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I don't know what happened, but it seems my article on interactive diagrams
has been completely corrupted, all less-than signs in it being interpreted
as HTML tags, rather than being printed. I am pretty sure this wasn't the
case when I last touched it. So it seems there is something changed in the
rendering scripts that corrupts the display...

I am not sure what happened, but now it is definitely fine :)
It's added in index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSthroughthelook

Paolo,

I'm not aware of any problems right now. If you are, please give me a
step-by-step of what you are doing, including the URL of each page.

Sorry for chipping in again.

I submitted, but the Step 3 just appeared as a blank page; however now the
game categories appear in the "Your Unreviewed Submissions" page, so it's
fine. Right?

I debugged the script, edited Hexgi to use three-color boards, and returned
the authorship to you. Note that the ending period, which you didn't
include in your quotation of what you need to add, is a very important part
of the checker pattern. It is not a mere divider. The period after each
sequence of colors (identified by digits) tells it to repeat that pattern
for the rest of the rank.

In order to debug this, I have temporarily made myself the author of Hexgi
listed in the database.

I changed the scripts from mysql to PDO, and I changed the FORM action to a
full URL, and it still didn't fix the problem. So I then turned to testing
the data sent for "125 Percent Shogi and 125 Percent Xiang Qi." I deleted
each field in turn until I stopped getting a 403 error. It was something in
the Setup field that was the problem. I then deleted parts of Setup until I
isolated what was causing the problem. It came down to the expression
"../../". This appeared twice, and when I changed both to "/", all it
complained about is that I didn't enter the right password. I don't know
why it hiccups over this, but if you will just change your links to use
full URLs, that should eliminate any instance of "../../" and allow your
updates to get through.

Paolo, I have just responded.

(We seem to occasionally go through long periods with no emails, during
which I tend to get out of the habit of checking the account.  Sorry for
the delay.  And Charles, there was a period before I joined that the emails
were more or less completely unread.  If there's something specific I
should go back and find, let me know.)

I haven't fixed it yet. I'll let you know when I have.

Regarding Paolo's question, I e-mailed updates to old-style pages years ago that have still not been posted.

About making submissions. I sent a submission email to the chessvar yahoo
address one week ago, how long it usually requires to get an answer?

A 403 error on an unrelated site doesn't mean that the problem you are
having here goes beyond the CVP. Given that this site is physically located
in the U.K. and the other one is physically located in Sweden, you can bet
that what's happening on that site has nothing to do with what is happening
on this one.

I tried to edit "125 Percent Shogi and 125 Percent Xiang Qi" and got a 403 error like you did. It turns out that the files I updated yesterday are ones available only to editors, and they are not the ones you use. As an editor, I saw links on the screen that you wouldn't see, which led me to a different script. So I will convert the scripts you use to PDO and see if that makes a difference.

Charles, I updated the code in the relevant scripts to access the database
with PDO instead of with mysql functions. Please check if this fixes your
problem with updating some games. If it doesn't, please provide a detailed
report of where it goes wrong and what it says to you.

Hmm, I get the 403 error too, whether I try to edit as an editor (which
uses a different script) or as you (which would give an error since I
haven't entered your password; either the 403 overrides that error or the
script doesn't make it to that point).

It's odd that it happens for the same script but different itemIDs.

Oh, and the garbled version of your page that shows after submitting was added by Fergus to help debug (some other?) problem(s).

When my attempt to edit fails I get error 403. When it is successful a garbled version of the variant appears on the next page - but with the "view submission" link at the bottom so that I can continue to the page as edited.

Can you describe exactly what happens when you try to submit an edit?

You said earlier that perhaps it's because the text boxes contain too much.
 Apparently that is possible, if unlikely: the maximum size of a "text"
type entry in our database is ~65000 characters.

I would not expect it to have anything to do with whether the item has been commented on or not.

I can see the ffen diagrams on the Nearlydouble Chess page. So I expect
your browser is having some trouble with JavaScript. If you can't switch
computers, then I would suggest switching browsers or at least making sure
JavaScript is working in your current browser.