Discussbot 4.2 beta 1 released 10/5/06

[chadness]

That was the one last thing I was trying to squeeze in.    I don't think I'm going to be able to fix the mambo thing any time soon.

[Chriss Cohn]

That was the one last thing I was trying to squeeze in.

Sounds really good! I have some questions/feedback to it. If you can do some on the following, i would gladly test it for you on my Live-Site:

1. I found a bug with joomla caching: When caching is enabled and you posting a comment, it will only show up after the caching time is "over" (i mean like you set it in default configuration in joomla-backend) - so there must be a fix to disable caching for this mambot

2. a good suggestion or beter a "need" in design:
In default it looks like this:

which is pretty, pretty ugly!
Is there a way to get it more "standart-simple" with some colored-boxes around it? I don't know how to explain, just a bit simple as it is here(ok colors can everybody change via css):


What do you think?

Regards, Christian

[iqapps]

Hi !

I running Discussbot on my site and this bot working very well.
SMF 1.1.2
Bridge 1.1.7
J! 1.0.12

I installed Jevents and Discussbot pick up events to dissuction...I won't to Discuss my events in my forum.

How to disable this..Is it some user which have do that or some tip is welcome?

Regards
IQAPPS
 

[BlaZeR]

I get this
Database Error: Table 'blazer_joom1.blazer_sessions' doesn't exist
File: /home/blazer/public_html/forum/Sources/Load.php
Line: 2022

my site is
http://www.blazed-up.com/ [nofollow]

help?

[chadness]

g-c - that looks pretty good, it will probably end up similar to that.

iqapps - Do you have it disabled to show the discussbot in modules?  If that doesn't fix it, you'll need to either add {mos_smf_discuss:no_discuss} to each of your events (there's another mambot you can download here that will make a button by your editor to add that quickly.  Or, you'll have to turn off default discussions and manually add them to each of you articles.

BlaZer - do you have separate databases?  If so, you'll need to either use the same database user for both Joomla and SMF, or wait for 4.2 beta 2.

[iqapps]

Hi

Thanks for your reply...but

Do you have it disabled to show the discussbot in modules?

How to  do this!? 


Regards
IQAPPS

[chadness]

It's the 8th option, labeled "Do you want discussion links to show in modules?".

[Chriss Cohn]

g-c - that looks pretty good, it will probably end up similar to that.

Hi i found something really good-looking Comments-thing for joomla. Maybe you can have some Impressions from it, because it looks so extremly good IMHO - Simple but good and exactly what i personally would love to have. Heres a picture:

Live Preview is here (under the article):
http://www.joomlaprodigy.com/content/view/58/71/

Well i don't know yet whats the name of this "component" might be, but i'll found out.
Edit: its name is "joscomment" aka "JoomlaComment" and here is the Website: http://cavovweb.ca.funpic.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37
Maybe you take some impressions from, related to the design.
Keep the good work on....

Regards, Christian

[brianjd2]

I just installed the latest discussbot from the technoadvice site. I'm running SMF 1.1.2, Joomla 1.0.12, and CB 1.0.2... I noticed that all my discussion counts were too high. It was reporting one more Comment than what I actually had. In smf.discussbot.php around line 383 there is a $replies++;

I commented out this line and all is good. Thought you'd like to know.

Another tip. I couldn't get the discuss icon to display at first. I removed the leading slash and it worked fine (Joomla is installed inside a directory on my site). That could be changed in the smf.discussbot.xml line 22, though it is easy to change after installing.

Hopefully this helps... excellent product!

EDIT: Another note... If you have a 'list' element that started and was truncated before the end '/list' tag, SMF seems to put the closing list tag after the closing quote tag. This makes it end "/quote /list" whic doesn't match the rules for identifying if it is a first post.

Perhaps some logic to look for any started "list" tags and then close them at the end... or just strip them completely.

[dpk]

When I publish the discussbot, my site goes down (Mambo 4.5.5) with:

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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ssi_shutdown() (previously declared in /home/riverwes/public_html/forum/SSI.php:186) in /home/riverwes/public_html/forum/SSI.php on line 188

It looks like a great bot -- I'd really like to get it running. 

