I have a new Joomla 1.7/Chronoforms 4.2 site that was developed on a test site and moved to another. When installed on the new site, all Chronoforms forms are blank. (e.g. a completely blank page)
Background info:
- Move was completed with just a zip/unzip of the site, plus a copy of the sql
- All forms worked on the test site
- 'Frontend view' also just shows a blank page
What I have done so far:
- Read the forum posts!
- Reinstalled chronoforms module and plugin.
- Double checked that 'on load' events are there
- Form is published
Thoughts anyone? I'm not sure where to go on this one.
Hi angsty,
If it's a completely blank page that sounds like a PHP error. Please temporarily set you site Error Reporting to Maximum (in the site Global Configuration). Hopefully you will then see a more helpful error message.
Bob
Good idea. It was set to system default as I had E_ALL set in php.ini, but I turned it maximum anyway. No change though.
No errors in the apache logs...
Hi angsty ,
Sorry, I've no other suggestions to make. I'd expect that there would be at least a log entry.
Does anything show in the page source at all?
Bob
Nope, no errors, no page source.
Solution: You were bang on re: the PHP issue. It turns out that this new version of Chronoforms (could be related to new Joomla, I suppose) is a bit more sensitive to PHP problems than the old one.
I was looking for *any* issue, and I noted that PHP would segfault when run from the command line, even on just a 'php -i' or similar. The problem turned out to be an extension that I could just turn off (I recompiled without it, in the end). The "funny" thing about it is that I have several Joomla 1.5 and 1.7 sites on this box with no issues. The old 1.5 sites do have Chronoforms, though obviously an older version, and they work perfectly. This was the first 1.7/4.2 Chronoforms implementation that box.
Odd, but probably not unreasonable for Chronoforms to expect a php binary that doesn't segfault when run.
Thanks for your help... it got me thinking along the correct path!