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Posted by: AnonymousOn 2004/3/19 9:35:53 7120 reads

I have just released three modules, these are either bugfixes or upgrades. The following module are as follows:

Spotlight V2.0 RC1 (RELEASE CANDIDATE, FOR TESTING END DEBUGGING PURPOSES)
WF-Channel
SPAW-Editor

You can download these modules from the WF-Section website and are available in zip and rar formats.

Also I will like to mention that the WF-Section website has re-opened to everyone.

Can you please report bugs found at the wf-section website.

ATB

Catz

Spotlight:

The Spotlight module can be used to 'spot' an article of special interest on your mainpage. It still is a block but as a central block it has the most value [even if Spotlight can be used as any normal block].

v2.0 RC1
+ Added/Changed: Recoded all of the admin area nearly 90%.
+ Added: Image upload area.
+ Added: Thumbnails for images.
+ Changed: Templates, still much work to be done on these, should be completed by full release.
+ Bugfixes: Many fixed, added many and fixed again.

NB: May not sound like many changes for the massive version jump, but you will understand why when you use it.

WF-Channel:

WF-Channel is a way of managing those pages of information that other modules just don't seem to fit. You can keep together those 'about Us', 'Refer a Friend', 'Link to Us', Privacy Statements or just about any type of information that you believe would benefit your users.

This module has had a major update and bugfix.

Spaw Editor:

This is a port of the excellent Spaw Wysiwyg editor converted for Xoops and will only work with IE v5.5+.

This version is mainly a bug fix Version that corrects some error within the previous version.

The comments are owned by the author. We aren't responsible for their content.

user

error while istalling

antah Published 03/19/2004 10:22 Just popping in Joined 01/12/2003 Comments 29

hi there! thnx for those modules! I choose wf-channel - it's the most easiest and convinient content module for xoops.

today i wanted to try SPOTLIGHT, but when i tried to install it I found out an error:

Installing Spotlight
You have an error in your SQL syntax near ') TYPE=MyISAM' at line 8.

All other modules are being installed correctly. thnx for helping

user

Re: error while istalling

Published 03/19/2004 11:38 Joined Comments

The line

auto_image int(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',

must be

auto_image int(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0'

user

Re: error while istalling

marcan Published 03/19/2004 15:18 Just can't stay away Joined 10/08/2003 Comments 824

I installed it. When I go to News Block Config, whatever options I select, I get an error : _AM_ERRORMESSAGE, and no news is selected. Result : no news in the Spotlight block.

What should I do?

Thanks for any help !

user

Re: error while istalling

marcan Published 03/19/2004 15:25 Just can't stay away Joined 10/08/2003 Comments 824

Solved my problem : when installing spotlight, I updated my previous version. To solve the problem, I unsinstalled completly the module and reinstall it afterwards.

Now, it working perfectly !

Thanks Catzs

user

Re: error while istalling

Published 03/19/2004 16:29 Updated 03/19/2004 18:21 Joined Comments

Many thanks,

I have corrected these errors and have re-uploaded the module.

user

Re: error while installing

Published 03/19/2004 17:20 Joined Comments

Hello Catzwolf,

I don't understand how to install your Spaw editor. I've read the 'readme.txt', but you are writing to add some lines as near to the top of the page as possible, just below admin_header include. But in in witch file?

Thanks

user

Re: error while installing

Published 03/19/2004 18:22 Joined Comments

Which Module?

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Stewdio Published 03/19/2004 21:31 Community Support Member Joined 05/07/2003 Comments 1560

Welcome back Catz, good to see you up and running again.

Just gave the new Spotlight a cruise around the block and had some issues with it. I know it's still Beta, so I'm not concerned about it's current state, but I thought I would point out what I saw from my perspective.

Firstly, great changes! I especially like the new template system and the direction it's headed, although I expect that there will be more to come down the pipe. In the meantime, I was unable to use square bracket code. My news items use XOOPS code [italics] [bold] etc etc. When it shows up in the block, it wasn't parsed. I don't bother formatting in html, and changing all my old articles to html would just take far too long.

