Recent Topics

[Jae]

Hi,
I'm trying to get the latest version of Recent Topics working on a phpBB Board version 3.3.10 with PHP version 8.1.17 and Database server MySQL(i) 5.7.42.
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Recent Topics (fork by IMC & LukeWCS)
Clean Name: paybas/recenttopics
Description: Recent topics Extension for phpBB 3.3. Adds a list with a number of recent topics to the board index.
Version: 2.2.15-pl10
Homepage: https://github.com/sajaki/RecentTopics
Release Time: 2023-02-24
Licence: GPL-2.0-only
Downloaded from: https://github.com/IMC-GER/RecentTopics ... 5-pl10.zip

When activated I get the following error:
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Any help would be much appreciated...

[Mike-on-Tour]

Check whether you got the file /ext/paybas/recenttopics/migrations/release_2_0_0.php and further whether you have all the files and subdirectories (including their files) listed at https://github.com/IMC-GER/RecentTopics

I suspect that you are missing at least the migration file mentioned above.

[Jae]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your post. I have looked at the contents of the migrations folder and release_2_0_0.php is there.

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All other files are present too....

[Mike-on-Tour]

Since the file in question (and others) checks whether the config variable rt_version is set you can try to set it manually if you are comfortable with phpMyAdmin.
Open your database using phpMyAdmin
Look for rt_version in the table phpbb_config (if you have a prefix other than "phpbb" use yours instead)
If it doesn't exist you need to insert it with "rt_version" as config_name and a value smaller than 2.0.0 as config_value

After that you should be able to enable the extension.

[Jae]

Thank you again.... Ive had a quick look and it appears we dont have a rt_version entry in phpBB_config...
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I've looked at another phpBB forum and it has these "rt_" entries, do I need to add all of them and their associated values?
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[Jae]

Hi,
I have added config_name rt_version with a config_value of 1.0.0 in the phpbb_config and I can now activate the Recent Topics extension. However when I go to set up and configure the Recent Topics extension by navigating in the ACP to Extensions -> Recent Topics there is no entry?

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Please let me know if I have missed anything.

Many thanks

[Mike-on-Tour]

No, as far as I can see there should be a settings page on the extensions tab.
But since I am not the author of this extension you should either wait for LukeWCS or IMC to notice this topic or you may post at the approbriate page for this extension in development: viewtopic.php?t=246557

[IMC]

I'm sure it's a problem with the migration.
LukeWCS ist the specialist in it. Please wait a little time for him.

[Jae]

Thank you Mike and IMC, I appreciate your time with this.

[LukeWCS]

Thanks for the support Mike.

@Jae
As my colleague IMC already wrote, this is a problem with the migration of the original. We have revised and - hopefully - improved the migration of RT in our fork. However, this does not help if you have previously uninstalled the original, because this is where errors can occur. As a result, the database is now in an undefined state with regard to the RT installation and must be cleaned up manually.

Before we do that, one question in advance: did you uninstall the original RT before installing our fork?