Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out - Modules - XOOPS News

Published 04/26/2004 18:20

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Well, was running 1.3/1.4, whatever the previous version is. Deactivated, Uninstalled. Uplaoded new release, added articles back in, and now when I click on either Column or Article, just goes to a blank page. See it here: http://jackvsjill.filekeep.com/modules/soapbox/

I think anon has access to view. Let me know if you have trouble.

Another question, can you tell me how to change the "Welcome to Soapbox" text? Notice it's right in the middle of my content...I'd like to remove the title but change the text there...

Published 04/26/2004 21:00

Soapbox 1.5 URL Problems

hsalazar

I have found a problem with the URL.

When I create a column and the add article, all goes well the column and articles and image upload is created and runs as expected, but on clicking the article link I am given page cannot be found.

On investigation and debug which is as follows..

Warning [PHP]: main(/modules/Soapbox/include/functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in file modules/soapbox/header.php line 13
Warning [PHP]: main(): Failed opening '/modules/Soapbox/include/functions.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in file modules/soapbox/header.php line 13

It is clear that two URL paths are being created. (Caps) Soapbox and (non caps) soapbox.

I discovered if I changed the name of the module within XOOPS admin to say Columns then the URL containing Soapbox (caps) was changed to module (caps) Columns example /modules/Columns/ If I
changed the module name in XOOPS admin to soapbox (no caps) the URL path was fixed and the articles displayed correctly. A nameing issue??

I am running PHP 4.34 MYSQL 4.10 and XOOPS 2.6

This is a good module concept and wishing you well with it.

Cheers

Serge

JackJ

Published 04/26/2004 22:49

Community Support Member

Re: Soapbox 1.5 URL Problems

Yes same problem here, just to confirm, I did a name/path search on the files and cant trace the source..great work though..:)

ozp11

Published 04/26/2004 22:59

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

It may be something else, but try to enable the debug option in preferences pages.
Usually blank pages are erros that apear when debug is on

WarDick

Published 04/26/2004 23:48

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

I am unable to change the module name in the admin section. The only name that works is soapbox (note: lower case s). Also unable to upload image it complains about mime/type .png.

CBlue

Published 04/27/2004 0:18

Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Bmmolloy, try looking in the language folder, maybe the main.php file. That is usually the one I use to edit a module's index page text with.

tl

Published 04/27/2004 0:38

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Intro text

Quote:

Another question, can you tell me how to change the "Welcome to Soapbox" text? Notice it's right in the middle of my content...I'd like to remove the title but change the text there...

As CBlue has suggested, intro text - language/english/main.php _MD_SB_MAININTRO

title - templates/sb_index.html

tl

Published 04/27/2004 0:51

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Re: Soapbox 1.5 URL Problems

Quote:

I discovered if I changed the name of the module within XOOPS admin to say Columns then the URL containing Soapbox (caps) was changed to module (caps) Columns example /modules/Columns/ If I changed the module name in XOOPS admin to soapbox (no caps) the URL path was fixed and the articles displayed correctly. A nameing issue??

The language/english/modinfo.php
define("_MI_SB_MD_NAME", "Soapbox");

should be
define("_MI_SB_MD_NAME", "soapbox");
to match up with directory name

I think it is a typo by Horacio.

hsalazar

Published 04/27/2004 1:10

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Re: Intro text

Thanks for your comments. Here are some follow-up data.

@ Serge. The problem can be easily solved changing line 13 of the file header.php so that instead of reading

include_once XOOPS_ROOT_PATH."/modules/".$xoopsModule->name()."/include/functions.php";

it says

include_once XOOPS_ROOT_PATH."/modules/".$xoopsModule->dirname()."/include/functions.php";

@ bmmolloy:

I intend to have eventually a page where all the useful strings can be edited. Just didn't want to do it for the moment to avoid changing the database tables, for I'd need another table.

