[plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_unlimited_categories - Unltd. Article Categories

gdtroiano · 2006-05-09 01:53:14

Yeah, the title of the page (e.g. < title >< /title >), as well as the being used within the site.

Since rss_unlimited_categories has its own table for the categories, I don’t think txp:category is going to work.

april19 · 2006-05-09 02:07:38

well technically, the plugin only references a table used to join articles to categories so usage of the txp:category tag will still have the same purpose.

i know it also works because i just tried it out.

gdtroiano · 2006-05-09 02:11:56

april19 wrote:

well technically, the plugin only references a table used to join articles to categories so usage of the txp:category tag will still have the same purpose.

Brilliant! Thanks a bunch.

I sit corrected…

doni · 2006-05-09 10:40:18

Yes I’m using a prefix…its “txp_”

I didn’t know that it will automatically create such a prefix….
so my textpattern table is now “txp_textpattern” and the other tables are “txp_txp_XYXYXY”…..

jriemerm · 2006-05-09 16:25:31

I feel a little bit stupid asking this, but I had trouble following the discussion about the category choices not showing up in the admin for Internet Explorer users.

Is this a confirmed bug? Is this plugin currently not useable for IE users?

That has been my experience, but I couldn’t quite tell if there might be some other problem, for instance in my own configuration and a few other people’s.

Is there anyone using a current version of IE for whom this plugin is working?

Last edited by jriemerm (2006-05-09 16:27:32)

TNT · 2006-05-09 17:57:09

jriemerm: It’s a bug. It hasn’t been confirmed by Wilshire, but no one else has come up with a solution. So for now I guess it’s safe to say that no one using IE is able to use this plugin.

michaelwinter · 2006-05-23 11:01:34

Dear Rob,

there is something wrong running your unlimited category-plugin within IE6/IE7

I made some investigations,

there is a javascript using the ‘innerHTML’ – Statement.

it produces an “uncaught runtime error”

This doesn’t work ! There are a lot of discussions about it found in the web

Is there a workaround ?

best regards, Michael

Zanza · 2006-05-23 16:51:19

Looks like I’ve just found a simple solutions to the IE problem. After a brief search on google based on the michaelwinter insight, i changed a few lines of the code. Go where there is this code in the rss_admin_catlist function:
<code>
var p = document.createElement(‘p’);
p.innerHTML = ‘$catsel’;
ps [1] .appendChild(p);
</code>

(without spaces in the last line) And change to this:

<code>
var div = document.createElement(‘div’);
div.innerHTML = ‘$catsel’;
ps [1] .appendChild(div);
</code>

(without spaces in the last line) And you’re done. Everything now working in IE6. As you can see it’s just a matter of changing the select container element from p to div (that is also semantically better…). Some reference here.

Test this extensively and use at your own risk. If everything’s ok, maybe Rob would release a new version of the plugin without the bug.

Hope this may be useful. Bye

Z-

jriemerm · 2006-05-23 17:15:17

Bang. There it is. Thanks!

michaelwinter · 2006-05-23 21:02:20

that’s crazy, crazy, crazy.

I can’t believe but it works !!!

Thanks zanza !

michael

Algaris · 2006-05-24 09:53:18

What would be really nice would be an update, incorporating the tweaks and fixes that people have been making here into a new version. I’m not a programmer by nature and although I can hack away at some code with a small amount of knowledge, I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing so for the project that I need this plug-in for.

I would be particularly interested in having the IE and rss_unlimited_categories_article_list fixes, as this was the main reason for me installing the plug-in.

alittle116 · 2006-05-31 17:33:32

i have installed the unlimited categories plugin and see the list of categories when i write an article. however the categories do not get saved to the article after i select them and click ‘save’.

does this have something to do with db tables? how can i troubleshoot this? i know other people have posted similar issues in this thread but i have not seen any concrete answers.

any help is appreciated. thanks

Sebastiaan · 2006-06-01 14:35:12

alittle116 wrote:

i have installed the unlimited categories plugin and see the list of categories when i write an article. however the categories do not get saved to the article after i select them and click ‘save’.
does this have something to do with db tables? how can i troubleshoot this? i know other people have posted similar issues in this thread but i have not seen any concrete answers.
any help is appreciated. thanks

Hi,

I had exactley the same problem on my txp install: the plugin is installed correctly, no errors, but the category selection in the write tab didn’t stick. I was unable to run the mysql code provided with the plugin to copy the old category prefs to the plugin. Also no results were displayed using the rss_unlimited_categories_cloud tags in pages.

The problem is that the plugin apparently failed to create a new table in the txp database.
I’ve managed to create one manually with my dbmanager (phpadmin, provided with my domain) using the following mysql syntax found in the plugins’ php code:
<code>
CREATE TABLE `txp_textpattern_category` (`article_id` int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, `category_id` int(6) NOT NULL default ‘0’, PRIMARY KEY (`article_id`,`category_id`)) TYPE=MyISAM;
</code>
Just copy the code and run it from your database manager. This will create the appropriate table, textpattern_category, in your database. Now you should be able to save the prefs in the new category list under the write tab.

Cheers and good luck,
Sebastiaan

Last edited by Sebastiaan (2006-06-01 14:41:43)

Sebastiaan · 2006-06-01 15:05:50

I’m using wow_menu, a plugin that generates nested unordered lists based on the categories, so a css dropdown menu is possible.

Does anyone now if it’s possible to generate nested unordered lists with rss_unlimited_categories?

The html output should be something like this:
<code>
<ul>
<li>Parent category A
<ul>
<li>Child category 1</li>
<li>Child category 2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Parent category B
<ul>
<li>Child category 3</li>
<li>Child category 4</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</code>

Thanx!

Algaris · 2006-06-02 09:45:07

Well I tried downloading the recent update from Rob’s website to see if the IE and rss_unlimited_categories_article_list bugs had been fixed. After receiving the same issues as before I caved in and downloaded april19’s hack, (for the rss_unlimited_categories_article_list fix) and Zanza hack (for the IE fix). Everything then started working just the way I wanted it.

Thank you Rob for making this plug-in, and thank you april19 and Zanza for the fixes.

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