Subdreamer 2.5.x - Support Thread

[Tobias]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to collect immediate feedback and problems with the 2.5 release in this very thread so that I can immediately look into issues and provide a patch soon (not that I had intended that :( ).

The Subdreamer archive download will contain all updated files whenever a patch is announced, please follow this thread for Patch announcements and changed file details.

[Tobias]

Patch #1 - Fixed issues:
Latest Posts: typo in "width" table parameter
Articles: enhanced SEF writing of titles (the previous transliteration unfortunately did not provide the expected results), for e.g. french, spanish and turkish charactersChanged Files:
/includes/functions.php
/plugins/p8_latest_posts/latestposts.php

Just upload above files, no further action required.

[Tobias]

Patch #2 - Fixed issues:
Fix for writing links
Minor fix for system log message upon password reset emailChanged Files:
/includes/functions.php
/plugins/p12_mi_registration/register.php

Download current Subdreamer archive and upload above files, no further action required.

[Tobias]

Patch #3 - Fixed issues:
Fix for SMF cookie domain handlingChanged Files:
/includes/usersystems/smf10.php
/includes/usersystems/smf11.php

Download current Subdreamer archive and upload above files, no further action required.

[Tobias]

Patch #4 - Fixed issues:
Enhanced article title link conversion (e.g. french, norwegian)
It's still possible that I missed certain characters, so this somewhat a "work in progress"
Fixed avatar display for vBulletin 3.7beta (Pro version)Changed Files:
/includes/functions.php
/includes/usersystems/vbulletin3.php

Download current Subdreamer archive and upload above files, no further action required.

I personally thank our customers providing us site access in order to replicate and directly solve issues!

[Tobias]

Patch #5 - Fixed issues:
Enhanced again article title link conversion (turkish characters)
It's still possible that I missed certain characters, so this is a "work in progress" until we find a "wholy grail" solution :rolleyes:
Comments: fixed "Page not found" for comments links
Articles: fixed "Category:" selection in IE
Articles: fixed: no more "Read more" link if only the description exists
VVC links: using & in link for better W3C validation
Admin: fixed deletion of usegroups
Admin: fix for internal PHP notices when editing a categoryChanged Files:
/admin/adminfunctions.php
/admin/mycategories.php
/admin/usergroups.php
/includes/functions.php
/plugins/p2_news/news.php

Download current Subdreamer archive and upload above files, no further action required. Please be aware of previous patch posts, too!

IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTE:
While working on support tickets in recent weeks, I several times noticed wrong folder and file permissions on customer sites.

General rule: please make sure that folders are set to "0755" and files to "0644"!

Only exceptions to the rule are folders where images or files are uploaded, which need to be "0777", for example:
/admin/backup
/images
/images/smilies (IF you intend to upload your own)
/plugins/p6_contact_form (for attachments)
/plugins/p13_download_manager/ftpfiles
/plugins/p13_download_manager/images
/plugins/p13_download_manager/import
/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images
/plugins/p17_image_gallery/upload

Files with ".php", ".htm*" and ".js" extension of Subdreamer should always be set to "0644", not only for security reasons, but also to avoid server errors!
Especially check your "includes/config.php" file, which in most cases can even be set to "0640" instead of "0644".

Please re-check your Subdreamer installation, also after cloning plugins.

[blah_thomas]

Tobias can you make check/error for this folder chmod? I didnt even realise myself that it needs to be changed..aka just like the admin/backup or images folders

/plugins/p6_contact_form (for attachments)

[Tobias]

Patch #6 - Fixed issues:
Articles: fixed pagination links with SEO URLs enabled
Fixed: if "home" category has no friendly name with "Friendly URLs" enabled, parameters and links were not processed correctlyChanged Files:
/includes/functions.php
/index.php

Download current Subdreamer archive and upload above files, no further action required. Please be aware of previous patch posts, too!

[Zagis]

There is an encoding problem with SEO URLs in a Greek language. Also, when you go back to the old URLs format, the article title links are broken and still having wrong encoding.

[Zagis]

Zagis: we have to look into this in detail; however, the "old" links/titles should work just as before.
Thanks for answering... :)

Please take a look at the attachment and then click here for testing (http://www.malinoiscanary.gr/care).