I didn't see any options in the Spotlight block like the older versions. Still have it on the wishlist for the final release though.

One major thing I noticed was that my featured newsitem didn't display the entire news piece I wanted. If you look on my current setup, you'll see what I mean. There is too much cut off of news snip before users click on more. I tried various options everywhere I couldn't find them, but to no avail. I doubt I missed something, I'm pretty thorough when it comes to configuration options on any system. (read: I rarely need to ask for help)

Also a small request with your template's. Could you make the image appear in a separate table to eliminate extra white space, or change table sizes. (Speaking of which, I could do without the image resizing, too much extra work if I change the image)

All in all, I'm impressed and I greatly look forward to the final release version.

Good job! Who am I kidding, it looks heaps better then it did!

I'll be looking into the rest of your 3 in 1 release later, but Spotlight is a major front my home page.

Cheers

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

phppp Published 03/19/2004 22:10 XOOPS Contributor Joined 01/25/2004 Comments 2857

great

the spot_removeShouting($string) does not work well and I disabled it.

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Published 03/19/2004 22:19 Joined Comments

Hi Stewdio,

First many thanks

Quote:

In the meantime, I was unable to use square bracket code. My news items use XOOPS code [italics] [bold] etc etc. When it shows up in the block, it wasn't parsed. I don't bother formatting in html, and changing all my old articles to html would just take far too long.

I am working on a new 'summary' type feature for WF-Sections and decided to try it on a few other modules first. This module being one of them.

Unlike the way its done already in XOOPS (Cuts it off anywhere and add a few ....), this one will always take the first paragraph or near to it as to make it look complete as possible.

What it also does is is there is an empty summary, it will take the 'bodytext' or 'main article' and use that instead. All images, links etc are removed and html is converted to text.

I may remove this feature or change it to work slightly different with the main spotlight story(allow xoopscodes etc)

This is not perfect yet but I am getting closer.

Quote:

I didn't see any options in the Spotlight block like the older versions. Still have it on the wishlist for the final release though.

I moved all the option to use XoopsModuleConfig instead and you should find most of them in 'Module configuration'.

Quote:

There is too much cut off of news snip before users click on more.

Again this is due to the way the new auto summary works. I will add an option for this. Maybe even one to use XOOPS summary instead.

Quote:

Also a small request with your template's. Could you make the image appear in a separate table to eliminate extra white space, or change table sizes.

I will add this np

Quote:

I could do without the image resizing, too much extra work if I change the image.

Switch it off in the 'module configuration' then

Again many thanks

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Published 03/19/2004 22:21 Updated 03/19/2004 22:22 Joined Comments

Quote:

The spot_removeShouting($string) does not work well and I disabled it.

In what way did you find it did not work for you, so I can improve this feature for future versions?

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

phppp Published 03/19/2004 22:26 XOOPS Contributor Joined 01/25/2004 Comments 2857

for MULTIBYTES CHARSET issue

I know it is a hard nut to crack, not only for this module but aslo in other XOOPS modules.

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Stewdio Published 03/19/2004 22:28 Community Support Member Joined 05/07/2003 Comments 1560

Thanks Chief. I'll stick with 1.3 till the final release then. I'm picky about presentation, and some of my opening news items carry more then one paragraph. When I format my news, I'm very particular about whats in the headline and opening statements, and whats carried over to (read more...)

Looking forward to final!

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

JackJ Published 03/20/2004 13:51 Updated 03/20/2004 14:59 Community Support Member Joined 08/31/2003 Comments 747

Hello Catswolf, great to see you back, and hope you are well.

The spotlight module block image, i.e penguin seems to resize to 200 X 200 pixs whether I switch off resizing in config or not. Tried everything, uploading new images etc, but every image resizes back to 200 X 200

Perhaps I have missed something obvious.

thanks

edit: forget this, I think it is just the backend display

For wfsections block when activated I get blank page. Phpdebug:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: removeshouting() in mypath/modules/spotlight/blocks/kuht_head_wfsection.php on line 112

Also no "hyperlink" appears for other wfsection articles, just the listing

Just noticed all the other articles listed all contain the same summary from the displayed article, and the actual summary shown in the block cuts out some letters of text. For example it is dropping all the "h" letters.

