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    Thread: Security questions
Post: Security questions

My server is set up so Apache/PHP runs with the permissions of the file owner. This means directories are created 0750 and files 0640. Get Simple's health-check warns that none of the directories ar...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 7 17,049 2012-08-09, 22:20:55
    Thread: Coa support
Post: Coa support

I'll have time for some more experimentation with Coa in a couple of weeks' time (I've just moved house!). I'll check out the changes and offer a bit more feedback then. Thanks, plue, for continuing t...
Mark Nielsen Themes 36 92,225 2012-04-03, 20:33:36
    Thread: Cloning GS sites to new domains
Post: Cloning GS sites to new domains

It's saying it can't write the config file? That's the gsconfig.php? Just a wild stab in the dark, but check the permissions on the web root directory as well? Do an 'ls -a' and show us the results...
Mark Nielsen Installation & Setup 22 62,784 2012-03-25, 01:03:35
    Thread: JavaScript libraries - best practice?
Post: JavaScript libraries - best practice?

When developing a theme or a plugin that requires a JavaScript library, isn't there a risk of different libraries colliding? Could/should Get Simple have something in its API for helping with this? I...
Mark Nielsen Developer Discussions 1 7,060 2012-03-24, 20:44:40
    Thread: In theme, how can I check if a plugin is enabled?
Post: In theme, how can I check if a plugin is enabled?

Thank you both. I didn't think about PHP having a built-in tool for checking. Feeling slightly sheepish, but very grateful :)
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 4 9,619 2012-03-24, 00:33:58
    Thread: v3.1 - No Editor Dialogs
Post: v3.1 - No Editor Dialogs

shawn_a Wrote: -- If you are using chromium, when you are experiencing this issue, open chromes console and check for errors. -- I did. I posted the output of the error console in comment 6 (http://...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 9 20,584 2012-03-24, 00:05:57
    Thread: Syntax Highlighting when editing Themes and Components
Post: Syntax Highlighting when editing Themes and Compon...

This plugin is fully awesome - many thanks. Only slight niggle is the auto-completion seems less perfect than it might be. If I'm typing CSS, and start with "fon" then hit Ctrl+Space, I rightly get a...
Mark Nielsen Plugins 46 122,513 2012-03-23, 23:40:47
    Thread: In theme, how can I check if a plugin is enabled?
Post: In theme, how can I check if a plugin is enabled?

I'm writing a theme which integrates with the I18N Navigation plugin. However, I'd also like the theme to degrade gracefully and not throw errors if I18N Navigation isn't available or is disabled. Is...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 4 9,619 2012-03-23, 23:12:21
    Thread: p01-contact : simply add contact forms in your pages
Post: p01-contact : simply add contact forms in your pag...

I turned on debugging (GS 3.1) and noticed these PHP notices: Code: -- Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/****/public_html/admin/inc/plugin_functions.php on line 75 Warning: file...
Mark Nielsen Plugins 494 1,635,369 2012-03-23, 22:35:04
    Thread: Coa support
Post: Coa support

Further feedback - trying to customise the tag and conditional comments to bring in line with HTML 5 Boilerplate just proved Hard Work. Could there be a configuration setting to replace the doctype ...
Mark Nielsen Themes 36 92,225 2012-03-23, 20:24:36
    Thread: Coa support
Post: Coa support

I've done a bit more tidying/hacking this morning - aiming to implement Chris's suggestion. To start with, I ran some rough find/replace actions to make my new coa/coa.inc readable - basically the fo...
Mark Nielsen Themes 36 92,225 2012-03-23, 17:26:11
    Thread: Coa support
Post: Coa support

I've just re-organised the files in my developmental Coa theme as follows: [list=*] [*]template.php - code soup replaced with include. Also changed file permissions so it can't be opened/written by G...
Mark Nielsen Themes 36 92,225 2012-03-23, 07:17:04
    Thread: Coa support
Post: Coa support

I quite like the Coa concept, and with the documentation and video I found it quite easy to grasp. It makes a few things easy in Get Simple that seem to be really hard without it. One example is cond...
Mark Nielsen Themes 36 92,225 2012-03-23, 06:21:20
    Thread: v3.1 - No Editor Dialogs
Post: v3.1 - No Editor Dialogs