[Tobias]

Subdreamer 2.5.1

We work a lot and fast to resolve open issues with the Subdreamer core and have been also busy in providing professional support for a multitude of support tickets since the official release. We'd like to thank all customers for their patience and assistance during resolution of problems, in the end making Subdreamer more stable and powerfull.

A note from the development team:
The newly introduced SEO URL's for articles are working great for some languages (mostly latin-based), but we see the need to further refine and enhance the url writing for more languages than initially anticipated.
If article links are not correctly displayed (i.e. with % in it), please deactivate the "Use SEO links" option under "Article Settings" till a later time when we can provide a better solution. We understand that this may be an inconvenience, but this issue is quite a technical challenge and we're working on it, thank you for your understanding.

Fixes included in this release (in addition to earlier patches):
Several fixes for Articles and Latest Articles related to link generation with SEO option enabled/disabled; also with Article plugin being in "Home" category with no Friendly URL set; pagination of articles should finally work again, too.
Articles plugin: added options "Title Link" and "Bold Title" as the Latest News has it, but if an article has only a description, the title will not be displayed regardless of the Title Link option.
Titles are now displayed "as is" (without entity conversion) as not all character sets are supported (PHP related; problems with display of e.g. Greek titles should be solved now).
For better output styling, please add CSS styles for classes "articletitle" and "articletitlelink" if needed.
Latest Articles: removed SEO option as it uses now by default the option of the source Article plugin
Latest Posts: fixed a problem with older vBulletin versions where a specific table did not exist; also improved the permission handling for vBulletin to (not) display "admin only" forum threads.
IMPORTANT fix for phpBB3 integration: the "GUESTS" usergroup was wrongly mapped internally
phpBB2 integration: reverted a 2.4.4-RC code change to "clean up" usernames as the forum does, but some customers experienced problems with login into their site (e.g. French accentuated characters)
SMF 1.1.x integration: fix for cookie handling to make it persistent
Internal fix related to PHP 5.x causing problems with rewriting of links causing potentially wrong category target linksChanged Files (since last 2.5.0 patch! For techies only! :) ):
/admin/login/adminlogin_phpbb3.php
/includes/functions.php
/includes/gloabalfunctions.php
/includes/pluglib.php
/includes/usersystems/phpbb2.php
/includes/usersystems/phpbb3.php
/includes/usersystems/smf10.php
/includes/usersystems/smf11.php
/index.php
/install/*
/plugins/p2_news/news.php
/plugins/p3_latest_news/install.php
/plugins/p3_latest_news/latestnews.php
/plugins/p8_latest_posts/latestposts.php

Customers, who may not want or cannot follow patches, please upload the full distribution archive to be on the safe side.

This release requires an upgrade as usual, so do not miss to upload the "install" folder and once upload has completed, run the "upgrade" script after upload (see "support" page for install/upgrade manuals).

All technically gifted customers who have followed the recent patches may use the "Changed Files" list to upgrade their existing installation, but uploading the full archive is still the recommended procedure.

[Mastiha]

I noticed there now and embed video button in Tinymce.

However, it doesn't seem to work if I embed a youtube video for example.

Am I doing something wrong?

The only way I can currently embed a video is to switch WYSIWYG off, create the article with the embeded link surrounded by <p></p>, save it and turn WYSIWYG back on. This then works however if I edit that article again with WYSIWYG on, it breaks it.

[Tobias]

Subdreamer 2.5.2 available for download

Please download the SD 2.5.2 distribution and re-upload all files as per the "Changed Files" list earlier today, I deeply apologise for today's hassle!

Please upgrade to 2.5.2. This will fix the interim problems with the Latest News plugin and also fix another problem with phpBB3 integration.

[Darth Pincho]

Hi latest articles plugin still have a problem in the pagination when its located at the home page.

www.tupincho.net (http://www.tupincho.net)

Look at the center column, last plugin and try to use navigation numbers. 2, 3, 4 and so on shows exactly the same articles.

I update to 2.5.2 and the plugin version is 1.1.1 the latest versions of all files. I also manually detele functions.php and index.php and reupload them. Something is not working friend.

Edited:-----------

I ve also noted that the plugin is not linking to the SEO urls beside i have them enabled (check my site). I thinks this is and old version zipped to the 1.1.1 by mistake.

