Chris Sunkin

There's a point in everyone's life where you're willing to surrender a bit of personal dignity for some convenience and practicality. Some of us get there sooner than others.

rainmn

Site was crawling again for me earlier this morning, seems to be getting back to normal again now. That's three mornings in a row now for me, when any other site was working fine.

And has anyone else noticed the occasional brief flash of another page while going from the forum list into a forum and vice versa? It's a white screen with some code on it. Comes up so fast it looks like subliminal advertising.

45sonic

Yes to all the above!

getchasum111

yes...i noticed that also...

BY U BOY

Yep I notice it when i hit the back button. And the site has been slow for me the last 3 days also.

wantingmore

Ditto. Pizzed me off so I went to some other sites. IB, are you listening?

stecz20

yeah still slow....

TexomaPowerboater

Alright, I know they were changine servers because the whole website was down and thats the explanation that popped up instead of OSO. So I understand some problems, but every morning for the past few days its so slow you can't get on it. Now I can't navigate the site for 2 minutes before I get a "database error" on everything I click.......even the classifieds. You guys (oSO) need to get your chit together.

TexomaPowerboater

Yes, I get some sort of error juberish BS on top of the headers for a brief second and then it goes away.

fund razor

This is what it says:

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of convert_bits_to_array(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. in /var/www/www.offshoreonly.com/forums/forumdisplay.php(106) : eval()'d code on line 62

Here's what it probably means: the new servers are using a newer PHP (hypertext preprocessor, a server side open source programming language)
This little buddy is known as a call-time pass-by-reference, which PHP controls with the following setting in php.ini:

allow_call_time_pass_reference = Off

By default, in recent PHP releases the above setting should be switched to Off; turning it on is "frowned upon" by PHP's makers. Switched off, PHP will generate warning errors every time a function call specifies an argument should be passed by reference. As such, it's good practice to leave this setting off.

The reason why call time pass by reference is a "bad thing" is that call time passing by reference can make code extremely difficult to follow.

What it is supposed to do? Save time and memory on the server side.