Also, the issue about the uploader complaining about the PNG format may be due to the definition in the array of allowed MIME types. File admin/article.php read, in line 282,

$allowed_mimetypes = array( 'image/gif', 'image/jpeg', 'image/pjpeg', 'image/x-png' );

Maybe the following will allow uploading PNG files:

$allowed_mimetypes = array( 'image/gif', 'image/jpeg', 'image/pjpeg', 'image/png' );

I'm also aware now that I've left the 1.3 version number in the xoops_version.php file.

Please report any more bugs you find. Thanks again.

Cheers.

bmmolloy

Published 04/27/2004 1:30

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Re: Intro text

I had no idea I had replies here. There are no notification options for the comments section?

Thanks hsalazar, I'll try the new version again and let you know what I can and can't fix...heheh

meme

Published 04/27/2004 1:55

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

found new bug
if you rename the module from modules admin all the link of an article name on the soapbox/index.php will take the new name

fix the bug now

open templates/sb_index.html at line 23
remove this :
<{$xoops_url}>/modules/<{$lang_modulename}>/

hsalazar

Published 04/27/2004 2:26

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

meme:

Thanks for seeing this. This is a more generalized problem than I initially thought. I need to check the consistency of this.

A little explanation might be useful for those that keep seeing this problem. I need to use two different variables, one to include wherever I need the modules NAME --so the user can change it as you did-- and another one to hold the module's DIRNAME, to make sure the installation directory is used.

What you see here is an instance of a mixup: the HTML is calling the Smarty variable <{$lang_modulename}>, and this variable is set in index.php as $xoopsModule->name() instead of as $xoopsModule->dirname().

What I need to do, as soon as I get home, is to parse all the files in the module and make sure that all instances that point to the module's name are taken care of with $xoopsModule->name(), while all instances of the name that are used in a path point to $xoopsModule->dirname().

Sorry for this. Another example of the need t be careful with what things mean...

Cheers.

WarDick

Published 04/27/2004 2:35

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Re Png Upload

Quote:

Also, the issue about the uploader complaining about the PNG format may be due to the definition in the array of allowed MIME types. File admin/article.php read, in line 282,

It tried this it doesn't work.

My image manager uploads the PNG ok. The problem is when trying to upload an image when creating a column.

tl

Published 04/27/2004 2:41

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Not a bug, but some of the definitions were not defined in the language files.

Config com_rule added to the database.
Config option added. Name: _CM_COMNOCOM Value: 0
Config option added. Name: _CM_COMAPPROVEALL Value: 1
Config option added. Name: _CM_COMAPPROVEUSER Value: 2
Config option added. Name: _CM_COMAPPROVEADMIN Value: 3
Config com_anonpost added to the database.
Config notification_enabled added to the database.
Config option added. Name: _NOT_CONFIG_DISABLE Value: 0
Config option added. Name: _NOT_CONFIG_ENABLEBLOCK Value: 1
Config option added. Name: _NOT_CONFIG_ENABLEINLINE Value: 2
Config option added. Name: _NOT_CONFIG_ENABLEBOTH Value: 3

hsalazar

Published 04/27/2004 5:19

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

@WarDick:

Both admin/article.php and admin/column.php use the same function to upload images, and the uploading function is called passing as a parameter an array with the allowed MIME types. In the case of the column, the array is in line 179 of admin/column.php, with the same issue: it says image/x-png instead of image/png.

@ tl:

Now this is completely new (and weird). If you check all the files contained in the Soapbox release, you'll see there's not a single reference to any of all the strings you mention.

Cheers.

WarDick

Published 04/27/2004 5:33

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Quote:

Both admin/article.php and admin/column.php use the same function to upload images, and the uploading function is called passing as a parameter an array with the allowed MIME types. In the case of the column, the array is in line 179 of admin/column.php, with the same issue: it says image/x-png instead of image/png.

I had already corrected both places prior to the last post. I believe the problem lies elsewhere.

tl

Published 04/27/2004 11:26

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

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@ tl:
Now this is completely new (and weird). If you check all the files contained in the Soapbox release, you'll see there's not a single reference to any of all the strings you mention.