[Tobias]

Subdreamer 2.5.2 - Patch #1

Fixes included in this patch (since yesterday's 2.5.2 release):
Latest Articles: if the "Grouping" option is enabled, no pagination will be displayed
Articles plugin: editing an article should work again with e.g. Thai language (reverted a 2.4.4-RC change for the WYSIWYG editor which was actually recommended by TinyMCE)
Rewrite of upgrade steps to 2.3.5 and 2.4.0 to avoid rare SQL errors
IMPORTANT fixes for phpBB3 and vBulleting integration:
additional checking was required for admins and guests for both admin and frontpage area (Pro version)
The distribution archive now contains by default the "tools" folder which is only needed upon urgend problems to unintegrate a forum or create a new admin user. Should only be used upon advice of our support staff.Changed Files (since 2.5.2 release):
/admin/login/*
/includes/pluglib.php
/includes/usersystems/*
/install/*
/plugins/p2_news/p2_settings.php
/plugins/p3_latest_news/latestnews.php

It is highly recommended to (re-)upload above folders marked with "*" completely.

[mongeron]

Tobias i need some help on this as soon as you can. Because i have 1000+ indexed pages on google that are not working wth the new urls. For example: http://www.tupincho.net/Entrenamiento_y_Rutinas_de_Ejercicios

Now is:
http://www.tupincho.net/Articulos/Entrenamiento_y_Rutinas_de_Ejercicios

I will disable subcategories in urls until you debug this little error. I think that an automated redirection to the right new url is needed.

When I implemented the subcategory URLs option, I did manual rewrite rules in .htaccess like this:

RewriteRule ^subcategory(.*)$ ^category/subcategory$1$ [R=301,L]

So, this redirects every URL starting with subcategory to the new place.

There could be code that makes this redirection automatically.. It would be something like this:

If categorypart of the URL is 1 unit long AND subcategory URLs are enabled, then execute the redirection code.

In the redirection code, find out the category ID for the category, then call RewriteLink with that category ID, and make a 301 redirect to that URL.

- mongeron

[Tobias]

Subdreamer 2.5.2 - Patch #2

Fixes included in this patch (since 2.5.2's Patch #1 release):
Reviewed output of multiple core plugins for better validation
Contact Form: on some skins (e.g. Core) it would "break" through the design, fixed (contained in it's own div now)
vBulletin: fixed a duplicate avatar image "alt=" tag (Pro version)
Fixed a general email encoding issue (message text was not converted to quoted printable format)
Fixed potential SQL error in Chatterbox plugin if username had quotes in it.
Login Panel: the "Admin" link is now also shown if the user has "Moderator" permissions
Friendly URLs: if an URL has the category name with different capital/lowercase characters (e.g. "news" instead of "News"), a permanent redirect (301) is performed; enhanced to now also include any variables (such as article number etc.).
Regression fix for article editing, should work again fine for e.g. Thai language.Special case handling for option "Subcategories in URLs" (Main Settings):
There are now 2 special redirects (301) implemented (for Friendly URLs being enabled):

a) if the option is ON (multiple categories allowed/expected), but an URL with only 1 category is passed and the categoryid > 1, it will be redirected to the new URL with all sub-categories.

b) if the option is OFF (only a single category allowed), but an URL with 2 or more categories is passed, it will be redirected to the "normal" friendly URL without sub-categories.

In both cases any included URL variables, e.g. "p2_articleid/6", are also included in the redirected URL.

Changed Files (since Patch #1 release):
/includes/usersystems/*.php
/includes/functions.php
/includes/globalfunctions.php
/plugins/p2_news/*.php
/plugins/p3_latest_news/latestnews.php
/plugins/p4_guestbook/guestbook.php
/plugins/p6_contact_form/contactform.php
/plugins/p7_chatterbox/chatterbox.php
/plugins/p10_mi_loginpanel/loginpanel.php
/plugins/p10_mi_loginpanel/pminfo.php
/plugins/p11_mi_usercp/usercp.php
/plugins/p16_link_directory/link_directory.php
/index.php

It is highly recommended to (re-)upload above folders marked with "*" completely in any case.

[emmi]

Im also noticing my Article titles being messed up with some strange letters in the Admin panel, displayes correctly on the page itself.

