Oleg please help

The vbulletin support team has officially left the scene. After 45 minutes of trying to receive a simple help on a template.... they told me they are unable to and I should load my default vbulletin and start from scratch. I can not believe those guys.

The problem I have is somewhat simple but impossible for me to figure out.

My navbar popups no longer function. For example, the navbar links such as search and quick links would show a popup menu. This function is completely disabled. And even worse, this has not only affected by navbar but also my left hand navigation module. Basically all menues that are supposed to popout on my site is no longer working.

From my guess this is a template problem which vbulletin support team has also agreed. the problem is what template? Where in the template?

I tried reverting any template that I may have editted over the past few days and can not seem to find the solution. I would appreciate any help on this.... its driving me insane.

Thank you

Hi James,

Have you checked the setting in your AdminCP?

I have occasionally noticed my DHTML menus stop functioning.. going into the AdminCP and setting it to No, submitting, then setting it to Yes, helps.

Hello Ace,

That didnt fix the problem :(

There's a javascript error on your pages somewhere that's causing them to break. If it happened recently, then it has to be related to some recent template changes you may have made.

Yes... which is the main question I asked in my first post. Which template? I ask this because I didnt make any changes to my templates recently.

I ran a tool which cleans coding by removing white spaces. Apparently this may of caused it but I do not know which template.

Hard to say. Make a backup of your style, and start reverting templates back to default one by one until you see it start working again. My guess is it would be somewhere in header or navbar. It could possibly be something in the .js files too (in the clientscript directory) if you have made any changes there.

yea I was suspecting the .js files as well. I'll look into the .js files. If I see any problems or updates.. I will post them here.

I just rewrote the default .js files from vbulletin but do not see any changes. Also tried reverting navbar and header but no good.

Would you know of any other template that may cause this problem?

Could be any... If you create a new Style and choose No Parent style, that will be a default vBulletin style. Try viewing the site using that style and see if the dropdowns work.

Yea.. I tried that and it does work. So I came to believe it is a template error.

I just cant seem to figure out which one. :(

Hello James,

in the footer template you have this javascript call:

HTML Code:

<script language="javascript">
    init();
</script>

while default is:

HTML Code:

<script language="javascript">
    vBulletin_init();
</script>

this might be the reason.

OMG! Oleg you are a genius. I must say I am impressed everytime.

This actually fixed the popup problem. I swear you and the entire vbseo team know 100 times more than the vbulletin developers.

I just have one more thing to ask... I am getting a yellow error on IE at the bottom left corner. Do you see this also?

One more problem... I reverted the footer template and now even when I insert:

<!--VBSEO_ARCHIVE_LINKS-->

I can not get the archive links to show up.

there's still a problem.

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"> <!--
    // Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
    vBulletin_init();
//--> </script> <script language="javascript">
    init();
</script>

along with all your MM_ functions are undefined.

get firefox and the web dev toolbar, and peep the javascript consoel. its all in there with a simple click.

I just installed it but not sure what Im supposed to do with it. Could you briefly explain what I need to look for?