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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: tinkerbell on January 06, 2009, 07:16:43

Title: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 06, 2009, 07:16:43
First all,

the Elxis CMS is freaking awesome. I love it.

Second...that actual help questions.

Q #1: How or where do I change the php file or file that contains the coding for where I can change the "written by:" to  "posted by:"

for example:

Written by "name"
Monday, 05 January 2009

change to

Posted by "name"
Monday, 05 January 2009

Q #2: I am having trouble in getting the "newsletter" mod working. The problem I am having is that when I create a template the system will not send it. I am having trouble figuring out how to send it. Can anyone assist.

Q #3: Is there a way to have multiple banner ads in different areas?

Thanks.

Title: Re: need more help
Post by: Farhad Sakhaei on January 06, 2009, 09:49:35
First all,

the Elxis CMS is freaking awesome. I love it.

Second...that actual help questions.

Q #1: How or where do I change the php file or file that contains the coding for where I can change the "written by:" to  "posted by:"

for example:

Written by "name"
Monday, 05 January 2009

change to

Posted by "name"
Monday, 05 January 2009

Edit the file : /language/english/english.php

Q #2: I am having trouble in getting the "newsletter" mod working. The problem I am having is that when I create a template the system will not send it. I am having trouble figuring out how to send it. Can anyone assist.
You mean IOS Newsletter component ?

Q #3: Is there a way to have multiple banner ads in different areas?

Thanks.

You can make a copy from Banners module and set the new settings and make it's position in another position except the first
You can make unlimited copy of any modules and any of them can have different settings than other
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 06, 2009, 15:43:23
Sweet. I found the edit file for the text. Thanks

And yes the IOS newsletter component. I put out a monthly pdf file and I was hoping I could make things simpler by using this component. It seems like a great Idea but can't seem to get it to work.

Also is there a newsletter template out there I can edit or use?

Thanks

And Thanks for the banner info. It works out great.

so how do I get the newsletter module to work
 
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 06, 2009, 16:45:50
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so how do I get the newsletter module to work

1 -start from the configuration page in administration>>components>>ios newsletters

2 - basically you need to import users from a)an outside text file  b) internally import elxis existing users
  c)add by hand one by one -this is possible from the subscribers section -
3 -make a newsletter message -newsletter section-

4- sent the message from -newsletter section-

5- you can have a menu-link to ios newsletters in your page (if wanted) test it to see what is showing

6- emal-tpl  you can find a lot out there free or not.. google it !

but there is no need... as you can sent  html messages with this smart tinymce editor with no html knowledge at all.

start from this points and ask if you don't understand something!

PS. Also you must know that elxis can modify lang-files from the administration area>>site>>language manager
 
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 00:00:17
Ok cool. I will try this. And see what happens.

But here is another question...

on the IOS newsletter for sending the newsletter, which method should I use? what is best?
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 00:20:37
-php mail
-1 mail per recipient
-reply to yes

these is highly recommended
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 00:35:13
I am trying to send the generic newsletter to my email but am still having issues

I click on send newsletter, a pop-up shows but nothing happens
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 01:09:52
what message shows?

do you have any subscribers?
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 01:17:34
actually if you want, I would be willing to allow you back end access to the admin site to see what is going on?
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 01:47:51
sent me a pm ...

but first try to set  one per recipient to no to see if working
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 02:10:08
you get a blank popup...

be sure that component is installed correctly and that all permission are correct...
it seems that a javascript can't be executed ...probably permissions problem.

i will suggest to uninstall an reinstall it from the beginning.

then we will see if problem remains...
till now we haven't see such  a problem... none have reported such a problem
so i believe reinstalation will fix it.
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 02:14:24
re-installation of the whole site or just that component
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 02:27:10
the compoment..
i shaw that you did it ...
no lack...
are you sure that permisions are set correctly?
what your servers logs say?

that popup should show a status message... even there is an error in the process still ther is a message.
seetings seem to be ok so....
please look apaches error logs 
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 02:41:28
its showing a lot of mambot errors but nothing with the newsletter

Tue Jan 06 17:06:51 2009] [error] [client 79.130.90.253] Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: http://enchanted-evolution.ca/mediacenter/administrator/index2.php
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 02:56:15
perhaps some header scripts not loading so this can make things or functions in admin area not loading  like ajax-java scripts etc.
start exploring and fixing those errors...
in most cases these are permission errors

i have tested ios-newsletters  and founding it working absolutely fine ..
the only notice that i have to make is that

when one-per-recipient is set to yes then Recipients per step must be set to 1
else an error will take place.
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 03:05:40
My knowledge of ajax-javascript is extremely limited. I will have to take a look at the entire code.

I know that the permissions are set correctly cause during the full elxis install all perms when green with no red errors.

The sad thing is I even tried testing all this on a test Wamp Server and on 3 different servers with the same issue. and with a fresh install on each and fressh dbase install

I would have been nice to use this feature but I will instead remove it and find another way to do a newsletter subscription.

thanks for your help though. I really appreciate the hard work in trying.

thanks
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 03:27:05
give some apache error logs here ...
it is sure that there is hidden the solution to your problem.
you told that mambots give errors ...well this is very bad you know!
mambots are the soul of elxis (in a way).

if not find there your problem is sure that you will fix other that will appear in the  future.

none told you to start codeing... no need for the correct elxis-operation.

permissions .... never say that is all ok ....
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 03:57:15
ok I will send you all my error logs.

my brain is frazzled

I hope there isn't any issues it took me a long time to establish the site and the user base.

I will send you the error log in a PM
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 04:24:46
this errors appear hundreds of times.

File does not exist
:..../mediacenter/mambots/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/xhtmlextras, referer: http://enchanted-evolution.ca/mediacenter/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=8&Itemid=40

Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: ....... /mediacenter/administrator/index2.php


the first ... this file must  be xhtmlxtras not xhtmlextras... how this happened?
all urls  searching for xhtmlextras but that file is by default named xhtmlxtras..
any way but this can't effect newsletters.

the second error can't say why is caused...
needs more investigation ... be sure that this causes a lot of problems.. even if not visible ... yet!

it is sure that is not an elxis problem... your server needs a close look up in order to fix this errors..
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 04:40:54
Ok I will take a look at the server and see what is going on. It should take me about a day.

Either way, it's an issue and in a general sense could happen to someone else. But bugs happen and thats how things get fixed. I still love the elxis system and it's great.

How do I fix the xhtmlxtras thing?

Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 04:58:22
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How do I fix the xhtmlxtras thing?

i would say that is better to apply that patch to update your Elxis 2008.1 Stable rev2218 to newer

2245 version. first ...

then we will see....
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 07, 2009, 05:02:05
I think I've patched everything already. I downloaded the latest patch 2 weeks ago so if it's changed since then I will have too
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: ks-net on January 07, 2009, 14:05:22
well this maybe an explanation...

you have not or you have done this latest patch half the way ...
your system is  Elxis 2008.1 Stable rev2218  no patch applied...
if you tried to apply the patch to 2245 then you didn't do it correctly.
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 08, 2009, 02:24:21
ok I will try again
Title: Re: need more help
Post by: tinkerbell on January 08, 2009, 02:48:06
ok I re-patched and still nadda