GetSimple Blog

[johnstray2001]

Line 28 is missing a comma. Just add a comma to the end of line 28 and that'll fix the issue.

[pigsound]

thank you, that helped a bit.
now after activating the plugin the site goes blank again.
i found some more lacking commas in the language file "de_DE.php on the end of the lines 139 and 143.
after correcting the file, the blank page disappeared.

now, in the admin, when i open the blog tab and click "create article", i get inactivity plus this:
Notice: Undefined index: blogcreatepost in /cluster/www/my-domain.xy/subdirectory/plugins/gs-blog/inc/adminFunctions.php on line 24

when i click "categories", i get inactivity plus this::
Notice: Undefined index: blogcategories in /cluster/www/my-domain.xy/subdirectory/plugins/gs-blog/inc/adminFunctions.php on line 26

click on "rss auto-importer", i get inactivity plus this::
Notice: Undefined index: blogrssimporter in /cluster/www/[b]my-domain.xy/subdirectory/plugins/gs-blog/inc/adminFunctions.php[/b] on line 41

clicking on "search update" , i get inactivity plus this::
Notice: Undefined index: blogsettings in /cluster/www/[b][b]my-domain.xy/subdirectory[/b]/plugins/gs-blog/inc/adminFunctions.php[/b] on line 65

clicking on "help" , i get inactivity plus this::
Notice: Undefined index: bloghelp in /cluster/www/[b][b][b]my-domain.xy/subdirectory[/b][/b]/plugins/gs-blog/inc/adminFunctions.php[/b] on line 67

help! :-)

[pigsound]

thank you for your help, marc!

i corrected the german language file, added the missing lines and changed the umlauts to entities.

sadly, this did not help with the php-warnings i listed in my previous post. they still show up and i still cannot create blog entries nor check or create categories.

i wonder what's causing these problems. is it because my cms installation is in a subdirectory?

thanks in advance!

[pigsound]

bazinga! - that was the decisive hint! thank you, marc!
i had to go to settings/general settings and check "pretty urls" in the website settings. since i've read through this forum and had already found the instructions for turning on pretty urls before, i have already tried that. but until now, the check disappeared everytime i reset the page. nevertheless - now it works, the check stays checked an the blog functions work!

thanxalot,
pigsound

[johnstray2001]

Thanks to everyone for pointing out the issues with the German language file. Upon further inspection, similar issues were found with the French language file as well. These issues are being worked on over at the GitHub page and will be added to the next update, v3.4.1.

Marc-Germany: The categories count feature has not been implemented yet. It's on the to-do list.

[pigsound]

having mastered some difficulties in the beginning, gs blog is a blog easy to work with.
making my first entries i found that it would be a nice thing in the back end to have the possibility to copy an old post in order to create a new post with the same entries and settings.
is that already possible? if it is not, this is my wishlist contribution.

[johnstray2001]

Thanks for the input.

Unfortunately, I don't think what you have suggested would be feasible any time soon, if at all.

[johnstray2001]

URGENT!!

A Spanish translator is needed urgently. The Spanish language file is the only one that remains incomplete after the change in file structure. If you can translate to Spanish, please PM me so that I can add you to the GitHub project.

For some unknown reason, both of the existing translators have disappeared and I have not been able to get in contact with either of them.

[jwzumwalt]

Just installed on GS 3.3.8 my site goes blank if I activate it.
I am using the Ckedit patch and I noticed a ckedit file in the blog plugin.
Any recommendations?

[johnstray2001]

jwzumwalt: It goes blank due to an issue with the language files. This has now been fixed and I'm about to release this fixed version.
The Ckedit patch has a small issue that prevents it from being used with any plugins. I have submitted a fix to it's developer and I can only hop that it gets implemented to a later version.

[johnstray2001]

Version 3.4.1 is now available on Extend.
This version includes the following changes:

Bug Fixes:

• [#---] Some language files were missing some commas in the array. Added html entities for certain characters.
  
• [#075] German and French language files were missing some commas in the array.
  
• [#075] German language file had 9 missing strings.
  
• [#074] Fixed issues with post count in categories: casting of XMLobjects to string, a few missing punctuation marks, updated en_US language file to add Categories to Archive Post Count string.
  
• [#074] Fixed 'illegal offset' warning in show_blog_category() function. XMLobject is now cast properly as a string to use as array offset. This prevented show_blog_categories() from being able to count the posts.
  
• [#076] Fixed language string concatenated use for 'Manage Custom Fields'.
  
• [#077] Fixed incorrect language string references for the RSS Auto-Importer Settings page.
  
