Kylie, you made my day. :) I was trying to fix some problems occurred when I moved a wordpress site (with wp university theme) on a new server for 10 days or so, and thanks to you I solved the problem in 5 minutes.

Thanks a lot mate. :)

Thanks Kylie, changing short tag (<?) to long tags (<?php) solved most of my issues to. Chris had replaced them in globaloptions.php and header.php file. Please Chris, go all the way and replace in thumbnail.php, footer.php and function.php files too. Took we over 24hrs to get this solution, not a good experience for a client. Thanks

Hi Chris
I have done more digging and with the help of an experienced php programmer he has found the problem. It consists of two parts:

1. There are php short tags in 5 of the php files in the theme. These are located in

thumbnail.php
footer.php
functions.php
globaloptions.php
header.php

So he manually changed them from <? to <?php where appropriate through the code of these pages.

2. The reason that it was working on my local server as opposed to my online host was that in my xampp php setup it allowed the use of php short codes. The online server did not, therefore stopping the php from getting processed.

Therefore, if it is not too much effort, I would humbly suggest updating these files so that there is no short code php there, as it can cause problems.

I was unable to get the online server to change the php setting to enable short codes, so the only other option is to re-code.

Thanks for your efforts, and I am very excited that now I can indeed use your theme.
I also hope by posting this information that i may help others problem solve these issues!

many thanks
Kylie

All I can say is that this is indeed a hosting-related issue you're experiencing. I'm sorry your hosting company isn't providing you much support, but this goes beyond the level of support I can provide.

Hope you understand.

Hi Chris
Thanks for that.
Just to be doubly sure I reloaded it again on the msdc sister site and still no joy. I also tried upgrading to WP V3 on another site with the same host and also redownloaded your v3 build just to see if it was anything to do with the download being corrupt - but if it was corrupted then it would not have worked so beautifully on my local server.
I have forwarded your reply to my host and this is the reply.

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"Hi Kylie,
I have uploaded the basic phpinfo bit of script so you can see what is exactly on your server:
you can find it by going to: http://www.universaldharma.com/ses/PHP_INFO.php

The server has everything he is asking for + more.

I have checked all the permissions where he mentions they should be 777 (dangerous stuff) -- but no joy at all.

I can't for the life of me see where the error is creeping in.
Where he mentions the PHP should not be showing; he is very right.
I am unsure what he is referring to when he says --- make sure ALL settings in the theme setting page are correctly filled.
I can't see anything tricky about those settings which would cause PHP to stop from being parsed; hence showing PHP code in the URL.

I have had to go through "many" plugins and Themes to find some decent ones -- which work "as advertised". Usually I just uninstall and move on to one which does work properly.

I have installed Wordpress and themes and plugins onto 3 different types of servers we have without issue; except for those which are not programmed as well as others. Especially on Themeforest... I always look to see how many have downloaded and purchased before. Pretty fair indication of a good theme.

You might want to point the owner of the theme to the PHP_INFO url and see if he is able to see anything.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I can't see where it is broken. It should be working okay as a sub-directory install, because inside Wordpress it is set to universaldharma.com/ses/ as the root for Wordpress."

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Are you able to see if there is anything unruly in the PHP info that may be causing the issues? Otherwise I may have to scrap this with great dismay, as it looks so awesome on my local server and it was exactly what we wanted... :(

Thanks for anything you can do to help
Kylie

Sorry you're having trouble.

First, please make sure you entered ALL the necessary information on the theme settings page. This is important.

I did notice in your source code that the following was showing up...

<? global $options;
foreach ($options as $value) {
  	if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) {
    $$value['id'] = $value['std'];
   	} else {
    $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] );
	}
}?>

This shouldn't be appearing since it is PHP. You might want to ask your hosting about that. It appears you're having a PHP issue.

Regarding the images not loading, since this is a hosting issue, all I can really offer you is the support thread I created -- http://tinyurl.com/292876w. Might I suggest referring your hosting company to that page so they might be able to check it.

Hi Chris
I have your theme working really well on my local server - no apparent issues. Running Php 5.2.8 through xampp.
I finally got around to installing wp on the internet ( actually my provider installed it on there for me and set up the databases ) then I installed the theme cleanly for a fresh start. No joy changing anything via the settings panel in the admin area.
I have noted other comments on the forum and changed permissions on the server to 777 for the relevant folders.
I have contacted my server host and they are running php5.2 and the latest version of mysql. Here is the site I am currently working on (www.universaldharma.com/ses/)
I have had to manually go into the css to change the colour, of course the images in the template have come across that I have edited, and I have tweaked the location of the banner. Otherwise all else remains untouched per se. I am also working on it's sister site on the same server (www.universaldharma.com/msdc/) which is a clean install of the theme with the dummy elements installed as a reference.
I have looked through the other posts and have tried changing the naming of the permalinks to help with the tim thumb issue, but also the styles are not correct for any of the other pages as if you go to one it is dark blue and you can hardly see anything! I have specified that the 'our information' page should be the footer info, but it refuses to go and also refuses to be excluded from the main menu bar. The settings page retains all it's info, but nothing seems to get past there. The additional categories have been labeled, but the menu bar refuses to add the names.
I am pulling my hair out as it is working great at home, but is a complete pain to try to get anything working online. My host seems to think that all is fine on their end.
Any suggestions on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated - even if it is more specific questions I should be asking my server host.
Many thanks
Kylie