Can't get modules working in MSM

#1 / Oct 12, 2009 11:51am

wondermade

53 posts

I’m having problem with modules on my second site on an MSM installation.
I couldn’t get epeditor to work and saw broken images in the epeditor prefs. Then I try tell-a-friend:

{exp:email:tell_a_friend}

            <input type="hidden" name="from" value="info@northlandchurch.net" />
            <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Personal Study Notes" />
            <textarea name="message" id="commentinput">{exp:weblog:entries weblog="media" dynamic="on" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="1"}
            {media-notes}{/exp:weblog:entries}
            </textarea>
            <input id="submitinput" type="image" src="/_img/button-send.png" value="Send it!" alt="Send" name="submit" class="button" />
            <input type="text" name="to" class="email" id="to" value="Enter your email address">
            {/exp:email:tell_a_friend}

Which won’t render at all.

Is there perhaps a setting I failed to set either in the path.php or in some other pref?
Or is there a way to test if modules generally are working?

Thanks!

#2 / Oct 12, 2009 12:02pm

Sue Crocker
26054 posts

What is epeditor?
#3 / Oct 12, 2009 12:03pm

wondermade
53 posts

Just a ‘for instance’ on modules. It provides wysiwyg editing in the CMS. Works perfectly on the default site…
#4 / Oct 12, 2009 12:20pm

Sue Crocker
26054 posts

Have you tried contacting the author? We don’t provide direct support for third party addons, but I can move this to the Extensions forum if you’d like.
#5 / Oct 12, 2009 12:29pm

wondermade
53 posts

Well, I definitely can’t get the email module / tell-a-friend working. I included the epeditor because I have two modules not working, which I thought would be helpful in the diagnoses.

Ultimately I really just need the email module working.
#6 / Oct 12, 2009 12:31pm

Sue Crocker
26054 posts

How are you calling the tell a friend form? Can you send email via the Communicate tab?
#7 / Oct 13, 2009 5:22pm

wondermade
53 posts

Sending through communicate works, the code is above in the original post.
If I use that exact code in a template on the default site it works perfectly. Copy and paste and it won’t render. If I yank out the reference to tell a friend, the content within shows up fine.

#8 / Oct 13, 2009 7:46pm

Adam Dorsey

1439 posts

It seems the issue may be that you have a nested weblog entries tag.

Try doing this instead:

{exp:email:tell_a_friend}

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="info@northlandchurch.net" />
            <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Personal Study Notes" />
            <textarea name="message" id="commentinput">
            {media-notes}
            </textarea>
            <input id="submitinput" type="image" src="/_img/button-send.png" value="Send it!" alt="Send" name="submit" class="button" />
            <input type="text" name="to" class="email" id="to" value="Enter your email address">

{/exp:email:tell_a_friend}

If the problem persists, try using the code from the docs, and see if you get the same error:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/email/tellafriend.html

#9 / Oct 14, 2009 2:44pm

wondermade
53 posts

No matter what tell a friend code I drop in it doesn’t render it. I tried the default from EE and it’s still a no go…
Strangely if I copy / paste the default contact form is works like a charm. It’s just the tell a friend that fails.

Any other ideas?

#10 / Oct 14, 2009 2:49pm

wondermade

53 posts

I went ahead and made a new template that only contained the tell a friend call, then immediately below it the exact same code less the tell a friend reference.

{exp:email:tell_a_friend charset="utf-8" allow_html='n'}

            <label for="from">Your Email: </label>

            <input type="text" id="from" name="from" size="40" maxlength="35" value="{member_email}" /></p>

            <label for="name">Your Name: </label>

            <input type="text" id="name" name="name" size="40" maxlength="35" value="{member_name}" /></p>

            <label for="to">To: </label>

            <input type="text" id="to" name="to" size="40" maxlength="35" /></p>

            <label for="subject">Subject: </label>

            <input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="40" value="Entry by: {author}" /></p>

            <label for="message">Message: </label>

            <textarea id="message" name="message" readonly="readonly" rows="18" cols="40">
            {summary}
            {body}
            {permalink}
            </textarea></p>

            <input name="submit" type='submit' value='Submit Form' /></p>
            {/exp:email:tell_a_friend}
            
            
            ---
            
            
            <label for="from">Your Email: </label>

            <input type="text" id="from" name="from" size="40" maxlength="35" value="{member_email}" /></p>

            <label for="name">Your Name: </label>

            <input type="text" id="name" name="name" size="40" maxlength="35" value="{member_name}" /></p>

            <label for="to">To: </label>

            <input type="text" id="to" name="to" size="40" maxlength="35" /></p>

            <label for="subject">Subject: </label>

            <input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="40" value="Entry by: {author}" /></p>

            <label for="message">Message: </label>

            <textarea id="message" name="message" readonly="readonly" rows="18" cols="40">
            {summary}
            {body}
            {permalink}
            </textarea></p>

            <input name="submit" type='submit' value='Submit Form' /></p>

http://churchsimply.com/share/

As you can see, it only renders the second instance.

#11 / Oct 14, 2009 3:12pm
Adam Dorsey
1439 posts
Hi wondermade-
I think I figured out what is going on.

In order to use the Tell-a-Friend feature, you will need to link to it from a {exp:weblog:entries} tag using the permalink variable, like so:
```
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="your_weblog"}
<a href="http://{permalink=weblog/friend}">Tell-a-Friend</a>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
```
You can read more about this in the EE Docs, under the heading “Linking to the Tell-a-Friend page”
http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/email/tellafriend.html

Let me know if this works for you!

Thanks,
Adam
#12 / Oct 14, 2009 4:39pm

wondermade
53 posts

Via all the helpful tips, I realized my problem lay in calling the tell-a-friend from the index page. The module only responds from a single entry page.

Thanks!
#13 / Oct 14, 2009 4:41pm

Ingmar
29245 posts

Very glad to see you got to the bottom of this. Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.

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