JSON Error with Vanilla 2.0.18.12

Anonymoose

When posting a discussion, this appears:

Questions that may already have your answer:
parsererror (SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token '<')

Anonymoose

Temporary solution: Remove the related post functionality.

Replace contents of plugins/SphinxSearch/widgets/views/relatedpost.php

with:

<?php
if (!defined('APPLICATION'))
    exit();

/**
 *FUNCTIONALITY DISABLED, Replace with original relatedpost.php to restore.
 *
 *Insert this below the "Ask and question/disuccion" buttons
 *
 * This will peform a POST to your server asking for related threads as the user
 * types in his/her title
 *
 * @todo make it faster and work with Vanilla's default jquery autocomplete and NOT jqueryUI
 */

x00

you shouldn't end a php file with ?> it is open to white space errors.

Anonymoose

@x00 said:
you shouldn't end a php file with ?> it is open to white space errors.

Thanks. Fixed.

x00

Better way to debug is figure out what you are getting back by looking the network traffic in inspect. That will tell you what you are getting instead of the JSON.

mcu_hq

@Anonymoose Thanks for the bug report

jamesinc

I'm also seeing this in 2.1.11. As far as I can see, the cause is as follows.

A JS function, waitForMsg(), builds the URL to /plugin/sphinxsearch/newdiscussion

This function relies on a value from a DOM node, $("#WebRoot").val().

I don't appear to have that element in my DOM anywhere, and I'm guessing old mate up above has the same issue. The result is that the plugin attempts an AJAX call to /undefined/plugin/sphinxsearch/newdiscussion. This returns an HTML page and results in the '<' syntax error mentioned above.

jamesinc

I think the correct way to do what you're trying to do is as follows:

gdn.url('/plugin/sphinxsearch/newdiscussion');

x00

Yes that was removed from the dom for security reasons.

Your function is correct usage. For general definitions use gdn.definition

giacomosilli

Hi, when i create a new discussion, i still get this:

    Questions that may already have your answer:

    parsererror (SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0)

How to fix that?