Sorry not to have thought to turn on DEBUG, Connie. Will make sure I do that next time I run into trouble. OK, so it was nearly 24 hours before I had time to take further action to investigate. I st...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 9 20,584 2012-03-23, 05:53:40
    Thread: v3.1 - No Editor Dialogs
Post: v3.1 - No Editor Dialogs

I have to report I'm getting the same thing as lippo. When I click the image or link button on the editor tool-bar, I get the overlay which locks the rest of the page, but no dialog. As I click the b...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 9 20,584 2012-03-22, 03:25:56
    Thread: Youtube video gallery
Post: Youtube video gallery

This is a nice how-to. Could it go in the Wiki?
Mark Nielsen Scripts & Components 1 9,286 2011-12-12, 20:36:51
    Thread: SMTP option for contact form
Post: SMTP option for contact form

Nice one, cumbe :)
Mark Nielsen Feature Requests 5 13,692 2011-12-12, 20:34:05
    Thread: GetSimple set?
Post: GetSimple set?

The only way to get an "assembly" of these components is to put them all together. Get Simple is no different to other CMSs, in that it has a limited core and a number of optional plugins that are pro...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 5 12,816 2011-12-10, 03:03:20
    Thread: p01-Contact - Captcha field shows alt text "CAPTCHA image" only
Post: p01-Contact - Captcha field shows alt text "CAPTCH...

trafford Wrote: -- Could it be a permissions issue on a folder perhaps? -- Perhaps. What are the permissions on the folder?
Mark Nielsen Plugins 3 10,694 2011-12-09, 22:42:55
    Thread: Did anybody ever develop an E-commerce webiste with GetSimple ?
Post: Did anybody ever develop an E-commerce webiste wit...

Have you seen the Dominion jCart (http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/dominion-jcart/46/) plugin?
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 1 5,645 2011-12-09, 22:40:43
    Thread: GetSimple set?
Post: GetSimple set?

Quote: -- - Extended news - RSS -- The News Manager (http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/news-manager/43/) and News Manager RSS (http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/news-manager-rss/221/) plugins ...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 5 12,816 2011-12-09, 22:37:15
    Thread: SMTP option for contact form
Post: SMTP option for contact form

OK, cumbe. So, just to clarify, if I wanted to help make Get Simple capable of sending mail via SMTP (as well as just phpmail), I'd need to support: [list=*] [*]Get Simple core[/*] [*]p01-contact (ht...
Mark Nielsen Feature Requests 5 13,692 2011-12-01, 06:26:23
    Thread: Hi, Got the latest version of GetSimple and thought all was fine until
Post: Hi, Got the latest version of GetSimple and though...

I might help us if we knew a bit more about the server environment. Do you know what kind of server your website is running on? What PHP version?
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 2 7,817 2011-12-01, 02:31:33
    Thread: SMTP option for contact form
Post: SMTP option for contact form

donovanh Wrote: -- it would be very helpful to be able to use the smtp option for sending mail via gmail. -- I also need Get Simple to support SMTP for sending email. On my server I've got phpmail d...
Mark Nielsen Feature Requests 5 13,692 2011-12-01, 02:26:44
    Thread: p01-contact : simply add contact forms in your pages
Post: p01-contact : simply add contact forms in your pag...

Can P01-Contact send email via an SMTP account, rather than via phpmail? If not, would it be very difficult to add this feature?
Mark Nielsen Plugins 494 1,635,369 2011-11-26, 22:19:26
    Thread: p01-contact error: "Error : no message was sent."
Post: p01-contact error: "Error : no message was sent."

Have found the answer to this. My server doesn't have phpmail turned on. The guys managing my server say this is a "feature not a bug", as it guards against the risk of hacked websites on my box sendi...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 3 9,907 2011-11-26, 21:46:36
    Thread: p01-contact error: "Error : no message was sent."
Post: p01-contact error: "Error : no message was sent."

I've installed the p01-contact on a site and it works perfectly, except for not sending any emails - somewhat of a show-stopper! I've tried it on a couple of fairly plain-vanilla Debian servers, bot...
Mark Nielsen General Questions and Problems 3 9,907 2011-11-22, 02:43:03
    Thread: Where has Get Simple been all my life?!
Post: Where has Get Simple been all my life?!

I am overwhelmed by Get Simple! The install process is utter simplicity, the flat-file data storage is perfect, the user interface and WYSIWYG implementation is as close to perfect as I can imagine. ...
Mark Nielsen Off Topic 4 13,010 2011-09-28, 00:45:16