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Hi there,

I’m a contractor working on a site for a client.  I’m fairly new to ExpressionEngine, but I’ve slowly been learning how it works.  I’ve taken over developer duties for an existing EE site - http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com/

expression engine 1.6.8, Build:  20090723

I’m working on adding a set of new content for the site.  I’ve setup a new weblog, custom fields, templates, etc.  All that seems to be working fine.  The problem I’m running into is when I go to edit an existing weblog entry sometimes the entry comes up in the edit form like you’d expect, and other times you just get a blank browser window - completely blank.  View Source reveals that no HTML has been sent from the server.

So, you’re in the control panel, you select “edit” and get the list of entries.  You click on the title of an entry and for some entries EE fails to load the edit screen as described above.  The URL for the blank output looks like this:

http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com/system/index.php?S=8b0870d4732adf0cd65dd3729ff09de9af124c24&C=edit&M=edit_entry&weblog_id=22&entry_id=1755

I’ve only noticed this for new entries for the new weblog I created.  Some of the new entries in this new weblog load fine in the editor.  Others don’t.  I haven’t noticed anything different about the text I’ve entered in the broken ones.

This problem has brought our development progress to a halt and the client’s pretty unhappy.  Anyone know what’s going on here?

The site is hosted at Dreamhost.  Here’s the output from phpinfo();

http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com/

Thanks for the help

- Steve

Mod : edited for your own security

Steve,

Welcome to the forums 😊

A blank page is usually indicative of an error so first can you try and get some reporting up and running.

EE Wiki : HowTo Turn on Error Reporting

Do you have any third-party extensions installed?

Steve,

Welcome to the forums 😊

A blank page is usually indicative of an error so first can you try and get some reporting up and running.

EE Wiki : HowTo Turn on Error Reporting

Error reporting is on.  I’m not seeing it throw any errors on any of the pages.

Do you have any third-party extensions installed?

Structure was turned on.  I disabled it in the extensions manager.  Unfortunately, this didn’t change any of the behavior I’m seeing.

Extension manager also lists:
jQuery for the control panel, Publish Tweeks, edit tab ajax, low nospam

Under “modules” that are installed I see eeFlicker, mailing list, structure (which I just now un-installed), heck - here’s the whole list:

1 Blacklist/Whitelist     Blacklist and whitelist module     --    Not Installed    Install
2    Blogger API     Blogger API Module     --    Not Installed    Install
3    Comment     User commenting system     1.2    Installed    Remove
4    eeFlickr     Flickr API     0.6.7    Installed    Remove
5    Email     User Email Module     1.1    Installed    Remove
6    Emoticon     Emoticon (smiley) module     1.0    Installed    Remove
7    Photo Gallery     Photo Gallery Module     1.2    Installed    Remove
8    IP to Nation     Utility for associating IP addresses with their country     --    Not Installed    Install
9    Low NoSpam     For marking closed comments as spam or ham     --    Not Installed    Install
10    Mailing List     Mailing List Manager     2.0    Installed    Remove
11    Member     Member management system     1.3    Installed    Remove
12    Metaweblog API     Metaweblog API Module     --    Not Installed    Install
13    Moblog     Moblogging Module     --    Not Installed    Install
14    Pages     Uses Section Entries to make Static pages     --    Not Installed    Install
15    Query     SQL query module for templates     1.0    Installed    Remove
16    Referrer     Referrer tracking module     1.3    Installed    Remove
17    RSS     RSS page generating module     1.0    Installed    Remove
18    Search     Search module     1.2    Installed    Remove
19    Simple Commerce     Simple, Flexible Commerce Module     --    Not Installed    Install
20    Statistics     Statistics display module     1.0    Installed    Remove
21    Structure     Uses entries to create a page hierarchy for static and listing pages.     --    Not Installed    Install
22    Trackback     Trackback module     1.1    Installed    Remove
23    Updated Sites     Allows other sites to ping you.     --    Not Installed    Install
24    User     User functions module     2.0.9    Installed    Remove
25    Section     Section module     1.2    Installed    Remove
26    Wiki     A Powerful, Integrated Wiki module     --    Not Installed    Install

Steve,

Welcome to the forums 😊

A blank page is usually indicative of an error so first can you try and get some reporting up and running.

