Can't make Dracula theme work on Vim [os: W10] - windows

So, I followed the instuctions in their website, there's a .vim/pack/themes/start path with the dracula folder there with everything and I add the three lines to the _vimrc (had to open as admin to be able to save changes) file in my FilesProgram/Vim folder
after that, two other files appeared, a ._vimrc.un~ and _vimrc~ and now when I try to open vim it gives the following error
Error detected while processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\_vimrc:
line 41:
E919: Directory not found in 'packpath': "pack/*/opt/dracula"
line 43:
E185: Cannot find color scheme 'dracula'
Can anybody tell me where Is the mistake and how to fix it?

We have a cascade of mistakes, here.
The first one was made by the Dracula maintainers, who forgot not everyone uses the same system as them and therefore only provided instructions for "Unix"-like systems and not for Windows (and even those are incorrect anyway).
The second one was made by you, who blindly followed "Unix" instructions on Windows despite the many incompatibilities between those systems.
The third one was also made by you, who edited the system-wide C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\_vimrc instead of your C:\Users\Edrods\_vimrc.
Follow these steps to fix your setup:
Create C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\.
This directory is where all your configuration is supposed to happen. Don't do anything Vim-related anywhere else.
Whenever you see ~/.vim/ mentioned in a tutorial or README.md, replace it mentally with C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\.
Create C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\vimrc.
This is your main configuration file.
Whenever you see vimrc, .vimrc, or _vimrc mentioned in a tutorial or README.md, replace it mentally with C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\vimrc.
Revert any change you may have performed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\.
Whatever line you have added to C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\_vimrc must be moved to C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\vimrc.
Whatever file or directory you may have added to C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\ must be moved to C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\.
The goal is to return C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\ to its pristine state and forget that directory even exists. It is off-limits.
Put the dracula directory where it belongs:
C:\Users\Edrods\vimfiles\pack\themes\start\dracula
Add these lines to your vimrc (remember what I said earlier about mentally replacing it with the correct path?) if they are not there already:
syntax enable
colorscheme dracula
(Optional) Tell the maintainers of that colorscheme to fix their installation instructions.

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Joomla "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare jblogerror() in on line 0"

Here is a weird problem i'm facing; after updating Joomla to the latest version, website failed to up load but, as i've made a backup manually from these folders:
administrator
bin
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components
includes
layouts
libraries
modules
plugins
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and all the root files, after restoring the backup still the website is not loading and just says
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Apparently, the version of jBlog you are using is loading its attempting to load its own classes twice.
Let's assume the jBlog developers already fixed it and you carelessly ignored the warning to ensure all your extensions are compatible before updating.
Are you able to access administrator? Simply go there and upgrade jBlog including any modules.
Else, the issue lies within a plugin. In order to access the administrator and perform the update, you will need to manually disable the offending plugin.
A simple way is to rename its folder: start from plugins/system then plugins/content hopefully you'll have spotted it by then. Look into the subfolders of each and spot any that may be relevant to jBlog (or grep through the folder to locate the specific string)
If you have console access, simply run
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Vim Vundle installation on windows: unknown function vundle#begin

I am a beginner with Vim and I am trying to install Vundle for plugin management. However I keep getting the same error when I open gVim:
Error detected while processing C:\Users\jacob\Vim\_vimrc:
line 5:
E117: Unknown function: vundle#begin
line 7:
E492: Not an editor command: Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'
line 9:
E117: Unknown function: vundle#end
I am working on windows 10 and this is how my _vimrc file looks like:
set nocompatible
filetype off
set rtp+=$HOME/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/
call vundle#begin('$HOME/.vim/bundle/')
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'
call vundle#end() " required
filetype plugin indent on " required
Perhaps a bit on the late side, but I also received the same error.
After diagnosing what has happened I came to the following problem and solution:
The problem is that using GIT to clone the files, this downloades the Vundle directory to the filepath: ~/vimfiles/bundle/Vundle.vim to the Windows home directory. the final filepath on Windows would then look like: C:\Users\User1~\vimfiles\bundle\Vundle.vim . However the _vimrc files is located under the directory C:\Users\User1\
The sollution is to copy the folder "vimfiles" to the user1 directory (exchange user1 for your own username). The final filepath for the Vundle files should then be C:\Users\User1\vimfiles\bundle\Vundle.vim .
Looks like you missed some steps of the installation, that would clone the Vundle git repository under the $HOME/.vim/bundle directory, creating a Vundle.vim subdirectory there which would have an autoload/vundle.vim which is where functions such as vundle#begin would be searched.
See the Quick Start guide for further instructions. In particular for your case, there's also a link to a quite detailed Windows setup document with many details on how to get the components you need to install Vundle.
You might also want to consider vim-plug as an alternative to Vundle. It's newer and actively maintained, while at the same time using a similar model to Vundle, supporting a similar set of commands and using similar configuration directives. It's also much easier to install, also on Windows. (It only needs a single file to be downloaded.)

