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February 26, 2007

Folio v5 Plug-in (wiki & unified feeds/rss)

hey all;

I've finally finished updating my folio add-in to work with Elgg v.7 (& added a lot of feed functionality). I'm calling it a beta until I get a little bit of code from Ben or Dave, at which point I'll post to the plug-in folder. The below message is on my blog... --- Nathan

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v5 Beta folio

Hello all;

Well, it's been a while since the last update, but I've finally managed to pull together the next version of the folio plugin. I've made a bunch of improvements over the last one, mainly in the area of providing feeds. The software now automatically creates a frontpage showing people's activities, creates an 'inbox' and 'friends & communities' section, and provides a unified & authenticated RSS section. The wiki stuff is mainly the same, not many updates there except for the addition of tags. The attached file is a beta release, as I'm hoping the ben or dave will help me out with the search tags code hooks into Elgg. I'm sure that there are a couple of bugs / quirks in this code, but anyone testing it out will be greatly appreciated. I've spent the weekend working on cleaning it up, so it should be working pretty well.

All in all, I've very happy with the recent updates that I've made. While I haven't concentrated as much on getting the phpdoc tags proper, I really think that my coding style has greatly improved since I started this project. I went thru the code to see how many lines we're currently at, and I'm pretty close to 6,000 LOC. Fairly good for a weekend project!

As always, please refer to the /folio/readme.txt instructions for getting it setup. Please post questions in this blog post...

Folio Add-in v5 [application/zip]

Posted by Nathan Garrett @ Plugins

Comments

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Hey Nathan thanks for posting this up, I am looking forward to giving it a go.
Cheers.

David Tosh on Monday, 26 February 2007, 17:04 UTC # |
this sounds excellent, like a wiki-lite, is there a site that's running this version that we elgg users could see? or screenshots if you don't want us registering?

daveinboston on Monday, 26 February 2007, 17:29 UTC # |
Umn, I sorta ran out of time last night to put up a demo (for some reason localhost doesn't work over the net <grin>). I'll put one up tonight when I get home.

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 18:03 UTC # |
thanks! btw, what does 'inbox' mean in this plugins context? is it a messaging utility?

daveinboston on Monday, 26 February 2007, 18:55 UTC # |
It means that it's showing activity for the user. AKA, it replaces 'My Activity' currently in Elgg with a more familiar name. That settings shows any comments on your blog or on blogs that you commented on (or marked as 'interested in').

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 20:01 UTC # |
Thank you for this great mod. Great coding!
I have some small problems.
At the Recent Activity the user icons are changed, it show a totally wrong item.
How can i fix that?

Amos Struck on Monday, 26 February 2007, 20:51 UTC # |
If i answer a Blog now, i get:
Input Array does not match ?: SELECT * FROM elgguser_flags WHERE flag = 'forum' AND user_id =

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/vhosts/amosnet.de/httpdocs/friends/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php:390) in /var/www/vhosts/amosnet.de/httpdocs/friends/units/weblogs/weblogs_actions.php on line 201

After reaload, my post is on it.

Ideas?

Amos Struck on Monday, 26 February 2007, 20:53 UTC # |
Amos;
Sorry, but I really don't understand what you mean by 'the user icons are changed,' or what you mean by 'totally wrong item.' Can you
* post the link to your site
* Detail the url of the page you're on for 'recent activity'
* Explain what's showing now, and what should be showing
thanks,

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 21:10 UTC # |
For your second post, can you also detail what pages you're clicking on? AKA, give the url you start on, and the url for the blog you're viewing.
It looks like you might have the forum plug-in enabled. Can you disable it and try again? I'd like to know if there's a problem between the two plug-ins, or if it's a problem with my plug-in & core elgg stuff.

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 21:12 UTC # |
Hi Nath,
thank you for your fast reply.
1. After deinstalling the Forum MOD, the Error: Input Array does not match ?: SELECT * FROM elgguser_flags WHERE flag = 'forum' AND user_id =
  Do not apear anymore! Thank you!
2. If you log on as a User, you now get the recent activities on your login main page. On this Mainpage i see the last post of other users. But the ICONS of the post dont match to the users of the post. If Mister X do a post, i see the Post of Mister X but the Icon of Mister Y. If i go into the post, everything looks normal.
3. Question: Is it possible to show a userslist to everyone?
Amos Struck on Monday, 26 February 2007, 21:24 UTC # |
Okay, I'll make a note to look at it & see how to figure out how the two plug-ins are messing with each other.
The icon relates to the location of the action, not the user. So, if I post in a community, the community icon shows up. if I post on my blog, then my icon shows up. That was just the best idea I had, and I'm open to changing it to be the other way around if people think it makes more sense.

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 22:01 UTC # |
I know its located to the action.
But if she: writes a Text, his Photo apears next to the Comment!
The link to the first photo:
http://www.amosnet.de/friends/_icon/user/4/h/67/w/67
and to the wrong photo:
http://www.amosnet.de/friends/_icon/user/7/h/50/w/50
Hope that helps

Amos Struck on Monday, 26 February 2007, 22:18 UTC # |
Ah, I see what you're saying now. Amos, can you send me a logon to your system? It's hard to know what's happening without being able to get a screenshot with the background html code. You can send it to profgarrett, with the domain of gmail.com

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 22:47 UTC # |
Amos, sorry, I missed no3 in your earlier comment. If you mean 'show a userlist to anyone' to just show user icons, then no, the plug-in doesn't do that.

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 26 February 2007, 23:05 UTC # |
Sorry about the delay posting a demo, but I remembered that I need physical access to our box. I'll load a copy tonight & post the link.

Nathan Garrett on Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 14:24 UTC # |
Hey folks;
One of the helpful people downloading the v.5 version of my plug-in has reported that Kaspersky found a virus in one of the files. I can't yet duplicate the report with Panda, Norton, or AVG, but just in case, please delete all of the files in mod/folio from your computers. This shouldn't cause any uninstall problems with your servers, reloading the plug-in won't kill any data.
I'll repost when I can either confirm or deny the problem. If anyone else gets this message, please let me know.

Nathan Garrett on Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 17:06 UTC # |
I think it's a false positive, but went ahead and bought kasper anyway to clean up the files. The plug-ins re-posted.

Nathan Garrett on Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 15:54 UTC # |
Hi,
the link http://elgg.net/garrettn/files/-1/16046/folio+v5.zip is not working for me, only this http://elgg.net/garrettn/files/-1/16125/Folio_v49.zip. Is it the same file? First link load a blank page here.

Tom on Monday, 05 March 2007, 17:41 UTC # |
I re-uploaded a copy with the suspected virus removed. So, yes, you should download the second link. The first isn't online anymore.

Nathan Garrett on Monday, 05 March 2007, 17:54 UTC # |
nathan, has this come "out of beta" yet? i'm using the forum mod because it makes content viewing much easier on busy communities - but it sounds like it's messing with folio from the postings up above...

daveinboston on Tuesday, 06 March 2007, 04:47 UTC # |