These problems with the date field started after I upgraded from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. I suspect they have something to do with the "refactoring" that was said to be done in 2.4. XOOPS 2.4 has introduced some kind of incompatibility in reading extcal's date fields that was not previously present, because the module itself has not changed.

barryc

@Balzac,

the file include/notifications.php does not exist in my installation of wflinks 1.07. There is a a file include/notification.inc.php and the line you suggest changing is present in that file. Is that the file you are suggesting to change?

Overall I think wflinks is a very good module and is the one I prefer to use. I would suggest that it be considered for the "Blue Move" program to optimize it for the latest XOOPS version. Another issue that could be addressed, in addition to what I've already mentioned, is the editors. It seems that wflinks is not using the standard XOOPS editors at the moment.

barryc

There is still a problem in the showing of the country, that is, in the replacement of the smarty variable for the country. Instead of country, one sees Country: <{$wfllink.countryname}>. I am not very interested in showing the country, so I commented out the code for that.

I also had to change the background color of the blocks of text showing details of who submitted the link, in templates/wflinks_singlelink.hmtl. As published it is a light gray, which produces white text on light gray on my site. I changed it to transparent. In some future "blueification" of wflinks, which is the links module I prefer, it would be good to use css to control such attributes.

barryc

An update on my observations and "problems" with WF-Links:

It turned out that the failure of newly added links to appear is related to the time stamp put on the link. First, it will often be a minute or two later than your actual local time. Second, there is a potential problem between server time and local time. Anyway, if the time stamp is later than your local time, you won't see the link. It will appear once your time is later than the time stamp.

You can avoid this by choosing a time stamp in the submission form that is earlier than your local time when posting. Then the link will appear immediately.

A simple problem but it fooled me for a while.

barryc

@ghia

I had seen that thread. There the problem was somewhat different. In my case the calendar icon was simply not appearing.

I have been trying to troubleshoot this and found the problem. It seems the name of the images folder must have been corrupted (in /class/calendar/images/) even though it appeared to be correct. For example, viewing the source showed that the path to the file was being generated correctly. If I typed the path to the calendar.png image file directly into my browser the file would not come up. Instead, the url simply appears in the browser window. I had confirmed that the image file itself was OK. I temporarily copied it to the folder above images (i.e. calendar) then accessed it directly with the browser and it showed. Because of these findings, I copied the image folder from my downloaded copy of XOOPS 2.4.4 to the server. Lo, I could now access the image file and it appears on my extcal submit event form.

The problem with an error message (incorrect date format) when dates are manually entered persists. If I use the clickable calendar icon to drop down the calendar, then choose a date, it is entered in the format yyyy-mm-dd. Doing it that way, the event will entered. In the Post Event form the default date is entered in the format yyyy/m/d. If I manually overwrite that date, entering it is the yyyy-mm-dd format, I still get the wrong date format error. I don't understand that at all.

@JAVesey, if you (or anyone else) can manage to find the cause of this problem I think you'll be a hero because extcal is otherwise the best calendar module. As a temporary measure I'm going to insert a note into the define in /extcal/language/en/main.php to the effect that users should enter the date via the calendar drop down.

barryc

Hi all,

I'm having a problem that I can't figure out. I recently installed a new copy of XOOPS 2.4.4 for use for a second web site. In it I installed extcal. When I click on Submit Event in the module, the clickable calendar icon that should appear next to the date text box is not present. I uninstalled extcal, downloaded a fresh copy from zoullou's site, then reinstalled it. Same result. If I try to enter dates manually I consistently get an error message "Wrong Date format", no matter what format I use.

I have a larger site on the same server that also has extcal on it and the clickable calendars do appear there. I have had problems, however, with date formats. The default dates appear in the format yyyy/m/dd. However, if you manually enter a date in that format, it is rejected with the Wrong Date Format message. If you use the clickable icon to pop up the calendar, then choose the date, it is entered in the yyyy-mm-dd format. I believe this problem was introduced with XOOPS 2.4.2 and I asked a question about it once before but received no answer. In older versions of XOOPS I did not see this incorrect date format problem.

I can give someone access to the sites in question, if necessary. You can see the problem on my new site at www.aka.org/nwk/. Click on Submit Event to see the extcal submission page.

xoops 2.4.4, php5, mysql5.

barryc

@ mazarin

I don't think the problem is local. WF-links 1.07 doesn't work for me either, running XOOPS 2.4.3, php 5, MySQL 5.

I was having a problem with WF-Links 1.3 where links wouldn't come up due to some problem with the age rerstriction function in that version. I tried updating to 1.07 (as well as a new install). I could see links to a category on the home page but no links were shown. I made the correction indicated by Balzac and now I can see that there are links within a catagory. However, if I click on the link to that category, no links are shown on the resulting page.

Mazarin, I would be interested in knowing where you downloaded your version of WF-Links 1.07. Maybe there is a fixed version out there. Or, could you send the files for the version you have to webmaster at aka.org so that I can try it.

If I have to I'll switch to Web Links but I'd rather not have to redo all my links.

barryc

I have found another issue that needs to be addressed in extcal. When one submits a form the default dates for event beginning and end are shown in the format 2009/12/24 (for example). However, if one enters a date in this format the module throws an error with the message invalid date format. If you use the calendar icon to select a date, it is entered in the format 2009-12-24, which apparently is what is required. This cannot be changed in preferences.

This is confusing to users, as some just enter the date by typing in the text box rather than using the calendar icon. I am hoping that someone can tell me how to change the shown default dates to use hyphens (-) rather than slashes (/). Presumably it will require a hack to one of the module files.

I'm going to post this to zoullou's site too but I find that I get answers sooner by posting here.

[Edit] I've just visited zoullou's site and I see that his calendar shows hyphens (-) and not slashes. His site is running on XOOPS 2.3. As I did not get complaints about this previously from users I suspect that the date is showing differently due to some change made in upgrading to 2.4.2. So, is there some way to change how XOOPS shows the date or to make extcal accept both date formats?

barryc

Trabis suggested a fix to make the admin menu in extcal unique, allowing it to be accessed under the oxygen admin theme. See this thread.

barryc

Thank you trabis. I tried that and now the admin pages for extcal work under the oxygen admin theme.

I agree, too, that extcal is very good and I'm glad to get this fix.

What about other modules, like News? Would a similar global search and replacing adminmenu with news_adminmenu work?

barryc