Monthly Archives: July 2008

Missing argument 1 for phpbb_topics()

I thought I’d write a post about this error message as it’s pretty much the main reason that I ever receive comments or e-mails from the WordPress community. Sadly the complaints I receive from the community out weigh the complements, but I guess that’s life ;)

Thank you to all those who have downloaded and enjoyed my plug-in and all those who have taken to say something nice.

The problem with this error message Missing argument 1 for phpbb_topics() is that I don’t actually know how to fix it. If you look in the source code you’ll see that I’ve tried to trap “empty variables”…

if (is_null($LIMIT)) {
                $LIMIT = 5;
}

Now this approach seems to work on my server(s), and works for some people, but there are a number of people whom is doesn’t work for; unfortunately the majority of the WP community are no more technical than myself and I have never received any feedback on how to fix this.

I’m not a programmer, I’ve never claimed to be a PHP guru; as I don’t know how to fix this problem in the latest version of phpbb-recent-topics I tried to combat the problem by introducing a widget. The widget it aimed at people who don’t know php, it allows you to “drag” the list of recent topics into your sidebar, but for some reason people still prefer to edit their sidebar.php :confused:

I would to remind all readers that it quite clearly states on my announcement :

Support
I’ve always been honest about support, there isn’t any. Basically I write this for my own needs and then publish it for you to use for free. You’re more than welcome to post comments here and if you tag wordpress forum posts with “phpbb-recent-topics” I’ll reply to you there, but we all have busy lives and I make no promises on how quickly I’ll reply to you.

Currently the only solution I can offer to anyone suffering from this error message is to replace phpbb_topics() with phpbb_topics(”5″), if that doesn’t work then please accept my apologies.

If anyone would like to offer a patch for my plugin I would gladly include it and accredit appropriately.

Thanks for Reading!

Strange ASA ARP Replying Behavior

I’ve been implementing a few Cisco ASA’s recently, and I blogged about this strange behavior; well I came across another one yesterday.

Take a look at this debug arp….

CiscoASA# debug arp
debug arp  enabled at level 1
CiscoASA# 
CiscoASA# arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.122 001e.7000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301321940
arp-set: added arp inside 192.168.1.61 001a.7100.1234 and updating NPs at 4301321940

arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.120 001e.7a51.1234
arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.120, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.120 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234

arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.73 001e.7a51.1234
arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.73, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.73 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234
arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.69 001e.7a51.1234

arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.69, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.69 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234

arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.123 001e.7a51.1234
arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.123, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.123 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234
arp-in: response at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.125 ffff.ffff.ffff
arp-in: updating gratuitous ARP 192.168.1.125 - 001a.3000.1234
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
CiscoASA#

The firewall is replying to arp requests even though both the source & destination of the traffic are on the same (outside) interface, now I haven’t manged to work out why the firewall was doing this, but I did find a fix on the cisco forums.

sysopt noproxyarp outside

Names, IPs & MAC’s have been changed to protect the innocent.
:cool:

Cisco NAC SSO Port List

Note to self, the ports I need to allow thru the Un-Authenticated ACL for Active Directory SSO to work…

TCP 88,135,389,636,445,1025,1026 				
UDP 88,389,636

:)

Dear Insomniac

In light of yesterdays ps3 news please can you release a patch to covert Ratchet & Clank skill points into Trophies.

I think this would be a good use of the system, it would be nice for us gamers to automatically earn some trophies based on some of the games we’ve already played; this idea benefits the publishers too as “friends” will be able to see other users games and may be influenced to buy them ;)

…and DUELSHOCK3 support too please.

Thanks!