EE Wiki : HowTo Turn on Error Reporting

Here’s the error output from a page that won’t load in the entries editor:

TEMPLATE DEBUGGING
(0.000016) - Begin Template Processing -
(0.013493) URI: /Newsletter/list/C9/
(0.013520) Path.php Template: /
(0.013539) Retrieving Template
(0.013556) Parsing Template URI
(0.035217) Retrieving Template from Database: Newsletter/list
(0.044301) Template Found
(0.049635) Template Type: webpage
(0.049770) Parsing Site Variables
(0.049814) Global Path.php Variables (Keys): site_id|site_label|site_short_name
(0.049827) Global Path.php Variables (Values): 1|Kcymaerxthaere|default_site
(0.049888) Parse Date Format String Constants
(0.049908) Parse Current Time Variables
(0.049975) Parsing Segment, Embed, and Global Vars Conditionals
(0.051643) - Beginning Tag Processing -
(0.051668) Parsing Tags in Template
(0.051697) Tag: {exp:weblog:category_heading weblog="Newsletter"}
(0.051808) Closing Tag Found
(0.051877) Tag: {exp:weblog:entries weblog="Newsletter" orderby="title" sort="des"}
(0.051980) Closing Tag Found
(0.052027) Processing Tags
(0.052052) Module Tag: Weblog/category_heading
(0.052069) Module Tag: Weblog/entries
(0.052087) Including Files for Tag and Modules
(0.140257) Beginning Final Tag Data Processing
(0.140290) Calling Class/Method: Weblog/category_heading
(0.140471) -> Class Called: Weblog
(0.140541) -> Method Called: category_heading
(0.172030) -> Data Returned
(0.172106) Calling Class/Method: Weblog/entries
(0.172389) -> Class Called: Weblog
(0.172438) -> Method Called: entries
(0.230157) -> Data Returned
(0.230367) - End Tag Processing -
(0.230401) Processing Advanced Conditionals
(0.230870) - Processing Sub Templates (Depth: 1) -
(0.230892)    List of Embeds: incs/.header pagetitle=Newsletters,incs/.subnav current=newsletter,incs/.footer
(0.230958)    Processing Sub Template: incs/.header
(0.230975)    Retrieving Template
(0.230994)    Retrieving Template from Database: incs/.header
(0.236685)    Template Found
(0.238436)    Template Type: webpage
(0.238625)    Embed Variables (Keys): pagetitle
(0.238639)    Embed Variables (Values): Newsletters
(0.238665)    Parsing Site Variables
(0.238703)    Global Path.php Variables (Keys): site_id|site_label|site_short_name
(0.238715)    Global Path.php Variables (Values): 1|Kcymaerxthaere|default_site
(0.238846)    Parse Date Format String Constants
(0.238876)    Parse Current Time Variables
(0.238953)    Parsing Segment, Embed, and Global Vars Conditionals
(0.239575)    - Beginning Tag Processing -
(0.239603)    Parsing Tags in Template
(0.239640)    Tag: {exp:weblog:calendar}
(0.239696)    Closing Tag Found
(0.239797)    Tag: {exp:search:simple_form result_page="search" where="any" search_in="everywhere" weblog="gwomes|plaques|historical_sites|events|glossary|stories|about|rezhns|districts"}
(0.239980)    Closing Tag Found
(0.240036)    Processing Tags
(0.240068)    Module Tag: Weblog/calendar
(0.240086)    Module Tag: Search/simple_form
(0.240102)    Including Files for Tag and Modules
(0.246161)    Beginning Final Tag Data Processing
(0.246195)    Calling Class/Method: Weblog/calendar
(0.246359)    -> Class Called: Weblog
(0.246415)    -> Method Called: calendar
(0.271264)    -> Data Returned
(0.271395)    Calling Class/Method: Search/simple_form
(0.271490)    -> Class Called: Search
(0.271516)    -> Method Called: simple_form
(0.271696)    -> Data Returned
(0.271736)    - End Tag Processing -
(0.282222)    Processing Advanced Conditionals
(0.283691)    Processing Sub Template: incs/.subnav
(0.283713)    Retrieving Template
(0.283732)    Retrieving Template from Database: incs/.subnav
(0.290116)    Template Found
(0.291049)    Template Type: webpage
(0.291200)    Embed Variables (Keys): current
(0.291215)    Embed Variables (Values): newsletter
(0.291239)    Parsing Site Variables
(0.291276)    Global Path.php Variables (Keys): site_id|site_label|site_short_name
(0.291289)    Global Path.php Variables (Values): 1|Kcymaerxthaere|default_site
(0.291359)    Parse Date Format String Constants
(0.291382)    Parse Current Time Variables
(0.291438)    Parsing Segment, Embed, and Global Vars Conditionals
(0.292761)    - Beginning Tag Processing -
(0.292778)    - End Tag Processing -
(0.300399)    Processing Sub Template: incs/.footer
(0.300423)    Retrieving Template
(0.300444)    Retrieving Template from Database: incs/.footer
(0.305235)    Template Found
(0.305955)    Template Type: webpage
(0.306092)    Parsing Site Variables
(0.306130)    Global Path.php Variables (Keys): site_id|site_label|site_short_name
(0.306144)    Global Path.php Variables (Values): 1|Kcymaerxthaere|default_site
(0.306214)    Parse Date Format String Constants
(0.306236)    Parse Current Time Variables
(0.306290)    Parsing Segment, Embed, and Global Vars Conditionals
(0.306589)    - Beginning Tag Processing -
(0.306605)    - End Tag Processing -
(0.312715)    Processing Advanced Conditionals
(0.315538) - End Template Processing -
(0.315555) Parse Global Variables
(0.365909) Template Parsing Finished
Memory Usage: 4,672,908 bytes

