From dirk at haun-online.de  Thu Sep  4 06:09:47 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:09:47 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...
Message-ID: <20030904100947.25999@smtp.haun-online.de>

The Geeklog version in CVS now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails. In
config.php, you can select one of the following methods to send your emails:

- 'mail', i.e. use PHP's mail() function
- 'sendmail', i.e. use sendmail
- 'smtp', i.e. talk directly to your SMTP server

Since this is a pretty big change, I'd like to get some feedback on this,
please.

I've tested all three variants locally (PHP 4.3.3, compiled --without-
pear). I've also updated geeklog.info. My hosting service is still on PHP
4.2.3 but has PEAR installed. 'mail' and 'smtp' works with that setup
(haven't tested 'sendmail' there).

I'll try and update another of my sites with a slightly different setup
but would like to hear from other installs. Anyone running on Windows?

Since it doesn't make sense to add the PEAR packages to CVS, I've put
those that Geeklog needs in a separate tarball:

    http://www.geeklog.net/nightly/geeklog-pear.tar.gz

Unpack that _inside_ of /path/to/geeklog/system/pear/. Actual Geeklog
releases will include those files in system/pear, I just didn't want to
add them to CVS.

I've also updated the nightly tarball, so that it already contains these
changes.

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://geeklog.info/



From tony at tonybibbs.com  Thu Sep  4 09:48:34 2003
From: tony at tonybibbs.com (Tony Bibbs)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:48:34 -0500
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...
In-Reply-To: <20030904100947.25999@smtp.haun-online.de>
References: <20030904100947.25999@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <3F5742B2.5030202@tonybibbs.com>

Cool, I'll try and test them here in the next day or so.

--Tony

Dirk Haun wrote:

>The Geeklog version in CVS now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails. In
>config.php, you can select one of the following methods to send your emails:
>
>- 'mail', i.e. use PHP's mail() function
>- 'sendmail', i.e. use sendmail
>- 'smtp', i.e. talk directly to your SMTP server
>
>Since this is a pretty big change, I'd like to get some feedback on this,
>please.
>
>I've tested all three variants locally (PHP 4.3.3, compiled --without-
>pear). I've also updated geeklog.info. My hosting service is still on PHP
>4.2.3 but has PEAR installed. 'mail' and 'smtp' works with that setup
>(haven't tested 'sendmail' there).
>
>I'll try and update another of my sites with a slightly different setup
>but would like to hear from other installs. Anyone running on Windows?
>
>Since it doesn't make sense to add the PEAR packages to CVS, I've put
>those that Geeklog needs in a separate tarball:
>
>    http://www.geeklog.net/nightly/geeklog-pear.tar.gz
>
>Unpack that _inside_ of /path/to/geeklog/system/pear/. Actual Geeklog
>releases will include those files in system/pear, I just didn't want to
>add them to CVS.
>
>I've also updated the nightly tarball, so that it already contains these
>changes.
>
>bye, Dirk
>
>
>  
>



From me at jasonwhittenburg.com  Thu Sep  4 10:18:45 2003
From: me at jasonwhittenburg.com (Jason Whittenburg)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:18:45 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...
References: <20030904100947.25999@smtp.haun-online.de> <3F5742B2.5030202@tonybibbs.com>
Message-ID: <000b01c372ef$73a96f60$0501a8c0@atlas>

Congrats and very cool! :-)

-Jason <-- Major lurker...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...


> Cool, I'll try and test them here in the next day or so.
>
> --Tony
>
> Dirk Haun wrote:
>
> >The Geeklog version in CVS now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails. In
> >config.php, you can select one of the following methods to send your
emails:
> >
> >- 'mail', i.e. use PHP's mail() function
> >- 'sendmail', i.e. use sendmail
> >- 'smtp', i.e. talk directly to your SMTP server
> >
> >Since this is a pretty big change, I'd like to get some feedback on this,
> >please.
> >
> >I've tested all three variants locally (PHP 4.3.3, compiled --without-
> >pear). I've also updated geeklog.info. My hosting service is still on PHP
> >4.2.3 but has PEAR installed. 'mail' and 'smtp' works with that setup
> >(haven't tested 'sendmail' there).
> >
> >I'll try and update another of my sites with a slightly different setup
> >but would like to hear from other installs. Anyone running on Windows?
> >
> >Since it doesn't make sense to add the PEAR packages to CVS, I've put
> >those that Geeklog needs in a separate tarball:
> >
> >    http://www.geeklog.net/nightly/geeklog-pear.tar.gz
> >
> >Unpack that _inside_ of /path/to/geeklog/system/pear/. Actual Geeklog
> >releases will include those files in system/pear, I just didn't want to
> >add them to CVS.
> >
> >I've also updated the nightly tarball, so that it already contains these
> >changes.
> >
> >bye, Dirk
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel



From dirk at haun-online.de  Fri Sep  5 15:13:11 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 21:13:11 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
Message-ID: <20030905191311.19243@smtp.haun-online.de>

Okay, so the good news is that I have a job again. And the bad news is -
that I have a job again.

In other words, starting September 15th I will have "slightly" less time
to spend on Geeklog. Of course I don't plan to stop working on Geeklog,
but I will probably not be able to spend too much time on it for a couple
of weeks before things have settled down a bit.

So my idea was to try and get an 1.3.9rc1 out before that date.

I'd like to add a few things to the Content Syndication, need to look
into a few bug reports and update the documentation.

Any other things that should go into this release? Blaine? Simon?

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://geeklog.info/



From geeklog at langfamily.ca  Fri Sep  5 15:24:19 2003
From: geeklog at langfamily.ca (Blaine Lang)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:24:19 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...
References: <20030904100947.25999@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <00b401c373e3$4e107e20$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>

Great work Dirk :)

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:09 AM
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...


> The Geeklog version in CVS now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails. In
> config.php, you can select one of the following methods to send your
emails:
>
> - 'mail', i.e. use PHP's mail() function
> - 'sendmail', i.e. use sendmail
> - 'smtp', i.e. talk directly to your SMTP server
>
> Since this is a pretty big change, I'd like to get some feedback on this,
> please.
>
> I've tested all three variants locally (PHP 4.3.3, compiled --without-
> pear). I've also updated geeklog.info. My hosting service is still on PHP
> 4.2.3 but has PEAR installed. 'mail' and 'smtp' works with that setup
> (haven't tested 'sendmail' there).
>
> I'll try and update another of my sites with a slightly different setup
> but would like to hear from other installs. Anyone running on Windows?
>
> Since it doesn't make sense to add the PEAR packages to CVS, I've put
> those that Geeklog needs in a separate tarball:
>
>     http://www.geeklog.net/nightly/geeklog-pear.tar.gz
>
> Unpack that _inside_ of /path/to/geeklog/system/pear/. Actual Geeklog
> releases will include those files in system/pear, I just didn't want to
> add them to CVS.
>
> I've also updated the nightly tarball, so that it already contains these
> changes.
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
> --
> http://www.haun-online.de/
> http://geeklog.info/
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel
>



From geeklog at langfamily.ca  Fri Sep  5 15:29:52 2003
From: geeklog at langfamily.ca (Blaine Lang)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:29:52 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
References: <20030905191311.19243@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <00bf01c373e4$14aaa010$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>

Congradulations Dirk, I'm sure you are pleased.

I only hope they pay you well and don't expect more then 8 hours a day and
let you spend time on Geeklog, GL-Pro may even be in their future.
Would we have heard of your new employer ?

Regarding additional features ...
Two small ones right now off the top;

1) Support for double-wide centerblock. Just needs a condition stmt in
index.php and a new template
2) Config option to show the right blocks instead of the whats_related Block
when viewing a story.

What about that block order hack that was submitted to allow an admin to
just click on up/dn arrows to reposition block order.

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?


> Okay, so the good news is that I have a job again. And the bad news is -
> that I have a job again.
>
> In other words, starting September 15th I will have "slightly" less time
> to spend on Geeklog. Of course I don't plan to stop working on Geeklog,
> but I will probably not be able to spend too much time on it for a couple
> of weeks before things have settled down a bit.
>
> So my idea was to try and get an 1.3.9rc1 out before that date.
>
> I'd like to add a few things to the Content Syndication, need to look
> into a few bug reports and update the documentation.
>
> Any other things that should go into this release? Blaine? Simon?
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
> --
> http://www.haun-online.de/
> http://geeklog.info/
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel



From slord at marelina.com  Fri Sep  5 15:35:30 2003
From: slord at marelina.com (simon lord)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:35:30 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
In-Reply-To: <20030905191311.19243@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <1BB55AAA-DFD8-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>

> Okay, so the good news is that I have a job again. And the bad news is 
> -
> that I have a job again.

