Blog not working

[Muzzy]

Hi.
I've installed the CMSBlog module and put this tag in my page

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{cms_module module='Blogs' show="everything"}

And I've attached the CSS file to my template but nothing is showing up.
What am I doing wrong. At the moment it is on my new site I'm developing in a sub-directory located here: http://www.mikemuscroft.com/2007/index.php?mact=Blogs,m3,showblog,1&m3returnid=58

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Mike.

[RonnyK]

Mike,

blog is showing when I use the logic you put in, although I think that the parameter isn't needed, because without it, it shows all. You do have an entry in Blog, to be shown?

Ronny

[Muzzy]

Hi Ronny.

I'm just looking at my page via MSIE 7 and Firefox, but I can't see anything other than my welcome message.
I'll drop the param code and see if it makes a diference. I did write a test entry, so not sure why it's not showing?

Thanks for the help.
Mike.

[Nullig]

The code (below) for the content on that page looks a bit mixed up, check your Blogs Template.

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<div id="content" class="bg7">
	<div id="box5">
		<div class="title">
			<h2><strong>Blog</strong> </h2>
		</div>
		<div class="content">

                          <p>Welcome to my Blog.</p>
<p><font face="Courier New">
<div id="blogs-showblogsentries">
  </div>
</div></font></p>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

Nullig

[RonnyK]

Mike,

what does your template "Blogs template" look like, mine is like:

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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} {$entry->author}</div>
<div id="blogs-showblogsentrytitle">{$entry->title}</div>
<div id="blogs-showblogsentryshorttext">{$entry->shorttext}</div>
<!--
  <div id="blogs-showcategoryentrytext">
    {$entry->text}
  </div>
 -->

<div id="blogs-showcategoryentryfiles">{$entry->files}</div>
       
<div id="blogs-showblogsentrycategory">{$entry->categorylink}</div>
<div id="blogs-showblogsentrycomments">{$entry->comments}</div>
</div>
{/foreach} {else} {$noentriestext} {/if}</div>
</div>

Ronny

[Muzzy]

Hi Ronny.

Line for line it appears exactly the same, but just in case I replaced my blog template code with yours. Still not showing up.
Perhaps I'm missing something or perhaps I should have done something? Not much by way of instructions comes with this module.

Mike.

[RonnyK]

Mike,

did you do anything specific. I just installed, created an entry and put the line of code on a new content-page. I did nothing with styling/captcha etc....

Ronny

[RonnyK]

Mike,

are you running 0.2.0 as I saw some topic on similar problems on 0.1.0.

Ronny

[Nullig]

There's an extra at the end.

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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} {$entry->author}</div>
            <div id="blogs-showblogsentrytitle">{$entry->title}</div>
            <div id="blogs-showblogsentryshorttext">{$entry->shorttext}</div>
       <!-- <div id="blogs-showcategoryentrytext">{$entry->text}</div> -->
            <div id="blogs-showcategoryentryfiles">{$entry->files}</div>
            <div id="blogs-showblogsentrycategory">{$entry->categorylink}</div>
            <div id="blogs-showblogsentrycomments">{$entry->comments}</div>
         </div>
      {/foreach}
   {else} 
      {$noentriestext}
   {/if}
</div>
</div>  <-- appears to be unnecessary -->

Nullig

[Muzzy]

Hi Ronny & Nullig.

Ronny.
I did exactly as you mentioned. Installed, created entry, put code in page - no go!!!

Nullig.
Not sure about the extra div or if it would render the blog module from working, but I'll check it out shortly.
Can't access the site as such at the moment as I am in the middle of FTP the new version 6 of CMSMS.
Soon as it's done and I've done the upgrade/install thing, I'll login and check again.

Thanks Guys.
Mike.

[Muzzy]

Hi Ronny.

I finished the upgrade to 1.0.6
Loged in and checked, I'm running 0.2.0 blog

I was hoping that perhaps the blog might start working after this minor upgrade, but no.

Any other ideas?
Mike.

[abb]

Hi,

It is nice to see blog module is being developed.

patch-itemcount.txt - a patch to fix "empty page" problem, the one Mike is experiencing.
patch-admin.txt - a patch, fixing a few minor glitches in the admin interface.

Another bug: when blog is empty, the module is supposed to display corresponding message, but for some reason it does not.

Also I have noticed that this module is also vulnerable to cross-site-scripting vulnerability, in partucular in the comment submission form. Please note that malicious person may inject pieces of javascript into comment which will be executed by browsers of visitors of the blog as well as blog administrator. One should not put this module on publicly accessible website until this bug is fixed.

Regards,
Alex

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www.scanit.be


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[Muzzy]

Hi Abb.

Thanks for the help.
Can you tell me how and where I apply these 2 patch files?
Do I need to rename them at all?

Thank you.
Mike.

[abb]

Hi Mike,

Normally patches are applied with "patch" utility available on unix/linux systems or from Cygwin toolkit on Windows platform. If you don't have it you can do it manually (the format of the patch files is very easy to interpret). Or if you feel comfortable accepting PHP files from strangers, you can also use files patched by myself, see attachment. If you only want to patch "empty page" problem, you only need to get "action.showblog.php" file and place it into modules/Blogs directory. You need to remove .txt extension, I have added it because forum does not allow attaching files with .php extensions.

Here are the basic instructions how to interpret the content of the patch files:

1) Find file to apply the patch to, action.showblog.php in subdirectory modules/Blogs in your cmsms file tree (file name to patch can be found in "---" or "+++" lines of the patch file).

2) Look around line number 28 (line number can be found in "@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@" line in the patch file). you will find a chunk of text resembling

  array_push($entries, $onerow);
}
$this->smarty->assign_by_ref('items', $entries);

3) Right after this file, add a patch (lines starting from + in the patch file are ones which has to be added, you may also find ones prefixed with "-" those you have to remove). In our example you need to add just this line:

$this->smarty->assign('itemcount', count($entries));

the resulting text will look like


  array_push($entries, $onerow);
}
$this->smarty->assign_by_ref('items', $entries);
$this->smarty->assign('itemcount', count($entries));

Cheers,
Alex
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www.scanit.be


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[Muzzy]

Hi Abb.

Bless you for the most excellent help.
I'm no coder, so what a lot of what you write is wierd to me, but your explanation is top of the class.
I have printed off your tutorial asit where to keep and learn from, never knew of such 'patch' stuff before.

I have downloaded your php files as I feel more comfortable with a straight ftp job.
Will let you know later how I get on, unfortunately I have to go to a party/celebration so I am pressed for time at the moment.

Thanks once again for the help.
Mike.