Features / Usability

Posted by Bill White 20 Apr 2006 15:08 GMT-0000 posts: 8

> phpMyAdmin is a separate script/program that might already be installed at your server. If it isn't, it should be (can be uploaded and installed much like Tikiwiki is). It is for accessing your MySQL databases directly with your web browser. phpMyAdmin is definitely something to get familiar with for operations such as this.

I had a similar problem. I had created a User Module and set it to display for all users in the right column. It contained bad code that resulted in "Fatal error: Smarty error: in evaluated template line 1: syntax error: unrecognized tag: tiki-admin_modules.php (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 436) in /home/closingp/public_html/tiki/lib/smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1088".

I couldn't log in, I couldn't view a page raw, or anything.

I am new to PHP and pretty new to Tikiwiki, but I had no problem finding phpmyadmin in my webhost control panel under the SQL tab. A few screens later and I was looking at the "tiki_modules" table. The last record in the table was the new module.

I was a little worried because my problem code did not show up in the table. After a little reflection and a little encouragement at the IRC channel, I pressed the delete button for that line.

It instantly solved the problem. There was no need to flush the cache or anything.

Bill White