Hi Paul,
this sounds weird, and I don’t really have an explanation, on what could have happened here.
I would like to take a direct look at your server, if possible. Could you therefore contact me by email, the address is in the main plugin file “wp-table-reloaded.php”.
Thanks,
Tobias
Also, clicking “Preview” under the table name brings up the table (without the custom CSS).
Hi,
ok, thanks for that info. This somehow means that Shortcodes are not working correctly.
Is everything else in the backend working ok, i.e. can you change/edit/save all the tables?
Regards,
Tobias
Hi again,
I just found a support topic from a while ago, that had the same error:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-table-reloaded-table-0-not-found-being-displayed-instead-of-tables
Can you somehow check if this could be an issue on your server, as well?
Tobias
Tobias:
Apparently cPanel was updated a day or so ago and cPanel has introduced a bug by using an a version of pcre (perl compatible regular expressions) which is apparently not compatible with php 5.3.4. They claim to be working on it.
When I went to update a table today, I noticed WP and WPTableReloaded both had upgrade available so I did. Then I made my table update and checking found the error and assumed there was an incompatibility. I reverted to WP 3.0.1 and TR 1.7 but still had the error. So it was only coincidence that I made the upgrades just before checking my table revisions. With the coincidence, I didn’t think to check the error logs – until you referred to the same problem from a year ago – and found thousands of errors back to shortcodes.php.
So, I find none of the plugins using shortcodes are working on any of my sites.
Thank you cPanel for another headache.
Thank you Tobias for your very prompt response. I recommend WP_Table-Reloaded all the time and can’t imagine how many people, in the same cPanel boat, are pulling out their hair trying to figure this out right now.
Thanks,
Paul
I have WP 3.1 and TableReloaded 1.9. In trying to build a new page, the “insert into post” button is not showing on the media item page, just delete, so nothing is loaded into the table. I am also getting the same error as others with the short code. I tried another theme, but no difference.
http://www.grampiesworkshop.com
Thanks.
Nancy
Hi Paul,
thank you very much for this update on the situation and the great insights!
PCRE are indeed the “main ingredient” of Shortcodes, so I hope that your host will soon have a fix for you.
WP-Table Reloaded and the other plugins should then be working as expected again.
Nancy, I just tested this again on several setups and the “Insert into Post” button is there and works as expected.
With “same error as others with the short code”, do you mean the one, Paul describes above, the [table "0" not found /]?
If yes, could you check with your webhost, if they have been experiencing trouble with PCRE, as Paul describes in his post?
Regards,
Tobias
Thanks. I still have no “insert into post” button, but do when inserting on the post page directly. The short code does work now. Not sure what to do.
Nancy
Hi Nancy,
can you contact me by email (address is in the main plugin file “wp-table-reloaded.php”)? I would like to take a direct look at your admin Dashboard, maybe I can spot something that’s wrong.
Thanks,
Tobias
Tobias:
Problem solved! Here is what was done so you can pass this on to others with the same cPanel problem resulting in [table “0” not found /] instead of the table they were expecting:
An attempt was made to use the cPanel compile script to downgrade to 5.3.3. It failed compiling mysqli extensions. Next was trying to go back to php 5.3.2. Missing from the cPanel build options.
Then recompiled and re-installed pcre on the theory that its’ libraries are dynamically loaded, which seems reasonable.
So, the solution was:
PHP version 5.3.4
Download and compile pcre-8.12.tar.bz2 http://www.pcre.org/
./configure –enable-utf8 –enable-unicode-properties –prefix=/opt/pcre
On a cPanel server the installation directory is /opt/pcre
Anyone having shortcode problems should ask their host to give this a try.
Paul
Hi Paul,
thanks for the explanation! I don’t understand half of it, but it should definitely come in handy, in case some has trouble with the same problem! 🙂
Thanks,
Tobias
