Did you ever resolve this?

Our board went the same way, initially just turned to text and would not allow me to log in, then disappeared altogether, now just an error message.

I tried a thread on here but nobody ever replied.

Nick

Thank you so much Dandello, I was able to add the parentheses to all instances of the qw error and no longer get the error.  However, the forum still won't back up and I think it's because the forum is having an all-around larger scale problem.

I do not have permissions to post the my website URL in this thread, but I dm'ed it to you. Can you take a look at the link and see if you can tell what is happening?

Thank you!

Okay - the qw(..) error refers to this:

	foreach $module (qw Compress::Zlib Compress::Bzip2) { 

Which should be this:

	foreach $module (qw(Compress::Zlib Compress::Bzip2)) { 

So for every instance of that error, look for the line it's on in the file being referred to and make sure there's a parenthesis to both the left AND the right of the 'qw' and you add an additional parenthesis at the end

Hello, I have had a YABB 2.5 board for years, and it worked perfectly for years, so I never updated it to a newer version.

Last week it just stopped working. Unfortunately I am not allowed to post a link to show you, but the framework is there however it looks like an outline of it's former self and nothing posts.

I'm trying to figure out how to fix it, but I can't find where I can download an updated version, and the site won't let me backup my current forum, I get this error: An Error Has Occurred! Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at ./Admin/Backup.pl line 227.

I realize the support for YABB has dwindled over the years, and there is not much help to be had.  However if someone could point me in the direction of where to download a newer version of YABB and to let me know their thoughts on whether this will fix my issue I would appreciate it!

I am not code savvy, so please talk down to me like "Coding for dummies". Thank you!