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peschehimself

Posted: 03 June 2008 08:37 AM

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Hey guys

Only one day later… I just finished creating this extension based on two posts here in the forums, you can check it out:

Required Category Extension

Feedback and bug reports are welcome.

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Rob Q

Posted: 03 June 2008 11:09 AM

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Nice, I can use this, thanks!

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Mark Bowen

Posted: 03 June 2008 11:22 AM

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Another fantastic extension!

Cheers for this. Never needed to do this before but I’m sure it will probably be needed sooner than later.

Great!

Best wishes,

Mark

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Laisvunas

Posted: 04 June 2008 04:12 AM

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Hi peschehimself,

I installed and tried Required Category Extension; it works correctly.

But it seems that there is some issue with javascript - when I try to post an entry without assigning it to a category, Firebug shows this error

el_name has no properties
   if (el_name.substring(0,8)=='field_id') { 

It is the line from this script:

//<![CDATA[
form_elements = document.getElementById('entryform').elements;
var id_arr = new Array();
for(i=0; i<form_elements.length; i++) {

el = form_elements[i];
el_name = el.name;
toggle = 0;

if (el_name.substring(0,8)=='field_id') { 

This error began to appear when I installed Required category extension and set categories to be required for that particular weblog, so it seems that this error is somehow related to Required category extension.

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peschehimself

Posted: 04 June 2008 04:35 AM

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Hi Laisvunas

Very strange as my extension does not modify or add any javascript to the CP.

Could you double check if it’s really my extension that’s causing the problem?
Try deactivating all other extensions but Required Category and recheck. I checked it on our dev server and firebug does not throw any error on my side.

Cheers,
Peter.

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Laisvunas

Posted: 04 June 2008 10:06 AM

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Hi Peter,

You are right. Javascript error is caused by Auto Collapse Empty Custom Fields extension v.1.1.

About this error I have posted an entry in this extension’s forum thread here.

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peschehimself

Posted: 04 June 2008 10:09 AM

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Thanks for clarifying. In the other thread you posted that the Auto Collapse Empty Custom Fields only is buggy when used together with my extension. Are you sure? Did you try turning off every exension but the Auto Collapse? Can you try that?

As on my side, i don’t see anything that could / would clash with some other extension on the javascript side.

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Posted: 04 June 2008 10:58 AM

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FYI thread updated

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Laisvunas

Posted: 06 June 2008 02:13 AM

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Hi,

When I edit weblog group preferences at
CP Home › Admin › Weblog Administration › Weblog Management › Edit Weblog
that is, assign weblog to category group or field group, I get this PHP notice (repeated twice):

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /www/eh5659/public_html/eesys/extensions/ext.dc_required_category.php on line 215

Despite these notices weblog group preferences were updated correctly.

It seems that this is a small bug in Required category plugin.

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peschehimself

Posted: 06 June 2008 05:09 AM

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Hi Laisvunas

I fixed the bug, please get the newest version here

http://www.designchuchi.ch/index.php/blog/comments/required-category-extension/

This bug only happenned if you use “Update & Finished” in the weblog administration and was only a minor bug.

Hope all works now,
Peter.

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Gabriel

Posted: 06 June 2008 05:19 AM

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Hi, I’m using SAEF. When the category is not choose, I get error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function new_entry_form() on a non-object in /www/website/public_html/admin/extensions/ext.dc_required_category.php on line 143 

Thanks for the useful extension!

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Gabriel

Posted: 06 June 2008 05:24 AM

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The extension works fine on 1.6.3 but I’m trying on 1.6.2 (build 20080206). When I want activate feature for a weblog, I get error:

MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1064

Description: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `weblog_id`=values(`weblog_id`), requir

Query: INSERT INTO exp_dc_required_cat VALUES('', '2', '1') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `weblog_id`=values(`weblog_id`), require_cat=values(`require_cat`)

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peschehimself

Posted: 06 June 2008 05:25 AM

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What MySQL version are you on? This extension requires at least version 4.1.0

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Posted: 06 June 2008 05:30 AM

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I’m running on MySQL 5.0.51a

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Laisvunas

Posted: 06 June 2008 05:50 AM

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Hi Peter,

Just tested new version. Everything now works correctly, without any PHP notices being thrown.

Thank you very much for excellent extension and debugging.

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Laisvunas

Posted: 06 June 2008 04:27 PM

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Hi Peter,

While trying to update an entry, which has categories set to be required, I got this PHP warning:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /www/eh5956/public_html/system/extensions/ext.dc_required_category.php:275) in /www/eh5956/public_html/system/core/core.functions.php on line 296

Entry was not updated.

Then I tried to update entries in other weblogs, both those which have categories set to be required and those which have not categories set to be required, and found that it is not possible to update entries at all!

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Laisvunas

Posted: 06 June 2008 04:35 PM

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After disabling Required Category Extension it is possible again to update entries.

It seems that this interference with updating of entries is serious bug.

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peschehimself

Posted: 07 June 2008 01:13 AM

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Do you have the latest version from here?

http://www.designchuchi.ch/index.php/blog/comments/required-category-extension

I tested this locally and on a dev server and i have no problems updating entries.

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Laisvunas

Posted: 07 June 2008 01:51 AM

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Hi Peter,

I had the latest version, that is, version 1.0.1. Despite of this I downloaded the files from your site, reinstalled extension and the problem disappeared.

So, it seems that with extension is everything OK. I do not find any explanation what might have caused the problem.

Thanks for extension and for the help.

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