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Credit to Alexander Krestinin for spotting this one. (also posted at Mamboserver)

Problem: Templates packaged with Mambo 4.5.1 (JavaBean, etc) don't appear in Template Manager and Template uploads fail with 'installation file not found' error.

Cause: This is a misconfiguration problem with PHP resulting from incomplete/incorrrect information given by the Mambo installer.

PHP.INI includes three different magic quotes switches.

magic_quotes_gpc: Default = ON
magic_quotes_runtime: Default = OFF
magic_quotes_sybase: Default = OFF

The Mambo installer recommends that magic quotes are turned on but does not differentiate between the three different switches and reports the setting for the magic_quotes_runtime switch.

As a result, on a standard PHP installation, the installer incorrectly reports that magic quotes are turned off.

Editing php.ini and turning the magic_quotes_runtime switch ON results in the installer reporting tht magic quotes are ON, however this causes DOMIT to fail when parsing XML packaging files which contain quotes.

FIX: Mambo requires that magic_quotes_gpc is set to ON and magic_quotes_runtime is set to OFF.

Edit php.ini and ensure that the magic quotes section is set as follows:

; Magic quotes
;

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = On

; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_runtime = Off

; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of \').
magic_quotes_sybase = Off

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Quick Update.

Robert has updated RC1 at Mamboforge and the installer now provides the correct information regarding setting the magic quotes switches.

MasterChief

Placing the following line near the top of /includes/mambo.php will also help:

@set_magic_quotes_runtime( 0 );