Hi there,

 

I use Typesetter on a few different sites and in the last few months *all* of my sites are having this bug:

* If I log-in, the page I clicked 'log in' on will not display any Typesetter editor overlays, it still shows 'log in' at the bottom almost as if I didn't log in

* If I click another page, the type setter editor features all appear and I am logged in - but click another page and everything dissapears again

--- I have tried different browsers, also different computers! I don't know why this is happening.. any ideas? Thanks

Also - I did not change anything on my sites that caused this issue to happen ... it happened simultaneously across all of them at the same time. I wonder if it is to do with a server PHP upgrade. I dunno.

Just checked, my host Siteground has upgraded PHP to: 7.3.28

It must be a Typesetter/PHP issue surely... I don't know if I can downgrade.

Okay - it *IS* a PHP issue. I found I could change my PHP to an earlier version. I tried version 5.6.40 and this appears to be working better.

 

I think Typesetter needs an update? :)

Typesetter 5.1 is not really php 7.3-ready. What You can do is update .

1. Rename the directory /include to /include.old and replace it with the include - directory of the CE-Version, which is error-corrected and updated to run with php7.3 (and bootstrap4).

2. You can also replace the templates directory - just do not overwrite templates which are in use ! - the same for the addons-directory

(so please make a backup before under : Tools)

3. there is also Typesetter 5.2  but if You want to keep Your installations as they are, the above is sufficient.

P.S. If You have manually added Ckeditor-plugins, they may be incompatible with  ckeditor4.14. If Ckeditor doesnt come up - please remove them and replace them with a newer version :: (settings->ckeditor)

Thank you mabu!

Hi Mabu,

 

Sorry to be a pain! I followed your instructions perfectly (did my back up, renamed include to include.old, I zipped the new include directory and uploaded it to the server and then extracted it on the server) But now my site is just giving HTTP 500 error. I am running PHP 7.3. I quickly tried a few other PHP versions but still no joy. 

Any suggestions? Thanks again

1. This will normally mean that Your installation is corrupted (or You have a very old gpeasy-version). If You rename the include to include.new and then the include.old back to include it should normally function again - does it ?

2. Can You try lo load the include-directory of the CE-Version with filezilla-portable (not a zip of the include-directory but file by file : Unzip may evtl.  leave out some files or directories).

Then klick with the right mousekey at the include-directory and set all rights for that directory and subdirectory and files to 755.

3. Can You otherwise try to make a new installation (CE or 5.2RC) into a parallel subdirectory of the root and put a subdamain of Your domain on it. So You can easy see if it is Your server (or eventually only an old php7.3 - incompatible plugin, which You can test here)

P.S. If the crash -  reason should be the minishop , which allegedly doesnt run with php7, as another user in another posting said, the minishop-version 1.51 (tested to run with Typesetter 5.2rc on php7.4 and given up by the author )  has 'only' several deprecated functions and the xss-vulerability of 1.50 is also in 1.51).  Maybe a filter like hmlawed on the variable $Mtxt can help here a bit (PHP - functions : strip_tags(strip_tags($Mtxt) );  htmlentities and htmlspecialchars.).

There is also a gpshop (as rather uselesss shop demonstration) at github (for 'fun').

Hi Mabu,

 

Thanks, uploading the entire directory actually did work! I was surprised :) I thought unzipping it with the servers own unzip routine would have been the best practice, but as you say, apparently not! Okay, thank you. I also deleted Minishop as I wasn't using it anymore. Thanks.

edit: seems ok ;)

 

Minishop  functions - but not with php8 (just deprecated warnings with php 7). The $Mtxt is a minor bug.

Here a updated and improved  new version (Minishop TP) for testing.