Minidashboard.php is blank

Using a self-installed Help Center, clicking on minidashboard.php brings up a totally blank page after logging in.

Is it a template I'm missing? The rest of the system works fine.

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Eric Suesz, Official Rep, replied on July 22, 2008 17:43

That doesn't sound good. Let me see if I can get someone to check on that for you and find out what the problem might be.

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ezrakilty, Employee, replied on July 23, 2008 09:48

Hi Andrew: Does this mean you're able to see all the other pages of Help Center, and only the minidashboard is giving you trouble?

Also, can you look at your server logs and see if there are any errors produced when you click on minidashboard?

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Yes, everything else in Help Center (AFAIK) works fine, it's just the minidashboard. I'm in a shared hosting environment, so error logs are not easy to get to. Can you give instructions for a way of displaying errors to the screen, at least temporarily? – Andrew Smith, on July 23, 2008 10:54
In the file Sprinkles.php, near the top, there are two lines that begin with set_exception_handler and set_error_handler. If you remove these lines (or comment them by putting # at the beginning of each line) then errors should go to the web page. It may also be worthwhile double-checking that all the files of the distribution arrived correctly. Maybe themes/default/templates/minidashboard.t is corrupted? – ezrakilty (Employee), on July 25, 2008 10:49
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Andrew Smith replied on July 25, 2008 12:51

After commenting out the error handler lines, I get this:

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in minidashboard.t line 9]: [plugin] modifier 'capitalize' is not implemented (core.load_plugins.php, line 118) in /usr/www/users/helpeq/vendor/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1092

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Andrew Smith replied on July 25, 2008 13:10

Solved! I set this in my config.php:
define('SMARTY_DIR',dirname(__FILE__) .'/vendor/smarty/');

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Aha! Thanks; others might face this, too, so we'll try to fix things so that it won't crop up. Can you say what version of PHP and of Smarty you're using? – ezrakilty (Employee), on July 25, 2008 14:28
I'm using the version of Smarty that comes packaged with the latest Help Center. PHP version is 5.2.0-8+etch11. – Andrew Smith, on July 25, 2008 17:50