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0.8 Alpha1 - Bug

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Started 3 years ago by john
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john
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- NicEdit used to enter "About" text in Admin Page is grayed out under IE7 but works in FF3 (NicEdit on New Entry form works fine with both browsers)

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Thanks for reporting this John.

I have made a change and uploaded this again. You can update your index.php from this.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

1. When registering as author, I was required to use at least 5 char pass (mine was 4)
Registration mail was sent on both attempts.

2. Mail formatting problem (i only edited mail address, pass, and activation code)

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1To: mymail@mysite.com
From: Pritlog <mymail@mysite.com>

<html> <head> <title>PRITLOG: Registration</title> </head> <body>Here are the login details...Email: mymail@mysite.com
User: john11
Password: xxxxx
Activation code: xxxxx--------------------------------------------
Activation link: http://enbaires.com/blog3/index.php/activation/john11/xxxxx
--------------------------------------------Thank you. This is an automated response. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY.</body> </html>

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

John ..
1. Registration mail was being sent twice due to an error. I have fixed this.
2. Are you sure your mail id is set to accept HTML emails? I did not have any problems on any of my email id's.

Thanks a lot for testing. I have uploaded the updated Alpha.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

John ..

I could see the problem you reported with email formatting. I have fixed this in the Alpha. Now all mails will be simple text emails. Html emails are not acting consistent. Thanks!

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Thanks Prit.
I hope to find some time later in the afternoon to do some more tests :)

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Big thunderstorm starting in Buenos Aires, so I posponed some tasks to...
continue testing Pritlog :)

BUGS

1. Archive - current month (see at http://enbaires.com/blog3/)

2. Admin Page - trying to edit existing authors displays error "Password must be
atleast 5 characters long Please go back and correct the errors" (mine has 6 chars)

SUGGESTIONS

1. Better Navigation / Improving user experience
In general, a message is shown after performing an action such as adding, editing,
or deleting; making it difficult to go back to the point you were before initiating
that action. My suggestions:

- Add / Edit Entry - instead of displaying a success msg after submit why not show
the post itself, so authors can see it as visitors do, to confirm if additional edits are needed. Maybe the success msg could appear once at the top of the same page.

- Delete Entry - instead of displaying "Entry deleted succesfully..." why not redirect to the category the author was in before. The success msg could appear once at the top of the same page

- Submit a Comment - instead of the "Comment added. Thanks john!" user might be returned to the post to see / check his comment. The success msg could appear once at the top of the same page

- Logout - user might be returned to the main page displaying the "You have been logged out" msg once at the top of the page

Note: confirmation messages in response to user action could be in color to get more
attention (green ?) and error messages be shown in red.

DEFAULT LAYOUT PREFERENCE

The below comments are a matter of personal taste:
- default layout to allow full width view on 800x600 to accomodate all type of users
- one column on the left with menus as in current style, plus Search box and Share
- main column with enough space to display pics at least up to 640px width
- increased height for heading and footer areas (x3 or x4)
- heading with background pic, blog title, tag cloud
- Popular Entries / Latest Entries / Latest Comments on footer (also allows to accomodate longer titles)

CONCLUSIONS

Prit, in general to be an Alpha1 things work pretty well. Congratulations !
Pritlog with SQLite looks promissing. Some new features I just was thinking about:
- db automatic backup for disaster recovery

Questions:
- what are you going to do with image upload to own server ?
- are previous version language file and css styles compatible with this release ?

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Thanks for reporting bugs and suggestions again John.
Bugs:
1. I will look into this.
2. Livevalidation is being used in this version and you should see any errors while you are on the same page when you submit. It should not let you go to the other page unless livevalidation is not working or javascript is disabled. Let me know if you don't see these messages.

The suggestions are good. I will look at these later today.

Answers to your questions
- The two addons nicFile and nicUpload will be provided with this version. And these would be a little more secure as these would be integrated with the new login,
- Language files would have the new messages. And I did not insert them at the end. Do you think that would be better. I will try to locate the new ones and move them to the last. Or maybe add a small comment.
- Css files should be the same.

John - be safe.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

John .. regarding the BUGS you reported.

1. I think your archive looks different because I noticed that some of the post dates on your blog are in a different format and hence the archive was not able to be figured out correctly. Do you know how the date format in your blog posts changed?

2. I realized that livevalidation was not working here. I have fixed this. But, even if it did not work, I wonder why it won't let you add 6 character password. I was able to add any passwords > 5 characters.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Sorry Prit there is no bug #2.
Admin Page - trying to edit existing authors works fine.

In regards to the archive issue, I noticed the difference in format you mention, but I don't think I changed it (just used update.php to populate SQLite with my previous posts). In any case I'll delete old posts today and start creating new posts directly on SQLite. If it happens again I'll report to you, otherwise just forget about :)

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Bug ?