For example "Gagnrýni: WipEout Pulse" is displayed as "Gagnr&yacute;ni: WipEout Pulse"

[Chris Powell]

Tobias, whats causing the gap between the bottom article link to the end of the plugin (please see homepage) ...

[Tobias]

Subdreamer 2.5.2 - Patch #3

Changed files:
/includes/functions.php
/includes/globalfunctions.php
/plugins/p3_latest_news/latestnews.php

Please upload these 2 files asap from the just now updated distribution. The last patch may have caused e.g. article titles to be displayed strangely in the admin panel.

[Tobias]

2.5.2 Patch #4 - Fixed issues:

Articles: further enhanced redirecting of SEO-enabled/disabled articles if the "Use SEO title", Friendly URLs or "Sub-Categories in URLs" was changed. Multiple cases have been tested to make "old" links redirection work for the current format.
IMPORTANT: the default URL extension for both articles and friendly category names is now ".html". Should any of your categories have ".htm" at the end, please rename it asap!
"Old" article links with ".htm" or ".php" extension are still accepted and not explicitely redirected (yet) as I'd need some feedback how this needs to be handled (404 not found or 301 redirected?)
IF a user does not have View permission for the target category or the Article plugin, they'll immediately get the Login Page and won't see any article title etc.
This allows to make articles or categories, which contain that plugin, pretty much private to non-authorised users.
URL's with non-existing article ID's now generate a "Page not found" 404 error immediately instead of showing the frontpage with the "article is offline" message.
Regression fix to make e.g. asian languages (Thai) work again in Article admin area as well as Main Setting's "Website Logo"
Included a new Thai language file (thanks to "testman")Changed Files since Patch #3:
/admin/mainsettings.php
/includes/globalfunctions.php
/includes/functions.php
/plugins/p2_news/p2_settings.php
/index.php

Please upload above files, no "upgrade" action required.


Darth Pincho: I'd like to get your feedback on the article redirects, also especially with regard to the extension handling, thanks.

emmi: This patch should also correct the display of the names in your Latest Posts display, please let me know.

[Zagis]

I'm still having a little problem with "latest posts". It doesn't show dots (...) in titles correctly

[Tobias]

2.5.2 Patch #5 - Fixed issues:
Several admin and core plugin files reviewed to revert 2.4.4-RC changes to WYSIWYG which did not work for all languages (e.g. Thai)
Related to above: fixed repeated system log warnings regarding "htmlspecialchars" for some character sets (e.g. Greek)
Latest News: no output of empty pagination block if only a single page is listed
Fixes in "install/install.php" as well as fixes to some admin files to support strict MySQL mode
Chatterbox: fixed SQL error when updating comments as admin
Fix for rare condition with forum integration, where an internal PHP error would cause a blank pageJust to repeat, fixes from earlier Patch #4:
IMPORTANT: the default URL extension for both articles and friendly category names is now ".html". Should any of your categories have ".htm" at the end, please rename it asap!
"Old" article links with ".htm" or ".php" extension are still accepted and not explicitely redirected (yet) as I'd need some feedback how this needs to be handled (404 not found or 301 redirected?)
IF a user does not have View permission for the target category or the Article plugin, they'll immediately get the Login Page and won't see any article title etc.
This allows to make articles or categories, which contain that plugin, pretty much private to non-authorised users.
URL's with non-existing article ID's now generate a "Page not found" 404 error immediately instead of showing the frontpage with the "article is offline" message.
Regression fix to make e.g. asian languages (Thai) work again in Article admin area as well as Main Setting's "Website Logo"
Included a new Thai language file (thanks to "testman")The below list contains filenames covering both Patch #4 and #5 to make sure that none should be missed. To keep it short, the entries marked with just "/*.php" mean to upload all these files.

Changed Files/Folders since Patch #3:
/admin/*.php
/admin/languages/Thai.php (if needed)
/admin/login/*.php
/includes/usersystems/*.php
/includes/*.php
/plugins/p2_news/p2_settings.php
/plugins/p3_latestnews/latestnews.php
/plugins/p7_chatterbox/p7_settings.php
/plugins/p16_link_directory/p16_settings.php
/plugins/p17_image_gallery/p17_settings.php
/index.php
For fresh installs:
/install/install.php

Please upload above files/folders, no "upgrade" action required.

