Dreamhost's unreliable process model is really getting irritating

boot.php

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ require_once('include/text.php');
 require_once("include/pgettext.php");
 
 
-define ( 'FRIENDIKA_VERSION',      '2.2.1100' );
+define ( 'FRIENDIKA_VERSION',      '2.2.1101' );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.21'    );
 define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1087      );
 

mod/item.php

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 		if(($r === false) || (! count($r))) {
 			notice( t('Unable to locate original post.') . EOL);
 			if(x($_POST,'return')) 
-				goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $_POST['return'] );
+				goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $return_path );
 			killme();
 		}
 		$parent_item = $r[0];
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 	if(! can_write_wall($a,$profile_uid)) {
 		notice( t('Permission denied.') . EOL) ;
 		if(x($_POST,'return')) 
-			goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $_POST['return'] );
+			goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $return_path );
 		killme();
 	}
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 		if(! strlen($body)) {
 			info( t('Empty post discarded.') . EOL );
 			if(x($_POST,'return')) 
-				goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $_POST['return'] );
+				goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $return_path );
 			killme();
 		}
 	}
@@ -550,9 +550,9 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 		);
 
 		proc_run('php', "include/notifier.php", 'edit_post', "$post_id");
-		if((x($_POST,'return')) && strlen($_POST['return'])) {
+		if((x($_POST,'return')) && strlen($return_path)) {
-			logger('return: ' . $_POST['return']);
+			logger('return: ' . $return_path);
-			goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $_POST['return'] );
+			goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $return_path );
 		}
 		killme();
 	}
@@ -799,11 +799,10 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 	else {
 		logger('mod_item: unable to retrieve post that was just stored.');
 		notify( t('System error. Post not saved.'));
-		goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $_POST['return'] );
+		goaway($a->get_baseurl() . "/" . $return_path );
 		// NOTREACHED
 	}
 
-	proc_run('php', "include/notifier.php", $notify_type, "$post_id");
 
 	$datarray['id']    = $post_id;
 	$datarray['plink'] = $a->get_baseurl() . '/display/' . $user['nickname'] . '/' . $post_id;
@@ -835,6 +834,17 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// This is a real juggling act on shared hosting services which kill your processes
+	// e.g. dreamhost. We used to start delivery to our native delivery agents in the background
+	// and then run our plugin delivery from the foreground. We're now doing plugin delivery first,
+	// because as soon as you start loading up a bunch of remote delivey processes, *this* page is
+	// likely to get killed off. If you end up looking at an /item URL and a blank page,
+	// it's very likely the delivery got killed before all your friends could be notified.
+	// Currently the only realistic fixes are to use a reliable server - which precludes shared hosting,
+	// or cut back on plugins which do remote deliveries.  
+
+	proc_run('php', "include/notifier.php", $notify_type, "$post_id");
+
 	logger('post_complete');
 
 	// figure out how to return, depending on from whence we came

mod/network.php

@@ -313,6 +313,23 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 		// Normal conversation view
 		// Show conversation by activity date
 		
+/* created date order
+$r = q("SELECT `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `contact`.`uid` AS `contact_uid`
+FROM `item` LEFT JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`id` = `item`.`contact-id`
+WHERE `item`.`uid` = %d AND `item`.`visible` = 1 AND `item`.`deleted` = 0
+AND `contact`.`blocked` = 0 AND `contact`.`pending` = 0
+AND `item`.`parent` = `item`.`id`
+$sql_extra
+ORDER BY `item`.`created` DESC LIMIT %d ,%d ",
+intval(local_user()),
+intval($a->pager['start']),
+intval($a->pager['itemspage'])
+);
+*/
+
+
+
+
 		
 		// First fetch a known number of parent items
 
@@ -344,6 +361,24 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 				$parents_arr[] = $rr['item_id'];
 			$parents_str = implode(', ', $parents_arr);
 
+/* created order
+$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`,
+`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`, `contact`.`writable`,
+`contact`.`network`, `contact`.`thumb`, `contact`.`dfrn-id`, `contact`.`self`,
+`contact`.`id` AS `cid`, `contact`.`uid` AS `contact-uid`
+FROM `item`, (SELECT `p`.`id`,`p`.`created` FROM `item` AS `p` WHERE `p`.`parent`=`p`.`id`) as `parentitem`, `contact`
+WHERE `item`.`uid` = %d AND `item`.`visible` = 1 AND `item`.`deleted` = 0
+AND `contact`.`id` = `item`.`contact-id`
+AND `contact`.`blocked` = 0 AND `contact`.`pending` = 0
+AND `item`.`parent` = `parentitem`.`id` AND `item`.`parent` IN ( %s )
+$sql_extra
+ORDER BY `parentitem`.`created` DESC, `item`.`gravity` ASC, `item`.`created` ASC ",
+intval(local_user()),
+dbesc($parents_str)
+*/
+
+
+
 			$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, 
 				`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`, `contact`.`writable`,
 				`contact`.`network`, `contact`.`thumb`, `contact`.`dfrn-id`, `contact`.`self`,
@@ -364,6 +399,9 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 				intval(local_user()),
 				dbesc($parents_str)
 			);
+
+
+
 		}
 	}