Storyline dropdown

Raiyuu · Post by **Raiyuu** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:04 pm

http://rapturecomic.keenspace.com

My ***storyline*** dropdown menu has gone bananas. I've definitely coded it right, because a) I've checked the dropdown.txt file on my hard drive and by FTP, so I know it's correct, b) I've checked the source coding for the page itself and with the code that's in there it should be doing what it's supposed to, c) it was working on Saturday and I haven't updated since then.

The problem is that instead of linking to the pages they're supposed to, every single option in the dropdown links to the Keenspace homepage. Could this be a problem relating to the server downtime and siteadmin problems over the weekend? I don't have enough pages up yet to make it a real issue, but I'd like to know what's wrong.

-Fanny pack · Post by **-Fanny pack** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:05 pm

Could you paste the dropdown.txt code in here in

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 tags? That'd help us figure out what's going on.

Raiyuu · Post by **Raiyuu** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:07 pm

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Jump home, /
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Testament: I "Nightmare"
001 God forgive me, /d/20050102.html
002 Presumptuous beings, /d/20050309.html

and here's the raw HTML as well in case that helps:

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<form name="dropdown" action="http://siteadmin.keenspace.com/cgi-bin/dropdown.cgi"><input type="hidden" name="domain" value="rapturecomic.keenspace.com"><select name="section">
<option value="http://rapturecomic.keenspace.com/">Jump home</option>
<option value="http://rapturecomic.keenspace.com">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</option>
<option value="http://rapturecomic.keenspace.com">Testament: I "Nightmare"</option>
<option value="http://rapturecomic.keenspace.com/d/20050102.html">001 God forgive me</option>
<option value="http://rapturecomic.keenspace.com/d/20050309.html" SELECTED>002 Presumptuous beings</option>

</select>&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Go!"></td></form>

-Fanny pack · Post by **-Fanny pack** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:22 pm

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your file, or the HTML. I think what's going on is that the dropdown redirector got nuked, as this seems to be affecting other comics as well.
In conclusion, there's nothing you can do for a bit. Just wait for the admins to fix it.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:12 pm

Strange. The dropdown on The Longest Sojourn worked fine though...

Raiyuu · Post by **Raiyuu** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:47 am

I did think it was likely to be something to do with the server problems, as just stopped working without me doing anything to it. Thanks for checking up for me.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:43 am

Oh, you mean it was working before?

Hmmm, your comic's username is 'rapturecomic', right?

I just did a check status, your comic is missing from the check status even though it exists, which means it got borked in the recent database problems. Go to this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=63808

Post your user name and let Kelly know your site is borked.