[Darth Pincho]

2.5.2 Patch #4 - Fixed issues:
Articles: further enhanced redirecting of SEO-enabled/disabled articles if the "Use SEO title", Friendly URLs or "Sub-Categories in URLs" was changed. Multiple cases have been tested to make "old" links redirection work for the current format.
IMPORTANT: the default URL extension for both articles and friendly category names is now ".html". Should any of your categories have ".htm" at the end, please rename it asap!
"Old" article links with ".htm" or ".php" extension are still accepted and not explicitely redirected (yet) as I'd need some feedback how this needs to be handled (404 not found or 301 redirected?)
URL's with non-existing article ID's now generate a "Page not found" 404 error immediately instead of showing the frontpage with the "article is offline" message.

Darth Pincho: I'd like to get your feedback on the article redirects, also especially with regard to the extension handling, thanks.


I will upload patch in a few minutes. Thanks a lot for your hard work.

Regarding to the extension is better to use .html than .htm

Taking in consideration that .html is a newer extension than .htm i presume google give more ranking points to the newer extensions. This is pure especulation, nobody knows exactly how the google ranking algoritm works exactly. But according to all my readings in SEO stuff around the web .html is the bes extension for this case.

About the 404 vs 301 its easy to decide. 404 is the worst type of response that a visitor can get. THE WORST. SEO golden rules say: Never lost a visitor, never. If a visitor get a 404 error exist a 80% of probability he/she press back button and return to search engine for visiting a competitors webpage. If you dont have the exact page he/she is loking for redirect the most similar one. So 301 redirection is the best choice.

Another reason to use 301 is that indexed pages in search engines keep updated. Each visit the search engine will reindex the page with their new url and delete the old one automatically.

I will provide feedback on the patch 4 in a few minutes.

[Tobias]

Darth: for example, an URL is used with a non-existing article id. To my understanding this is a 404; how should I know where to redirect it to since the article could have existed in the past and e.g. deleted in the meantime.
Or is a 301 to a general "error page" required (instead of the default "not found" message)?
This is getting more complicated every day. :D

[Chris Powell]

going by what Matt Cutts (http://www.mattcutts.com) says, it doesnt matter what extention you use as long as its not something like .exe ( touch lol )

check this video where Matt Cutts mentions about extentions, 404/301's etc http://www.viddler.com/explore/jpozadzides/videos/2/

I find having no extention is the best though.

I personnally think ./root/about/ is better than

./root/about.htm
./root/about.html
./root/about.shtml
./root/about.asp
./root/about.php

etc etc etc etc

as for having 301 or 404 - 301 most definetly

example if a page was really popular and it had 100's of backlinks to the page the page would bound to have a highpage rank = that page appears high in search engine results. if for some reason the page gets lost out of many pages you have it'd be quite hard to track down the page to correct the page to make it show the correct content again. so having the page 301 to the homepage puts all the traffic/pagerank back into the homepage = increasing the chance of the page that was moved to another page/url etc of getting reinded a lot quicker. if you dont have the page back again. no problem. a lot of the backlinks wont dissppear and will be pointing to your 301 which goes to the homepage. so say if that article you lost/moved had a page rank of 4/5 it would go back into the homepage. sure you get the point. always best to redirect any lost/moved pages to the homepage !!!

i do it with all my 404's lol :D

[Darth Pincho]

2.5.2 Patch #5 - Fixed issues:
IMPORTANT: the default URL extension for both articles and friendly category names is now ".html". Should any of your categories have ".htm" at the end, please rename it asap!
"Old" article links with ".htm" or ".php" extension are still accepted and not explicitely redirected (yet) as I'd need some feedback how this needs to be handled (404 not found or 301 redirected?)

Well tobias. Congratulations. Great work. Here my feedback.

CASE 1: Old urls redirected well to SEO urls with NO subcategories activated.
example: www.tupincho.net/Piernas/p2_articleid/244 redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm

CASE 2: Old urls redirected well to SEO urls with YES subcategories activated
example: www.tupincho.net/Piernas/p2_articleid/244 redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net/Ejercicios/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm

CASE 3: New SEO urls with included subcategory are well redirected to SEO urls without subcategory if you have NO selected in the admin panel.
example: http://www.tupincho.net/Ejercicios/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm
redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm


New urls with .htmL extension display the right article with and without sucategories enabled. if you visit a .html extension you will see the same article than if you visit the .htm article.