[chadness]

I just installed the latest discussbot from the technoadvice site. I'm running SMF 1.1.2, Joomla 1.0.12, and CB 1.0.2... I noticed that all my discussion counts were too high. It was reporting one more Comment than what I actually had. In smf.discussbot.php around line 383 there is a $replies++;

I commented out this line and all is good. Thought you'd like to know.

The count you were getting was the number of posts, including the original post.  Commenting out that line makes it not include the original post, so it's only the number of replies.

I think I'll make it so that if you have the option "Would you like the discussion link to automatically start a reply, instead of viewing the topic?" set to Yes, it will count the original post, otherwise it won't.

Another tip. I couldn't get the discuss icon to display at first. I removed the leading slash and it worked fine (Joomla is installed inside a directory on my site). That could be changed in the smf.discussbot.xml line 22, though it is easy to change after installing.

Yeah, I had caught that on my testing server, and removed it for beta 2.

Hopefully this helps... excellent product!

Quite a bit, thanks!

EDIT: Another note... If you have a 'list' element that started and was truncated before the end '/list' tag, SMF seems to put the closing list tag after the closing quote tag. This makes it end "/quote /list" whic doesn't match the rules for identifying if it is a first post.

Perhaps some logic to look for any started "list" tags and then close them at the end... or just strip them completely.

There's probably a few tags like this that could be a problem.  You're noticing it on the list tag, because SMF will auto-close that one, I believe.  Maybe in the next version I'll try to clean that up more.

[chadness]

When I publish the discussbot, my site goes down (Mambo 4.5.5) with:

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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ssi_shutdown() (previously declared in /home/riverwes/public_html/forum/SSI.php:186) in /home/riverwes/public_html/forum/SSI.php on line 188

It looks like a great bot -- I'd really like to get it running. 

Do you have a link to your site?  Are you using Orstio's bridge? Do you have anything else loaded besides the bridge, such as recent topics modules or anything?

[gobion]

Hiya,

I've installed the Discussbot (see below for versions) and added the footer to the template, but the Discuss bot isn't replacing the {mos_smf_discuss:no_discuss} tag with a forum link.

As far as I can tell the output buffer is working but the string replace is not working. I've searched through the forums here for solutions, but none were applicable. I am wondering whether it might be a php 5.2.0 issue.

You can see an example here:
hxxp:www.modus-operandi.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=19&Itemid=26 [nonactive]

Any ideas?

What versions am I running?

• Joomla 1.0.12
• SMF 1.1.2
• SMF Bridge 1.1.7
• Discussbot 4.2 beta 1 - Joomla 1.0.X
• PHP 5.2.0-10

(its on a Debian install running apache2)

Cheers,
Gobion

[gobion]

Ok this is weird it has started working on the non docman pages... *sigh*!

[chadness]

It only works with things that are considered content items.  Docman probably doesn't act like a content item, so it won't work with content mambots.

[Chriss Cohn]

Hi Chadness, any news about beta2 and/or design changes........
It would still be a favour for me to test your component before public opening.
Regards, Christian

[Ghiacciolo]

hello, i installed this discuss bot bot and i managed to work whit it, but it does'nt what i was thinking:
Why the post generated in the board look like a quote of joomla content? it's possible to make it look like a normal post instead?

[Chriss Cohn]

hello, i installed this discuss bot bot and i managed to work whit it, but it does'nt what i was thinking:
Why the post generated in the board look like a quote of joomla content? it's possible to make it look like a normal post instead?

Yes is also think there should be a option to choose how the "opening post" will look like.
And a good thing would be to choose a default-user which is the one who creates the opening-post automatically.

Anyway this is the greatest "extension-component" for a bridged "enviroment"

Regards, Christian

[kimhav]

Well, looking forward to the next version as well, since I have all of the mentioned problems documented within this thread and I'm very much open for testing the pre-beta code if possible.

And to be mentioned - great work with the discussbot as well!

[palik]

hello, just installed bridge 1.1.7 + SMF 1.1.2 + J! 1.0.12 + DiscussBot 4.2 Beta 1

i would like to report one bug, that i found - on line 386 of the smf.discussbot.php there is no "> at the end of $link_string, and comment links are displayed incorrectly... minor bug i think, but can be hard for newbies to find out what is wrong ....