Thread: [pLog-General] admin interface bug and suggestion
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From: Daniel K. <ke...@fo...> - 2004-01-28 18:57:50
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Using the admin interface for pre0.3 from CVS, I noticed... The "Blogs" page at admin.php?op=3DeditBlog&editBlogId=3D1 shows $locale->tr("items_as_recent")}: as a field label (shows as code, not as a label). Also, I found it confusing that when I added a new user, and logged in=20= as that user, I couldn't do anything because I wasn't associated with a=20= blog. Just a suggestion, but how about specifying the blog for the user=20= on the "add user" form? -- =A0=A0Daniel =A0=A0...@fo... |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-28 19:34:12
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Hi! > Using the admin interface for pre0.3 from CVS, I noticed... > > The "Blogs" page at > admin.php?op=editBlog&editBlogId=1 > shows > $locale->tr("items_as_recent")}: > as a field label (shows as code, not as a label). > Thanks, fixed and committed. > Also, I found it confusing that when I added a new user, and logged in > as that user, I couldn't do anything because I wasn't associated with > a blog. Just a suggestion, but how about specifying the blog for the > user on the "add user" form? > Sounds reasonable, I can have a look at it :) Good feedback :) Regards, Oscar. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-28 20:35:05
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Just wiped my site and reloaded the CVS build, things look good so far but I do have a couple of questions... Has the security layer been implemented yet? I was rather groggy this morning as I was setting everything up, but I didn't happen to see it. Were the mods for the link list going to be implemented with 3.0 or was that a post-3.0 deal? (I'm almost positive it was slated as post3.0, but I want to be sure) it seems like there was something else I had floating around my mind this morning, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.... guess it wasn't too important.. heh |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-28 20:43:44
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Hi! > Just wiped my site and reloaded the CVS build, things look good so far > but I do have a couple of questions... > Good! Another tester :) > Has the security layer been implemented yet? I was rather groggy this > morning as I was setting everything up, but I didn't happen to see it. > Yes it has. You can have a look at the security features in the "Security" tab, and have a look at the "security settings" section in the "Global Settings" page. You can enable/disable the whole security layer feature or only some of its modules. > Were the mods for the link list going to be implemented with 3.0 or > was that a post-3.0 deal? (I'm almost positive it was slated as > post3.0, but I want to be sure) > Which mods? > it seems like there was something else I had floating around my mind > this morning, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.... > guess it wasn't too important.. heh > Whatever it is, let us know when you remember what it was :) Regards, Oscar. |
From: Nick G. <ni...@so...> - 2004-01-28 20:50:30
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I was taking a look at the cvs and was wondering how deep the conversion from .2 to .3 is? Any major mods needed on the db? ~ Nick --=20 Guns don't kill people, Ninjas do. |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-29 20:48:38
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Yes, there are a few new tables (related to the new security features, regardless of if you use them or not but the tables have to be there), and also a few new fields have been added to older tables. If all goes well, the wizard.php script should take care of everything. We have already detected a few problems but with help of everybody, we've fixed them and it should work fine as it is now. There will also be a set of sql scripts that will do the job for you, if you'd rather do it yourself manually. Regards, Oscar On 28 Jan 2004, at 22:45, Nick Gerakines wrote: > I was taking a look at the cvs and was wondering how deep the > conversion > from .2 to .3 is? Any major mods needed on the db? > ~ Nick > -- > Guns don't kill people, Ninjas do. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-28 21:14:35
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I'm not seeing the security tab. I manually deleted the entire plog install I had, and even moved it away from the root of my web server into a /plog/ directory for this test (why add additional variables to fight against?) and it looks basically the same as 0.2 did And there was a request on the forums at one point to allow the use of the link categories. Right now we setup link categories to organize the links on the right side of the blog, but they never show up anywhere but on the Admin interface... someone had asked for a method by which we could either have them separated into lists ("Links I like" with several links then say a "Webcomics I read" section with a few more, etc, etc) or have the category be a link to a small popup page or something of the like that would then show all the links that belong to that category (for folks who might have a massive listing of links...) Oscar Renalias wrote: Yes it has. You can have a look at the security features in the "Security" tab, and have a look at the "security settings" section in the "Global Settings" page. You can enable/disable the whole security layer feature or only some of its modules. |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-28 21:29:49