Cut the suspense, what's the job? Where?  Url?

> Any other things that should go into this release? Blaine? Simon?

Blaine and I hit a little delay due to contracts, meetings etc.  But I 
imagine we will also be booked around your time frame, I'm off on 
vacation the first two weeks of Oct and will become the invisible man 
when I return.

Blaine will soon wipe out geeklog.ca and install the latest CVS there 
with modules etc.  I'll then complete the GLPro theme on that version 
so as to be in step with your progress in CVS.  Once Blaine gets that 
done, I'll need 2-3 days to crank out the first pass for you guys to 
review/test.  While testing etc is going on I'll begin work on the 
"Designers Guide" for the CSS file so module developers and theme 
developers can crank out modules and themes much more quickly by 
following some moderate standards we outline in this guide.

That gives us 10 days starting today/tonight.

Blaine, any thoughts on when we'll update geeklog.ca?

> bye, Dirk
>
>
> -- 
> http://www.haun-online.de/
> http://geeklog.info/
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel
>
>
Sincerely,
Simon



From slord at marelina.com  Fri Sep  5 15:39:05 2003
From: slord at marelina.com (simon lord)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:39:05 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
In-Reply-To: <00bf01c373e4$14aaa010$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
Message-ID: <9C5BC990-DFD8-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>

> What about that block order hack that was submitted to allow an admin 
> to
> just click on up/dn arrows to reposition block order.

Dirk, if you don't understand this option then you *will* after I get 
done with glpro.  It's a thing of beauty and allows me to simulate 
sub-topics, menus and just plain hide topics from view which should 
only be accessed from *inside* their main topic.

It's not the sexiest hack, but it's (1) clean, (2) unobtrusive and 
won't affect anyone that doesn't know about it.

I love, personally find I can't live without it.


>
> Blaine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
> To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:13 PM
> Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
>
>
>> Okay, so the good news is that I have a job again. And the bad news 
>> is -
>> that I have a job again.
>>
>> In other words, starting September 15th I will have "slightly" less 
>> time
>> to spend on Geeklog. Of course I don't plan to stop working on 
>> Geeklog,
>> but I will probably not be able to spend too much time on it for a 
>> couple
>> of weeks before things have settled down a bit.
>>
>> So my idea was to try and get an 1.3.9rc1 out before that date.
>>
>> I'd like to add a few things to the Content Syndication, need to look
>> into a few bug reports and update the documentation.
>>
>> Any other things that should go into this release? Blaine? Simon?
>>
>> bye, Dirk
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://www.haun-online.de/
>> http://geeklog.info/
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> geeklog-devel mailing list
>> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
>> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel
>
>
Sincerely,
Simon



From dirk at haun-online.de  Fri Sep  5 15:52:35 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 21:52:35 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...
In-Reply-To: <00b401c373e3$4e107e20$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
References: <00b401c373e3$4e107e20$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
Message-ID: <20030905195235.24781@smtp.haun-online.de>

(from config.php)

// If your server is running PHP 4.3.0 (or newer) then chances are that PEAR
// is already installed and you can leave this as "true".
$_CONF['have_pear'] = true;

Thinking about this some more, it would probably make sense to default
this to "false", so that it uses the bundled PEAR packages by default.
Also saves one step during installation ...

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://mypod.de/



From slord at marelina.com  Fri Sep  5 16:15:19 2003
From: slord at marelina.com (simon lord)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:15:19 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PEAR we go ...
In-Reply-To: <20030905195235.24781@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <ABD36968-DFDD-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>

OT just a little, but your post reminded me of something...

I had a buddy install geeklog using mysql 4 and he had problems, 
apparently he had to comment out 3 lines in the installer code which 
were very specific to mysql 3.2xxxx during the install process.

Is this fixed?

