[mkiwi]

I noticed a change in POD where the background of the search results page is now green. I checked Berka's directory and the background of the search results is also green.

I fixed this by setting the page background color to white (bgcolor="#FFFFFF")

[Gordon]

would you be kind enough to show how/where you put the alteration
thanks in advance

[BeRKA]

Well, actually the simple fix is not enough. DMOZ is sending out two different templates when You do a search. Sometimes it works, somtimes the results are green.

I will not present a fix here until the situation has stabilized.

To make a temporary fix, You have to identify the table-tag that includes the green code and remove that. (You should also remove an extra body-tag.)

If anyone wants the code for the temporary fix, just send me a mail.

[BeRKA]

Right now, DMOZ seems to have some problems with their search function.

[DocJohn]

Turn internationalization off.

There is a problem in the code with the whole internationalization stuff, and I have looked at it so many times, I don't know what to do about it. Once you turn the international option off, you should see everything go back to normal.

Sorry for this problem. If anybody wants to submit a bug fix for internationalization, I'm all up for it!

[BeRKA]

Right! Just as I said in an earlier post. And there is a fix for the internationalization code there as well, but I don't think it is necessary anymore, since last time I checked it worked for MSIE anyway...

DMOZ seems to still be sending out different templates for the searches (If You do a few searches, You will eventually getting a green one.), so here is the url to the code to fix the green template:
http://www.berka.com/fix2002-04-11.txt
place that code in the part of the program that modifies $pod_line

[zarm]

I tried to add your fix to the green screen problem but keep coming up with errors. I have to admit that my knowledge of this sort of programming is limited to "cut & paste".

Would it be possible to get more details on how to add the patch for those of us that are cgi challanged?

[mkiwi]

Hello

I tried BeRKA's fix and it seems to work. I noticed I had to wait about a day for the page (I tried the search on) to clear. I think it has something to do with cacheing on our server??

After first implementing the fix, the page I was on still showed green. But the next day it had cleared

Thankyou for the fix!

mkiwi

[markb2000]

What line number, of where exactly, should we change this code? Can someone give us a starting point and ending point in the code to be removed, and then where to insert this fix?

Is it only line 318 we modify?

I went ahead and just changed the table colors in pod.cgi at line 318 and that gave me a white background instead of a green.

Thank you!

Mark

[SStoner]

If anyone could email where to place this fix, that would be great. I have placed whee I believe it to go in pod.cgi, however, I still get green pages.

[BeRKA]

One problem with my fix that I know that others have had:

It is posted at a text file. If You look at it with MSIE, the browser will think that it is a html file and display faulty code. Use netscape, or view the source of the code.

[mkiwi]

I must admit I have been unable to correct the problem. Berka's directory seems to have fixed it though.