Could be related to the following function calls in xoops_version.php?

My guess is that the values should be defined either in soapbox or globally by enabling the comment and notification functions across the site. Mind you, I didn't have these two functions enabled.

// Comment callback functions
$modversion['comments']['callbackFile'] = 'include/comment_functions.php';
$modversion['comments']['callback']['approve'] = 'sb_com_approve';
$modversion['comments']['callback']['update'] = 'sb_com_update';

// Notification
$modversion['hasNotification'] = 1;
$modversion['notification']['lookup_file'] = 'include/notification.inc.php';
$modversion['notification']['lookup_func'] = 'sb_notify_iteminfo';

A feature request for the future version.
Could a table and a file be added profiling authors?

Soapbox is a great module. By adding the author feature, personally I think it would be an even more powerful module.

Thanks so much and look forward to the final release.

giba

Published 04/27/2004 14:36

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Quote:

A feature request for the future version.
Could a table and a file be added profiling authors?

Soapbox is a great module. By adding the author feature, personally I think it would be an even more powerful module.

Yes, i same...
Great module, congratulations Hallazar..

Giba

www.xoops.net.br

hsalazar

Published 04/30/2004 16:22

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Soapboox v. 1.5 RC2 is here!

Xoopsers:

I've put some late night hours to correct bugs and add a few things to Soapbox. You can try it downloading the module from here.

What's new? Not much, but some good:
+ Corrected the variables needed to be able to change the module's name in the admin section. Now you can rename Soapbox without changing its directory.
+ Added another block: Soapbox spotlight. This is configurable so you can optionally show, for the main article, the submission date, the author's name, the usage stats and even the picture. You can choose between a vertical template (in case the block is in a thin column) and a horizontal one (in case you want it in the center-center column).
+ Included new, improved (?), versions of the admin icons.
+ Modified the admin section to invoke tables using functions.
+ In the admin side, the columns page now includes the list of columns.
+ In the admin side, the articles page now includes the list of articles.
+ In the admin side, changed a bit the behavior of the submissions page.
+ Etc.

As usual, bug reports, comments and wishes are welcome.

Cheers.

tl

Published 04/30/2004 17:03

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 RC2 is here!

Looking good so far.

Now I have played a bit more, just a structure question I have.

How will the columns be managed?
A column could have multiple authors. If Column A has two authors, then we need to create two separate columns and assign two sets of permissions. This will create problems later on.

Should the authors be assigned to the articles instead of the columns?

An example from The Toront Star.
The Toronto Star Columnists

Something like that would be great.

Stewdio

Published 04/30/2004 17:05

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 RC2 is here!

Toronto Star, are you in TO? Go Leafs!!!

JackJ

Published 04/30/2004 17:36

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

RC2 very nice, great work..

For those who are not aware, soapbox has a style.css sheet in the root. I had to copy the contents into my style.css for my theme.

Otherwise, the columns etc will not look as pretty as it actually is..

limecity

Published 04/30/2004 17:47

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Ah.. hsalazar..
i spoted a bug i think..

i wanted to split my articles into several pages.. using [pagebreak]

i tested it and it successfully splited into 5 page but with the same article as the first page.

you might wan to check on this.

carnuke

Published 04/30/2004 20:37

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Horacio, you have laboured long and hard over this module, but at last its beginning to stand as a really superb piece of scripting. The features and style are stunning. I've just uploaded the latest RC and so far all is sweet!! I really like the additional spotlight block that now takes pride of place on the front page.

Thanks for all your hard work and persitance

Richard

bmmolloy

Published 05/15/2004 1:29

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Soapbox 1.5 RC2 on XOOPS 2.0.6

I don't know if you've seen any of this or not. I did not search to find out. These are just my findings... I have not tested the blocks yet, but when I do I will edit this post.

