The Arcade

[Reece J]

Hey there,

I'm relatively new here and just noticed that TWC has an arcade, but when I clicked the link above, I was taken to a blank page. Is there anything I have to do to be able to access the arcade?

Cheers and thanks, Reece.

[Augustus Lucifer]

There's no prerequisite to access the Arcade. It is currently experiencing problems, and the blank pages are extending to the Arcade Settings in the Admin CP so I can't diagnose the problem there. The Arcade is a 'hack', and is not part of the default software, so it's possible that something went awry with it during the last software update. You'll have to wait until Sim can spare the time to look at what might be causing it, assuming it isn't an extension of the recent site-wide problem that is now only occurring for certain things at certain times.

[Reece J]

I see. Perhaps a silly question, but when will it be accessible again?

[Augustus Lucifer]

Depends. If it rights itself it will be accessible when that happens. If Sim has to diagnose it and re-install the hack, that's pretty low on the priority list so it could be some time.

[Simetrical]

I found the error that was causing this and fixed it. It was a silly mistake on my part, not related to anything else that's been happening.

(Tech details: long ago I defined a function simDebug() in config.php that I use for debugging. Normally this is fine because config.php is only loaded once, but if it's loaded twice, which the arcade does for some reason, it fails with a fatal error, which gives a white screen, because I'm redefining an already defined function. When I figured this out ages ago, I added if (!function_exists('simDebug')) around it so it wouldn't get defined twice. In the course of doing something totally unrelated yesterday, I changed the name of the function from simDebug() to sim_debug(), but forgot to change the function_exists() call. So the arcade started dying again. I've changed the function_exists() call now too, so it works again.)

[Adhamh Ashashi]

(Tech details: long ago I defined a function simDebug() in config.php that I use for debugging. Normally this is fine because config.php is only loaded once, but if it's loaded twice, which the arcade does for some reason, it fails with a fatal error, which gives a white screen, because I'm redefining an already defined function. When I figured this out ages ago, I added if (!function_exists('simDebug')) around it so it wouldn't get defined twice. In the course of doing something totally unrelated yesterday, I changed the name of the function from simDebug() to sim_debug(), but forgot to change the function_exists() call. So the arcade started dying again. I've changed the function_exists() call now too, so it works again.)

Ah yes, quite simple.







I seriously am lost just reading that.

[Søren]

Ah yes, quite simple.

I seriously am lost just reading that.

That's why he gave the first part for people like us, and the second for those who understand such complexities.

[Simetrical]

Indeed0rz.