Trouble installing Vim plugins on Mac Lion

I have unsuccessfully been trying to install some plugins for VIM for sometime. I have mostly been following the information in this reference. I've basically just been dropping the plugin files in various directories hoping something works, nothing has yet. I have a .vim directory at the following path:
/Users/{my_user_name}/.vim
I have tried adding my files to the directory above as well as a directory inside it called plugins. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?
When I enter
:help 'rtp'
I get
Unix: "$HOME/.vim,
$VIM/vimfiles,
$VIMRUNTIME,
$VIM/vimfiles/after,
$HOME/.vim/after"
Amiga: "home:vimfiles,
$VIM/vimfiles,
$VIMRUNTIME,
$VIM/vimfiles/after,
home:vimfiles/after"
PC, OS/2: "$HOME/vimfiles,
$VIM/vimfiles,
$VIMRUNTIME,
$VIM/vimfiles/after,
$HOME/vimfiles/after"
Macintosh: "$VIM:vimfiles,
$VIMRUNTIME,
$VIM:vimfiles:after"
The correct location is in a plugin subdirectory (not the plural plugins):
/Users/{my_user_name}/.vim/plugin/*.vim
You can check your actually used path with
:set rtp?
The trailing ? means query value, don't set. (:help rtp is just the general documentation, not what's actually used.)
The useful :scriptnames command will tell you what actually got sourced.
Note that all these instructions are valid for plain *.vim plugin scripts; some plugins are also distributed as (*.zip, or *.tar.gz) archives, or the Vim-specific Vimball (*.vba, *.vmb), which typically contain the subdirectory structure already.
For an hypothetical single-file plugin:
~/.vim/plugin/plugin.vim
For an hypothetical multi-file plugin:
~/.vim/autoload/plugin.vim
~/.vim/plugin/plugin.vim
~/.vim/doc/plugin.txt
If that hypothetical multi-file plugin comes with documentation, run the following command to add it to the :help index:
:helptags ~/.vim/doc
The :scriptnames shows you a list of sourced scripts.
Also, most plugins have some kind of README that details recommended installation procedures: read it.

appledoc Exception: at least one directory

After wasting some time to figure out what goes wrong, I finally have to ask for help. I want to use appledocs from Gentle Bytes. I followed every step of the quick install guide, but I´m not able to compile the project.
Here is what I´ve done:
1. cloned it from git://github.com/tomaz/appledoc.git
2. installed the templates to ~/Library/Application Support/appledoc
3. tried to compile the project
Everytime I try to compile, I get following error:
ERROR: AppledocException: At least one directory or file name path is required, use 'appledoc --help'
What do I have to do now?
Sounds like you've compiled it just fine and are now running the program. If it's a command-line program try command-option-R in Xcode to provide some arguments (i.e. names of files that you want to process).
The error means you didn't give it source paths: after all switches, you must give it at least one path to your source files. Can be either file or directory. In later case it will recursively scan the dir. Here's example
appledoc <options> ~/MyProject
Above example will use ~/MyProject directory as a source. You can also add multiple source paths. Note that you need to give the tool few options, see this page for minimum command line and other usage examples.
You either have to copy appledoc executable to one of directories in your path, as suggested by Caleb, or use full path to it when invoking (for example: /path/to/appledoc)

Call to undefined function mysql_connect [duplicate]

