Hi. Recently the shared hosting I use with SiteGround was upgraded. Since then KoolReport is broken. When I look at the HTML source code I find:

<script type='text/javascript' src='/home/$user/www/$sitename/public_html/koolreport_assets/3409401219/KoolReport.js'></script>

Previously it was:

<script type='text/javascript' src='/koolreport_assets/3409401219/KoolReport.js'></script>

What might be causing the change? Any advice on how I can fix or configure KoolReport to use the correct path please? If not, I will speak to tech support at SiteGround.

Website uses Laravel framework.

I have tried using Friendship but it didn't change anything. Seems settings() not being called/run?

use \koolreport\KoolReport;

class MyKoolReport extends \koolreport\KoolReport
{
        //use \koolreport\cloudexport\Exportable;
        use \koolreport\laravel\Friendship;

        function settings()
        {
                return array(
                        "assets"=>array(
                                "path"=>"../../public/resources/kool",
                                "url"=>"resources/kool"
                        )
                );
        }

Just noticed that the 'view' seems to be making static calls:

ComboChart::create($aChart);

At the top there is:

use \koolreport\widgets\google\ComboChart

My old developer set this up and it looks like he didn't do it like your demo and my PHP is very basic, so I find this hard to explain.

Is there somewhere I can hardcode assets url and path? Ideally somewhere that won't get overwritten when I update KoolReport next time.

Currently on 5.0.1.

No, that doesn't help, sorry.

I think the way my old developer set things up is not right and the function override isn't working.

Anyway, I did some further investigation and found this:

In file koolreport/core/src/core/ResourceManager.php and function publishAssetFolder, I noticed the SCRIPT_FILENAME is not run through realpath() function, which is used in core/src/core/Utility.php function getDocumentRoot.

My web host's server does something to the file path and depending on whether you use realpath() or not, you get a different path, e.g.

                $script_folder = Utility::standardizePathSeparator(
                    dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"])
                );

                // returns /home/u12345/www/mysite.com/public_html/index.php

		$script_folder = Utility::standardizePathSeparator(
                    dirname(realpath($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]))
                );

                // returns /home/customer/www/mysite.com/public/index.php

I've updated function publishAssetFolder to also use realpath() and now graphs are showing.

Do you need to update the core files to be consistent?

Yes, they are also doing something “clever” with the username after /home — actual path uses a username (e.g. /home/u1234). But when run through KoolReport realpath() function the unique username is changed to the word “customer” (I.e. /home/customer).

@Sebastian - Do you think you will be able to update this thread with the outcome of your review please? I would like to be confident I don't push an update live that breaks things again, so if a fix won't be made to core files I will need to remember to apply my own. Thank you.