Little bug:
1.- if you deactivate (select NO) subcategories in urls and a visitor come looking to a SEO subcategory url are bad redirected
example: http://www.tupincho.net/Ejercicios/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm are BAD redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net/Piernas ARTICLE WAS LOST.

the right redirection should be:
http://www.tupincho.net/Ejercicios/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm have to be redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net/Piernas/gemelos-en-maquina-guia-de-los-movimientos-de-musculacion-frederic-delavier-4ta-edicion-espanol-a244.htm

There is only this case left to have a perfect SEO management system for urls.

Regarding what you say about .htmL extension is default, are not working in my site. I mean the extension itself works. But you have to imput the "L" manually in the url bar, because nowhere in my entire site a plugin shows the new .htmL extension as default for links. all the links in all the plugins ahows .htm extension. I dont know what you mean with the word default in this phrase of yours. May be i understand bad.

Let me give a BIG CONGRATULATION to SD team. The work you put on this release is tremendous. And the results for our sites will be great, im plenty sure of that. Keep working like that men!! Subdreamer is definetly the best CMS ive ever seen.

[Darth Pincho]

going by what Matt Cutts (http://www.mattcutts.com) says, it doesnt matter what extention you use as long as its not something like .exe ( touch lol )

check this video where Matt Cutts mentions about extentions, 404/301's etc http://www.viddler.com/explore/jpozadzides/videos/2/

I find having no extention is the best though.

I personnally think ./root/about/ is better than

./root/about.htm
./root/about.html
./root/about.shtml
./root/about.asp
./root/about.php

etc etc etc etc

as for having 301 or 404 - 301 most definetly

example if a page was really popular and it had 100's of backlinks to the page the page would bound to have a highpage rank = that page appears high in search engine results. if for some reason the page gets lost out of many pages you have it'd be quite hard to track down the page to correct the page to make it show the correct content again. so having the page 301 to the homepage puts all the traffic/pagerank back into the homepage = increasing the chance of the page that was moved to another page/url etc of getting reinded a lot quicker. if you dont have the page back again. no problem. a lot of the backlinks wont dissppear and will be pointing to your 301 which goes to the homepage. so say if that article you lost/moved had a page rank of 4/5 it would go back into the homepage. sure you get the point. always best to redirect any lost/moved pages to the homepage !!!

i do it with all my 404's lol :D

Ok, plenty agree with the extension .htm vs .html.

But about the redirection, i think that you have to redirect to your homepage if your article was lost or deleted ONLY. If you change the name of the article you will give a better user navigation experience redirecting he/she to the propper new article url.


Definetly 301 redirection is the way to go. 404 errors waste traffic, page rank and good visitor experience.

[Darth Pincho]

2.5.2 Patch #5 - Fixed issues:
URL's with non-existing article ID's now generate a "Page not found" 404 error immediately instead of showing the frontpage with the "article is offline" message..

This case needs to be redirected to the home page.

And talking abot home page redirection, remember to fix this little bug.

http://www.tupincho.net/home/ is being redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net//

The propper redirection is:
http://www.tupincho.net/home/ --> http://www.tupincho.net/

This is a big pagerank leak for the home page. And this can be the difference betwen having a pr2 or pr3 homepage. I report this some days ago, but with all the other bugs this apparently was missed. jejeje LOL

[Tobias]

Well, what can I say... excellent customers, excellent feedback, thanks! :)
The "l" in the ".html" extension is currently missing in one of the functions, so 3 issues left for me to check with this right now.

[Chris Powell]

Ok, plenty agree with the extension .htm vs .html.

But about the redirection, i think that you have to redirect to your homepage if your article was lost or deleted ONLY. If you change the name of the article you will give a better user navigation experience redirecting he/she to the propper new article url.