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On 28 Jan 2004, at 23:13, Brian M Rupe wrote: > I'm not seeing the security tab. I manually deleted the entire plog > install I had, and even moved it away from the root of my web server > into a /plog/ directory for this test (why add additional variables to > fight against?) and it looks basically the same as 0.2 did Uhhh... I'll have a look at it but it I've already tried a few fresh installations from cvs myself (testing the wizard and so on) and the tab should show up as a top-level tab, between "Settings" and "Site Admin". Is anybody else experiencing this? Unless... are you fetching from the "plog_devel" or the "plog" cvs module? Right after 0.2 was released we reorganized the source code and moved everything back to the "plog" module so use that one! :) > > And there was a request on the forums at one point to allow the use of > the link categories. Right now we setup link categories to organize > the links on the right side of the blog, but they never show up > anywhere but on the Admin interface... someone had asked for a method > by which we could either have them separated into lists ("Links I > like" with several links then say a "Webcomics I read" section with a > few more, etc, etc) or have the category be a link to a small popup > page or something of the like that would then show all the links that > belong to that category (for folks who might have a massive listing of > links...) > I released a plugin for 0.2 to do that a couple of days ago. It was basically my mistake for not including such functionality in 0.2 but it works now in 0.3 out of the box if you use any of the default templates. Oscar. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-28 21:33:35
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..... ARGH! I'm caught by CVS Rearrangement again! :) I'll reupdate and test it again... thanks. What codebase is in plog-devel then? (And I thought we we going to move the 'stable' code to plog and do dev work from plog-devel... was I just remembering things backwards?) Oscar Renalias wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2004, at 23:13, Brian M Rupe wrote: > >> I'm not seeing the security tab. I manually deleted the entire plog >> install I had, and even moved it away from the root of my web server >> into a /plog/ directory for this test (why add additional variables >> to fight against?) and it looks basically the same as 0.2 did > > > Uhhh... I'll have a look at it but it I've already tried a few fresh > installations from cvs myself (testing the wizard and so on) and the > tab should show up as a top-level tab, between "Settings" and "Site > Admin". Is anybody else experiencing this? > > Unless... are you fetching from the "plog_devel" or the "plog" cvs > module? Right after 0.2 was released we reorganized the source code > and moved everything back to the "plog" module so use that one! :) > >> >> And there was a request on the forums at one point to allow the use >> of the link categories. Right now we setup link categories to >> organize the links on the right side of the blog, but they never show >> up anywhere but on the Admin interface... someone had asked for a >> method by which we could either have them separated into lists >> ("Links I like" with several links then say a "Webcomics I read" >> section with a few more, etc, etc) or have the category be a link to >> a small popup page or something of the like that would then show all >> the links that belong to that category (for folks who might have a >> massive listing of links...) >> > > I released a plugin for 0.2 to do that a couple of days ago. It was > basically my mistake for not including such functionality in 0.2 but > it works now in 0.3 out of the box if you use any of the default > templates. |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-28 21:42:24
