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MT4 Add-ons: E-Commerce functionality

2008-10-22T00:30:21Z

has anyone thought about creating a set of ecommerce features, plugins..etc and bundled it as an E-Commerce Pack? something like the Community Pack which enable us to use MT as a community-enabled site (forum)?

it would be interested if we have this sets of features coz for sure MT have no problem to act as a product management system where you can store entries and assign a specific category, applied additional information with custom field...etc but how bout to make the site ecommerce-enabled, have some feature like built-in payment processor (checkout, paypal integration maybe), link to some currency exchange site, link to any courier services to calculate the estimated shipping cost, shopping cart, and so on... got what i mean?

i believe this is possible, and it would be lovely if we have such thing! :D

Custom Field Image Asset Display

2008-09-23T18:57:42Z

I've created a custom field (MT 4.2) that is used to contain an image that is then displayed within the entry. The first entry that I created uploaded and displayed the image with no problem, and still does. The subsequent entries don't display the image, nor do they display the image when I go to the edit entry screen (though the first entry does.) Additionally, the images are being properly uploaded to the correct directory

The code that I'm using to display the image (field name "entryphoto1")and the image caption (field name "entrydataphoto1caption") is as follows:

" width="300" alt="" />

As I've said, this worked fine on the first entry but no entries since then. Have I done something wrong, or is this a bug in how Custom Fields is handling image assets?

LightBox plugin errors

2008-09-23T18:51:43Z

I like the lightbox plugin under 4.2 MTOS , makes it much easier to use since the code is automatically stuck in there for me, however it seems to break Sceduled Entries. I am getting the following error:

Junk Filter TypePad AntiSpam died with: Undefined subroutine &URI::Escape::escapechar called at /home/rmiles/publichtml/cgi-bin/mt/extlib/UR I/_query.pm line 48

The author left a comment on the plugin page that this had been fixed but it has apparently not, at least not in the version available for download. Anyone else using the plugin that might have a idea?

Customfields not saved in preview mode in 4.2

2008-09-23T17:45:03Z

In upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2, we notice that customfields are -not- saved when previewing. Enter customfields data, click preview and they are not saved (with either a new entry, or populating CF for the first time in an existing entry). If the entry is saved first and then previewed, it works as it did previously.

archive templates removed from publish pop-up

2008-09-23T16:39:03Z

Along with upgrading to 4.2, I've recently added some new templates to a blog and changed the archive mappings to point to these templates. After making the change I noticed each of the archive types that I added (category, monthly) vanished from the publish pop-up box. Only "indexes" and "page templates" remain as options. And "all files" does not rebuild the archives that are missing.

I can still publish normally from the templates section, but some of the blog's authors are comfortable with the pop-up box, so I'd like to return the templates to that box.

Thanks!

Will pay for mt4 installation

2008-09-23T12:46:17Z

Hi, I am having trouble installing MT4.2 on my Network Solutions virtual private server. I am hoping one of you experts might be willing to do the install, and get paid of course.

If you are interested, please comment here or shoot me an email at: matt@mattmartone.com

Thanks, Matt

signing in from the comment screen

2008-09-23T09:14:24Z

I have just installed MT 4.21, and I can sign in ok. Hoever if a user wants to leave a comment, he clicks on "sign in" and sees a spinning graphic ad infinitum.

What should I check?

Upgrading from 4.1 -> 4.21 with huge database runs out of memory

2008-09-23T07:21:07Z

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade movable type to 4.21 and it always runs out of memory when doing task "Assigning all permissions to blog administrator...". This was on a machine with 8Gb of RAM and a 6Gb swap.

This task applies all the new permissions to Blog Administrators or something like that. It goes through the mt_permission table. We have more than 3000000 rows there.

I was thinking as a workaround to just comment that part from the Upgrade.pm file. And afterwards just do some changes in the Blog Administrator role for the permissions to get calculated again.

BTW. I don't see any need for mtpermission table. It's just a join of mtassociation and a few other tables. It should be done with a view or something. Correct me if I'm wrong

Fixed? heights for alfa, beta and gamma columns

2008-09-22T18:14:50Z

Hi.

I have been trying figuring out how to have all 3 columns ( standard template thin, wide, thin) go evenly down on the pages.

