Blogs 0.2.0 released, and call for help

[pkwezep]

Hey Sil,
I downloaded your SVN-files that are new, and deleted the whole module. After FTP-ing the BLOG-module back again, i still had the same problem. It doesn't show anything on the page.
I have a few questions for you.
* The entry's is there were you put the items in that you want to show on your site? You know I expected a page where i can type content in the same way i use the news-module or for pages, that you can edit the text with the help of TinyMCE and so on. But I never see such things. Is this correct?
* What's the meaning op de uploaded files? What type of files can you add and what do they do?
* I get two (looks the same to me) stylesheet under the menu : Layout - stylesheets, namely "Module: Blogs Made Simple" Must I connect these with my template? I tried it but it doesn't do anything either for me.
* Does the use of TinyMCE matter or not instead of FCK?
* Does the language of the whole core module matter perhaps? I use Dutch

Hope you or someone else can so me the way, that i can use this module, or is there another BLOG-module that is fit for use in CMSMADESIMPLE? Anyone experience?
Gr. Theo

[KO]

I also had quick look at SVN version but for some reason I could not get it display anything. I uninstalled 0.2 and renamed folder then copied svn version which became visible in "modules". Installed and called it by {cms_module module='Blogs' }
I will play more with it when I got time (will be next week).

For Theo: You could try "News" module with "Comments" module if that's solution you are looking for.

Br, K

[Silmarillion]

I'm very sorry you're having so much trouble with the module. I've tried it in several environments, Linux/XP etc, and never had any problems getting it to provide output. Just did a fresh installation on a WAMP-server and it worked out of the box. Do you get any related errors in your log-files upon loading a page which should have contained a blog?

Theo:
* Neither the language nor the WYSIWYG chosen can be the cause
* I don't get why you have 2 stylesheets called "Module: Blogs" on the stylesheet list. Perhaps you've installed the module twice? I should check that it is removed when the module is uninstalled.
* Using the file list you should be able to maintain a list of files to which you can refer in your entries. It was a wish from the customer to whom this module was originally writte.
* Actually it seems to me that the wysiwyg-integration does not work right now. I'll investigate that.
* Yes the entries is the blog posts which you want to show on your site. But you have to have at least 1 category before you can add an entry.

sil.

[RonnyK]

Anyone with a fix for this, I'm running the 1.1RC2 and Blogs is not showing anything. I tried the solution News/Comments, which I had working some time ago on a 1.0.2 site, but couldn't get that working as well.

Ronny

[theredspecial]

the 0.2.2 is a lot better: it displays all the entries I created
However, if I edit the template (removing certain php statements, such as the entrydate) I ceases to function.

I'll be working on this, but I ain't a coder... when it's done I'll rework the stylesheet

[Silmarillion]

Hmm, sounds strange, I will test this and get back to you!

sil.

[Silmarillion]

the redspecial: I cannot confirm this, unless you break something in the smarty template syntax. Could you provide me with a edited template with which the module does not work? I may be able to reproduce the problem then.

sil.

[aoc]

Hi,

I just styled the install of the blog module for a client site - if anyone's interested, you can see it here: http://strategyrescue.com/cms/index.php?mact=Blogs,m2,showblog,1&m2returnid=71&m2show=everything

However, I need a bit of help with customisation. How do I get it to look like http://multiintech.com/cmsms1.1/blog-module with:

• the title as a link
• using "more" instead of "..."
• specifying how long the intro or short text will be

Maddeningly enough, the entry talks about UDT and then gets cut off 

• Is it also possible to get the blog categories list to appear on every blog page but on a separate div?

I don't know any PHP so any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers,
AOC

[Silmarillion]

Hi Aoc

I really like how you made the module look on your page!
The title as link stuff has already been implemented in svn-version, as others requested it, too... The other things are good ideas and I'll implement them as soon as I find the time! Should not be that long.

Stay tuned for next version!

Best regards
Sil.

[theredspecial]

I like your looks as well...

As for my problem:

Below is the default template, I only deleted the statement I as notiefied below.

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{if $breadcrumb!=""}
<div id="blogs-breadcrumb">{$breadcrumb}</div>
{/if}

<div id="blogs-showblogsentries">
{if $itemcount>0} {foreach from=$items item=entry}
  <div id="blogs-showblogsentry">
    <div id="blogs-showblogsentrytime">{$entry->time} {$writtenby} {$entry->author}</div>   // I deleted "{$entry->time} "
    <div id="blogs-showblogsentrytitle">{$entry->title}</div>
    <div id="blogs-showblogsentryshorttext">{$entry->shorttext}</div>
<!--
  <div id="blogs-showcategoryentrytext">
    {$entry->text}
  </div>
 -->
{if $entry->files!=''}
    <div id="blogs-showcategoryentryfiles">{$entry->files}</div>
{/if}
       
    <div id="blogs-showblogsentrycategory">{$entry->categorylink}</div>
    <div id="blogs-showblogsentrycomments">{$entry->comments}</div>
  </div>
{/foreach} {else} {$noentriestext} {/if}
</div>

This results in the error message below.

string(135) "Smarty error: [in module_db_tpl:Blogs;showblogs line 1]: syntax error: unidentified token '\"\"' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1407)" string(136) "Smarty error: [in module_db_tpl:Blogs;showblogs line 16]: syntax error: unidentified token '\'\'' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1407)"
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in ***/cms/tmp/templates_c/Blogs^%%F0^F08^F08658B4%%module_db_tpl%3ABlogs%3Bshowblogs.php on line 3

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in ***/cms/tmp/templates_c/Blogs^%%F0^F08^F08658B4%%module_db_tpl%3ABlogs%3Bshowblogs.php on line 38

The trouble with the special characters I'm aware of, as I can't use tinyMCE I have to insert the ASCII codes for the special characters. However, what troubles me is that this error doesn't occur when I use the unedited default template

[michelG]

For those interested in issues with version 0.2.2, I posted the following thread in support/general help before finding this one:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 355.0.html