Prit I deleted all old posts, but the Latest Comments list doesn't get cleaned.
On the other hand when clicking on List All Comments, a very long list appears after waiting several seconds, including things like

matt $1$QX4E2mnX$SS17JjiQJ41vqkgfqmJmN0
john $1$33myu9qT$MLh8Jou083wdDcqHFQKFw.
tester $1$uCDdQehD$9YPo192DV5giPWzYKsTPu/
190.244.51.7 1235041363
72.139.19.38 1234761446
72.139.19.38 1234761443

If you wish you can check it at http://enbaires.com/blog3/

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Hi John .. I believe that the archive issue might be caused by the incorrect date format. I checked your first blog http://enbaires.com/blog1/mainPage.html and it also has two different date formats. The last couple of posts there seem to have got a different format.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

As you can see, today I'm almost a Pritlog employee :)
I just got this interesting idea:

- since the largest part of your script is a collection of functions, why not place them in a separate file as an include ?

- in many cases styling the appearance of Pritlog goes beyond the stylesheet itself, and changes need to be made on the "html section" of the page. Every time you release a new version those changes have to be added again manually which is a waste of time and source of errors.

- i realize that there are functions that echo html code as well, but I think that having a separate file for functions would take care of the biggest part, making things easier for us to adapt the overall layout to our own preferences, while you keep improving and debugging script's functionality.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger
John said:

As you can see, today I'm almost a Pritlog employee :)

Lol. Thanks John. It is really appreciated.

This thought of moving the functions had come to my mind few times. But, then, Pritlog has not been really coded to be themeable or pluggable like Wordpress. There is a little distinction between logic and presentation within the index.php. But not a full distinction. Hence I don't know if we would be able to move all the functions / code. Anyway, I will keep this idea in my mind.

When it comes to layout (wider content area), do you like the below:
http://hardkap.net/blog/index_myblue.php/mainPage

Here is a simple php snippet to achieve a templating system. If we can bring Pritlog to this form, then templating would be as easy as Wordpress.
```
<?php
$title="Example page";
$header="My Examples";
$text="See the placeholders replaced?";
$data = array("apple","orange","peach");
?>

<html>
<head>
<title><?=$title?></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><?=$header?></h1>
<? foreach($data as $value): ?>
<li><?=$value?></li>
<? endforeach; ?>
 
<?=$text?>
</body>
</html>
```
Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Thanks for considering the idea.
A template approach would be nice, but i think that calling an include with all the functions is an easy first step to let us change design without redoing it on every release. The "header and body html" seems close enough to the concept in your snippet.

In a previous post I mentioned that Latest Comments list doesn't get cleaned after deleting old posts, and another issue when clicking on List All Comments. I bring it up again because your answer didn't comment on it. I think its a Bug.

That's all.. for today. Have a nice weekend.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Hi John ... I commented on your Latest Comments issue here. (incorrectly called it the archive issue).

I believe that the comments issue might be caused by the incorrect date format. I checked your first blog http://enbaires.com/blog1/mainPage.html and it also has two different date formats. The last couple of posts there seem to have got a different format.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

Prit, Latest Comments don't get cleared in spite that I already deleted their posts. Clicking those links lead to a blank page. Also a long list of data is displayed when clicking the List All Comments link

I currently only have 3 posts, all date formats are correct, and archive works well.

You can check it at http://enbaires.com/blog3/

Tomorrow if you still think it isn't a bug, I'll replace de db with an empty one and enter some posts and comments, delete them and see what happens.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

John .. I tested this on my blog and deleting an entry does delete the associated comments also. I am not sure what might be causing the problem on your test blog. And the long list might be definitely caused by some bad data on your existing blog comments.

Can you post your existing comments files as a zip somewhere? I can check it out on my server.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

I don't have any existing comments only 3 posts

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

I am thinking that when you updated from your last version, you must have had couple of comments. I saw some on the blog1 of your site and thought so. If you have any, I do want to see what might have happened. If I can recreate this problem, I can fix it.

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

I started an empty db to get rid of the problem.

- size of the recreated empty db = 8K
- size fo the replaced db = 408K with only 3 posts and 0 comments
- the original posts dir I updated from = 10K of data
- the original comments dir I updated from = 137K of data (132K = online.prt.dat)

I don't know for sure, but my impression is that SQLite got filled somehow with data.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

John .. Sqlite database would have the data related to the tables, the table columns, definitions etc. So the size cannot be directly compared to a flat file size. This one DB will have all the tables - posts, comments, stats, active users/guests and their definitions.

Anyway, do let me know if you see the problem with the comments.

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