vBSEO/Photopost weird error...

Receiving the following error when accessing photos or categories from within PhotoPost Pro 5.5

PHP Code:

Warning: main(./includes/functions_showthread.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/neosmutc/public_html/pp/header-inc.php on line 115

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/functions_showthread.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/neosmutc/public_html/pp/header-inc.php on line 115 


This doesn't happen all the time. It appears to be completly random. The error started showing up after I installed vBSEO 3.0.0 RC5.

Even if I disable vBSEO, I still occasionally get the error. If I completly uninstall vBSEO, I don't get the error anymore. I tried for 30 minutes to see if I would get the error...none. I reinstalled vBSEO and within 5 minutes, I started to periodically getting the error again.

I contacted Photopost support, and told them that I just installed vBSEO. I asked them if vBSEO could be causing the issue? This is what they told me:

"your using 3.62 vbulletin we never call the file meantioned only in vb 3.0 series do we call that file"

"...that file should never be called since your running 3.62 as we load the class_postbit.php file"

Never mentioned vBSEO once... Not really much help.

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Host/Website Stats:
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http://www.neosmut.com
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vBulletin 3.6.2
vBadvanced CMPS 2.2.0
vBSEO 3.0.0 RC5
vBSEO Sitemap 1.7
PhotoPost Pro 5.5
ReviewPost 3.32

Apache 1.3.37
PHP 4.4.4
MySQL 4.1.21
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Thanks,
James Gommel
www.neosmut.com

Hello James,

please try to modify your header-inc.php file
FIND:

PHP Code:

    if ( isset($bbuserinfo['userid']) ) { 


REPLACE WITH:

PHP Code:

    if ( 0 && isset($bbuserinfo['userid']) ) { 


this is the code of vBulletin version detection, as a result it will always detect vB3.5+ in your case. Probably that will allow to avoid the issue with functions_showthread.php inclusion.

Thanks for trying to help me out. I tried your suggestion, but after replacing the code within the header-inc.php file, I get the following parse error...

PHP Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/neosmutc/public_html/pp/header-inc.php on line 68 


Does the line looks exactly the same as I posted above in your case?

Yes; all I did was copy and paste the line over the existing and compared the results to what you suggested. I'll try it again -- and let you know.

Okay, I think I found the problem... for some reason or another, if I manually type in the modification, save, and access the PhotoPost portion of my site - all's good. If I copy/paste the code into the header-inc.php file - I get the error. Apparently BBEDIT is reformatting the text when I copy/paste the code. As long as I open the file in BBEDIT and manually key the changes... it's okay.

So for now, I guess I have to wait and see if that fixed it.

Ok, great. Let me know if that resolved the issue.

Well, I think that did it... It's been 18 hours since I applied you fix, and everything is running just fine. I just need to remember this fix when and if I upgrade PhotoPost in the future... I know I'm going to forget and overwrite that file!