FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) mod

[iain sherriff]

thanks.
I switched to default theme and have no errors......

will try installing the facebook theme again

[Suki]

Looks like the theme you are trying to install doesn't know how to handle active buttons or is trying to handle them wrong, might be better to ask the theme author about it.

A common mistake lots of people does is using the very same var to check for its existence, some weird servers doesn't know the difference between empty and null thats why it is important to always check for emptiness empty()  rahter than using the var directly.

[iain sherriff]

you're right. It is the facebook theme
will go and ask there and point them to this.

thanks

[mattewre]

Hi!
It seems that FAQ button doesn't show up for NOT registered members (and they can't access to FAQ).
How I can give them the right permission?
Thank you

[Suki]

On your permissions admin page, there is a "can see FAQ page" permission,  check that for your guest group.

[mattewre]

On your permissions admin page, there is a "can see FAQ page" permission,  check that for your guest group.

I'm so stupid.. I missed it at first, but "find in page" helped me (I was running here to write "solved" but you are faster then light!)
thank you!

[MissyNL]

As an admin, you can hover the Faq button in the main menu, this will show some submenus, one of them takes you to the create a category section.

Thank you very much for your reple.. however. I use a custom design and my "normal" SMF template is kinda **** up. So i can not see the links that are normally there. Could you tell me what the links / menu items are while hovering the FAQ button?

[Suki]

The links should be:

admit page: ?action=faq;sa=manage
add a faq:  ?action=faq;sa=add
manage categories: action=faq;sa=managecat
add a category: ?action=faq;sa=addcat

thats all 4 submenus this mod adds.

[MissyNL]

thank you very much

[Kindred]

I ran into this issue as well. My template does not use the dropdown submenus....

So, I added the manage categories link to the FAQ page, just after the add an FAQ button.

Side note, it might be nice if the manager categories and/or add a category were also in the admin menu...

[FireDitto]

Side note, it might be nice if the manager categories and/or add a category were also in the admin menu...

I agree

I use the Menu Editor Lite, and it doesn't keep the menu buttons of mods, so I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to access the different sections. It would be much tidier I think, if they were in the admin area.

[Kindred]

well, I added them into the admin area by adjusting the code.

Code (find in Sources/FAQ.php) Select Expand


'subsections' => array(
'basic' => array(self::$faq->get('basic_settings', 'Text')),
'edit' => array(self::$faq->get('edit_page', 'Text')),
'add' => array(self::$faq->get('add_send', 'Text')),
),


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'subsections' => array(
'basic' => array(self::$faq->get('basic_settings', 'Text')),
'edit' => array(self::$faq->get('edit_page', 'Text')),
'add' => array(self::$faq->get('add_send', 'Text')),
'manage' => array(self::$faq->get('faqmod_manage_category', 'Text')),
),


Code (find in Sources/FAQ.php) Select Expand


$subActions = array(
'basic' => 'WrapperBasicFaqSettings',
'edit' => 'WrapperEditFaqAdminPage',
'add' => 'WrapperAddFaqAdminPage',
);


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$subActions = array(
'basic' => 'WrapperBasicFaqSettings',
'edit' => 'WrapperEditFaqAdminPage',
'add' => 'WrapperAddFaqAdminPage',
'manage' => 'WrapperManageCatFaqAdminPage',
);


Code (find in Sources/FAQ.php) Select Expand


/* Main function */


Code (add before) Select Expand


/* And another... */
static function ManageCatFaqAdminPage()
{
redirectexit('action=faq;sa=managecat');
}


this add the "manage categories" into the admin menu for the FAQ section...    from there you can get to "add a category", so I figured it wasn't worth adding another menu item just for that, but you could if you felt you had to using the same method.

I also added the "manage catgeory" button into the actual FAQ page, to appear just after the "add a FAQ" button. (this is, if you want users who have permission to add FAQs to also be able to add categories

Code (find in Themes/default/Faq.template.php) Select Expand


    // Add a  new FAQ
    if($context['faqperedit'])
    echo '
      <div id="confirm_buttons">
        <form action="', $scripturl, '?action=faq;sa=add" method="post" target="_self">
          <input type="submit" name="send" class="sbtn" value="',$txt['faqmod_add_send'],'" />
        </form>
     </div>';


Code (replace with) Select Expand


    // Add a  new FAQ
    if($context['faqperedit'])
    echo '
      <div id="confirm_buttons">
        <form action="', $scripturl, '?action=faq;sa=add" method="post" target="_self">
          <input type="submit" name="send" class="sbtn" value="',$txt['faqmod_add_send'],'" />
        </form>';

    // Manage Categories
    if($context['faqperedit'])
    echo '
        <form action="', $scripturl, '?action=faq;sa=managecat" method="post" target="_self">
          <input type="submit" name="send" class="sbtn" value="',$txt['faqmod_manage_category'],'" />
        </form>';
echo '
     </div>';


[Suki]

I'm currently working on a custom mod that pretty much turned into a re-write of this one, while the code is still fresh on my mind I will push it to github.

[Skaty]

well, I added them into the admin area by adjusting the code.

i did these but members still can't add faqs. when i gave the members ''Edit/Add/Delete FAQs and categories'' permisson this time they can add faq but also they can delete them. i want permission just for add faqs.  what am i doing wrong ?

[Kindred]

ummm....   read that permission....

'Edit/Add/Delete FAQs and categories


so obviously, they can also delete them.

I am not certain that this mod HAS separate permissions for editing adding and deleting

[Suki]

It does on the new version but of course people can't even bother to see that.

[Kindred]

what new version?

I installed the version from the mod site and it just has the edit/add/delete as a combined permisson

[Suki]

.____.

If it doesn't exist here then it doesn't exist anywhere right?

[Kindred]

never said that, Suki...

but I have too many sites and too many mods to go searching.
I am actually like most of the users here in this...   if it is on the mod site, I assume that it is the current, or at least the currently supported version.

If it's supposed to be gotten from somewhere else, thena large lettered statement in the mod description would be extremely useful.

[Suki]

uh, no, it won't help, people, as you had demonstrated, can't be bother to search or even go to an external site. They won't put any effort towards something they want, it is ridiculous, there is people that even complain that they have to go to some external site to get the mod. I recall you saying that.

If people don't care then I don't care either, seems fair enough.