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\Apache\htdocs\test.php on line 2
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Closed 3 months ago.
I just installed PHP and Apache on my home PC. When I try to call function mysql_connect I get:
fatal error: call to undefined function mysql_connect.
I have loaded php.ini where I have uncommented lines extension=php_mysql.dll and
extension=php_mysqli.dll and changed extension directory to extension_dir = "C:\php\ext" - which is the directory where files php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll are. How can I fix this problem?
Output of phpinfo():
http://jsfiddle.net/MMTwA/
After looking at your phpinfo() output, it appears the mysql extensions are not being loaded. I suspect you might be editing the wrong php.ini file (there might be multiple copies). Make sure you are editing the php file at C:\php\php.ini (also check to make sure there is no second copy in C:\Windows).
Also, you should check your Apache logs for errors (should be in the \logs\ directory in your Apache install.
If you haven't read the below, I would take a look at the comments section, because it seems like a lot of people experience quirks with setting this up. A few commenters offer solutions they used to get it working.
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.extensions.php
Another common solution seems to be to copy libmysql.dll and php_mysql.dll from c:\PHP to C:\Windows\System32.
Background about my (similar) problem:
I was asked to fix a PHP project, which made use of short tags. My WAMP server's PHP.ini had short_open_tag = off.
In order to run the project for the first time, I modified this setting to short_open_tag = off.
PROBLEM Surfaced:
Immediately after this change, all my mysql_connect() calls failed. It threw an error
fatal error: call to undefined function mysql_connect.
Solution:
Simply set short_open_tag = off.
My PC is running Windows 7 (Apache 2.2 & PHP 5.2.17 & MySQL 5.0.51a), the syntax in the file "httpd.conf" (C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf) was sensitive to slashes.
You can check if "php.ini" is read from the right directory. Just type in your browser "localhost/index.php". The code of index.php is the following:
<?php
echo phpinfo();
?>
There is the row (not far from the top) called "Loaded Configuration File". So, if there is nothing added, then the problem could be that your "php.ini" is not read, even you uncommented (extension=php_mysql.dll and extension=php_mysqli.dll). So, in order to make it work I did the following step. I needed to change from
PHPIniDir 'c:\PHP\'
to
PHPIniDir 'c:\PHP'
Pay the attention that the last slash disturbed everything!
Now the row "Loaded Configuration File" gets "C:\PHP\php.ini" after refreshing "localhost/index.php" (before I restarted Apache2.2) as well as mysql block is there. MySQL and PHP are working together!
You have probably forgotten to restart apache/wamp/xamp/whatever webserver you use, you need to do that in order to make it work
Check your php.ini, I'm using Apache2.2 + php 5.3. and I had the same problem and after modify the php.ini in order to set the libraries directory of PHP, it worked correctly. The problem is the default extension_dir configuration value.
The default (and WRONG) value for my work enviroment is
; extension_dir="ext"
without any full path and commented with a semicolon.
There are two solution that worked fine for me.
1.- Including this line at php.ini file
extension_dir="X:/[PathToYourPHPDirectory]/ext
Where X: is your drive letter instalation (normally C: or D: )
2.- You can try to simply uncomment, deleting semicolon. Include the next line at php.ini file
extension_dir="ext"
Both ways worked fine for me but choose yours. Don't forget restart Apache before try again.
I hope this help you.
Hi I got this error because I left out the ampersand (&) in
; php.ini
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
Be sure you edited php.ini in /php folder, I lost all day to detect error and finally I found I edited php.ini in wrong location.
After change our php.ini, make sure to restart Apache web server.
Just for future reference, copying all these extension files to Windows/System or Windows/System32 is unnecessary.
All that is required is a copy of the php.ini file you edit in the PHP dir to copied to the root Windows dir.
phpinfo will clearly explain the below:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\Windows
Logical sense will explain that php wants to load a config located in the Windows dir. :-)
One time I had a problem while using Off instead of off. And also check the pads one more time... The path has to be exact. Also add the following line to your environmental variable.
C:\your-apache-path\bin; C:\your-php-path\bin;C:\your-mysql-path\bin
If you are in Windows, right click My Computer, select properties, and navigate to the Advanced tab... (is Windows 7). Click on Advanced system settings first then select the Advanced tab and then Environmental variables. Select PATH and click on Edit. Make a copy of the string in a .txt file for back up (it might be empty)--- set your environmental variables... Log out and log back in.
Since mysql_connect This extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5.0, and it was removed in PHP 7.0.0. Instead, the MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extension should be used.
by default xampp does not load it automatically
in your php.ini file you should uncomment
;; extension=php_mysql.dll
to
extension=php_mysql.dll
Then restart your apache you should be fine
This same problem drove me nuts (Windows 10, Apache 2.4, MySql 5.7). For some reason (likely PATH related), the .dlls would not load after uncommenting the correct exension dlls and extension_dir = "ext" in php.ini. After trying numerous things, I simply changed "ext" to use the full directory path. For example. extension_dir = "c:/phpinstall/ext" and it worked.
I think that you should use mysqli_connect instead of mysql_connect

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