Bugs:
-Module still displays 1.3 version number on module before installing.
-Replying to a comment makes comments disappear altogether. Deleting reply comment makes the first one come back. (This also happened in 1.4 so I had to disable comments.) You can try this at http://www.filekeep.com/xoops/modules ... x/article.php?articleID=1

Things I like:
-Looks like the linebreak problem has been fixed, which is much needed for my site. :)

Suggestions:
-What is the reason for the column title at the bottom of the article page? Seems like this shouldn't be there, but a minor issue.
-What is the optimal image size to use for Soapbox? I want all my images uniform, but it seems the module resizes them to fit in a certain area. You can compare images with http://filekeep.com/Images/Pictures/jackmehoff.jpg
-On the administration page, there should be these options:

Module Title: (Soapbox)
Intro Title: (Welcome to Soapbox)
Intro Text: (In this area of the site...)

Ability to change these from admin page is much needed. I know how to change them manually, but for the future it would be great.

-You could make the "Contact Author" icon background transparent for less work. I might do this and just send you the image. Again, not a big issue. But it would match theme background this way.

-Module should use the current theme's CSS. Changing this manually is a pain, but again something I can deal with on my own.

Lastly, I love this module. This module is almost PERFECT in my opinion, and I will continue to use it and recommend it. 1.4 is running at my site jack vs jill .com

Edit: Jack vs Jill requests:
-Highest rated articles block should have an option on whether to show popular articles from day, week, month, etc... This might be useful for others as well. Or even date span. (Show popular articles from May 1st to May 9th)

Edit #2: Pagebreak doesn't seem to work now? It still creates 2nd page, but click on 2nd page and then click back. It gives an error message. Also all contents are shown on page 1 & 2.

Mamba

Published 05/15/2004 19:08

Moderator

Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

> For those who are not aware, soapbox has a style.css sheet in the root. I had to copy the contents into my style.css for my theme.

I had to do it with "phpkaox" theme, but interestingly some other themes (like the ones from 7Dana) were working w/o any problems. Why? I am new to XOOPS so couldn't figure that out.

hsalazar

Published 05/15/2004 21:57

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Salsero:

The reason you seek is simple. A lot of themes take out the line:

<{$xoops_module_header}>

from the header. This line is used to inject into the theme's header some reference from the modules. If the line is present, a module can put there a link to a stylesheet, as is the case in Soapbox and Wordbook, or to a javascript file.

Some themes take this line out, and for them you indeed need to copy the style selectors from the module into the theme's stylesheet.

Cheers.

falke

Published 05/16/2004 15:58

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

In the Readme.txt there is som talk about the helpfile..... where can I find it?

limecity

Published 05/16/2004 16:02

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

I think you can the helpfile in the admin side also.

Look at the option bar in the soapbox admin menu.
Should be the last one.

I have problem logging in my own site now. So i'll tell what i remember.

falke

Published 05/16/2004 20:15

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

No, just a empty html-page there. I think its not included in 1.5 RC.... and I cant download 1.4.....

hsalazar

Published 05/16/2004 23:54

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

@ all (specially those that have tried to download without success):

I'm still updating the help files, and have not included them in the latest releases to avoid having a too large file to download.

There's a complicating factor there. I haven't been able to pay for the hosting of one of my sites, and it so happens that it's the one where I've been uploading the files, so I either upload again to another site, or try to recover my lost site once I have the funds to do it.

Sorry about that.

Cheers.

bmmolloy

Published 05/18/2004 1:04

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Soapbox 1.4
www.jackvsjill.com/downloads/soapbox1.4.zip

Soapbox 1.5 RC2
www.jackvsjill.com/downloads/Soapbox1.5RC2.zip

Hail hsalazar.

hsalazar

Published 05/18/2004 15:10

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Ben:

Thanks for helping with this. Let me tell you this. I'm in the process of streamlining Wordbook's admin side. Once I finish, I'll release version 1.0.1. After that, I'll export the improvements to Soapbox and then I'll do a brief round of tests to release a full version 1.5 including help. How does that sound?

