Front Page Error

[Jessie]

http://i.imgur.com/nldmwh3.png

This is what I see when I try to access the front page of the forum.

[BrainGirl]

Yep. I get this repeated multiple times in white on a black background:

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead in /home/hamster/public_html/community/includes/init.php on line 55

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/hamster/public_html/community/includes/init.php on line 55

[BrainGirl]

[BrainGirl]

See, and when I hit "post" on that one I was taken to a page that said I would now be taken to the poll and then back here where my comment is missing!

[Jessie]

its all messed up :( and "I suck with computers so I have no idea whats goin on lol

[BrainGirl]

[BrainGirl]

Seems to have been fixed. Hopefully anyway!

Okay, maybe not. I just tried to post the above sentence and I got the "you must wait 30 seconds between posts" warning, except that this is my first post since opening the page. I've been elsewhere for the last 10 minutes!

[BrainGirl]

It's not a problem with your computer anyway Jessie so don't worry, there's something going on with the forum itself. Maybe it's maintenance!

[Ewins87]

I get the same

[Jessie]

My boyfriend owns a forum and figured out how to fix it. Go to the top of the page in the Navigation Bar and click Quick Links then Edit Options. On the new page go to the second last section called Date & Time Options, and select your time zone. Mine was set as -8:00 instead of -5:00, once I changed it I stopped getting the error message.

[BrainGirl]

[BrainGirl]

Nope, and there goes the problem again! A blank post. As I'd tried to post before my date and time thing is correct for my zone already.

[The Hamster's family]

[GhostsInSnow]

[The Hamster's family]

Is it working !?!?!?!!? We'll see !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D I did what Jessie said !! It works for me !

EDIT : YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[souffle]

It looks to have been a server error or downtime that has caused this. Is it fixed now as mine seems OK?

[The Hamster's family]

[souffle]

There is nothing in your posts - I have alerted Fluffy at admin so hopefully he can check this out. There is obviously a problem so please bear with us.

[Fluffy]

Ok, the problem with the front page was an incompatibility with the newer version of PHP that was installed on our server this morning by our host and Was resolved a short while ago. As to the blank posts, that is one I will have to look into. Not sure where the problem lies yet.

Jason