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On 28 Jan 2004, at 23:32, Brian M Rupe wrote: > ..... ARGH! > > I'm caught by CVS Rearrangement again! :) I'll reupdate and test it > again... thanks. > Sorry... I thought everybody already knew because everybody was already fetching the code from the right place :) It's just that we needed to reorganize everything and cvs doesn't offer proper support for moving folders, so we decided to wipe the old "plog" module and use it as the new development cvs module. > What codebase is in plog-devel then? (And I thought we we going to > move the 'stable' code to plog and do dev work from plog-devel... was > I just remembering things backwards?) > That's a great idea but it has to be done with branches and not with modules (I tried to use modules in the beginning but that was because I didn't know enough of cvs by then) Cvs offers mechanisms to merge branches but there is no way, as far as I know, to merge modules... What we'll do once we release 0.3 is create a cvs branch called "PLOG_0_3" and whenever there is a bugfix to be made, then we'll make the changes to that branch while keeping HEAD for "bleeding edge" development. Hope everything's clear now :), and sorry for the confusion! Oscar. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-28 22:06:40
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Ok... now that I have the actually 3.0 code.... ehhe I see the security tab there and I'll probably come up with the explanations there for you a bit later. I do have a question, are you going to allow for subnet blocking or just do it by IP address? Right now if I wanted to block say all of AOL doing it by had per IP address would be a pain since they have a Class B subnet plus some... ;) I see the link separations now, that's good and they're working ok... Is the Security tab a per-user thing with the security info in the Site Admin tab overriding it or what? |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-28 22:12:35
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On 29 Jan 2004, at 00:05, Brian M Rupe wrote: > Ok... now that I have the actually 3.0 code.... ehhe > > I see the security tab there and I'll probably come up with the > explanations there for you a bit later. I do have a question, are you > going to allow for subnet blocking or just do it by IP address? Right > now if I wanted to block say all of AOL doing it by had per IP address > would be a pain since they have a Class B subnet plus some... ;) > You should be able to block subnets as well... I'm using your code for that :) (and as far as I remember, it supports blocking subnets, right?) But please send me any feedback you may have regarding that, it should perhaps be made more user friendlier... > I see the link separations now, that's good and they're working ok... > > Is the Security tab a per-user thing with the security info in the > Site Admin tab overriding it or what? > Every blog has its own security settings, plus the global settings are taken into account for every blog. It is also possible to see everybody else's security settings from the global one as well, so that admins can delete for example any ip-blocking rule unconciously set by some user playing around with the feature... Oscar. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-29 03:24:57
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On the summary screen, do we want it showing the whole post or do we want it to show the preview text like it shows when looking at the blog? I can see instances where showing the blog post itself might not be the best of ideas.... Also, I didn't see any but I'll check again, is there a way to block a post from showing up on the summary? How about a whole category of posts? |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-30 20:44:14
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On 29 Jan 2004, at 02:06, Brian M Rupe wrote: > On the summary screen, do we want it showing the whole post or do we > want it to show the preview text like it shows when looking at the > blog? I can see instances where showing the blog post itself might not > be the best of ideas.... > Yeah, that sounds reasonable... I can have a look at that, shouldn't be too difficult. > Also, I didn't see any but I'll check again, is there a way to block a > post from showing up on the summary? How about a whole category of > posts? > No, there is no planned feature that would do that. And I do not like the feature much either... What would you use it for? Perhaps for 0.4 we will implement "private" posts so that the poster will have access to them and such feature could then be used to implement this, but for the time being, I don't think we will implement it. Regards, Oscar. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-30 20:52:46
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Well for the Summary page there are some posts that might not be.... politically correct... I know I have a 'rant' section for my blog that if I could I would tag so that it does not show up on the global summary page. On the summary page for my blog, sure.. no problems there. But if someone is browsing the global summary list for blogs on my system they might have issues with things I say or rant about. That's the only reason I can see where it would be nice to have a feature like that. Oscar Renalias wrote: > No, there is no planned feature that would do that. And I do not like > the feature much either... What would you use it for? > > Perhaps for 0.4 we will implement "private" posts so that the poster > will have access to them and such feature could then be used to > implement this, but for the time being, I don't think we will > implement it. |
