CMSB Acting Weirdly

Hi,

The issue is this:  There is a private members area that only Directors can access (Website Membership).  Once in (see attached minutes.php), they will see additional documents not available to the general public.  Specifically the BOD Minutes.  For some reason, the 2016 Minutes don't show at all, and I don't understand why as they are identical to other year's Minutes

When looking at your code, the only difference between the BOD minutes and the other minutes is this code in the IF statement (line 149):

$record['private']

instead of

$record['public']

Can you change the BOD if statement to use $record['public'] and the see if the content appears. Hopefully this will help narrow it down.

Damon:  Something really weird is going on.  I tried your suggestion and now I am really mystified.

First, after implementing your suggestion, only the title "Board of Directors Meeting Minutes" showed up (without login).  Then I logged in, and go exactly the same thing (no minutes).

So, I logged out, logged into CMSB and changed the 2016 Minutes from "private" to "public" and went back to the website.  No difference (logged in or out).

I reset the "public" in line 149 back to "private" and everything went back to what it was before, except that I can't logout, but only for the minutes.php page.  All BOD minutes up to 2015 show, nothing after (original condition).  If I go to the BOD page, I don't see their addresses & phone numbers unless I login again.

This is very confusing....!

Ragi

Hi,

Can you use the CMS Builder showme function to display all the values for every variable.

<?php showme($minutes_public_privateRecords); ?>

Hopefully this will show what variables are displaying content and help narrow it down.

If not, the next step is to start with a new page with just the BOD code and nothing else to see if that works, then add more and retest to determine what is causing the unexpected results.

Damon:  Is there anyway to write the output to a file instead of trying to scroll through a browser window?

Damon:  Is there anyway to write the output to a file instead of trying to scroll through a browser window

Not something I have done. I usually output the contents in the footer and scroll through.

I'm guessing that you could possibly use the PHP functions fopen, fwrite, fclose.

Damon:  Found it!  My client decided to change the catalog labels without telling me.  The code looked for "Board of Director Meetings".  The client changed it to "Board of Director Minutes" prior to publishing the 2016 minutes.

So, that is one problem solved.  The other issue is why I can't logout.  I thought it might be my cache, but I flushed it and still see everything when I go to this page.

Damon:  For some reason Websitemembership plugin won't let me logoff this page (minutes).  It does actually logoff, but the value of $CURRENT_User['position'] is still "director", so it displays the BOD Minutes, which it shouldn't.

The code I use to logoff is as follows:

<?php if ($CURRENT_USER['position'] == 'Director'): ?>
<div style="border: 1px solid #000; background-color: #EEE; padding: 10px; width: 500px">
<p><a href='directors.php'>Board of Directors</a><br />
<a href='motions.php'>Motions & Financial Statements</a><br />
<a href='minutes.php'>Minutes & Record of Proceedings</a><br />
<a href='profile.php?action=logoff'>Logoff</a></p>
</div>

Any ideas how I can force the logoff and not display the BOD Minutes?

Ragi

Ragi,

Not sure if this applies to what you're experiencing, but it may...

By any chance are you using any htaccess rules to leverage browser cache? (we often use htaccess browser cache rules for page speed)

Reason I bring this up is I had experienced a "logoff" issue before, and it was due to "ExpiresByType text/html" and/or "ExpiresDefault" content type rules (to which we no longer place in htaccess files on sites using the membership module).

Anyway, just wanted to mention this in case it relates...

Cheers,
Steve