View count all 1?

VariStop · January 2015

What is the low-down on the view counts?
I'm using version 2.1.8p2 and all the topics are showing a view count of 1.
I found some old posts here talking about views being incremented by 10 only. Is that still the case? Since I have a small forum, how could I make it increment by one?

Thank you

Bleistivt · January 2015

Check you conf/config.php for this line:

$Configuration['Vanilla']['Views']['Denormalize'] = TRUE;

And remove it if present

VariStop · January 2015

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, this line was not present in the config.php
What could be preventing the count from going up?

Bleistivt · January 2015

Yes, the magic_quotes_gpc setting in PHP, which has to be turned off.

VariStop · January 2015

Thank you. I have disabled the magic quotes in the main vanilla folder by creating a php.ini file as described in the php manual. Should I also place a php.ini file in all the subfolders of vanilla as well?

VariStop · January 2015

Actually, the vanilla forum stops working (literally, there's not even a error message, just a blank screen) when magic quotes is disabled with the new php.ini file in the main folder.

Bleistivt · January 2015

Vanilla definitely doesn't require magic quotes.

$Configuration['Debug'] = TRUE;

See if you get any error messages. It might also be an internal server error.

hgtonight · January 2015

Blank screen means you need to enable debugging and report the actual error.

Add $Configuration['Debug'] = TRUE to your /conf/config.php file.

EDIT - Crossposted again.

VariStop · January 2015

Here's the error when I add the php.ini file to vanilla main folder:

Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found in public_html/mysite.com/forum/library/database/class.database.php on line 48

hgtonight · January 2015

Vanilla requires PDO to be enabled on your server. You can verify your server doesn't have PDO by checking out your phpinfo().

If you are using a host, ask them to enable it.

Here is more information on enabling PDO if you own the server: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18747136/how-do-i-configure-php-to-enable-pdo-and-include-mysqli-on-centos

VariStop · January 2015

Interesting. My custom php.ini file was disabling pdo. For those reading this with the same situation, here's a link to fix this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12027533/php-ini-blocks-php-pdo

The view counts are now working!
Thank you so much Bleistivt and hgtonight! You guys are the best!

x00 · January 2015

Yes it must have been something like that because if you really didn’t have PDO, you would not have go so far to see the view.

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