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The_Cheese
Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 16:46

  • The_Cheese

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If someone could make a module that I can enter obituaries in sure would help. I want to use it with the Alumni module and post all of my classmates that have passed away.

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zyspec
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 17:08

  • zyspec

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Interesting idea... Do you want this to be a separate module altogether or do you just want additional fields in the existing Alumni module? If it's a separate module what fields would you be interested in using? For example;

- Name
- Date of Death (DOD)
- Text Area (for obituary)
- what else?

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The_Cheese
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 17:29

  • The_Cheese

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It might be better to have it as a separate module, that way people can use it for other applications. But it would also be nice to have it in the Alumni module too.

The fields you have cover the bases but might also want to add a place for a picture.

Thanks alot for this!

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hervet
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 17:38

  • hervet

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Why don't you use something like News or a gallery ?

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Peekay
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 19:06

  • Peekay

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Quote:

The_Cheese wrote:
If someone could make a module that I can enter obituaries in sure would help.

You could try searching the dead modules page on the WIKI
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Runeher
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 20:20

  • Runeher

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lol

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The_Cheese
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/4 21:43

  • The_Cheese

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funny guys.....

zyspec, think you can help me out?

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Peekay
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/5 15:22

  • Peekay

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OK, to be serious... I would split each school in 'Alumni' into 2 sub-categories: 'Classmates' and 'Obituary'.

When a classmate passes away, a relative can log-in and change the category for the listing, or admin (you) can do it. I would just add a small note to 'extra info' to explain cause of death etc.

Unfortunately, there appears to be a couple of small bugs in Alumni 2.3:

1) In user-side editing of the 'extra info' field the original data is not picked up from the database.

2) Although people can be moved into a different category, the listing itself is not updated with the category change, so moving someone from 'classmates' into 'obituary' their listing still shows 'classmates'.

If I can see a fix for that, I'll post it, unless anyone else already has a solution.

-- EDIT --

You may need to add some conditional statements to exclude certain things from showing up in the obituary category, e.g. 'You need to log in to reply to John Smith'.
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Peekay
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/5 17:50

  • Peekay

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Bugfix 1)

This only manifests when using default DHTML editor, not Koivi.

alumni/admin/index.php
line 296
change:
$GLOBALS["extrainfo"] = $requirements;

to:

$GLOBALS["extrainfo"] = $extrainfo;
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Anonymous
Re: Obituaries module
  • 2008/4/5 18:58

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Quote:
Peekay wrote:

You could try searching the dead modules page on the WIKI


Yep - made me laugh

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