Odd PHP Problem with My New Hosting Provider

29 January, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 11 Comments

Since cutting over to HostMonster my tabs.php which is what controls the little top right box on this blog isn’t working. You can click on any of the tabs and they simply don’t work. It worked fine on my old hosting provider and I am unable to figure out what went wrong with the conversion. I am using the exact same theme files and I don’t notice anything specifically wrong, if there is something wrong it would be in the variables of the PHP not interpreting right on Hostmonster.

I have opened a support case with Hostmonster, but I realize this is likely to be a Theme issue and they may not provide me with support. If this is the case I am stuck with the dilemna of finding a new theme for DragonBlogger.com after I have been using this theme for almost two years. I have modified it as much as I could considering the functions.php and footer.php are encrypted because it is a free theme and not subject to modification. If I have to get a new theme I think I am going to just purchase the Thesis theme and be done with it, finding free themes is nice but they all have issues when you want to modify them or they require tacky “ad links”. I don’t mind the ones that give credit to the author, but this theme for example has a bunch of ad links in it that I am forbidden to remove (they are part of the theme and the links are hidden in the footer.php part of the theme which is encrypted).

I was very partial to this theme and I have always liked the White text and black background look, it stands out from a traditional white blog with black text and I thought it fit my DragonBlogger.com persona really well. I also just shelled out most of my blog earnings to a new 32″ LCD TV that I bought to replace one that broke down, so if I have to purchase Thesis it won’t be until March.

Update:

The support folks at HostMonster went above and beyond in their support here, they actually went through all of my themes php files and found m IZEARanks script was causing the tabs to break. A quick scan and I realized that my line of code was missing the </script> at the end of the line and once I appended this the entire problem was resolved. I have only been with HostMonster for about 9 days and the support has been nothing but superb each and every time so far.

-Dragon Blogger

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greenlants

I'm really glad you got everything sorted out, I would hate for you to have to change your layout, as I like it as well. Moving to another hosting company can always be a pain, but a necessary part of all of this I guess. :P On a side note thanks for the post again on Sponsored Tweets, they paid me $1.89 for their post (and I lowered it to $1 like you suggested). I've already had one person hire me, though after I wrote the ad they canceled :X Thanks again!

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cadilacjax

This is nice to know about HostMonster. I've been putting off the whole host/domain names transfer bit for a while now but had made it a goal to make some changes. I'm one of those who is 'fearful of change' type guys.
I was just provided with a free software package from Xsitepro, their version 2 with some other bonuses. I'll let you know how it's going with building a site. Me being a non-geek it's going to be trial and error. But so was/is my other blogs and slowly but surely their coming on. My biggest thing and I spent all day doing research on Keywords/domain names. Trying to be patient.
Glad you got it figured out DragonBlogger. I tried to log into here for a visit quite a few times earlier and it said it didn't exist or something. Can't remember now but I knew better and kept trying I knew eventually I'd get in, I knew you existed. LOL p.s. I put one of your blogs on my site post today. Keep up the good work and helping us out! Peace
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Gomez@windshield appointment

Wow, that's some pretty good service you received there. They deserve kudos. A friend of mine is looking for a new host, I will point him this way.

(I use Thesis myself, and you could totally mod it to give this look, but I know what a pain it is to migrate)
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dragonblogger

I highly recommend HostMonster, they are also the same company as BlueHost and between my wife and I we have 6 blogs now hosted on them.

Ching Ya

Before I read your latest updates I actually tried the tabs and they worked fine. ^^ So that's the reason! Good to know the problem had been resolved. I know what you mean, I never had complete satisfaction when it comes to free templates, the customization is really killing me. I stick to what I have now because I have friends telling me it suits me and brings out my personality (I wonder if it's because of the cheerful bluebird?lol..).

But I'll keep my options open. ^^

@wchingya
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I like the look and presentation of your theme, and the twitter update at the top is nice. One thing I have noticed is your sidebar always takes about 10 seconds longer to load than the post and header area's on your site. It really is noticeably slow loading consistantly.

Allyn

Those dang plugins! LOL
Thesis is really cool and the hooks are easy to use once you learn it.
Good tutorials are found on Sugar Rae Hoffman's blog. She is the thesis hottie and she drops f-bombs on Twitter too, LOL
AL
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Ray

I'm glad that worked out for you, Justin. I too like this theme of yours very much. Thesis will require a bit of tweaking to achieve a similar look, and although I use Thesis, I know squat about using the hooks properly. One of these days I'll work on it.

Ray
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Thanks, this theme was highly modified by me to get it to where I wanted. I wouldn't have wanted to change at this time.

Klaus @ TechPatio

Really great service you received, since they would help you out with a theme/plugin problem! Maybe you don't have to switch to Thesis after all, then :)

Also a bit funny that AdSense puts an ad for HostGator both in your post but also in your sidebar, in a post about Hostmonster...
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