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theplinth · Post by **theplinth** » Sun 7. Mar 2004, 23:23

Hey, I've been reading the forums a bit lately and have successfully installed Phpwcms. Its a great script, and FINALLY one that looks good too! So I'd like to echo everyone that has gone before me and say Well Done

Since I master Phpwcms, I went looking for extras to extend in functionality. I noticed a lot of people were using the blog addon from ionrock. I really needed this feature in my page so I decided to fire it up. It seems to be working fine, apart from the fact it does not appear on the main menu. I log in as admin and everything looks just like normal. However if I change the address to "phpwcms.php?do=blog" the blog centre appears.

As far as I know I have installed it correctly. I did a simple override of the include dir, and added the SQL. I cant figure this one out. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

theplinth · Post by **theplinth** » Tue 9. Mar 2004, 12:32

ah, the more I look around at othe CMS's the more I like phpwcms! Look, I'm still having the prob with the blog not being on the menu. It seems quite a lot of people have some kind of news script on their sites, is it this script? If so, has anyone else encountered a problem? Should I try a reinstall of phpwcms? Perhaps something has gone a miss somewhere!?

Cheers

kaju74 · Post by **kaju74** » Tue 9. Mar 2004, 13:40

I've also installed the blog add-in and nothing happens in the admin section until I use "do=blog" as you've descripted! I think, I've installed the add-in correct, but perhaps someone can help us?!?!?!?

theplinth · Post by **theplinth** » Wed 10. Mar 2004, 13:01

at least tell us to get lost!

snobba · Post by **snobba** » Wed 10. Mar 2004, 13:47

I have the same problem. Asked the question before..I've solved the problem by uninstalling it! Worked great!

Greetz - Martin

theplinth · Post by **theplinth** » Wed 10. Mar 2004, 23:35

I've solved the problem by uninstalling it!

Snobba, just to clarify... (I'm not real good with sarcasm!

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a) You HAVE got it working, you fixed it by unistalling and reinstalling?

b) You DO NOT have it working, you couldn't get it to work so you wiped it?

Cheers,
Everyone else seems to be using it ok, what have i done wrong!!

PS. I've PM'ed the author, does ironrock have an email address?

snobba · Post by **snobba** » Thu 11. Mar 2004, 01:07

Hi theplinth,

I tried many different things but in the end I gave up and actually uninstalled it! I have more major problems with my wcms, unfortunely..

Sorry, that I couldn't help you!

Good luck!

Greetz - Martin

theplinth · Post by **theplinth** » Thu 11. Mar 2004, 01:46

Darn it!

Could someone tell me which file actually constructs the menu in the backend area. I think I'm going to go in and sort this one out manually!

bobd314 · Post by **bobd314** » Thu 11. Mar 2004, 02:12

ok.... you want it to show up in the menu? or your having a problem with it showing up in the menu?

bobd314 · Post by **bobd314** » Thu 11. Mar 2004, 02:19

well if you are trying to get it to work right or what ever.... here's what you do (i0nr0ck told me) find your... include/inc_lib/navi_text.inc.php file.. open it and add

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"blog" =>		'<a href="phpwcms.php?do=blog">'.$BL['be_nav_blog'].'</a>',

to it, it should work, if not darn, I dont care to add it but I just go to ?do=blog cause I can type faster than I can click

theplinth · Post by **theplinth** » Thu 11. Mar 2004, 04:11

Yeah! i actually figured that out after i posted. The title and author seem to be going into the database but not the content. Did ironrock suggest any other patches

bobd314 · Post by **bobd314** » Thu 11. Mar 2004, 17:15

if your database has a prefix on the beginning like 1_phpwcms_content (Im talking about the 1_ part) then your gonna have to go into the files and edit where they are going.

snobba · Post by **snobba** » Sat 13. Mar 2004, 23:46

Great! I got it to work! Another great add-on!

Only one problem thought...

Name and date get stored in my database but not the actual article? It just says [BLOB] in summary of the blog table. Everything else got stored..

Greetings - Martin

ionrock · Post by **ionrock** » Sun 14. Mar 2004, 06:39

snobba,
the blob is b/c it is in binary. I did this b/c oliver seems to like having content as blob text instead of long text and since I like to keep things like he has them if possible I made it blob.

Thanks for everyone helping each other out with the blog stuff. I have been out of town so I am playing catch up. I am glad to see people using the patch and I am planning on releasing an update to make it work a little better and have a better readme/install instructions so things will actually work.

Also, the plugin setup is being worked on so all these hacks/patches can be added without breaking everything else

frold · Post by **frold** » Sun 14. Mar 2004, 09:58

If I should say anything about the why did not make it as a new content part...?

The way it is now it only possible to have one block - doing it as a new content part it would be possible to have as many you want - thats the whole point of content parts. Then people could install the hacks or extra content part they want and would like to add there site - that is OPTIMAL....And it would safe space from the menu...

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