It could be of course this is designed for the new coming wfsections?

Hope this helps

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

dlh Published 03/20/2004 22:53 Joined 02/20/2002 Comments 182

The only thing I could think to add is to allow for more than one featured news item. Say selectable 2 or 3.

Great stuff!

Dan

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

finalfiler Published 03/21/2004 0:11 Documentation Writer Joined 01/19/2002 Comments 111

G'day Catz,
SPAW editor - when I go to install or update the module I get

Quote:

failed open fileModule data updated.
Unable to write to main menu.
Rebuilding blocks...
Module WYSIWYG Editor updated successfully.

The module does not seem to install properly as there is no config menu for SPAW.

BTW, I was going to post this on your site but note there is no SPAW forum category.

regards & thanks

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

phppp Published 03/21/2004 4:02 XOOPS Contributor Joined 01/25/2004 Comments 2857

bug?

for indeximage, blank.gif or blank.png.

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

svaha Published 03/21/2004 10:39 Just can't stay away Joined 08/02/2003 Comments 896

Strange I updated without problems?
(version XOOPS 2.06)

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

meme Published 03/23/2004 6:49 Updated 03/23/2004 7:08 Quite a regular Joined 12/10/2002 Comments 271

file : admin/index.php *
line : 114 , 115 *

 echo ". $eachstory->storyid() . "'>$editimg"; 
echo ". $eachstory->storyid() . "'>$deleteimg";

must be

 echo ". XOOPS_URL . "/modules/news/admin/index.php?op=edit&storyid=" . $eachstory->storyid() . "'>$editimg"; 
echo ". XOOPS_URL . "/modules/news/admin/index.php?op=delete&storyid=" . $eachstory->storyid() . "'>$deleteimg";

---
added langauge

add this for admin.php in lang dir
define("_AM_NOTERESIZE", "Image has been resized");

then open
file : admin/index.php *
line : 74

change

 $indeximage_tray->addElement(new XoopsFormLabel('', ". XOOPS_URL . "/" . $xoopsModuleConfig['uploaddir'] . "/" . $indeximage . "' name='image1' id='image1' alt='' height =200 width =200 border = '1'/>
Image has been resized"));

to

 $indeximage_tray->addElement(new XoopsFormLabel('', ". XOOPS_URL . "/" . $xoopsModuleConfig['uploaddir'] . "/" . $indeximage . "' name='image1' id='image1' alt='' height =200 width =200 border = '1'/>
" . _AM_NOTERESIZE . ""));

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Published 03/24/2004 15:36 Joined Comments

Found some minor typos in the spaw editor:

spaw/class/script.js.php line 8

for(i=0;i<spaw_editors.lenght;i++)

must be

for(i=0;i<spaw_editors.length;i++)

Length seems to be a difficult word (just joking)! Search the complete code for "maxlenght" and replace with "maxlength".

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Published 03/25/2004 18:00 Joined Comments

Is it possible to set the Spaw Editor as your 'default' text editor? So everywhere where you can type some text (for example the blocks, or in this case when you reply to a news post)? And if so, what do you need to change?

If not, with files and rows do you need to change to integrate the editor in the News module (I didn't understand the readme.txt file). Perhaps a little bit silly, but i'm still a noob.

Thanks in advance.

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

ciberdiv Published 03/30/2004 3:57 Just popping in Joined 08/08/2003 Comments 2

I'm using spotligth v2 rc1 in xoop 2.06. The problem is that I have 3 items in news module but Spotlight only see 2 under 10 most recent articles and the auto option don't show the third item, I have to use manual selection.
What am I doing wrong???

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

m0nty Published 04/03/2004 16:27 Updated 04/03/2004 16:29 XOOPS is my life! Joined 10/24/2003 Comments 3337

Quote:

qbixx wrote:

Is it possible to set the Spaw Editor as your 'default' text editor? So everywhere where you can type some text (for example the blocks, or in this case when you reply to a news post)? And if so, what do you need to change?

