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Chris Heismann

14 Apr 08
Looking for a little 1.1.6.4 help. I tried some searches to find a more appropriate place to put this, but didnt' find anything that seemed 'right', so posting it on my page. I just upgraded one of my installs from 1.1.6.1 to 1.1.6.4. Everything is working fine (love some of the new features), however, I'm having a little difficulty getting the User Registration Module working. Anytime I add the lines listed in the docs to my config file, wikka apparently "loses" my config file, and launches into the installer script. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Either I'm making some sort of real basic editing mistake, or I'm not clear on what the docs page is trying to tell me.


23 Jan 08
Ok, I'm running into a problem that I'm pretty sure Wikka is causing, and I'm pretty sure can be solved by reconfiguring some things, probably my htaccess files.

For some time now, I've had three subdomains within my domain that have had copies of Wikka running. I also had four other subdomains there as well - one running Gallery, and the other three just your run of the mill html webpages. Last night I installed Wikka in my root directory, so that it could handle the main domain. Now, the three subdomains that have their own Wikka installations running work fine, as does the sub-domain that has Gallery, however, the three that are straight html files do not. Any ideas?


31 Jul 07

Well, I've been quite happy with Wikka Wiki. I've now got it running smoothly for three different wikis, and am planning a fourth one. Anyway, that's not why I'm here today.

I'm getting completely fed up with my current webhost, Powweb. I would have left them a while ago, but I'm afraid of not being able to port my Wikka Wiki installations over to a new provider. So can anyone recommend a decent provider and/or give me advice about porting my installations?


Thanks!

08 Dec 06

HELP!


Things have been going smooth on my Wikka Wiki installation, and I even set up a second one. Just a couple days ago, I set up my third installation of Wikka. On my previous two installations I changed the wording in the Header where it says "HomePage :: Categories :: Index :: Changes :: Comments :: Admin :: Help :: Preferences/Logout :: You are ChrisH" from the default to wording I preferred. I'd like to do the same with this recent install, but I can't remember or figure out which file I modified in the first place.

BTW, my installs are 1.1.6.0 & 1.1.6.1 where I've made the change (no, I haven't updated them) and the recent install is 1.1.6.2

Any help appreciated.



18 Jan 06
Spent a bit more time investigating why I got the error below. After I figured out the quotes, I wanted to know if or how I could prevent it from happening again, as I'd like to write a word macro that converts Word tables to the Wikka.

Anyway, the problem was caused by Word's Smart Quotes function, which automatically takes quote that look like this
, and converts them to quotes that work like this \\ //, which, of course, screws up php and the html.

I found a web page that details how to turn off the Smart Quotes function, which can be found here:
Turn off MS Word Smart Quotes

16 Jan 06

HELP!


This isn't making any sense. I'm trying to do a table, using the following:

{{table columns=”7” cellpadding="1" cells=”Sun;Mon;Tue;Wed;Thu;Fri;Sat;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28”}}

Only this is what keeps coming up:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/jsnx/public_html/wikka/actions/table.php on line 30

Why? Is it too long? I've done done larger tables of 5 columns and 10 rows without any issues, why is this one causing me headaches?
  • Well, I've hit upon why it appears to not be working, but I can't figure out how it can be. The string I'm having problems with was created like this: I took an Excel spreadsheet I had, and saved it as a CSV file. I then loaded that into Word, and use find and replace to change all the commas into semicolons. I then added all the table action parameters, then saved as a text file. I opened the text file in Notepad, then cut and pasted it into Wikka.
  • I tried typing the same exact string straight into Wikka, and it worked. So it appears that word or Excel added something that =looks= right, but isn't. I can't figure out what. I would have thought saving as a text file, then cut and pasting would have stripped any of that out. I also tried opening the text file into J-Edit (the text editor I'm using to write my PHP code), and cut and pasting from there, but still no dice. Can anyone figure out what the heck is in the string that is causing me grief? - ChrisH
    • Doh! I'm leaving this here as a lesson to everyone else. Don't use Word as a Text Editor I finally figured out what the problem is - it's the quotes. Note the very subtle difference between the quotes around the cellpadding value, and the columns and text values. I never would have found that if I didn't have J-Edit. - ChrisH

22 Dec 05
CyneBeald - thanks for the feedback. I reset the write ACL to registered users, I didn't think about anyone wanting to comment on the code in the page when I restricted it.

Thanks for the tip on the quotes. I wish I would have known that last night - I struggled for 45 minutes or so trying to get it right - I kept getting some sort of "unexpected string error" or no output at all. But the important part is it was a learning experience.