From: Nick G. <ni...@so...> - 2004-01-31 03:20:19
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Is there a way that i can pull entries from a specific catagory? What i want to do is have a template that only shows blogs in a specific catagory along with a static blog above them. Is there a way to do something like that without to much hacking? ~ Nick --=20 Guns don't kill people, Ninjas do. |
From: Daniel K. <ke...@fo...> - 2004-01-31 03:36:35
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On Jan 28, 2004, at 10:37 PM, Nick Gerakines wrote: > Is there a way that i can pull entries from a specific catagory? What = i > want to do is have a template that only shows blogs in a specific > catagory along with a static blog above them. Nick, Oscar made changes in pre-0.3 CVS pLog that made it easy for me to set=20= up my own web page that pulls in blog entries from whatever category I=20= like without actually creating any templates. I'm not sure if this will=20= help you (not sure what you mean by "static blog") but you can take a=20 look at my page at http://www.fortuityconsulting.com and see if that's=20= what you want. Let me know if you want the code for the pages. -- =A0=A0Daniel =A0=A0...@fo... |
From: Oscar R. <os...@re...> - 2004-01-31 12:15:32
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> Is there a way that i can pull entries from a specific catagory? What i > want to do is have a template that only shows blogs in a specific > catagory along with a static blog above them. Is there a way to do > something like that without to much hacking? Well, as Daniel said, 0.3 from CVS already does that. It is possible to enable only a few (or only one) category that will be shown in the main page while the other will only be visible when clicking their link. I believe there is still a way to do it in 0.2 though it is not so easy. Say that we only want to show category "General" in the main page. First thing we have to do is find out the value of its "id" field in the database (you'll see why) Once we have it (we will assume that it's '3'), we can edit main.template and type the following: {include file="grey/header.template"} {foreach from=$posts item=post} {if $post->getCategoryId() == 3} {include file="grey/post.template"} {/if} {/foreach} {include file="grey/footer.template"} Every post carries the identifier of the category to which it belongs and can be queried with the getCategoryId() method. If the category id matches the id of the "General" category, we print the post. If there is more than one category that we'd like to show: {if $post->getCategoryId() == 3 || $post->getCategoryId() == 5 || $post->getCategoryId() == ...} ... {/if} As I said, it's not that easy but it's the only way in 0.2. I hope this is what you what you needed, since I did not understand what "a static blog above them" meant... Regards, Oscar. |
From: Brian M R. <bm...@ch...> - 2004-01-30 19:32:46
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The way that you have the input setup for it it looks like just slots for the standard dotted decimal notation (abc.def.ghi.jkl) with no area for specifying the /subnet aspect of the function. The function will work with blocking whole subnets (standard subnets on /8, /16 and /24 or Variable Bit subnets such as /20, /22, etc). I'm thinking I'm probably going to need to whip up a chunk of code to handle subnet validation so that the users can't enter in subnets which don't make sense or don't exist (someone entering say a /3 subnet) Oscar Renalias wrote: > > You should be able to block subnets as well... I'm using your code for > that :) (and as far as I remember, it supports blocking subnets, right?) > > But please send me any feedback you may have regarding that, it should > perhaps be made more user friendlier... |
From: Nick G. <ni...@so...> - 2004-01-31 02:26:10
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Howdy folks, I packaged and prepared the template that i use. You can download it from my site, http://uploads.socklabs.com/rusty_templte.tar.gz. Feel free to distribute. ~ Nick --=20 Guns don't kill people, Ninjas do. |
From: Daniel K. <ke...@fo...> - 2004-01-29 17:09:36
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On Jan 28, 2004, at 1:32 PM, Oscar Renalias wrote: > top-level tab, between "Settings" and "Site Admin". Is anybody else=20= > experiencing this? Just had a look at the admin interface, and yes, in pre-0.3 from CVS=20 there's a tab for "Security". > Right after 0.2 was released we reorganized the source code and moved=20= everything back to > the "plog" module so use that one! :) You'll need to update the docs at http://www.plogworld.org/docs/installation.html: "There are only 2 distributions of pLog. pLog Stable (named plog) and=20 pLog Development (named plog_devel)" I was confused by that. Module "plog" referred to in the docs as "pLog=20= Stable" is now actually pre-0.3. (Well, it's stable enough for me, but=20= maybe that's wishful thinking). -- =A0=A0Daniel =A0=A0...@fo... |