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Paul Burdick
Posted: 16 December 2005 10:31 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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With ExpressionEngine 1.4 finally out the door (about time that boy got out of the house), people can finally start enjoying the wonders that are extensions!  What?  You have no idea where to get your grubby little hands on an extension?  Whose fault is that?  Oh, right, mine. D’oh!

Due to circumstances totally within my control, the Extensions library is not complete and ready for prime time.  You see, there was this new version of the software to finish up and release, and then some crazy loon in the company suggested giving the Core program away for free (not me, no really!). 

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Kurt Deutscher
Posted: 18 December 2005 10:42 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Paul -

Thanks for creating this extension: EE 1.2.1 Publish Form

It appears that some of the newer features from 1.3 vintage have been added to the form like the quick save and the upload icon.

What I don’t see is support in the 1.2.1 Publish Form for the new Revisions (versioning) tool or the category edit link, or any support for the forum relationship feature (although the install I’m testing doesn’t have a forums mod, so it may just not be showing..

Am I just not finding these features in this extension (I did peak in the code), or do I need to activate something to get them to show up?

If these haven’t been added, are there any plans to do so?

I know this topic may be a sore spot for some, but I also know there is a good amount of us out here that would love to see the return of the tab-less publish page.

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Paul Burdick
Posted: 19 December 2005 02:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Well, this was actually the first extension I wrote and it was about two months ago, so that was before the relational and date fields were added into the code.  Eventually I’d like to make it fully support nearly everything but that is simply not possible for a few things without a great deal of work (the tabs for Forum and Entry Versioning, for instance).  If you want to use the old form, you will be losing functionality, there is a trade off.

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Kurt Deutscher
Posted: 19 December 2005 11:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Thanks Paul -

Maybe one of us in the community will want to tackle this one.

What you’ve set up for us, with these extentions, is a big first step though. So thanks for getting us started.

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Posted: 02 January 2006 04:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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The “Tiny MCE Extension for EE” works great for me—a real WYSIWYG, finally!

I was wondering if anyone else has recommendations for which buttons to enable…  I kinda like the tools enabled in TinyMCE example file 3:

tinyMCE.init({
mode : "textareas",
theme : "advanced",
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold,italic,underline,separator,strikethrough,justifyleft,
justifycenter,justifyright, justifyfull,bullist,numlist,undo,redo,link,unlink",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
theme_advanced_path_location : "bottom",
extended_valid_elements : "a[name|href|target|title|onclick],img[class|src|border=0|
alt|title|hspace|vspace|width|height|align|onmouseover|onmouseout|name],hr[class|
width|size|noshade],font[face|size|color|style],span[class|align|style]"
});

The uploading function needs a bit of work to integrate it with EE—that’s my next mini-project…

EDIT: Hey, there’s already a thread about this—so nevermind!

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jtnt
Posted: 27 January 2006 01:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Someone should:

a) Put a link to the Extension hooks page (http://www.pmachine.com/developers/hooks/) on the Extension docs page (it mentions “hooks” over and over but provides no more info on them!!!)

and/or

b) Add the extension hooks content into EE docs somewhere.

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Paul Burdick
Posted: 27 January 2006 03:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Probably does not help that the Extensions documentation was written a month in advance of the creation of the Extension hooks page.  I will go update the docs.

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Posted: 27 January 2006 04:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Excellent. Thanks.

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Hi Paul, I just noticed that in the TinyMCE Editor Extension that you have not declared a global $DB in function update_extension.  Now, while I know that you probably will never have to update this extension, for the mortals among us looking at your code and seeing how to actually program another extension (read FCKEditor Extension), and having to update the extension, I think it would be good to know of this little thing…
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Paul Burdick
Posted: 15 February 2006 10:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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More importantly the global $DB; was not in the documentation for that function.  A bit sloppy on my part, so I will fix it.

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Posted: 01 August 2006 08:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Could I receive some help?

I use these extensions in my commercial version of Expression Engine (I’m not absolutely sure, if the version plays any role in this case actually), but when I installed them, in the publish page I received this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: html_formatting_buttons() in /{path_to_my_ee_system_folder/extensions/ext.publish_form.php on line 869

I didn’t change anything in the code and also don’t use any other extensions.

Paul, do you have any ideas?

P.S. - just one comment: when I use only ext.publish_form.php, there isn’t any errors. The problem comes by installation of the ext.tiny_mce.php file.
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Paul Burdick
Posted: 01 August 2006 10:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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Well, I just tested the extension on a 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 site with the first running PHP 4.4.10 and the other on PHP 5.1.2.  Neither display this error nor would I expect it to as that function does exist.

However, when I throw in the TinyMCE extension which is calling a hook with the Publish Form extension it chokes.  Seems that PHP is not liking the fact that the object is changing in the middle of processing.  Bummer.  I will have to modify core.extensions.php and put it in the next version.

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Posted: 01 August 2006 11:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Thank you for the information. I’ll try to develop my own extension for TinyMCE, while the next version of EE will be available.
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Posted: 02 August 2006 03:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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I would like just to report, that since I upgraded to PHP 5, there isn’t any problems by me with both extensions.
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