Restoring Database to a previous state. Please Help

nolawi

FIrst thing I did was check if any of the files were missing. Everything was there. The trouble seemed to be with the database. Thus I asked my host to restore the database to yesterday. They did and everything was back online...

But one issue... instead of numbers and names it shows X in place of it...

SignedInAsX
StartANewDiscussion doesn't have spaces in it..
XDayAgo instead of the 2 days ago… it shows that…

What I want to know is if this is a data issue or if I should install vanilla again. Thanks

Minisweeper

I'm thinking thats an issue with your language file...check out the conf\languages directory (i think that's the one?)

Sixy

languages\English\definitions.php ?

nolawi

Yes I checked the language file and there is nothing wrong with it... Infact i checked by downloading the latest version to see if there is any difference to it... its exactly the same...

the porblem seems to be with the data is being read....

$Context->Dictionary['OldPostDateFormatCode'] = 'M jS Y';
$Context->Dictionary['XDayAgo'] = '//1 day ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XDaysAgo'] = '//1 days ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XHourAgo'] = '//1 hour ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XHoursAgo'] = '//1 hours ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XMinuteAgo'] = '//1 minute ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XMinutesAgo'] = '//1 minutes ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XSecondAgo'] = '//1 second ago';
$Context->Dictionary['XSecondsAgo'] = '//1 seconds ago';

its showing the XMinutesAgo instea of the seconds ago

Minisweeper

Is it not doing the same thing with all your words though? Generally it uses XMinutesAgo when it cant read the definition for that array key...

nolawi

so minisweeper, do you think something is wrong with the data or the files?

Minisweeper

Well, change the name of your definitions.php file to definitions.backup or something, and view your forum. You'll see how all the text becomes kinda short - that's cause when it tries to read the definition it cant, and therefore it just uses the array key label - which sounds to me like what it's doing here. Normally I'd say just replace your dictionary but if you're convinced it's all OK then I'm a bit confused. I'm also a bit confused why it's only doing it for the XTimeAgo keys (I assume it is?)

Only other thing I can think of is that your Framework.Functions.php (I thikn it's called) might have become a bit messed up, but i should think in that case a lot more stuff would be broken.

nolawi

Ok fixed... minesweeper you were right one of my files was jarbled somehow... the data was fine..

so what I did was reinstall vanilla again... and once it was working fine.. i redirected to the old database.. and it works...

so i have to rename the folder now.. I will start a new thread for that question

thanks