sql("SELECT $postdata, d.name, d.timemodified, d.usermodified, d.groupid,
                                   u.firstname, u.lastname, u.email, u.picture $umfields
                              FROM {$CFG->prefix}forum_discussions d
                              JOIN {$CFG->prefix}forum_posts p ON p.discussion = d.id
                              JOIN {$CFG->prefix}user u ON p.userid = u.id
                                   $umtable
                             WHERE d.forum = '$forum'
                               AND p.parent = 0
                                   $groupselect $userselect
                          ORDER BY $forumsort $limit");
    } else {
        return get_records_sql("SELECT $postdata, d.name, d.timemodified, d.usermodified, d.groupid,
                                   u.firstname, u.lastname, u.email, u.picture $umfields
bracket here ->       FROM ({$CFG->prefix}forum_discussions d,
                                   {$CFG->prefix}forum_posts p,
bracket here ->           {$CFG->prefix}user u) 
                                   $umtable
                             WHERE d.forum = '$forum'
                               AND p.discussion = d.id
                               AND p.parent = 0
                               AND p.userid = u.id $groupselect $userselect
                          ORDER BY $forumsort $limit");
    }

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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Lars-Erik Edstom -

Thanks! Forum discussions works perfectly.

In my Debian install, the rowes to be modified in /usr/share/moodle/mod/forum/lib.php, are rowes 1296-1298.


/Lars-Erik

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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Bernardo Carvalho -

Hi there, I was having the same problem with the Forums, then I added the brackets and it works fine. Problem Im still having is when adding a new course, I get the message:

Serious Error! Could not create the new course!

I moved to a new server, and using MySQL 5

Any ideas please?

Many thanks

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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Iñaki Arenaza -
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There have been several problemas with MySQL 5.x when the STRICT_TRANS_TABLES flag is on. You could check your my.cnf file and see if this is the case.

Saludos. Iñaki.
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Dan Stowell -
This fixed it for us as well - thanks for tracing the error.

I've posted it as bug 4875 so hopefully it can be fixed in 1.5.3 as well as in the development code. Please "vote" for that bug to be fixed if it has affected you!
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Martin Dougiamas -
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All fixed in CVS: STABLE and HEAD.
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Peter Ruthven-Stuart -
Imachen de Plugin developers
Martin,

Does this fix also apply to 1.6dev?

i.e. as far as you know, will MySQL 5 work with 1.6dev?

Thank you.
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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de M Y -

Thats the exact problem I have, does anybody have a solution to this.

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Re: Moodle forum+mysql 5 = No news has been posted yet

de Azizah Aziz -

i try to edit  the lib.php in /mod/forum  as you suggested, but it doesn't work. The news work fine before but today when i checked it says that no news has been posted. i'm using

MySQL client version: 4.1.22 and MySQL Server version: 5.0.91

Please help me. my site is http://www.lmsipda.net/lms/   

thank you.