Some problems with serendipity. (English / German)

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:56 am

Hi there,

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UPDATED Question's list: (25.09.2006):
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39164#39164
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because I'm totally new to serendipity I have to say: Thanks to all developers and contributor's of this system. It's an excellent website (webblog) system!

Anyway, I have some questions concerning the handling with serendipity:

1. I want to link my guestbook with serendipity, I installed this guestbook-plugin but now I have to create a link on the mainpage, how to handle this?
- Is it ../../serendipity[subpage]=guest ? Or something else? How to create own pages and link them in serendipity / php ?

2. How to insert a user counter on the sidebar? Where to insert the html code?

Maybe someone can help me finding an answer for my questions? Would be really great

You can answer in english or german

Thanks a lot !!!!!!

Cheers,
Flashbeem

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:10 am

I'll start with the counter script since this is the easiest to explain. In configure plugins, add an html nugget to your sidebar plugins, paste the code for your counter into that, then before you save your settings, check No in the radio list reads 'Perform Markup Transformations'.

Adding a link in your homepage to your guestbook isn't difficult, it all depends on where you're going to put it. Does the template you're using have a navbar? If so, you probably just need to edit the index.tpl file in the template folder and change the html code.

If you don't have one of these templates, then another option is to install the static pages plugin and use its sidebar menu to link to your guestbook.

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:00 am

Yippe !! Thanks a lot Carl

But now there are some more questions *g*

1. Yes, I can modifiy the index.tpl and insert the link but where should the link point to? For example to link the Home site: ../../index.php ? And now, how should the other links look like and where to insert my html pages? The importanst entry is the guestbook, in the readme they write that I have to link: serendipity[subpage]=guest ??

2. Works now perfectly

Is there a chance to modify the design of this html nugget by hand?

3. I've added the timezones plugin but can't find any information how to enable it.... I'm trying to add the german and australian timezones =)

Thanks again

Cheers,
Flashbeem

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:04 pm

Hi there!

Another problem appeared by now, the header in the sidebar for "links", "counter" and "verwaltung des blogs" look now different like the other ones in the sidebar, this appeared as I added the html nugget for the counter.

Maybe someone can have a look? This would be really great

http://www.verena-australien.de

Thanks !!!

Post by **yellowled** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:24 pm

flashbeem wrote:1. Yes, I can modifiy the index.tpl and insert the link but where should the link point to? For example to link the Home site: ../../index.php ? And now, how should the other links look like and where to insert my html pages? The importanst entry is the guestbook, in the readme they write that I have to link: serendipity[subpage]=guest ??

The easiest way is probably to 'hard link' those, i.e. for the home site: http://your.site/index.php. Just open the page you want to link to in the browser and use that URL

Now if the page you want to link to is a 'subpage' of s9y, you can use some Smarty variables. For example, if you want to link to the login page, you can use {$serendipityBaseURL}{$serendipityRewritePrefix}admin/ (might work without the rewrite prefix, but I just recently experienced that it can't hurt to have it ...)

flashbeem wrote:3. I've added the timezones plugin but can't find any information how to enable it.... I'm trying to add the german and australian timezones

Now that's something Carl should know ...

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:45 pm

Hi YellowLed,

thanks for your help.
Ah, I have to do it with the index page. So the correct link for the guestbook should be now "../../index.php?serendipity=guest". But when I click on the webpage on guestbook, it run's in an error:

http://www.verena-australien.de/index.p ... pity=guest

Any idea's?

Thanks !!!

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:52 pm

The correct URL is http://www.verena-australien.de/index.p ... age]=guest -- that brings up a guestbook in a nice red mountain template.

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:34 pm

Hi together,

thanks judebert, that works perfectly

I've updated now the question's list

1. Another problem appeared by now, the header in the sidebar for "links", "counter" and "verwaltung des blogs" look now different like the other ones in the sidebar, this appeared as I added the html nugget for the counter.

2. I've added the timezones plugin but can't find any information how to enable it.... I'm trying to add the german and australian timezones =)

3. How to link my custom html files to this layout? For example please see "About me".

BLOG URL: http://www.verena-australien.de

Maybe someone can help me out finding some answers to my questions? Please

Thanks a lot to everyone!

Cheers,
Flashbeem

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:49 pm

Happy to help.

1) Those look different because the Timezone plugin is outputting an extra div endtag. Get that out of there, and you're golden. You can remove the plugin, modify its code, or move it to the bottom of the plugin list.

2) I've never worked with that. I installed it on my blog temporarily, and it only produces %EDT; that's annoying. So I took a look at the code; it's using the PHP date() method for the formatting, and the default "%T" means a % sign followed by the timezone. Duh.

I switched it to "H:i M d" for each format, and it improved. It still shows the same time for each, though. Searching around Google shows that nobody knows how to use the PEAR date functions that called (convertTZbyID), so if you just set the timeshift attribute, it should work. It worked for me, anway. Make sure you put the shift in seconds.

3) The about page link works for me; it's obviously a test page, but you could put any HTML you wanted in there.

If you want it to fit into your Serendipity blog, you can either install the static-pages plugin and add your HTML there, then link it from a sidebar nugget or the menu; or you can use the "Wrap URL" plugin, which adds the content in an iframe; or you can just design the HTML to look like Serendipity.

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:13 am

YEAH, YEAH and... again: YEAH

judebert, I can kiss you for your great support

no really, you helped me out finding answers to my questions very good.

Thanks again.

Okay but there is just ONE problem left... because all other things are working now!

The last problem is:

I can't view thumbnails of my pictures. If I add (upload) some photos in the media library the following error comes up:

Code: Select all

Datei heck.jpg erfolgreich als /home/www/web690/html/uploads/heck.jpg hochgeladen

Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to access /home/www/web690/html/uploads/heck.serendipityThumb.jpg in /home/www/web690/html/include/functions_images.inc.php on line 1011

Warning: imagejpeg(): Invalid filename '/home/www/web690/html/uploads/heck.serendipityThumb.jpg' in /home/www/web690/html/include/functions_images.inc.php on line 1011
Vorschau erstellt.
Fertig.

But if I click on the photos on the page they show up.... someone has a solution for this problem?

Thanks a lot

Cheers,
Flashbeem

flashbeem · Post by **flashbeem** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:26 pm

Hi there,

I've read this now: http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5138

And it worked for me very well!

So all things/problems are solved by now.

Thanks to all helper's

Cheers,
Flashbeem

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:57 pm

flashbeem wrote:judebert, I can kiss you for your great support no really, you helped me out finding answers to my questions very good.

Sorry, I'm a married man. Then again, a kiss on the cheek wouldn't hurt anything.