I applaud Catzwolf and his efforts with the "WF" family of software. GPL development is largely a thankless job with few tangible rewards. However, I do think Catzwolf needs to back and have a read of the GPL and reflect on what true community development means. With respect to this topic, I would echo a core principle of GPL development:

"Release Early, Release Public, and Release Often."

Closed betas to select people and GPL is almost an Oxymoron. Call it alpha and pre-alpha if you want.... Who cares if it doesn't work right, it's a dev version. Point is, it's more important to get it out than to say you are going to get it out or to talk about all of the new bells and whistles you are going to add.

Good reference:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jrobbins/ics121f03/lesson-oss.html

Further, I've read several posts over past months, as a XOOPS lurker, where Catz tells people not to "hack" his code, etc. Again, this goes against the spirit of GPL development. Don't discourage people from jumping in and helping, encourage them!!! If develpers took this approach when Linux was an infant, I doubt we'd be here talking about this right now.

Just a few thoughts for Catz to chew on. I certainly don't mean any disrespect to Catz or what he's doing.

G. Zartman

Why not throw this bad boy up to the masses??? Getting a sneak peak at it on a restricted site is of little value to you, as the developer, and to the general user base. Say it's beta, or alpha, or what ever and you install at your own risk.

Greg

Yes, there is a bug in this module. Specifically with include/search.inc.php. Looks like it was a cut-n-paste from wf-section, but didn't get updated for wf-channel. Fix is as follows:

<?php
/**
* $Id: search.php v 1.01 20 November 2003 Catwolf Exp $
* Module: WF-Channel
* Version: v1.0.2
* Release Date: 20 November 2003
* Author: Catzwolf
* Licence: GNU
**/

function wfchannel_search($queryarray, $andor, $limit, $offset, $userid){
global $xoopsDB;

$sql = "SELECT CID, pagetitle, created FROM ".$xoopsDB->prefix("wfschannel")." WHERE ";

// because count() returns 1 even if a supplied variable
// is not an array, we must check if $querryarray is really an array
if ( is_array($queryarray) && $count = count($queryarray) ) {
$sql .= " ((pagetitle LIKE '%$queryarray[0]%' OR pageheadline LIKE '%$queryarray[0]%' OR page LIKE '%$queryarray[0]%')";
for($i=1;$i<$count;$i++){
$sql .= " $andor ";
$sql .= "(pagetitle LIKE '%$queryarray[$i]%' OR pageheadline LIKE '%$queryarray[$i]%' OR page LIKE '%$queryarray[$i]%')";
}
$sql .= ") ";
}
$sql .= "ORDER BY created DESC";
$result = $xoopsDB->query($sql,$limit,$offset);
$ret = array();
$i = 0;
while($myrow = $xoopsDB->fetchArray($result)){
//$ret[$i]['image'] = "images/forum.gif";
$ret[$i]['link'] = "index.php?pagenum=".$myrow['CID']."";
$ret[$i]['title'] = $myrow['pagetitle'];
$ret[$i]['time'] = $myrow['created'];
$i++;
}
return $ret;
}
?>

I've installed wfchannel on a test machine an notice that a search on channel content returns links that look like wfsection paths. For example:
domain/modules/wfchannel/article.php?storyid=4

Anyone have any idea how to hack wfchannel so that it behaves correctly with the search function?

Thanks.

Greg Zartman

I've created a flash banner and input the banner in the admin interface using the "html" option. Things work fine on the main page, but not in the modules. I know I'm having a problem with pathing, but can't seem to figure out how to solve it. Two questions:

1. What is the XOOPS variable the defines the path to the current theme?

2. Can I use variable substitution in the html that is inserted in the banners html dialog (I'm guessing not).

many thanks.

Greg Zartman

Shine,

I'm attempting to create a tinycontent clone of my own and not having much success.

Do you recall what you had to change to get the install href link in the modules window to report your clone and not the original tiny content module?

Thanks.

Greg