Profile module does not work

Hi again,

I have upgraded to jOpenSim 0.2.5 on OpenSim 0.7.4 and tried to activate the profiles module.

I have added the lines:
[Profile]
; Change this to your own Joomla url:
Module = "jOpenSimProfile"
ProfileURL = url-to-your-joomla.org/components/com_opensim/interface.php

to the StandaloneCommon.ini, but all that URL points to is a blank page. Changing any of the profile settings In-World has no effect, when you close and re-open the profile window, its blank again.

My grid is at:
biggerstaff.dyndns.org/thegrid/

My Profile URL is:
biggerstaff.dyndns.org/thegrid/component...pensim/interface.php

First Try.
Did you check if the profile is activated in the module?
is xmlrpc installed on your server?

Hi DJ ...
I to just updated here and i get a blank page when Create an account ...
I'll look more into it tomorrow ... need sleep ... cheers DJ ...

Hi guardian

It is normal to get a blank page when pointing the browser to your interface.php this script is not made to communicate with a browser ... only with OpenSim.

Did you replace the profile module (the dll file) with the new one? Or are there now maybe 2 profile dll files (the new one has now a different file name) in your opensim/bin folder?

Did you check, are there any entries in your table #__opensim_userprofile? And is there any line with values in it?

Is there maybe more information in the error_log of your Joomla webserver after you try to update a profile?

Greetz
FoTo50

Hi DJ,

php5-xmlrpc was not installed on my server, so I installed it, but it did not help.

Foto50:

There is no "Profile" table in my opensim database.

there is just the one profile dll in the directory:
ls | grep -i profile
OpenSim.Joomla.Profile.dll

but I notice the line in standalonecommon.ini is:

Module = "jOpenSimProfile"

Hi guardian

The file name of the new plugin is "jOpenSim.Profile.dll" and it should replace "OpenSim.Joomla.Profile.dll". The old one did/does not work with 0.7.4 ...

And the table #__opensim_userprofile should be in your Joomla database, not in OpenSim

Greetz
FoTo50

Thanks foto50!

I deleted all of jopensim and re-installed the latest version, profiles are working now!

I was having a problem with blank profiles within OpenSim. When viewing a profile created through jOpenSim/Joomla front end, nothing shows up or saves; I received this error:

[LLCLIENTVIEW]: Caught exception while processing OpenMetaverse.Packets.AvatarPropertiesRequestPacket for My World, Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at jOpenSim.Profile.jOpenProfile.OpenProfileModule.GetProfileData(UUID userID)

When I create an account through Robust, the profile works fine. When looking at the database differences between the two account, the following is not stored as default when an account is created through jOpenSim for the userprofile table.

image: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
aboutText: No profile stored
firstLifeImage: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

When a user is created through Robust, those default values are inserted into those database tables. However, the only important part is the aboutText value. If it is empty an error occurs.

After manually adding the value to the account in the database that was created with jOpenSim, the profile for that avatar worked like it should. Although, if you remove the About text from within OpenSim, the error returns and you have to manually add it to the database table again. This happens to both Robust and Joomla/jOpenSim created accounts on update.

My solution was to change a line in \www\components\com_opensim\includes\functions_profile.php:

$retval[0] = utf8_decode($profile[0]);

To:

if(utf8_decode($profile[0]) == "") $retval[0] = JText::_('NOPROFILEAVAILABLE');
else $retval[0] = utf8_decode($profile[0]);

I am not sure if it is the best solution, but it works. This checks to see if the About text is blank and if so, it adds the "No profile stored" in it's place. Otherwise it will display the text that the user inserts.

Hi jman

Thanks for this report What OpenSim version are you using?

Greetz
FoTo50

OpenSim 0.7.4