Manual Module

[aldus]

@vyni
I've download and tested - haven't work ... reason as you have descripe "../../../../" ...
So i've modify the line that throws the error/bug ... that's all.

MAMP 1.7 / MacOS 10.5.5

Also - you will have to delete the "old" bugy files ones, iow: throw the manual away ...

and yes: you can also wrote "WB_PATH."/conf.php" in the line 190 (?) instead of

Code:

require("'.$index_location.'config.php");

so

Code:

<?php
require("'.WB_PATH.'/config.php");
<?

will also work ...
Regards
Aldus

[erpe]

Thanks for helping.
The module does work fine now.

Regarding to Vyni's post the output of title and short-description should be modified to table rows.

rgds

erpe

[pcwacht]

counting the /'s -
in windows (xampp) the wbpath = d:\xampp\htdocs\ etc
in linux the path is /var/www/html/ etc
difference lies in / and \
Now I know where to look I can and shall fix it.

@Aldus,

Also - you will have to delete the "old" bugy files ones, iow: throw the manual away ...

Then we need to rewrite a whole new one, I am not that good
The manual mod seems to fill some needs. One of them is me.

The

Code:

<?php
require("'.WB_PATH.'/config.php");
?>

will only work if WB_PATH is defined wich isn't if you start your browser and start with the direct link to an article. (WB_PATH could be cached in SESSION)

That's why the config.php needs to be included so the WB variables will work

John

[aldus]

counting the /'s -
in windows (xampp) the wbpath = d:\xampp\htdocs\ etc
in linux the path is /var/www/html/ etc
difference lies in / and \
Now I know where to look I can and shall fix it.

@Aldus,

Also - you will have to delete the "old" bugy files ones, iow: throw the manual away ...

Then we need to rewrite a whole new one, I am not that good
The manual mod seems to fill some needs. One of them is me.

The

Code:

<?php
require("'.WB_PATH.'/config.php");
?>

will only work if WB_PATH is defined wich isn't if you start your browser and start with the direct link to an article. (WB_PATH could be cached in SESSION)

That's why the config.php needs to be included so the WB variables will work

John

Ups ... my foul ... i don't mean the module at it self .... i mean the "used" //manual// within the
wrong path to the "config.php" ... so i must apologize for my poor english here ...

Edit: John - you are right ... it can't work ... as for me first read, then test and then write ...
At the time the generated .php file is called the constants aren't defined at all ...

Edit 2: Hm ... could work like this one:

Code:

<?php
    $file_content = ''.
'<?php
$page_id = '.$page_id.';
$section_id = '.$section_id.';
$chapter_id = '.$chapter_id.';
define("CHAPTER_ID", $chapter_id);
require("'.WB_PATH.'/config.php");
require(WB_PATH."/index.php");
?>';
?>

not sure if it is display(-ed)[?] correct here ... it isn't ... a missing ' before "config.php"!

Kind regards
Aldus

[pcwacht]

Code:

<?php
    $file_content = ''.
'<?php
$page_id = '.$page_id.';
$section_id = '.$section_id.';
$chapter_id = '.$chapter_id.';
define("CHAPTER_ID", $chapter_id);
require("'.WB_PATH.'/config.php");
require(WB_PATH."/index.php");
?>';
?>

Can't work, if this access file is called directly, without wb variables, it won't know the WB_PATH
I wish it did, would make life so much easier

The fault in manual mod lies in the counting of '/'s never thought of windows '\ ' variant.
Will think of something or look i the admin/pages module there it was solved....

Don't have time tonight, maybe will have some time tomorrow evening ...

When the ../../ count is solved I can move to next phase, templating output in view.php
(Oh and look why the wysiwyg output isn't correct.)

I need this mod, didn't need 3 levels though, but I like to puzzle

John

[vyni]

Äääähhhmmmmm,

but You recognized, Aldus posted a working solution - did You?

It is already solved!

So just put it in Your package!