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 03:52 PM, Dirk Haun wrote:

> (from config.php)
>
> // If your server is running PHP 4.3.0 (or newer) then chances are 
> that PEAR
> // is already installed and you can leave this as "true".
> $_CONF['have_pear'] = true;
>
> Thinking about this some more, it would probably make sense to default
> this to "false", so that it uses the bundled PEAR packages by default.
> Also saves one step during installation ...
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
> -- 
> http://www.haun-online.de/
> http://mypod.de/
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel
>
>
Sincerely,
Simon



From dirk at haun-online.de  Fri Sep  5 16:10:41 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:10:41 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
In-Reply-To: <00bf01c373e4$14aaa010$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
References: <00bf01c373e4$14aaa010$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
Message-ID: <20030905201041.8745@smtp.haun-online.de>

Blaine Lang <geeklog at langfamily.ca> wrote:

>Would we have heard of your new employer ?

Probably not. It's a small company and currently only active in Germany.
The website is <http://www.compart.net/> but it's in German and not very
good (or even complete ...).

The company specializes in software for document conversion and related
fields. Try <http://www.compart.net/ImageArchive-de.html> for some diagrams.

The software's mostly written in C (but with an "object oriented
approach") with some Java and Python thrown in. Time to un-learn some of
my C++ ...

The only downside so far is the commuting - the company's in a city south
of Stuttgart, while I live in the north. On the other hand, that will
give me a chance to read a few of those books that I've been stacking
here for a while :-)

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://www.haun.info/



From dirk at haun-online.de  Fri Sep  5 16:20:25 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:20:25 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 1.3.9 soonish?
In-Reply-To: <00bf01c373e4$14aaa010$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
References: <00bf01c373e4$14aaa010$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>
Message-ID: <20030905202025.27407@smtp.haun-online.de>

Blaine Lang <geeklog at langfamily.ca> wrote:

>1) Support for double-wide centerblock. Just needs a condition stmt in
>index.php and a new template

We've talked about this one. Okay. The template file will be optional, IIRC?


>2) Config option to show the right blocks instead of the whats_related Block
>when viewing a story.

Yeah, I've seen requests for this. Do you see a chance to integrate the
What's Related block with the others? Just asking ...


>What about that block order hack that was submitted to allow an admin to
>just click on up/dn arrows to reposition block order.

That looks interesting. Haven't tried it out yet.


I'll probably find a few minor things when I go through my notes.

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://geeklog.info/



From dirk at haun-online.de  Fri Sep  5 16:24:30 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:24:30 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] MySQL problems?
In-Reply-To: <ABD36968-DFDD-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>
References: <ABD36968-DFDD-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>
Message-ID: <20030905202430.19705@smtp.haun-online.de>

simon lord <slord at marelina.com> wrote:

>I had a buddy install geeklog using mysql 4 and he had problems, 
>apparently he had to comment out 3 lines in the installer code which 
>were very specific to mysql 3.2xxxx during the install process.
>
>Is this fixed?

Err, no, since this is the first time I hear about this.

There's some code in the install script that tries to figure out the
MySQL version. Is that what's causing the problems? Any more details?
Which version of Geeklog are we talking about?

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://mypod.de/



From slord at marelina.com  Fri Sep  5 16:46:03 2003
From: slord at marelina.com (simon lord)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:46:03 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] MySQL problems?
In-Reply-To: <20030905202430.19705@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <F71B68B1-DFE1-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>

It was geeklog 1.3.8 from the downloads section - this was last week.

He said that it looks for the version but would come up with 3.2xxx 
even though he had 4.xxx installed.  He wasn't much more precise than 
that. :P

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 04:24 PM, Dirk Haun wrote:

> simon lord <slord at marelina.com> wrote:
>
>> I had a buddy install geeklog using mysql 4 and he had problems,
>> apparently he had to comment out 3 lines in the installer code which
>> were very specific to mysql 3.2xxxx during the install process.
>>
>> Is this fixed?
>
> Err, no, since this is the first time I hear about this.
>
> There's some code in the install script that tries to figure out the
> MySQL version. Is that what's causing the problems? Any more details?
> Which version of Geeklog are we talking about?
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
> -- 
> http://www.haun-online.de/
> http://mypod.de/
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel
>
>
Sincerely,
Simon



From dirk at haun-online.de  Fri Sep  5 17:06:05 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:06:05 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] MySQL problems?
In-Reply-To: <F71B68B1-DFE1-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>
References: <F71B68B1-DFE1-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>
Message-ID: <20030905210605.14384@smtp.haun-online.de>

simon lord <slord at marelina.com> wrote:

>It was geeklog 1.3.8 from the downloads section - this was last week.

