Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

This is my first post to this forum. I'm new to Nova, and not very experienced with working with coding. I understand a little bit, just enough to change colors and such. However, it's a lot of trial and error, move a code then put it back when it doesn't work correctly.

I'm a little stumped as to this issue though. The Dark Frontier skin uses the "infobox" mod. The mod is reading the ranks incorrectly. I have my character set to commodore, but the info box says "rear admiral" when I am logged in. It does this for every rank except for Fleet Admiral. (i.e. Captain = commodore, rear admiral = vice admiral, commander = captain, etc.)

I have adjusted colors a lot. The only adjustment I made to any coding was to change the wiki PHP and CSS files to match the layouts of the main pages. I did recently switch my Nova genre to MOV rather than DS9 so that I could install the movie era rank set.

I am wondering if anyone might have any advice on how to get the infobox to read the correct rank. This isn't a big deal, as it is only visible to anyone logged in, but it is confusing.

Last edited by jts2485 on Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:50 am, edited 1 time in total.

Re: Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

I seem to have found the solution.

I had to go into the infobox.php and manually change the following lines (and any other similar) to "mov" rather than "ds9."

$posbQuery = "SELECT pos_name FROM nova_positions_mov WHERE pos_id = '$position_2'";

[AgentPhoenix]

Re: Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

Glad you got it sorted out. I don't remember who created the infobox MOD, but they might be able to chime in or release an update for this sort of use-case.

Re: Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

The original creator was a gentleman by the name of Matt Williams. I attempted to contact him about a separate issue through his web design site, but have not heard back.

Re: Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

Yeah, sorry about that; for some reason the contact form on my site wasn't working as it should have, but I didn't get any notification of errors or a need to update the config, so I wasn't aware of it until it was pointed out.
I'll see about doing an update for that mod at some point; I remember doing a bunch of work to try and generalise it, but maybe I missed that one out (or forgot to upload that version to the Xtras site)

Re: Infobox Issue In Dark Frontier Skin

I see. Understandable. Thank you for responding here. Apologies for my lateness. I haven't checked here in a very long time.