Ipb 2.2:Repairing Some Blank Screens
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Repairing Some Blank Screens
Whitespaces can cause some blank screens to appear when browsing a forum. It is important to run the whitespace checker, evaluate the results, and get rid of the whitespaces.
I know I submitted a similar tutorial on how to find whitespaces and delete them but this one will be viewed by more because of its title and popularity.
Follow these simple steps to achieve the desired result. This tutorial is straightforward and to the point, just like all of my exclusive tutorials.
Administration CP Enter the Administration Control Panel (Admin CP) by visiting your forums and instead of browsing the index.php inside your forums' directory, change index.php to admin.php. This will bring you to the screen in which you enter your administrative username and password.
CP Login Enter your administrative username and password (same as your forum username and password)
Help & Support Tab Click on the Help & Support tab at the top of the page.
Run the Tool Scroll down the System Overview page and find the Whitespace Checker. Click Run Tool.
Evaluate the Results The Whitespace Checker will check every file in your /forums directory for whitespaces. It will then list all of the files that contain whitespaces. What you need to do next is edit every single file listed and remove the whitespaces. Don't worry, editing each single file can take only four seconds after a while of editing with an FTP client.
Open FTP Client In this tutorial, I, John, will use an FTP client to edit each whitespace. Edit File After logging into my forums, I navigate to the file in which the Whitespace Checker has ruled out as a whitespaced file. I then right click on that file and select Edit.
Now I can edit this file live and find the whitespace. Ah, this is a small file, and I've found it already.
Finally I simply delete anything after the ?> and save the file.
Notice: Whitespaces can be found in both the opening <? line and the closing ?> line in PHP. Check both before proceeding to the next file!
That should solve some of your white spaces (if not all of them). Enjoy!
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