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Moving Boxes problems with expression engine. Our Aim is to achieve a simple digital dashboard effect.

It can be viewed here:- http://mellin.co.uk/index.php/gee_dev/body_gee/view/2

Move your mouse over to the right hand column once on top of any of the boxes you will see the courser change to an arrow that indicates the box can be moved.

Move the boxes to where you want them so your effectively creating your own online experience you will also be able to switch the boxes on and off..

This is achieved by using script.aculo.us Web 2.0 JavaScript once a box is moved an AJAX command is triggered that updates a database with the new position.

You would normally do this from an admin panel that would set a cookie with your preferences. For this example we have ignored the cookie deployment so the changes are for all users.

Our problem would seem to be that the scrip will only run when EE is set to output debugging setting 1 i.e. PHP/SQL error messages shown to Administrators

Also the script only runs when called as an iFrame i. e. doesn’t run from within EE.

Whilst this isn’t the end of the world it is a nuisance so any Ideas would be appreciated.

The site is a hack area so nothing pretty and slooow

ExpressionEngine v 1.6.9 PHP : MYSQL v 4.1.22 : PHP Version 5.2.9

Our problem would seem to be that the scrip will only run when EE is set to output debugging setting 1 i.e. PHP/SQL error messages shown to Administrators

Why is that an issue? This is the recommended setting. If you don’t show any errors to anyone EE will use “paranoid parsing” and your scripts might fail.

Thanks for the reply but we didn’t say it was a problem we said its a nuisance.

One would assume that if the recommend setting for debugging is on then EE would install in that condition?.

I would have thought that the script does break EE as it will only run as an iframe ?

Anyway thanks again for your assistance its another one for the knowledge base.

Gareth

Thank your for your feedback. Does that mean it’s working for you now?

Thanks fo your help You can close this now.
We will use it from an iFrame.
Cheers
Gareth

Glad Ingmar was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.