Adk Blog (A blog system for each user)

[Woxell]

ARGH!!!!!!


Do **ANY** of the ADK team even bother to support his mod any more?

Doesn't seem like it, i had to uninstall this crap and hook into a wordpress system instead. Works great but you can never get the look and feel to match.

[CapadY]

Is it right I can only give permissions to the regular usergroups and not to postcount membergroups ?

At least I can't find the options to set the permissions for postcount groups.

[CapadY]

In my errorlog I have a lot of errors, they are all generated by guest visits.
There are no errors from registrated users.

What can cause this ?

http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.nl/index.php?topic=5962.0 8: Undefined index:  notify   Bestand: /home/sites/web266/web/Sources/Subs-adkblog.php Regel: 63

The same error is given for row 61, so 2 errormessages each time.

[Kindred]

CapadY,   Did you bother to search?  This is an ongoing and log standing issue which we have tried to address multiple times over the past months - with no satisfaction from the ADK team.

[bojanbgrd]

Well, who knows    Maybe there is no solution...
I'm sick of deleting errors every day, but uninstaling this blog and instaling some other is a nightmare. This one is really good and I don't want to change it, but these errors... 

[CapadY]

CapadY,   Did you bother to search?  This is an ongoing and log standing issue which we have tried to address multiple times over the past months - with no satisfaction from the ADK team.

Oke, I think you'll have to warn people for such a thing at the download page.
When I was informed about it I hadn't installed it. I hadn't even downloaded it.

I have reported the MOD as unsafe now to prevent more members running in troubles.

[Irisado]

It would also be helpful, if at any stage any of the team responsible for maintaining this, could look at the translation issue that I mentioned previously.

[Kindred]

well, I would hardly call the errors UNSAFE, so I think that reporting it was a bit of an overreaction.

so it drops undefined errors into your log...   annoying, yes... unsafe, no.

Also, it's not my place to warn people... it would be people's responsibility to research any mod they plan to install (plus, I can't modify the mod page, since I didn't place the mod)

[NanoSector]

I'm going to do another review of this today, it is causing way too much trouble.

[stylusss]

How much would it cost to have this converted to work for SMF 1.x ?

[rlh2006]

I installed this recently, but I keep getting this error message. Who can I pay to fix this?

Error in ADKBlog.

There is an error constantly showing up in my log, which I think is related to guests browsing blogs

Error: Undefined index: notifyFile
File: forum/Sources/Subs-adkblog.php
Line: 61
Line Text ==>61:'title' => $txt['blog_not'].' <i>('.$context['notify'][1].')</i>',


Error: Undefined index: notifyFile
File: forum/Sources/Subs-adkblog.php
Line: 63
Line Text ==>63:'show' => $context['notify'][0],

[Kindred]

If you bothered to READ the past posts in his thread, you would have noticed that ths is an ongoing, known issue that the developer refuses to address...

[rlh2006]

If you bothered to READ the past posts in his thread, you would have noticed that ths is an ongoing, known issue that the developer refuses to address...

I think it was pretty clear that I was asking "Who can I pay to fix this?"
Since I am committed to the mod already, it is time to spend a little money.

[rlh2006]

Ok. I had an experienced coder look at this problem and commit a fix for me. I am posting this to help others who have experienced this problem for a long time now.

Here are the changes that the users need to do:

Open Sources/Subs-adkblog.php

find:

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'show' => $context['notify'][0],

replace with:

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'show' => empty($context['notify']) ? false : true,

find:

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$context['notify'] = array(false,0);


replace with:

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$context['notify'] = '';

and lastly find:

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$context['notify'] = array(true,$total);

replace with:

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$context['notify'] = $total;

Coder Comments: The error was simple, the mod author didn't check that the actual var existed, it is good practice to check any var for its existence before use it, also, there is no need to use an array when you can check the existence on the var itself.

Also, there is another edit on the adkblog bug, its easy, on the same file find:

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'title' => $txt['blog_not'].' <i>('.$context['notify'][1].')</i>',

and replace with:

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'title' => empty($context['notify']) ? '' : $txt['blog_not'].' <i>('. $context['notify'] .')</i>',

[Kindred]

actually... I tried those (empty check) fixes a while ago... with no particular change in errors

[NanoSector]

The mod also contains a (pretty obvious) security hole. Won't hand out any more details, though. I contacted the mod authors but haven't had a response yet.

[mgrmgr]

Well - today I saw a new reviewed version still 3.0 Including an update. But alas the update is from V2. Can a helpful soul tell us (I assume there are more of us) how to do a manual upgrade from the hmmm - original V3?

TIA

[NanoSector]

The review package is uploaded with a few important fixes. It's not recommended to use but it somewhat fixed a couple of bugs and some other stuff.

[mgrmgr]

Well - that is what I thought. But I have the feeling those fixes (except the damn notify error) would not be useful if I can't install them. Thus my question: is it enough to replace the old files with the new ones?

[NanoSector]

So far, that is enough. We might find trouble in the database but that's very unlikely.

So far the fixes also have been very useful. If the "notify error" is the "This module is not activated" error that you are talking about, then it's fixed in the review package.