Cheers.

falke

Published 05/18/2004 15:44

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Thanks, mate! I found the helpfiles in the 1.4 version.
regards/falke

Mamba

Published 05/20/2004 16:49

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Is it possible to include Coexistence with Multilanguage 1.3 hack?

Soapbox works very well, but the issue is that when I use the Multilanguage 1.3 tags [en]Articles[/en][sp]Articulos[/sp] in the title of the module, Soapbox takes the whole thing and shows it on top as:

Home > [en]Articles[/en][sp]Artículos[/sp]

so my guess is that it would have be hacked. Any chances for it?

See also: article:http://www.notrevie.ca/modules/news/article.php?storyid=20

Tocpe

Published 05/20/2004 17:29

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

I'm not seeing the author's avatar in the articles. Is this something that isn't implimented yet? Didn't get any bug reports from PHP debugger on XOOPS 2.0.6 with 1.5RC2.

limecity

Published 05/20/2004 18:42

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

I got 1 suggestion for the soapbox..

Maybe can add more spice to the Recent Articles block.

More configuration like what the weblog has. Able to show the recent block in big , small or medium size.

like showing avatars 0,1
showing author's nick 0,1
show date 0,1

something like tat..

Stewdio

Published 05/20/2004 18:43

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

The Avatar not showing is a known bug with Soapbox and is being tracked.

ozp11

Published 05/20/2004 19:03

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

one awesome thing that soapbox should have is a way to make a colum with no author.
This way any user could publish in that colum

if you create with no author, anoumymous apear (this is not good)

limecity

Published 05/20/2004 20:30

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

i wouldn't say that can be good..

as for how i am using soapbox..

i have a user with 2 columns
because its 2 different topic and i don't want to mix it up in the same column..

so soapbox is not flexible in doing this. It only allows 1 user to have 1 column. Even if you assign the name to the user.

tat user will still only able to post on 1 column.

tl

Published 05/20/2004 23:11

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Quote:

Poster: ozp11 Posted: 2004/5/20 15:03:43

one awesome thing that soapbox should have is a way to make a colum with no author.
This way any user could publish in that colum

if you create with no author, anoumymous apear (this is not good)

I brought this up, I did not get a reply from Horacio.

It will definitely require major strcutural change to the database table and re-write the scripts. Maybe this is the reason that Horacio is not prepared to do at the moment.

What I was/I'm thinking is something like the following:

Column 1 - News
--- author/columnist A
--- author/columnist B
...

Column 2 - Sports
--- author/columnist C
--- author/columnist A
...

Column x ... ...
--- author Y
...

Authors/columnists will be stored a separate table with extra information and column cateory (or categories) she/he belongs to. They will take UserID from the XOOPS usertable. Author name would be attached to articles she/her wrote under the columns.

I think this will make columns manageable and easier to assign permissions.

Horacio, what do you think about this idea?
I would like to hear your opinion.

ozp11

Published 05/21/2004 1:38

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

another way (more easy) is to just create a column with no author, but instead of anounymous , nothing apear.

And any user could submit articles to it

hsalazar

Published 05/21/2004 4:28

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Soapbox was conceived as a little platform where non-anonymous authors could write on a periodical basis. That's why columns are signed, with a single author, which is the usual arrangement in print media, the root of Soapbox's concept. That's also why there's no subcolumns.

Essentially, I have resisted the urge of making changes because I'd rather correct all the bugs and leave the module as a limited solution.

Maybe, just maybe, in a future I might make a more versatile tool. I really never intended to turbocharge this VW of a module.

Cheers.

Stewdio

Published 05/21/2004 4:31

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Keep doing what your doing Horacio, you have a fantastic module, bug's first, definately add features later when it's solid.

Awsome job brother!

Tocpe

Published 05/23/2004 2:42

Not too shy to talk

Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Yes it is quite a nice module. I'm going to impliment it when it goes final in my site for just it's stated purpose. Thanks for the excellent work Horacio!