So I assume it was really 1.3.8-1? There was a change in the install
script in 1.3.8-1, that's why I'm asking ...


>He said that it looks for the version but would come up with 3.2xxx 
>even though he had 4.xxx installed.  He wasn't much more precise than 
>that. :P

Hmm, any chance you could get more precise information? Unless the return
format for mysql_get_server_info() has changed with MySQL 4.x, I can't
see how this should have happened ...

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://geeklog.info/



From dwight at trumbower.com  Sat Sep  6 00:01:31 2003
From: dwight at trumbower.com (Dwight Trumbower)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:01:31 -0500
Subject: [geeklog-devel] MySQL problems?
In-Reply-To: <20030905210605.14384@smtp.haun-online.de>
References: <F71B68B1-DFE1-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>
 <F71B68B1-DFE1-11D7-9DE2-003065C030F2@marelina.com>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.9.0.20030905223533.0210f4f0@localhost>

At 04:06 PM 9/5/2003, you wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>simon lord <slord at marelina.com> wrote:
>
> >It was geeklog 1.3.8 from the downloads section - this was last week.
>
>So I assume it was really 1.3.8-1? There was a change in the install
>script in 1.3.8-1, that's why I'm asking ...
>
>
> >He said that it looks for the version but would come up with 3.2xxx
> >even though he had 4.xxx installed.  He wasn't much more precise than
> >that. :P
>
>Hmm, any chance you could get more precise information? Unless the return
>format for mysql_get_server_info() has changed with MySQL 4.x, I can't
>see how this should have happened ...


I have installed it three times with mysql 4. No problems.

Dwight



From slord at marelina.com  Sat Sep  6 00:32:29 2003
From: slord at marelina.com (simon lord)
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:32:29 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] MySQL problems?
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.9.0.20030905223533.0210f4f0@localhost>
Message-ID: <1FE2FAD0-E023-11D7-8889-003065C030F2@marelina.com>

I sent him an email earlier today requesting a better explanation.

Still waiting...



On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 12:01 AM, Dwight Trumbower wrote:

> At 04:06 PM 9/5/2003, you wrote:
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>> simon lord <slord at marelina.com> wrote:
>>
>> >It was geeklog 1.3.8 from the downloads section - this was last week.
>>
>> So I assume it was really 1.3.8-1? There was a change in the install
>> script in 1.3.8-1, that's why I'm asking ...
>>
>>
>> >He said that it looks for the version but would come up with 3.2xxx
>> >even though he had 4.xxx installed.  He wasn't much more precise than
>> >that. :P
>>
>> Hmm, any chance you could get more precise information? Unless the 
>> return
>> format for mysql_get_server_info() has changed with MySQL 4.x, I can't
>> see how this should have happened ...
>
>
> I have installed it three times with mysql 4. No problems.
>
> Dwight
>
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>
>
Sincerely,
Simon



From stratos at hypervasis.com  Mon Sep  8 05:58:10 2003
From: stratos at hypervasis.com (Stratos Gerakakis)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:58:10 +0300
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Block order enhancement
Message-ID: <BAEAIGGMLMGMCPMMFOBIMELPCDAA.stratos@hypervasis.com>

Hello,

I wrote the block order enhancement and if you guys want any help with it, I
would be more than happy helping you out...

Geeklog is a grrrreat piece of code, but I've seen a couple of points where
there is room for improvement.

I am almost done getting an overall idea of how Geeklog is structured, so I
might be of more use with it.

Thanks...





From geeklog at langfamily.ca  Mon Sep  8 22:47:12 2003
From: geeklog at langfamily.ca (Blaine Lang)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:47:12 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Block order enhancement
References: <BAEAIGGMLMGMCPMMFOBIMELPCDAA.stratos@hypervasis.com>
Message-ID: <000d01c3767c$ab82e390$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>

Hi Stratos,

I want to take a look at this modification. I've been working on another GL
project where I had to just do this and was interested in making it part of
our next release. It's a good idea.

I'll download it and try it out.

