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Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
Here’s a puzzler: I have a single article that I cannot open from the article|admin screen. So far as I can see, though (by checking via PHPMyAdmin) the source code and Textile are all fine, and everything displays correctly. But I can’t clickthrough to edit from the Textpattern interface: txp just hangs with that interminable “loading” in the status bar.
I’ve searched through the forum to see if this has been addressed before, but it doesn’t appear to have been. Any suggestions on what steps I ought to take to find out what’s happening, and/or to fix the article?
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#2 2006-03-28 22:33:39
- zem
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
You mean it hangs when you click on the article title to go to the edit screen, or when you click to save your changes?
Alex
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It hangs when I click on the article title. I can’t edit it at all in txp.
On top of that, every other article loads fine for editing. Write a new article after this one—it loads fine after the fact. Click on a previous one—it loads fine, too. That’s why I suspected there was something screwy done in the formatting, e.g. in textile, but I couldn’t discern what it might be.
Last edited by mgbales (2006-03-28 23:03:30)
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I can imagine that it puzzles you but if there is no easy solution for this, why not create a new article and copy all the relevant old data from your phpmyadmin into the article? Afterwards just delete the row in the Textpattern table.
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
Thing is, that’s been done. Well, not exactly that, but the article has been deleted, and all the text has been re-entered. This has not been done via PHPMyAdmin, but rather from wthin Textpattern. The same thing happened with the article. I will try doing this on the database table— but I’ve my doubts it will work. (The relevant article is this, by the way.)
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#6 2006-03-31 01:30:43
- Mary
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
Are you using any Textpattern tags in that article?
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None at all. (And BTW, I haven’t had time yet to try another delete & reentry.)
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#8 2006-03-31 03:44:58
- zem
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
What plugins do you have installed? Any modifications?
Before you delete anything, go to admin > diagnostics and select High Detail. That will force a MySQL table check. Scroll through the diagnostics and look for the part about ’18 Tables’ or similar.
Alex
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
Plugins: ajw_keyword_extract, knd_amazonlist, rss_admin_db_manager, stw_category_tree, txp.icio.us, and wet_slimpattern. I’ve made three modifications to knd_amazonlist, but they’re only aesthetic (changed CSS defaults); likewise one aesthetics mod to txp:recent_comments. That’s all. I try to keep everything else pretty basic.
And from diagnostics: “18 Tables OK.” I had “debugging” on yesterday to check a tag trace, but there’s nothing out of the ordinary I saw.
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#10 2006-03-31 05:56:22
- zem
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
“18 Tables OK” means your tables are all intact.
All I can tell you is, there’s nothing in a stock Textpattern install that happens when you open an article for editing that might take a long time, or that depends on a network service that might time out. Best suggestion I have is to try disabling plugins one by one, to see if that makes a difference. (Plus the obvious, like making sure everything is up to date)
You can probably work around the problem by copying or deleting the article with phpMyAdmin, but that won’t fix the underlying cause.
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Re: Cannot edit article from the admin|article screen
You can probably work around the problem by copying or deleting the article with phpMyAdmin, but that won’t fix the underlying cause.
Right, I know. But I’m gathering that the underlying cause isn’t making itself glaringly obvious. I’m doubtful it’s the plugins since no other articles in the site suffer this problem; however, I will continue to investigate, and I’ll post back here when — if — I discover anything.
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