Tocpe

Published 06/02/2004 20:09

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Any news on the progress of the RC?

hsalazar

Published 06/02/2004 21:24

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Tocpe:

Sorry about that delay. The fact is we're organized to do things in a somewhat orderly fashion. I'm doing some code and polishing work for a friend's module. When I finish that, I'll finish polishing Wordbook, which is almost ready, and then I go back to Soapbox for the final touches for v1.5. It'll be worth the wait, I promise.

Cheers.

Tocpe

Published 06/08/2004 13:28

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

okay sounds good.

philroy

Published 06/11/2004 11:18

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Quote:

Soapbox was conceived as a little platform where non-anonymous authors could write on a periodical basis. That's why columns are signed, with a single author, which is the usual arrangement in print media, the root of Soapbox's concept. That's also why there's no subcolumns.

That's great...and I think that Soapbox is great too, but non-anonymous authors may not actually post on enough of a basis to warrant their own column. Let me explain....

I have a section on my site called "Local Voices" that soapbox would be great to use when I convert over to Xoops. The section on the site invites Mac users to send in an opinion piece on the state of Mac use in New Zealand and I publish it. No author has come back and written another piece.

So, really, my 'soapbox' is a concept of a column that has many one-off registered authors. From what I'm seeing, it sounds like Soapbox won't do this?

Then, to futher complicate things, I have an Editor of a magazine that I do want to have his own regular column. Then I want the latest article from each to appear on the main page. So....

From the editor
-- one author
Local Voices
-- multiple authors

The most recent article of each to go on the main page.
Can this be done?

Phil

Tocpe

Published 06/11/2004 12:52

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

I have a situation very similar to this and I'll thinking that I'm solve it this way:

Regular Authors: Use Soapbox

One-off Authors: Use Wf-Sections

You can rename the modules so that Soapbox reads as From the Editor and WF-Sections reads as Local Voices.

Granted the sections layout may look a bit different, but IMHO most users won't care.

philroy

Published 06/11/2004 21:38

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Seems a shame too that if I take that approach I'll effectively be assigning a superb module like soapbox to one person and one person only.

I guess another option would be to clone the module, if that were possible/easy?

Phil

Tocpe

Published 06/15/2004 14:12

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

You can have multiple authors with the soapbox module.

hsalazar

Published 06/15/2004 15:30

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

philroy:

As Tocpe says, you wouldn't be assigning the module to a single person. You can have as many authors as you want. But the module is set as: one column, one author.

Cheers.

philroy

Published 06/15/2004 22:32

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Sorry, but I would, wouldn't I ?

As I indicated, I have the need for two columns.....one with one author (the Editor of a magazine) and one with many authors, who may only post to that column once....as the section is called "Local Voices"....where people get to write up a commentary about issues. These are not regular contributors, but often "one off" contributors.

From what everyone is saying and from your "one column, one author" comment, soapbox isn't able to acheive this second approach...so therefore, it will only be useful for my Editor's column......which is why I made the comment that I'll only be assigning that module to one person.

If you're suggesting there's a workaround, I welcome hearing what you suggest.

Cheers,

Phil

hsalazar

Published 06/15/2004 23:32

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philroy:

Sorry, but there's not at the moment a workaround for this. I need to rebuild the module taking into account all these possibilities: single author, anonymous author (some have asked for this, though I don't know why), many authors. Some more have asked for subcolumns.

What I read in these feature requests is that Soapbox is being used for more sophisticated settings as a general article manager, which is flattering though the module never intended to go that far.

I'll think about these features to decide if they belong to Soapbox or to some bigger brother, something like SoapCrate!

Cheers.

philroy

Published 06/15/2004 23:41

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Cheers. I think that's it's great that you've got that sort of focus on what you developed the module for and what you'd like it to remain....I can see it being incredibly valuable for a site that has a large (and talkative) contributor base, where the 'one author one column' approach is going to work. I guess I was just wanting to corrupt it a little, to use in a column where I'm struggling to get commentary, so the 'one column lots of authors' approach fits better.

