Weirdness with Users In Forum

[ethank]

On my dev box it worked fine, but on my production box (whcih has the same settings) the inforum field isn't getting updated for my userid. A few people its working for, but not I. Looking at the code, I see no reason why this shouldn't work, unless doshutdown isn't getting executed for some reason.

Any ideas?

Ethan

[ethank]

I got it working by setting noshutdownfunc to 1

What exactly does this do?

Ethan

[ethank]

bump....I really want to know what this noshutdownfunc=1 setting actually does.

[Freddie Bingham]

If set to one than the dosutdown() function is executed where it is called in the script. If set to 0 than it is executed after the script is done. This is what causes you to have to refresh Who's Online when you visit it for the first time.

What version of php is running on the forum where it is not working properly? Any different than your "dev" forum?

[ethank]

Originally posted by freddie
If set to one than the dosutdown() function is executed where it is called in the script. If set to 0 than it is executed after the script is done. This is what causes you to have to refresh Who's Online when you visit it for the first time.

What version of php is running on the forum where it is not working properly? Any different than your "dev" forum?

It appears that PHP and Apache kind of exploded on my prod server. CPU was pegged at 100% in System and wouldn't let it go, and a few other scripts were having problems. Restarted the server and everythings fine now. I set nodoshutdown to 0 and it works

Is there an advantage to setting it to 0 vs. 1?

Ethan

[Freddie Bingham]

Leaving it where it is, in theory , will show a page to a user a bit faster as it does some processing afterwards instead of during the page load but in terms of overall server load it makes no difference.

[ethank]

Originally posted by freddie
Leaving it where it is, in theory , will show a page to a user a bit faster as it does some processing afterwards instead of during the page load but in terms of overall server load it makes no difference.

Thats what I deduced. Well, at least everything is working nicely now!

Ethan