• [#079] Fixed some issues with the CustomFields Manager. Also added a sidebar button so that CFM could actually be used.
  
• [#080] Much better handling of date format internationalisation.
  

Front End UI Improvements

• [#074] Properly implemented post counts in categories. This was incomplete in the previous release. Rebuilt methods to make it more robust than originally planned.
  

NOTE: The Spanish language file is still incomplete. This will be finished as soon as possible and released in a later version. Unfortunately the translators I had on board for these languages just took waaaay too long, so I've decided to release as it is now so that people can finally get the bug-fixes that are included herein.

[jwzumwalt]

Still goes blank and FYI your links are broken on your website...
Thanks for the effort

[tuxophil]

Still goes blank and FYI your links are broken on your website...
Thanks for the effort

blank or some error page? apache or nginx?

I'm also having problems upgrading from 3.3.x to 3.4.1. What's strange is that I recently copied my blog to a second computer on my internal LAN in order to do some testing and on that second server I could upgrade without any problem, whereas on my main public blog I'm always getting a 500 error when I update gs-blog. Coying 3.3.1 over the new files "fixes" it again. I'm at a loss here.

I guess I'll have to find a way to do a recursive diff of all the files between the two servers to track this one down. I couldn't find anything conclusive in the logfiles. Very strange.

[johnstray2001]

jwzumwalt: What language do you have set? An what environment are you using (Apache/IIS, Windows/Linux, etc.)

tuxophil: What are the 2 different environments you are using? A 500 error refers to "Internal Server Error" which on some systems can be triggered by a PHP warning/error.

[tuxophil]

What are the 2 different environments you are using? A 500 error refers to "Internal Server Error" which on some systems can be triggered by a PHP warning/error.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply and pointing in the right direction! I temporarily replaced my php.ini by the packaged php-development.ini. Here's the error that is now shown:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(string)' (string) (T_STRING_CAST) in /var/www/blog/plugins/gs-blog/inc/frontEndFunctions.php on line 327

On my local development/testing server I have php 5.6.17 (distro based on debian jessie), whereas on my public server it's 5.4.45.

The problem seems to be a parser improvement in the newer php version. Here's the change I had to apply to gs-blog/inc/frontEndFunctions.php to make it compatible again:

Code:

*** gs-blog/inc/frontEndFunctions.php 2016-03-26 15:54:30.000000000 +0100

--- ../gs-blog/inc/frontEndFunctions.php 2016-03-26 15:43:12.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 324,332 ****
          if($excerpt) { // If we are showing the excerpt...
            $excerpt_string = $Blog->create_excerpt(html_entity_decode($data->content), 0, $excerpt_length); // Create the excerpt
            if($thumbnail) { // If we are showing a thumbnail with it...
-             if(!empty((string)$data->thumbnail)) { // Does a thumbnail exist with the post?
-               // Output the HTML for the image
                $thumbfile = (string) $data->thumbnail;
                $excerpt_string = '<img src="'.$SITEURL.'data/uploads/'.$thumbfile.'" class="blog_recent_posts_thumbnail" />'.$excerpt_string;
              }
            }
--- 324,332 ----
          if($excerpt) { // If we are showing the excerpt...
            $excerpt_string = $Blog->create_excerpt(html_entity_decode($data->content), 0, $excerpt_length); // Create the excerpt
            if($thumbnail) { // If we are showing a thumbnail with it...
                $thumbfile = (string) $data->thumbnail;
+             if(!empty($thumbfile)) { // Does a thumbnail exist with the post?
+               // Output the HTML for the image
                $excerpt_string = '<img src="'.$SITEURL.'data/uploads/'.$thumbfile.'" class="blog_recent_posts_thumbnail" />'.$excerpt_string;
              }
            }

(i.e. do the type cast in a separate instruction.)

[tuxophil]

Still goes blank and FYI your links are broken on your website...
Thanks for the effort

Is anything logged in data/others/logs/errorlog.txt?

Maybe you're encountering the same issue I had.

[jwzumwalt]

Is anything logged in data/others/logs/errorlog.txt?

The log is empty - no error report.
But, the author said this plugin does not work with others and I have about 15 installed plugins. So, I  have given up.

[Sisyphos]

Is anything logged in data/others/logs/errorlog.txt?

The log is empty - no error report.
But, the author said this plugin does not work with others and I have about 15 installed plugins. So, I  have given up.

While other plugins could be an issue, I somehow doubt it is in this case.

I actually had the same issue, no log, no matter what I tried to convince apache+php to write anything and I had the same issue that I could get version 3.3.1 of the plugin running but anything after 3.4.0 droped the blank curtain which is surely hell of annoying as it require manual hampering of the plugins.xml to fix it.

