[wp-hackers] Plugin Activation

[Matt]

Are the 3 users all on the same server?

On 6/17/07, Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com> wrote:
>
> That's not something I'm ever really going to know. Yes - it
> certainly looks like 4.1.20 has a table creation problem and if I
> find what it is I can cater for it. But that still doesn't explain
> the missing menu which is the real puzzle.
>
> On 11:10  PM |  Sun 17 Jun 07, at 11:10  PM |  17 Jun 07, Matt wrote:
>
> > Do any of your other users use MySQL 4.1.20 and NOT have the
> > problem? If
> > not, get your users on MySQL 4.1.21 or MySQL 5.x. It could be a bug
> > in MySQL
> > 4.1.20...
> >
> > On 6/17/07, Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I asked three or four weeks back if anyone had any idea why one user
> >> of my forum plugin was not seeing the admin menu (under 'Manage').
> >> This went unresolved but there is something weird going on so I
> >> thought I'd have another go to see if anyone had any ideas.
> >>
> >> I now have three users with this problem (out of a large number who
> >> don't) - two are using 2.2 and one 2.1. The only thing they seem to
> >> have in common is they are all using MySQL 4.1.20 - and, what's more,
> >> the activate hook that creates the tables is also either failing, or,
> >> MySQL 4.1.20 doesn't want to do it. So these three end up with no
> >> tables created, an incomplete activation of the plugin and no admin
> >> menu!
> >>
> >> The questions raised by this are - why should 4.1.20 fail to create
> >> the tables and why should this stop the menu from being created. I
> >> can see no relationship between the db and the menuing system. Plus,
> >> in all cases, the plugin appears correctly in the 'active_plugins'
> >> option record.
> >>
> >> I would really like to sort this out if possible but I am completely
> >> stuck for ideas. Can anyone advise? (On my original query I had
> >> responses to do with the activate hook usage and the add_submenu_page
> >> usage but these work fine 99.9% of the time and are correct.
> >> Something else seems to be in play here).
> >>
> >> As an extra item, I tried the simple expedient in testing of forcing
> >> the tables to fail via code. This led to the plugin activation page
> >> returning the message: 'Plugin could not be activated because it
> >> triggered a fatal error' but it WAS in fact activated (albeit
> >> crippled) and I still got the menu appearing! I assume this is a bug
> >> in the plugin activation code.
> >>
> >> This is driving me nuts and my hair is turning white. OK - it was
> >> already white but now it's falling out. Can anyone point me in the
> >> right direction?
> >>
> >> regards
> >> Andy
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