Hi,
I have recently installed n13 news 4.2 and I have a problem with changing settings from my news cpanel. Everything seems to work fine however when I enter Options > System I cant change any options. It displays the menu tabs 'comments' 'friendly URLs' etc but I cant seem to click to make them drop down. I had a similar problem in the add news area where I couldn't choose 'summary' and 'comment' options but I fixed this by editing the config.php file, changing

$newsform_options['toggle_archive'] = 0;

to

$newsform_options['toggle_archive'] = 1;

Is there other code that needs changing and that I have missed?

Also when I originally installed n13 news I had a few problems witch seemed to be fixed by adding the below settings to php.ini

session.save_path = "/var/tmp/"

date.timezone = Europe/London

Im not sure if this may be related or not...

I have also tried accessing the control panel from different browsers and computers and when I use the demo news on the n13 site it works fine, so it isn't any of my computer settings. I also tried installing 4.0 and had the same problem!

any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Cheers
Dom

The settings menus not expanding very likely has something to do with the news/js/main.php file, try viewing that file directly in your browser to see if it's giving any error messages.

Hi Chris thanks for the speedy reply! I just checked out the news/js/main.php file and got this error message.

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1263 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /home/maidengu/public_html/news/js/main.php on line 21

Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /home/maidengu/public_html/news/js/main.php on line 21


which is almost the same error message I got when trying to access admin.php after the install. I fixed that by adding:

session.save_path = "/var/tmp/"

to the php.ini file

any ideas would be very helpful!
Cheers

Creating a copy of the php.ini file and placing it in the news/js/ directory should hopefully fix it.

Just tried editing the php.ini with the same as the other ones and it didnt work :(

Any other ideas?

Hi Chris,

I finally fixed the problem and guess what you were right! Turned out when I was editing my php.ini file through my web host control panel it said it was saving but didn't make the changes. So after changing the php.ini on my computer and then uploading it, it worked!! I was just wondering though if adding the below to php.ini will have any adverse effects?

session.save_path = "/var/tmp/"

date.timezone = Europe/London


Thanks heaps for your help and I love your program!!!

Shouldn't cause any problems whatsoever.

thanx.

had the same issue. fix it by editing the php.ini

it's kinda weird because the same script worked in my other host!!