Regards,
Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stratos Gerakakis" <stratos at hypervasis.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:58 AM
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Block order enhancement


> Hello,
>
> I wrote the block order enhancement and if you guys want any help with it,
I
> would be more than happy helping you out...
>
> Geeklog is a grrrreat piece of code, but I've seen a couple of points
where
> there is room for improvement.
>
> I am almost done getting an overall idea of how Geeklog is structured, so
I
> might be of more use with it.
>
> Thanks...
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> geeklog-devel mailing list
> geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
> http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel



From robg at macosxhints.com  Tue Sep  9 08:04:24 2003
From: robg at macosxhints.com (Rob Griffiths)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:04:24 -0700
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Fwd: Spelling mistake in the French version of the site
Message-ID: <C12F99BF-E2BD-11D7-BDBD-003065BE20A8@macosxhints.com>

 From one of my readers, regarding the French translation...

-rob.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Louis Granboulan
> Date: Tue Sep 9, 2003  1:09:35  AM US/Pacific
> To: webteam2 at macosxhints.com
> Subject: Spelling mistake in the French version of the site
>
> Hello,
> in the usersetting page 
> (http://www.macosxhints.com/usersettings.php?mode=edit) you made this 
> very common mistake: you wrote "acceuil" instead of "accueil".
> Regards
>



From dirk at haun-online.de  Tue Sep  9 10:48:47 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:48:47 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Mail.php vs. mail.php
Message-ID: <20030909144847.7961@smtp.haun-online.de>

Here's a nice one:

I noticed that I had forgotten to change the mail() call to COM_mail() in
moderation.php (for when approving users from the user submission queue).
When testing it, I found that instead of returning to moderation.php
(after approving a user), it did instead display the "email users" form -
wrapped inside an additional header.

Well, the problem is that in COM_mail I have

    include_once ('Mail.php');

and testing that on MacOS X (case-insensitive file system!) it did
instead include admin/mail.php, since admin/ was the current directory at
that time. 

Argh. This will probably bite Windows users as well.

Right now, I don't have a good idea how to solve this. Anyone?

bye, Dirk


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http://geeklog.info/



From dirk at haun-online.de  Wed Sep 10 14:28:05 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:28:05 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Mail.php vs. mail.php
In-Reply-To: <20030909144847.7961@smtp.haun-online.de>
References: <20030909144847.7961@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <20030910182805.3524@smtp.haun-online.de>

I wrote:

>Anyone?

So, after taking this to the German PHP newsgroup <http://
groups.google.com/groups?th=2bb653212a8e3d0b> it seems we have 2 options:

1. Reorder the include path so that '.', i.e. the current directory, is
searched last.

2. Always use the included PEAR packages and include the PEAR files with
a full path.

I have a working implementation of 1. but I see that this may cause
problems with add-ons that simply use include('some-file.php') if "some-
file" happens to match the name of a PEAR package (or some other file
that's in an include path that's searched first).

So maybe we should go with 2. then? I mean, we have to include the
necessary PEAR packages anyway, so why not use them?

Any comments from a Geeklog 2 perspective, Tony?

bye, Dirk


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http://mypod.de/



From tomw at pigstye.net  Mon Sep 15 11:35:03 2003
From: tomw at pigstye.net (Tom Willett)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:35:03 +0000
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Small language change
Message-ID: <20030915152423.M59013@pigstye.net>

I wish to propose a small change to the language system of 1.3 series 
Geeklog that will aleviate the problem of incomplete translations.

The change only requires a small format change (which can be handled by any 
good editor's search and replace quickly).  Leave the english.php as is and 
always include the english.php.  Change the format of the other language 
files from the format of

$LANG_PL00 = array (
    'some string' => 'some string',
etc .....
)

to

$LANG_PL00['some string'] = 'some string';

In lib-common (or a plugin's functions.inc) check the language and include 
the file if the language is not english.

That way phrases missing from the translation will simply be replaced with 
the english equivelant.  This would allow partial translations to work 
without errors.

--
Tom Willett
tomw at pigstye.net



From geeklog at langfamily.ca  Mon Sep 15 23:23:29 2003
From: geeklog at langfamily.ca (Blaine Lang)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:23:29 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] XOOPS - maturing as well
Message-ID: <009a01c37c01$e61df3c0$9a0a10ac@xpbl1>

Just browsing over at XOOPS and read this announcement
http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=992

I was also just looking at our registered user base on geeklog.net
I was userid 725 (Feb 26 2002)  and we are now about userid 6800. Xoops is
at about 11,000 registered users now.

