[geeklog-devel] Blocks again...

[Tom Willett]

As a software developer things like this drive me crazy, everyday.

Just for the record, homeonly blocks work on my sites (all upgrades since at 
least 1.3.6, perhaps the key?) My server is RH 7.2, Mysql 3.23.54, apache 
1.3.22, php 4.1.2.

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Tom Willett
tomw at pigstye.net

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From: Simon Lord <slord at marelina.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Sent: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:53:54 -0400
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Blocks again...

> Vinny, as an extra measure I just installed 1.3.9sr1 FRESH on my system 
> *at home* and I cannot set any block to the homepage only.  Not do the 
> ones set by default to appear just on the homepage actually appear.
> 
> Whatever fix was applied to solve this bug was a VERY specific fix that 
> only works under whatever conditions the author was using.
> 
> My server runs RH 7.3 and at home I run OSX 10.3.
> 
> So that's two platforms where I cannot set a block to just the homepage 
> using a default install with the shipping themes and with my 
> development theme.
> 
> I'm eagerly awaiting any thoughts on this.
> 
> On Jul 7, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Simon Lord wrote:
> 
> > Vinny, I just updated my site to 1.3.9sr1 and I still cannot get any 
> > new or existing blocks to appear on the homepage only.  In fact, even 
> > the "Are you secure?" block simply does not appear.  This is with the 
> > shipping themes and with my theme in development.
> >
> > I can see why you think this works, I tested it on geeklog.net and it 
> > does work there.  This is like magic to me as it simply does NOT work 
> > on my server.  I don't see how my setup would contribute to just this 
> > one setting not working but it is very frustrating to see it NOT work 
> > on a new install on my server while is does work for you and 
> > geeklog.net.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > On Jul 7, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Vincent Furia wrote:
> >
> >> Before we go through and implement this (assigning blocks to multiple
> >> topics) we should make sure that we have an idea for a decent user
> >> interface.  Otherwise it could make the block admin page very
> >> confusing.
> >>
> >> As to your other block problem Simon: I have a normal block set to
> >> display "home only" (on the right side) and it works correctly (with
> >> geeklog-1.3.9sr1 and geeklog-1.3cvs).
> >>
> >> -Vinny
> >>
> >> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:48:19 -0500, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> No, this was never done.  I agree, at some point we should do that.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Simon Lord wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Still on blocks, was there never an update that allowed us to make a
> >>>> block and assign it to multiple topics?  This would really cut down 
> >>>> on
> >>>> the number of blocks I'll need to make to support the current "1 
> >>>> block
> >>>> = all topics/1 topic" model.
> >>>>
> >>>> And my note that I can't assign a block to just the homepage stands.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sincerely,
> >>>> Simon
> >>>>
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> > Sincerely,
> > Simon
> >
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> Sincerely,
> Simon
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