Apparently it seems that if we not run GetSimple in debug mode, all PHP errors get disabled all together. So all configurations like E_ALL + E_STRICT just vanish in the nirvana. Biting it and enabling debug on the production system I indeed got the same error as tuxophil 

Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(string)' (string) (T_STRING_CAST) in /var/www/blog/plugins/gs-blog/inc/frontEndFunctions.php on line 327

Fixing this cast inside of the empty() method solved it for me. All in all it may be related to a limitation of the PHP version 5.4.45 of my Debian system with the cast.

[jwzumwalt]

Sisyphos
Apparently it seems that if we not run GetSimple in debug mode, all PHP errors get disabled all together. So all configurations like E_ALL + E_STRICT just vanish in the nirvana. Biting it and enabling debug on the production system I indeed got the same error as tuxophil

 
This seems to be the case, because I have my internet php server designed to send errors directly to the folder that a php programs errors "error.log" (I use ftp to edit programs and view the log while I am in development) - GS is over riding the system wide error log settings. I don't get ANY error log files under the GS directory.

Since I use ftp a lot, I can restore things by simply adding .bak to the gs_blog.php file, then the plugin does not execute. A blog was a "nice to have" not a "need to have" so I will shelve this idea for a while.

What specific edit did you do on line #327 ?

[Sisyphos]

Regarding conflicting plugins:
* http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/new...dated/541/
This plugin seem to use the same mechanism for news entries as the blog plugin. If both plugins are active no warnings or errors will be reported but only the the news entries will show up.

[tuxophil]

What specific edit did you do on line #327 ?

The offending line is:

Code:

            if(!empty((string)$data->thumbnail)) { // Does a thumbnail exist with the post?

I moved the line with the string cast up and replaced (string)$data->thumbnail by $thumbnail. The code now reads:

Code:

                $thumbfile = (string) $data->thumbnail;
             if(!empty($thumbfile)) { // Does a thumbnail exist with the post?
               // Output the HTML for the image

The output I gave in my previous comment on this issue was given by the "diff" command. It's a very valuable and widely-used tool when handling code of all sorts.

[jwzumwalt]

What specific edit did you do on line #327 ?

The offending line is:

Code:

            if(!empty((string)$data->thumbnail)) { // Does a thumbnail exist with the post?

I moved the line with the string cast up and replaced (string)$data->thumbnail by $thumbnail. The code now reads:

Code:

                $thumbfile = (string) $data->thumbnail;
             if(!empty($thumbfile)) { // Does a thumbnail exist with the post?
               // Output the HTML for the image

The output I gave in my previous comment on this issue was given by the "diff" command. It's a very valuable and widely-used tool when handling code of all sorts.

Thx That fixed it.
Now the blog is over riding my startup page and made it blank.

It looks like maybe the db has not been initialized.
Any attempt to use the backend gives this error:
Notice: Undefined index: bloghelp (or blogcreatepost, etc ) in <site>/plugins/gs-blog/inc/adminFunctions.php on line xx.
(usually line #24, 26, or 67)

[Sisyphos]

if it overriding your start page, maybe because this page is the one initially setup to show the blogs. You can change that in the settings for the blog plugin where you specify on which page the blogs should show up, I will check what is on those lines in the code...

EDIT: Its seems the code is looking for where to go on the page and check the user rights for that functions if the user is allowed to, e.g. on line 24 check if the user selected 'create post' if the permission 'blogcreatepost' is true:

PHP Code:

} elseif(isset($_GET['create_post']) && $blogUserPermissions['blogcreatepost'] == true) {
    editPost(); 


somehow it seems the $blogUserPermissions haven't then been initialized correctly which is odd. Anything that may block cookies?

[jwzumwalt]

somehow it seems the $blogUserPermissions haven't then been initialized correctly which is odd. Anything that may block cookies?

The site runs fine with about 20 other plugins so db and templates is running smoothly, it is just this plugin that is complaining for some reason. I also uninstalled and re-installed hoping maybe it would reboot itself properly - but I get the same " Undefined index" errors.

I do not know anything about programming with templates, but I have SQL and PHP db programming experience. If this where normal PHP code it would mean the db did not have the specified column name - but who knows with templates?

[pigsound]

there seems to be some malfunction concerning user permissions:


when logged in as admin, all blog functions work fine. logged in as a user with certain permissions restricted (but not for gs blog!), "create post", "edit post"  do not show any reaction and in debug mode no message appears.
"custom fields", "categories", "manage user definded fields" "rss auto importer", "settings" react normally, although i did not set the permissions for that to true.
any suggestions?