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ljvideo
11-09-2008, 11:28 AM
Everything but the index.php file in /big/dom/xljvideo/www/efm has disappeared. I've done nothing to cause this.

Yesterday, I could access efm as usual, today, it's a blank web page.

Any ideas..?
ljvideo
11-09-2008, 11:35 AM
Nevermind... Remembered that the filter files are located somewhere else, but that still doesn't explain why I'm getting a blank page when accessing EFM.
Melissa
11-09-2008, 11:36 AM
Hi,

See if this helps:
http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23258

(PHP was upgraded last night on most servers (http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24366).)
ljvideo
11-09-2008, 11:49 AM
Thanks, Melissa. I see that I've been "upgraded" to PHP5.
frankc
11-09-2008, 09:30 PM
Hi,

See if this helps:
http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23258

(PHP was upgraded last night on most servers (http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24366).)Oooo, thanks, Melissa! I didn't even THINK of EFM. :bow:
sheila
11-11-2008, 02:50 AM
I've found a simple fix for EFM.

Thanks to hints in Matt's post here (http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24427) (as I am NOT a PHP programmer) but it turns out the problem is the $this variable.

Here is the fix:

Go to your file
/big/dom/xdomain/www/efm/

find the file
index.php

In that file change all occurences of
$this

to

$this2
(or some other value that starts with a dollar sign and is not the same as $this)

There were 10 such occurences in my index.php file.

I changed them all, saved the index.php file, and now it works again.
ljvideo
11-11-2008, 08:32 AM
Yep, I did it based on Melissa's earlier post, and now I can access the EFM manager again.
Buck
11-11-2008, 09:05 AM
Huh. My index.php file doesn't contain "$this" anywhere.
frankc
11-11-2008, 09:46 AM
Huh. My index.php file doesn't contain "$this" anywhere.Maybe it's an earlier version (v1.15 is the last)?

All three of my EFM installs had that in it. Replacing it did the trick!
songdog
01-02-2009, 10:58 PM
This thread just rescued me -- thanks Melissa and Sheila!!!

:clapper: :bow:
Randall
01-03-2009, 03:12 AM
I didn't think to check the EFM manager either. Just to be perverse, I changed $this to $that. :rasberry:

To tell the truth, I wasn't even sure EFM was still active. My father used to give me words and domains for the blacklists, but they haven't been updated in years. The logs show that EFM is still eating some of the junk, but it amounts to only 6,400 rejects since mid-2005.

Probably could use some freshening up...

Randall