We won't be long reaching that number either specially after we show GL-Pro.

Blaine



From dirk at haun-online.de  Thu Sep 18 15:50:57 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:50:57 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Comments to poll = comments to story?
Message-ID: <20030918195057.1569@smtp.haun-online.de>

This bug report

<http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/i
ndex.php?func=detail&aid=70&group_id=6&atid=105>

describes what's actually a database issue on geeklog.net. A couple of
comments to the very first poll ("What feature do you want to see next?")
are marked as comments to a story in the database. Which of course
confuses Geeklog (and, in this case, the user).

Just out of curiosity: Did the handling of comments to polls change at
some point back in Geeklog's early days?

bye, Dirk


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http://www.macosx-faq.de/



From tony at tonybibbs.com  Fri Sep 19 11:05:37 2003
From: tony at tonybibbs.com (Tony Bibbs)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:05:37 -0500
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Comments to poll = comments to story?
In-Reply-To: <20030918195057.1569@smtp.haun-online.de>
References: <20030918195057.1569@smtp.haun-online.de>
Message-ID: <3F6B1B41.7070605@tonybibbs.com>

Yeah, I think it did back in the pre 1.3.x days.  You'd have to dig up 
on CVS on sf.net to determine what exactly.  If I remember right there 
was an issue with the comment type either not working or not getting 
passed or something like that.

--Tony

Dirk Haun wrote:
> This bug report
> 
> <http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/i
> ndex.php?func=detail&aid=70&group_id=6&atid=105>
> 
> describes what's actually a database issue on geeklog.net. A couple of
> comments to the very first poll ("What feature do you want to see next?")
> are marked as comments to a story in the database. Which of course
> confuses Geeklog (and, in this case, the user).
> 
> Just out of curiosity: Did the handling of comments to polls change at
> some point back in Geeklog's early days?
> 
> bye, Dirk
> 
> 

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From dirk at haun-online.de  Sat Sep 27 05:19:16 2003
From: dirk at haun-online.de (Dirk Haun)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:19:16 +0200
Subject: [geeklog-devel] 3 Geeklog tasks
Message-ID: <20030927091916.12623@smtp.haun-online.de>

I have identified a few tasks that could be done independently of the
current Geeklog development. They all fall into the "nice to have"
category but are not showstoppers for the 1.3.9 release.

1) Rewrite the upload class (and possibly the files calling it) such that
when an error occurs, it shows within the Geeklog framework (site header,
footer, blocks) instead of on an otherwise blank page.

It may also be worthwhile to see if Geeklog could help in recovering from
the error, such as offering to delete temporary / orphaned files.

Bonus points ;-) for attempting to separate the image upload (with the
related code needed for resizing images) from the actual upload code.
Maybe they can be separated into two classes?


2) Move the code for parsing an RSS feed from lib-common.php to a class
(thus getting rid of the global variables).

It may be worthwhile to see if it could be merged with the recently
introduced rss.feed.class.php, thus forming a class for reading and
writing RSS feeds.

Bonus points, again, for attempting a more generic approach to importing
feeds such that Geeklog recognises what kind of feed it is and uses the
appropriate class to parse it (cf. Atom or RSS 1.0 / 2.0 / whatever feeds).


3) This is more of a research task: In hosted environments, the Daily
Digest hits max. execution time limits pretty soon. The task would be to

a) research how it could be sped up
b) find alternative solutions

One area of research could be the use of BCC. Since the Daily Digest is
customisable (you can select the topics) but not personalised, it may be
more efficient to send identical digest mails as one email, but with all
the recipients listed as BCC (we don't want to expose other people's
email addresses!).

Another area of research would be to find an alternative to the built-in
digest. For example, find an efficient "mass emailing" solution and adapt
it such that it can send Geeklog's Daily Digest mails.


Any takers?

As I said, none of these tasks are time-critical. Work should be based on
CVS, since, for example, the upload class in CVS is different from the
one in 1.3.8-1 (GD lib support has been added).

bye, Dirk


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