zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.20

jakob · 2019-11-17 07:32:05

Your update woes might be related to another problem. Sometimes the update-routine got interrupted before it was completed. Some fixes were made but I can’t remember if they made it to the main 4.7.3 branch. You might want to try swapping out the “/textpattern/update” folder with the folder from the dev branch. As always make sure you have a backup of everything first in case you need to start over.

Regarding the plugins:

adi_contact – I believe this still works but has not been updated for com_connect. It could well work with some edits with com_connect (it has different callback names but AFAIK they are straight equivalents).
adi_variables – This should still work. Or you can simply update your own form with variables via Presentations › Forms.
bot_privs -> Replace with rah_privileges. While Jukka was away, I kept an updated version of that here. Since then Jukka has updated his here, though differently to mine. Usually only needed if you have multiple site authors with different access rights.
cbs_category_list -> txp:category_list can do almost everything the plugin could except for the article count per category.
ebl-image-edit – I don’t know of a replacement for this. There was Aviary for Textpattern but I believe that service no longer exists now.
ebl_write_page_email – That was a tag builder for email tags/links? There’s txp:email and yab_email for obfuscated email links or you simply write your mailto link in textile. If the plugin didn’t have a tag of its own, you can remove it as it is unlikely to be compatible with current admin area.
rvm_if_this_article -> replace with txp:if_article_id, e.g. <txp:if_article_id> class="active"</txp:if_article_id>…. If you have another use case, see the examples in the docs.
upm_image -> use the built-in txp:images and txp:image tags.
wet_native – setting per-user admin languages. This now works out of the box.
zem_contact / zem_contact reborn -> com_connect and pap_comconnect

Good luck!

colak · 2019-11-17 07:40:27

adi_contact – not needed. use this one for spam prevention
adi_variables (compatible to up to txp 4.6)
bot_privs – not compatible i think
cbs_category_list (can be achieved using native tags)
ebl-image-edit – Not compatible I think
ebl_write_page_email – Not compatible I think
rvm_if_this_article (can be achieved using native tags)
upm_image – not compatible, use native tags
wet_native – not needed, it is now in the core
zem_contact_lang – not needed
zem_contact_reborn – replace with com_coonect

Julian was faster:)

Last edited by colak (2019-11-17 07:42:00)

bici · 2019-11-18 01:38:56

jakob and colak
thanks to you i have now updated to 4.7.3.

i decided to disable and delete plugins as per yr suggestions. After the update i installed the new com_connect plugin. I then updated the tags in my contact_form, and after verifying all was working i deleted ALL the old plugins.

I have not been able to style via css the com_connect output but i can live with it. (i would have liked at the very least to output into my main div style but that proved fruitless)

Perhaps the plugin could use some guidelines in the documentation on applying css styles.

lesson learned : Don’t wait too long after an update to TXP has been released to istall it to my website.

phiw13 · 2019-11-18 01:56:49

bici wrote #320106:

After the update i installed the new com_connect plugin. I then updated the tags in my contact_form, and after verifying all was working i deleted ALL the old plugins.

I have not been able to style via css the com_connect output but i can live with it. (i would have liked at the very least to output into my main div style but that proved fruitless)

Perhaps the plugin could use some guidelines in the documentation on applying css styles.

oh, but it is documented by default each element has a class starting with com, and you can used custom names of course with/through the class attribute (just like you could do with zen_contact_reborn). Look under “tags“ and “styling“ in the help file for some info and guidance.

(i would have liked at the very least to output into my main div style but that proved fruitless)

we would need a bit more details to help out there… :-)

bici · 2019-11-18 04:37:10

hmmm.
with zem_conatct i had this in my css file:

  .zemContactForm fieldset {
   border: none;
   margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
   }
   .zemContactForm legend {
   padding: 0.5em 10px 0.5em 0;
   width: 60px;
   }

.zemContactForm label {
   float: left;
   width: 90px;
   margin: 0.3em 10px 0 0;
   text-align: right;
     padding: 2px 2px 5px 0;
   }
   .zemContactForm br {
   clear: left;
   }
   .zemContactForm .zemSubmit {
   /*margin: 9.5em 60px  0 70px; */
   margin: 0.5em 0 0 90px;
   }

i changed all those to .comConnectForm etc and it made no difference to the output.
there is no styling being applied.

added url of page website

Last edited by bici (2019-11-18 05:46:57)

phiw13 · 2019-11-18 06:01:30

Lovely… TYPO :-)

comCennectForm --> comConnectForm

(repeat 11 times, save).

bici · 2019-11-18 19:20:18

phiw13 wrote #320109:

Lovely… TYPO :-)

comCennectForm --> comConnectForm...

(repeat 11 times, save).

;-) !

made changes but no difference.
ps how does the form know to use css?

i currently have this in my contact_form :

<txp:com_connect to="no@email.tld"><p /> 
    <txp:com_connect_email /><p/>
    <txp:com_connect_text label="Telefono / Phone" min="7" max="15" /><p />
     <txp:com_connect_textarea cols="66" rows="6" label="domanda/ question" /><p>
<txp:com_connect_submit><strong>Invia/Send</strong> domanda</txp:com_connect_submit>
</txp:com_connect>

>Edit. deleted email

Last edited by colak (2019-11-19 05:03:39)

jakob · 2019-11-18 20:02:17

Hi bici,

com_connect adds classes by default and you can see what they’re called here in the docs. The same class is added to the item and its label, so you may need to use label.comText and input.comText (and so on for the other tags) if you want to be more specific about what you’re styling.

