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1. 
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Hi,
   Site: http://www.os42.com
   Well, after my upteenth attempt at trying to get this plugin to work - and reading long and hard through these forums, I have finally managed to get the plugin to display with no errors showing. :):):):) Thanks to Alex and others on here for making this a reality.
   However, in my "new posts and new comments since your last visit" blurb at the top of the page
   it is showing me as having 2 new posts - both of which are over 8 hours old - and 0 new comments - although I put in two test comments straight away after finishing off the install.
   The "new" button is showing up on the 2 posts and also next to the comments at the bottom of the post, and actually in the new comments box itself - so all of that is working correctly.
   I figure I must have something wrong with the actual call function at the top of the page but as I really know nothing - it could be something completely different.
   Any ideas? Has anyone else experienced this problem? Should I shoot myself? Oh, so many questions... :)

2. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   There was a post about this a few days ago, and knowing nothing about php (at all), I looked inside the plugin.
   It's a cookie issue (I think) and it's set to 1 hour
   ( ($use_session = 1, $hours = 1) { ) so all I can guess is that the cookies are getting it wrong somehow
   but
   there is also a time difference function in that code too, so could it be that you make a post, a cookie is set to make a 'new' note, but then when you revisit, if the server time was different, a new cookie is made because although your first cookie is gone, it still looks new because of the time difference ?
   Does that make sense ?
   And that is a complete guess - like I said, you could write all I know about PHP on the back of a stamp with a marker pen and still have room ....

3. 
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Thanks for the information Podz :)
   Do you have the same problem or is yours working ok because your server is in England so the times correspond?
   If anyone else has any idea how to change it please, please let me know :)
   Thanks

4. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   My server is on the west coast of the US :)
   And yea, I see the "new" tags for several hours, but as I'm the only author it doesn't really bug me......

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