SteveSteveSteve,

What is your GZIP Outputset to here?
CP Home ›  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Output and Debugging Preferences

Structure was turned on.  I disabled it in the extensions manager.

If you disable an extension or module like this then you will loose all data associated with it.

Best way to disable extensions is to use the large green button in the top right hand corner. This just disables but doesn’t delete any data. Disabling individually does.

Can you try that green button now to see if it makes a difference please
CP Home ›  Admin ›  Utilities ›  Extensions Manager

SteveSteveSteve,

What is your GZIP Outputset to here?
CP Home ›  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Output and Debugging Preferences

Enable Gzip is set to “yes”

Structure was turned on.  I disabled it in the extensions manager.

If you disable an extension or module like this then you will loose all data associated with it.

I’m not using Structure, so it can go away.

Best way to disable extensions is to use the large green button in the top right hand corner. This just disables but doesn’t delete any data. Disabling individually does.

Can you try that green button now to see if it makes a difference please
CP Home ›  Admin ›  Utilities ›  Extensions Manager

With all the extensions disabled using the green button all the entries appear in the editor like they should.  Yay!

Now the next trick is to figure out which one is the problem…

Now the next trick is to figure out which one is the problem…

Let us know what you find out. We’ll be here.

I started going through the extensions under CP Home -> Admin -> Utilities -> Extensions Manager

The problem appears to be in “Publish Tweeks (v.0.7.2)”

When I checked the settings for it, it threw this error:

Error

Unable to load the following language file:

lang.publish_tweeks.php

When I disabled it, the edit entry form was able to load all the entries I tried.

Looks like there’s a newer version.

http://www.ngenworks.com/software/ee/publish-tweeks/

However, I’m behind on a number of client requests that have been waiting for a resolution to this problem, so it will have to wait before I test it.

Thanks for your help, Forum Gods!

Now that you’ve identified the initial problem, I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.