What you probably need is just to add the attribute break="" as described here to stop it adding a br. Then you can style your labels to appear left of the fields but right-aligned.

bici · 2019-11-18 21:17:33

thank-you i am happy enough with it now.
But for one issue: Where is the control for the Title of the forrm “Contact” i would like it centred and in bold.

jakob · 2019-11-18 22:28:10

bici wrote #320118:

Where is the control for the Title of the forrm “Contact” i would like it centred and in bold.

That’s the legend tag.

You have some mistyped HTML tags in your code above. Try this combination:

<txp:com_connect to="no@email.tld">
    <div class="form-item"><txp:com_connect_email break="" /></div>
    <div class="form-item"><txp:com_connect_text label="Telefono / Phone" min="7" max="15" break="" /></div>
    <div class="form-item"><txp:com_connect_textarea cols="66" rows="6" label="Domanda / Question" break="" /></div>
    <div class="form-submit"><txp:com_connect_submit><strong>Invia/Send</strong> domanda</txp:com_connect_submit></div>
</txp:com_connect>

and this css:

.comConnectForm legend {
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0.5em 0;
    text-align: center;
    font-weight: bold;
}
.comConnectForm label {
    float: left;
    width: 100px;
    margin: 0.3em 10px 0 0;
    text-align: right;
    padding: 2px 2px 5px 0;
}
.comConnectForm .form-item {
    clear: left;
    min-height: 3.5em;
}
.comConnectForm input.comEmail,
.comConnectForm input.comText,
.comConnectForm textarea.comTextarea {
    padding: 0.6em;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    font-family: inherit;
    font-size: 13px;
}
.comConnectForm input.comEmail,
.comConnectForm input.comText {
    width: 250px;
}
.comConnectForm .comTextarea {
    width: 400px;
}
.comConnectForm .comSubmit {
    margin: 1em 0 0 112px;
    padding: .4em;
}

That should get you nearer to what I think you want.

phiw13 · 2019-11-18 22:40:37

bici wrote #320113:

;-) !

made changes but no difference.

seems to work fine here. Or did you fix it?

ps how does the form know to use css?

Jacob already answered that.

bici · 2019-11-19 00:35:52

many thanks to all for your help! It amazes me how much I have forgotten.
Of course I am sure my brain cells are no longer firing on all cylinders ;-)

One2create · 2020-09-09 09:27:47

Hi there,

We’ve got a client with a Textpattern site that hasn’t been updated in 5+ years. They have just recently begun getting the “Form expired” error message on the contact form they use and want us to look in to it. Sadly all our Textpattern experts have moved on in the intervening years so I’m forced to have a crash course in how this all works.

At the moment we are just trying to work out why it is broken and what it will take to fix, so I can ask the client how they would like to proceed. Would someone be able to help me out?

Form is here: http://www.focalpointtraining.com/contact/
Textpattern version: 4.7.3
PHP version: 5.5.38
Active plugins: adi_mobile-0.2 fh-article-image-selector-0.3 hak_tinymce-1.0.2.3 smd_bio-0.40 zem_contact_lang-4.0.3.6 (modified) zem_contact_reborn-4.0.3.20 (modified)

Thanks in advance,
Simon

colak · 2020-09-09 10:06:13

Hi Simon, and welcome to txp.

It would be prudent to update both the php and txp to the latest versions.

adi_mobile has a version which is compatible with the latest version of txp
hak_tinymce is no longer cpompatible, although I would urge your client to learn textile as it is very simple.
smd_bio might still work but Stef, the developer would be able to advice should it need any changes
zem_contact has been replaced by com_connect.
Admittedly I never used fh-article-image-selector so I am not sure what it does.

Bloke · 2020-09-09 10:24:42

One2create wrote #325847:

They have just recently begun getting the “Form expired” error message on the contact form

Do you know if this is happening on every submission? Or just some of them? Form expiry is governed by writing to the txp_discuss_nonce database table, so please check that table exists and is writable.

Try this:

Open up phpMyAdmin (or equivalent) from your host’s control panel – or you can use the rss_admin_db_manager plugin
View the contents of the txp_discuss_nonce table or run the SQL command select * from txp_discuss_nonce where used=0 order by issue_time desc. That will show you all tokens set by the plugin that have not yet been used.
Note the rows that are already there.
Visit your contact form at http://www.focalpointtraining.com/contact/
Re-run the SQL command above (or revisit the table)
Note the differences in the number of rows. You should have an extra row now (at the top) which has just been added by visiting the form.
Check the datestamp in the issue_time column and make sure it contains a reasonable date/time in it. Bear in mind that your host’s timezone may be different to yours. But if it’s massively out of sync, you may find that the form is “expiring” before it’s issued.

If this is the case you need to investigate your host’s date/time and time zone settings to check they are accurate. Forms expire by default in 10 minutes so it’s vital that the date and time matches ‘now’.

If you upgrade to com_connect then it has an expire attribute that allows you to lengthen this expiry time, which may at least buy you some time until you can figure it out for sure.

Hope that helps.

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bici wrote #320106:

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phiw13 wrote #320109:

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bici wrote #320118:

#1631 2019-11-18 22:40:37

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bici wrote #320113:

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One2create wrote #325847:

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