If not, with files and rows do you need to change to integrate the editor in the News module (I didn't understand the readme.txt file). Perhaps a little bit silly, but i'm still a noob.

Thanks in advance.

1. that wud be nice :)

2. i am also unsure of how to integrate this with modules.

the instructions are clear on what to add to the module, but what files exactly need to have these inclusions made to them?

for example the news module..

the news module is my main concern, so could you please provide me with some instructions on what files i need to edit in the news module to get this to work, maybe provide some already edited and included files which i can just upload and replace on the server.

i think once viewing the files etc and see what you have changed in there will make it a little easier for me to edit other modules to do the same..

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

krayc Published 04/11/2004 20:54 Not too shy to talk Joined 02/17/2004 Comments 107

The intro text in the spotlighted news story doesn't seem to be going throught the text formatting, ie. My intro text in my news story is in italics. So it i get an '[i]' showing up in the beginning of the spotlight intro text.

any suggestions?

krayc

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

phatty Published 04/11/2004 23:27 Just popping in Joined 03/09/2004 Comments 70

Yes, me too.

Catz.. you out there?

We need bbcode/html and image support for Spotlight 2.0

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Published 04/11/2004 23:40 Joined Comments

This has been fixed for the next version, Sorry working on about 6 different modules at the same time at the moment. Will be released shortly.

user

Re: 3 for the Price of 1

Published 04/11/2004 23:49 Joined Comments

I would just like to add this for now.

Right now I am really ever so busy trying to work and finish off these modules and my time is really limited at the moment.

So if it appears that I am not taking onboard your requests etc, it is due to this.

I am here more or less everyday (time permitting) and I don't have the time to answer every question regarding these modules (if I did I would become more support lol).

I hope that everyone understands this and its not that I am ignoring anyone, I just want to get these modules released to you all.

i would just like to add this, WF-Section will be going into a second round of testing with beta tester in the next few days and I would like to thank the guys and girls who are willing enough to put their websites at 'risk lol'.

If all goes well with these tests, I am looking at a release date of 2 - 3 weeks for the first public beta of the totally updated module.

user

Spotlight

Brawn Published 04/14/2004 19:21 Just popping in Joined 04/13/2004 Comments 24

Spotlight is just what I need

But after using and experimenting with it, I found out a few weird things/bugs/requests:

* You need to set the alignment of the text to left to prevent Spotlight from centering the text.

* The block when used as a centerpiece), seems to be divided in two: the left part saved for a picture and the right part for the news/article description. I'm already using pictures in my intro-text, so those pictures are also shown. An ugly white space is now shown on the left side of the block.

* Why doesn't the block just show the same information/text/images as the news-blocks (from the news module) with the intro-text? That way you know how it will be visible.

* As long as the spotlight news/article description isn't the same as the news/article intro (my whish), wouldn't it be nicer to decide how many characters the spotlightdescription will be?

* Option to show how many comments are posted in the 'Show other news' list. 'Coz there's plenty space left when you're using it as a center-block ;)

I'm looking forward to any future release. Spotlight + Spaw + WF-sections will one of the most used (and welcomed) modules on my XOOPS site

P.S. Could you please change this spotlight module, so that the news/article description (inclusive the design, used pictures, length, etc.) will be the same as the introduction of the news/article? Pleassssseeee???

Re: Spotlight

EyeKeeper Published 04/16/2004 12:03 Updated 04/16/2004 12:04 Quite a regular Joined 06/11/2002 Comments 209

I downloaded the spotlight modules from wfsections site and applied all the corrections shown throughout this thread.
But there was still one left for me. When I enabled the spotlight block for wfsections I got this fatal error message at a call do removeshouting():

Quote:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: removeshouting() in mypath/modules/spotlight/blocks/kuht_head_wfsection.php on line 112

To fix it change the file under

blocks/kuht_head_wfsection.php

change
Quote:

$block['articletitle'] = removeShouting($ftitle);

to

Quote:

$block['articletitle'] = spot_removeShouting(trim($title));

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