I like John's idea. We can require attribute authors to use the entity forms for quotes inside of attributes, if they want to use them in odd quantities.

I was thinking about that outstanding bug/feature where, when you've quit the browser, you're unable to auto-log back in, using "remember me", directly to the message centre, you get taken to the index page.

Here's the code:

  if (!$_user || (!is_array($_user->subs))) {
    Header("Location:" . URL_path() . "index.php");
  }

and I'm hampered only by two things: not knowing where $_user comes from, and where $_user->subs comes from.

I have a copy of the board from a while ago, which predates "remember me", so I can't actually test it, but obviously it's failing one of those tests, either the user doesn't get auto-logged in on this page, or they get logged on but it can't retrieve their subscriptions.

This behaviour also happens if you have no subs and go to the message centre, is that still true now? Rather than it saying "you have no subs, can't help you" it returns the user to the front page?

[Thinks to self: you can test that you know!]

[Goes to test]

[Comes back]

If I have no subs, that's what happens, I get taken to the front page, (and the link to the message centre disappears).

Is it a fair assumption that the message centre is trying to check the subs too early or something?

If we took out that second boolean, what terrible consequences would ensue? People with no subs would get an empty message centre?

Coming back with the answer to my question -- rather than showing no threads, it shows all threads. So the tweak would be to check for subs then put "you have no subscriptions, you need the edit profile page" for these hapless users. But who are they anyway? People with no subs don't see the Message Centre link anyway, so how did they get here?

Am I being annoying? Sunday morning, nothing to do, lots of coffee, sorry.

The only difference between the front page and the Message Center is that the former shows all threads while the latter shows only your subscribed threads. For those with no subscribed threads, the coders had a choice to make with respect to the Message Center--- either show no threads, or show all threads. For usability reasons (no one wants to see no threads) they picked the second, but rather than mess with the message center code, they decided to throw those users to the front page, since it does the same thing. I suppose we could have a warning message ("You have no subscribed threads"), but maybe you don't want any subscribed threads. In that case, the warning message would get annoying fast.

rather than mess with the message center code, they decided to throw those users to the front page, since it does the same thing.

Absolutely fine, and I agree, but the point I was making is that, despite the fact that I have metric shitloads of subscribed threads, if I start my browser and go straight to the message centre then I get kicked back to the front page.

For some reason, I seem to be erroneously failing the "user has at least one subscribed thread" test at that point.

John, your code is old. That bug has been fixed for most people. In fact, I wasn't aware that anyone was still experiencing it.

Can I have your OS/browser info again? And does it happen with all combos thereof?

I'm on MacOS 9.2.

I just tried it in Netscape 4.5, Opera 5, and IE5, and they all do the same thing.

In case there's any confusion, what I did was

1. Launch browser and log in.("Remember Me" is enabled)
2. Make a bookmark for Message Centre
3. Quit the browser
4. Start the browser up again
5. Click on the bookmark

Just tried it in (Virtual) Windows IE5 and the same thing happened.

Aha. What I hadn't realized (read: skimmed past) was that you were logged in when you hit index.php.

I think the PHP upgrade bit us. The version when the code was started handled session variables differently. This version seems to have switched over to just one way. Which is good, if I'd actually caught all the instances of the old way.

It's fixed now.