Definetly 301 redirection is the way to go. 404 errors waste traffic, page rank and good visitor experience.

hey

yeah well i think in order staring with the best is this

./about/
./about.html
./about.htm
./about.php

as for redirections of course if you want to change a page name etc then you would set up a custom redirect yourself so the old page redirects to the new. but its very rare webmasters need to do that. i just mean its just best to automatically use 301 for lost pages only, that mysteriously go missing or get deleted due to restoring your website from an old back kind of thing

if Matt Cutts says it doesn’t matter about the extensions though thats its exactly that. he works for Google and has no reason to say otherwise as its completely white hat seo.

hey im no expert though. just from how i go about seo etc to get good rankings gets me good results so i aint complaining. :cool:

[Darth Pincho]

Im agree with you chris

The only reason to do a massive redirection is migrating form one type of urls to another one different. But implementing the new SEO urls are exactly this type of thing.

[Darth Pincho]

Hi tobias. I detect a new bug. Thsi time with login panel plugin.

All my moderators are seeing a link to the admin panel, something that in past do not happens. There is something wrong with the permissions. Or at least is wrong using the same phrase. This is not the administrator panel, is the moderator panel.

I login with a test moderator user and i see that can only access aprove or disaprove comments for articles. That is right. But is very dangerous that one bug in the future with permissions can allow moderators access the Administrator COntrol panel. How are you controlling that moderators cannot access the admin ACP?? i think is better for security have another directory caller /moderator/index.php instead admin/index.php. That way i can protect my admin/ folder using a password (apache) and moderators will have another Control panel in a complete different folder. At least thats the way phpbb manage this same issue.

I think, this plugin need an extra language field to say moderator panel.

[Tobias]

Darth: I agree that it needs enhancing due to .htacess protection and a new phrase. I think this is a good thing 2.5.3 then. :)

[Darth Pincho]

Hi tobias im having extreme problems with the forum integration in phpbb2. My users cant log in. I have to clena all cokies and temporary internet files. Once logged in its impossible to post in the forum of my site. You try to post and fill the text for the post, then when you click the submit button the forum kill the session and log you out.

I have about 12 hours without new posts in the forum. Also its impossible to get into the forum admin panel. When you click the admin panel link you are redirected to the forum home page.

Im using latest SD 2.5 patch and phpbb 2.0.22

Please take a look at this.

[Darth Pincho]

Problem solved restoring admin/forumintegration/phpbb2.php version included in the 2.4 package and applying the autocookies utility for phpbb2 http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=228741

But the 2.5.2 SD forum integration still have a bug. I only go back to previus version. I think is the cookie domain. Check it

[Tobias]

And talking abot home page redirection, remember to fix this little bug.

http://www.tupincho.net/home/ is being redirected to --> http://www.tupincho.net//

What is the Friendly Category Name for your "Home" category? This should be empty in this case.

I'll review both the phpBB2 issue as well as the missing SEO redirects, but I really need some time and the pressure is already high enough. ;)

[Alvar9000]

Problem solved restoring admin/forumintegration/phpbb2.php version included in the 2.4 package and applying the autocookies utility for phpbb2 http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=228741

But the 2.5.2 SD forum integration still have a bug. I only go back to previus version. I think is the cookie domain. Check it


I have the same problem. after installing the 2.4.3.1 version of the /includes/usersystems/phpbb2.php and works perfect

if you have forum integration but NOT skin forum this problem doesn´t appear

I have phpBB 2.0.23 installed

[midea]

Hi,

I do no know if this has been reported, but I just installed version 2.5.2 and nothing can be saved.
I try to change the skin, nothing is happening. I change the URL, site title, got changed first time, I go back to complete the rest, it all vanishes like if I never filled the main settings.
I suspected a DB issue, so I wiped it out, did a complete Fresh install from scratch, same issue.

Thank you

[Tobias]

midea: I replied to your support ticket, but please check this: SD folder permissions should be 0755; folders for file uploads, like p17_image_gallery/upload or /plugins (for cloning) should 0777; files with ".php" extension should be 0644.

[a squared]

Just wanted to post a word of thanks for Tobias. He's been working terribly hard on v2.5 and now all the updates to it. So, Tobias, thank you for all the hard work and time that you are putting into this. Your work is greatly appreciated.