The reason I hardcoded the URL is because I wanted a "slim" action - one that is easy to use. As it is written now, a user can place a preset image file on every page, by only having to remember one command - {{logo}} I named it logo, because I figured that would be the most likely use of it - to place a company or product logo somewhere. I didn't see a point in trying to parse a URL, because that would duplicate the Image action to some extent.

That was the first iteration. I do want to learn to handle parameters, so the next (and probably final) iteration will have two parameters - size and class - so that the same image can be somewhat resized, and placed to the left, right or center. So that when all is said and done, a Wikki user will be able to place a logo on their page by remembering {{logo}} and whether it is small, medium or large, and placed to the left, right or center. So the final action would look something like this:

{{logo small center}}


  • Well, I was thinking of something more like this, for starters:
  • $logourl='images/logo.gif';
    $alt='logo';
    $output='<img alt="'.$alt.'" url="'.$logourl.'"/>';
  • That way, you can more easily customize it later, once you want to split it into {pepsilogo} and {{cokelogo}} (and you have to learn how to combine variables with strings in PHP, but you probably figured that out by now, and are happily processing parameters). --CyneBeald
    • Oh, ok. I get it now. So when someone goes to modify it, they don't have to find the url in the output code, but can simply change it in the variable. You're right, that would definitely make it easier to modify later. Thanks!

My thinking behind this is that the Wikka administrator can preload a logo, and, if desired, manipulate the settings in the logo.php file for the desired sizes. If desired, they could then "clone" the php file for different logos - IE, a wikka that compared Coke and Pepsi to each other could have two logo actions - {{cokelogo}} and {{pepsilogo}}, and that is all the end user would have to remember to use them, rather than having to remember all the parameters in the ImageAction, and the file name as well.

That's the use I'll be putting it to, although not for coke and pepsi, but the different game systems I play.

21 Dec 05
Hurray! I wrote my first "real" action and php program tonight. Ok, it's actually my second, but since my first one was nothing more than figuring out the simple "Hello World" example php program and using it as an action, I don't think that counts. Now this one isn't much more sophisticated,a nd in fact, I think it can actually be simplified even further, but I may expand on it later. Besides, that's not my intention - my intention is to learn some php, and how to use it for actions in Wikka.

So, anyway, here's the code:

Logo action:
This action can be used to place a preloaded image on any wikka page. In order for it to work, you must have an image named "logo.gif" in the images folder. Usage is {{logo}}.

<?php
/*
        "logo" action
    Parameters:
        there are no parameters for this action
    created by Chris Heismann, December 2005, for use with Wikka Wiki, ver 1.1.6.0
    released under the GPL
    WARNING: This action was created as a programming exercise by a beginning programmer. Use at your own risk
*/

$output = "<img alt=\"logo\" src=\"images/logo.gif\" />";
print($output);
?>

Place this code in your actions folder as a file named logo.php.

Feedback on this would be much appreciated!

20 Dec 05
So I went and picked up a book on php. Wow. I had been looking at it as if it were some sort of alien language. But its actually not that bad - different syntax than BASIC, and probably far more flexible and extendable, but I got enough of a grasp that I think I write few things in it.

I wrote my first action, a little snippet that just prints a greeting on the page. Next up is a Logo action - one that will take a predetermined image file and display it. Yeah, I know I can do that with the image action, but this is a programming exercise.

When I've got it done, I'll post it here for review.

15 Dec 05
I've just recently began to use Wikka as a central website for my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This was my second attempt at trying to install a Wiki - the first one was well over a year ago, and I got majorly frustrated trying to figure out everything that I needed to do on my web hosts computers, and related to the wiki itself.

But recently, my web host began providing Instant Installers for a variety open source tools like shopping carts, wikis etc. They offered four different Wiki's and I chose Wikka because of the four it seemed to have the best blend of power combined with ease of use.

I've got my Wiki up and running, and even some decent content. If you want to look, it's here: yrazul.heismann.net/wiki/ Yrazul Wiki. I have some issues that are more mine than Wikka's - that is, I know enough about programming and style sheets to be dangerous - very dangerous. I know how to modify the php and css files, but I have no clue as to what I'm modifying.

I hope to change that - I've done some lite programming before - I used to program quite a bit in Amiga Basic (ah, those were the days), but since that computer went away, my programming has been limited to Excel and a proprietary menu driven language specific to my company's car wash controllers. If it's not too hard to learn, I'm hoping to learn a bit of php - at least enough to write an action or two for my wiki. Unless there are some other D&D players out there who happen to know php and use Wikka who want to write them for me?


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