Cheers,

Phil

bakshi

Published 08/15/2004 22:51

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3 months have passed, is there any chance of update?

hsalazar

Published 08/16/2004 14:09

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With my apologies, please give me this week.

Cheers.

Montisarts

Published 08/21/2004 1:44

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hsalazar, soapbox is a great module so far and I use it with pleasure on one of my sites, but I only have one really annoying problem with the comments system which causes users to complain : If you post a comments all comments disappear and I have to turn it on again on article basis, even if I turn that function (article based comments) off.

I hope you take this into consideration for your next release

Other than that: Keep up the great work.

greetz Frank
Montisarts.com

(ps. the site I am using soapbox on is wurn.nl

ozp11

Published 08/23/2004 14:59

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I'm about to start the use of soapbox in my site.
I found something that I cant understand...

The column is owned by an author. But anyone can send articles to it???

If someone that dont have any column try to send an article, the system should say that he is not allowed to do that.

Also in the admin, you can't see the user who submitted the article! So you will never know who did that. (the author or someone else)

Is this correct or is my module screwed? Im using 1.5 RC2

hsalazar

Published 08/23/2004 22:54

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ozp11:

If you can wait a couple of days, I'm almost ready to release a version where, as far as I can see, nothing of the sort happens. I've also corrected the bugs reported here and elsewhere, and added a few small functions...

And to answer your question, Soapbox is designed to have columns with single authors. Only author A should be able to submit content to column A.

Cheers.

PS: So far the only thing left for me to fix is the rendering of the spotlight block in Mozilla, but I'm sure more little, annoying bugs will rear their ugly heads just to make my life miserable.

More cheers.

ozp11

Published 08/23/2004 23:02

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ok! thanks for the reply
I'll wait on that.

mpowell

Published 11/22/2004 16:23

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It would be nice if authors could edit their column/article after it was submitted. As it stands now they have to be given admin privileges to edit their column, but then can edit any other contributors column as well.

I posted here because the above link is marked private and will not let me enter.

mpowell

organix

Published 11/23/2004 21:55

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just want to test it out, but the link above don't let in. It says, that this project is marked private.

Anyone knows another download location?

hightyde

Published 11/25/2004 9:48

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Any update to this module. I can't access the download link either. Pleaze?!

ackbarr

Published 11/25/2004 13:16

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XoopsForge (the module that runs dev.xoops.org) automatically makes projects inactive, if there has been no activity on them for a while. I re-enabled the soapbox project, so the download links should work fine.

dlh

Published 12/04/2004 17:04

Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Are there any plans for an update on this project?

I found another bug that I'd like to add to the list.

When you use the print function images show up as links rather than printing the image.

Dan

namhil

Published 11/04/2005 17:12

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i dunno how to give a style to the column, i.e. on the article box i can use html to make words appear in bold, or underline or even put a link, but on the column description doesn't work, neither php commands.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,

Namhil
www.zonamistica.com

DobePhat

Published 02/02/2006 4:04

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out

Anyone want reactivate this project so we can download?

Ive tried getting some versions from out of the U.s and they arent working. (file format, Im surte they work fine actually).

-Thanks

update
Hey I found a version to work with..via
xoops Brasil soapbox 1.5rc2 download worx

-Thank you!

Marco

Published 02/20/2006 21:19

Home away from home

Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out //1.51RC

ok, corrected, with a small present (1.51RC)
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1287
best regards, horacio

marco

DobePhat

Published 06/14/2006 13:27

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Re: Soapboox v. 1.5 Release Candidate is out //1.51RC

thanks marco. This install failed on me though, do I need to uninstall previous version?

Had to rollback. There is only one major thing wrong:

The main thing keeping me from being completely satisfied with this fine module is the old Comment bug. (whenever a user leaves a comment, suddenly all the comments are not visible, you have to go back to the column and republish it, with comments on, etc. argggh)

thats it..the only thing wrong for me..do you know where that fix may be? Ive been trying to track it for about two weeks now and cant seem to find it.

Thanks!


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