The thing is to have the sidebars equal to the height of the main text on all entries and pages.

I have tried to add height both with percentage and fixed px but it will not work. I am not any good with css even though I have some knowledge. I have among other attempts been fiddling the #container-inner and so on but...

I have probably been trying at the wrong parts in the stylesheet. I have checked both the blog.css and the templates css but I just can´t figure it out.

Thanks in advance.

comparative variables not working

2008-09-22T13:40:29Z

Could anyone help me understand why this simple function does not work in MT 4.2?

The output form this little exercise ALWAYS prints the number 3, regardless of whether is equal to 1 or 10.

Sure would appreciate any insight into why this simple function is not working.

Full Rebuild appears to get stuck on Entries

2008-09-21T22:05:48Z

I have a site where I perform a full rebuild (Publish All Files), and - to cut to the chase - it doesn't.

It publishes index, then categories (I think) and then goes into the publishing entry phase. It does that for a bit and then gets into an endless loop refreshing the status page every couple of seconds with the progress bar not shimmering like it normally does, but maybe 5% over. Looking at the pages on the server they are not being updated - I have no idea what MT is actually doing when it gets into this mode.

It behaves like it's publishing some entries and then some kind of timeout happens that causes it to go into this weird state/loop.

Anyone have a clue what might be happening?

Leo

Altered archive mappings

2008-09-21T17:37:55Z

I'm going to start this thread again and see if I get a bite...

Can someone please explain to me why all of my author basenames are getting appended with an underscore and a number, generally one? For example: johnlennon would become johnlennon_1

So, if my author URL was http://www.site.com/authors/john_lennon/

it has been changed to http://www.site.com/authors/johnlennon1/

Not only is it unattractive to be an "author" on the site and have your name include a number that doesn't show up anywhere else, it breaks old links on the site (requiring a republish of the whole site to fix) and it breaks external links that have existed for years.

It also leaves me with 2 directories for the same author. The correct DIR, the one without an _1, now has stagnant data in it because it is no longer getting updated. We don't know when profile info gets updated, so we end up with internal link in which some of the links point to the _1 directory and others do not.

All external links generally point to the directory without the _1, which is the directory with outdated data, of course.

In other words, this is a REALLY bad thing.

I can go to the database and manually edit the basename to remove the _1. However, if the profile information for that author gets updated, the _1 gets re-added upon saving that profile information.

Is there a fix for this?

I have verified the following:

It happens regardless if there is only one person with that name. Every author gets this _1 added to their basename, which in turn gets propagated to URLs and directory names when using %a in archive mappings or using ArchiveURL in an ArchiveList
Removing the _1 via a direct DB edit will fix the problem until a profile update occurs. Even if nothing changes in the profile, clicking Save WILL change the author basename back to including the _1
I can find nothing to stop this madness.

How to get user registered email and detail?

2008-09-21T16:46:36Z

I have a blog which use MT. I have alot user registered under my blog. Now I want to extract the user detail to excel format or csv format or other format. So that I can email to all of them using my email. I want to make a celebration dedication to them.

Can anyone here here teach me how to do that?

How to get user registered email and detail?

2008-09-21T16:45:00Z

Can anyone here here teach me how to do that?

Server Side Include Weirdness

2008-09-21T16:36:18Z

Can someone explain more thoroughly how SSI and Caching works in MT?

Here's the issue I'm having. I have a "middle column" that I want to include - unaltered - on a number of pages. It's pretty complex and pulls from a lot of places, so I use caching and SSI. Here's the problem - from time to time, the data in this column just disappears the only way to get it to come back is to remove the caching code (I use in-template caching and ssi directives) and rebuild.

Here's an example:

Main Index: This tag is also included in Main Archive, Pages, and Entry List.

The module "middle" contains another module called, "Dobson" ( a cartoon we run) Dobson is a VERY simple module that only contains an MTEntries loop that pulls the last 1 entry for Dobson by Category ()

So...Normally, this works just fine. In fact, 99% of the time it works just fine. But on some occasions, Dobson (and most of the other modules included in middle, but not all of them) are just empty. It's like the MTEntries tag just stopped working or something.

So I have to go remove the caching and SSI code, rebuild the page, and then put the code back in.

Can someone tell me what the hell is causing this?