This - the first correction - works.

[pcwacht]

Didn't have time to try it, but I sure will...

Think Aldus solved it, but I need to test it... both on widows and linux, if it is ok, I will move to the next issue,
wysiwyg, can't be much, I hope
Then the templating and looking at the output

Will have some puzzling time ahead...

btw, manual mod isn't my package, it was written ages ago and I had some bugs solved as many others have
I am only trying to make it a better module then it was before, oh and wb2.7 compliant. since I can use this mod.


Have fun, as allways,
John


PS Sorry Aldus, the

Code:

require("'.WB_PATH.'/config.php");

must work since it will put the content of the variable instead of the variablename there, but it wil create an absolute url.
Can't hurt normal installs but if you move from one place to another...
So you are right, I am wrong in this....


John

[pcwacht]

fixed '/' problem allso should work in linux

fixed wysiywg color problem

think I fixed the link problem as viny pointed out -> http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,308.msg71371.html#msg71371
Am not sure about the last, so please do have a look to see if it is correct

fixed search results pointing to correct chapter


If the above is corect then next phase will be templating output

John

[erpe]

Hi John,

the link is working.

rgds

erpe

[vyni]

Hi John,

I installed this version in web.
Please read this.

regards from Himberg

[spida]

Hi,

after upgrading to WB 2.7 and installing the newest version of "manual" which was attached some posts earlier, my manual is not available anymore. It consisted of a number of chapters and pages with quite a lot of data in it, thus the loss would be awful.

The manuals starting page is still in the pages list, yet when I open it there are none of the chapters available anymore. I can (theoretically) add new chapters, but haven't done so since I hope to get back my old manual data.

The frontend only displays "In Bearbeitung".

Where is the manual data stored?
EDIT: I found that the manual chapters and pages are just stored in pages/manual

What might have happend during the upgrade? Any help is very appreciated.

Best regards,
spida

[pcwacht]

I think the upgrade of wb went fine, but the upgrade of the latest manual module didn't, there is ( as fas as I know) no upgrade routine built into the manualmodule

What you can do,
per ftp, empty the directory modules/manual
unzip the old version you used before and upload the content to /modules/manual
this way you restore the previous version.

Good luck,
John

[spida]

Hi John,

thank you for your help.
I did as you suggested. As the result I am now getting "Page not found" (no regular 404, just this text) when trying to start the manual over the navigation. The same happens when I manually type in the URL of a manual deep link.

I guess, my structure is lost, huh?

Best regards,
spida

[pcwacht]

I am afraid it did

In that case, if you want the latest manual mod, delete the odl one and install the new one and start typing...

If you know some DB (phpmyadmin for example) you can salvage the content in the manual tables and copy paste the content into the manual pages

Do this BEFORE you delete / install the manual mod!
in other words, fire up your phpmyadmin and fetch the content, copy paste them to a texteditor like notepad t osecure your work.

Good luck,
John

[spida]

Thank you, John. I will do that.

Regards,
spida

[Innocence]

Hi people !
My question: Is there a way to SORT the elements list I´ve been creating inside this Manual module ?
I have now a lot of items created inside this module but, (my question again): when I create a new item, it appears at the bottom of the list, and I have to sort by some orden manually. Is there a way to solve that automatically ? Some sorting system, for example "by date", "alphabetically", etc etc

Sorry about my poor english. Thanks in advance, nice people !!!

[tugboat]

I am getting this, probably something posted before but I cannot seem to get it to read the page.. the content page shows, but I cannot click into the chapters...

Warning: require(../../../../../config.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/thewings/public_html/pages/manual/media.php on line 6

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../../../../../config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/thewings/public_html/pages/manual/media.php on line 6

[i2Paq]

When creating a manual the code comes up with a self made name, in my case chapter7.
Where does it get this from and where can I change it so it will use a name that I made.

I have a work arroun by editting the database for each document but it would be nicer (and easyer) to have it done by the code.

Thanks