[Tobias]

2.5.2 Patch #6 - Fixed issues:
Admin: reviewed the "Clone Plugin" process to output status messages and correctly set folder and file permissions and it should be much fast for plugins with non-php files.
By default now the contents of Image Gallery's uploaded images as well as Download Manager uploaded files are no longer cloned, too.
Admin: the "Image Manager" should now correctly set permissions for uploaded images (should be 0644, could have been 0600)
phpBB2 Forum Integration: reverted file back to the version of 2.4.3.1 due to several issue reports.
Latest Posts: fixed a potential SQL with vBulletin integrated if a user had no assigned usergroup.
Guestbook: fixed deletion of selected entries in admin area
Articles/core: with "Friendly URLs" being off, it was still creating links with SEO title, which is not supported
Article default SEO title extension (.html) fixed, it was missing the "l"
Article SEO links: added more redirections for special cases; an invalid article number now redirects to homepage
Added updated Russian translation file
Fixed inlcuded "tools.php" file as previous archive had a version with different links in it.Changed files for upload:
/admin/*.php
/admin/languages/Russian.php (if needed)
/admin/login/*.php
/includes/usersystems/*.php
/includes/*.php
/plugins/p4_guestbook/p4_settings.php
/plugins/p8_latest_posts/latestposts.php
/index.php

Please upload above files/folders, no "upgrade" action required.

[Darth Pincho]

Hi tobias. I have not applied the last patch yet. But i upgrade my forum to phpbb3 and i have some minnor skinning problems.

The problem is the character set. In my SD panel i have set iso-8859-1 as the defaul character set. But when i skin phpbb i check the source code and appears utf-8. Please review the skinforum.php file or the addecuate one in order to fix this.

The special accents characters áéíóú and ñ are not displayed correctly in:

http://www.tupincho.net/foro/

[Zagis]

There is a redirection problem with non SEO URLs in articles. There must be in index.php file because works fine with index patch #5

[Tobias]

Hi Zagis,
do you have an example, please? I'd very much like to get all SEO problems solved asap. :)

[Zagis]

Surre...

Just click on my sig and then in an article link on home page :)

You'll get an "wrong redirection page" in firefox. This is getting fixed if I upload the index.php file from the previous patch

[testman]

Tobias (http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/member.php?u=16617) I Create Thai language v3.0 Pleas include in SD for new Patch

Detail for thai lang v3.0
- Add thai word Phrases for subdreamer v2.5.2 and charecter set tis-620
and thai word Phrases for pre plugin
- Fix missing some thai word not complete

Thank you Tobias.

[mongeron]

Not doing this means lost a visitor and loose incomming links and page rank. In this way all the page rank will be transferred to you home page

I think most of the users can read, and can click the "Go to homepage" link on the error page...

Page rank is not the only issue here. It is also about the content. By sending a 301 redirect to google, you are telling that the content from this page can be found at the home page, which is not true. The content is lost when the article is no longer there.

A good article on this issue: http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-404-error.asp

There you can see the table on the middle of the page, which shows the issues with both approaches.

A negative issue for redirection is possible duplicate content problem.

The article also mentions that any redirects from 404 error pages are bad.

So, my opinion still is that 404 should be used in these cases. Of course this can be made an option in Subdreamer, so the webmaster can select which one to use.

- mongeron

[Darth Pincho]

Darth: phpBB3 uses "utf-8" as character set as all posts will be in utf-8, this cannot be changed. Where do you see the wrongly displayed characters?

mongeron: if an article does not exist, how about sending 404 header, but still redirecting to the target category (if that still exists)?

ggoodrick: I'll look into the link directory problems asap.

Tobias, look the attached picture:

[Mr_Bob]

Just noticed this via a report one of my members made. Users for some reason have the ability to delete, edit, and unapprove their own comments *and without the permissions to do so...at least it's there own, but still rather critical*. Integration with Vbulletin 3.6.8 is being used. I'm speaking of the article plugin in particular.

[Tobias]

2.5.3 - Fixed issues:
Link Directory: rewrote a lot of code for output to correctly support both Javascript being on or off; fixed also a broken "previous" link.
Articles: added new option 'Redirect Invalid Article' to either redirect with 301 to homepage OR error with 404 if an invalid article id was specified
Article SEO links: again reviewed the redirections
Added updated Thai translation file (thanks to "testman")
Image Gallery: small change to make sure both image title and image are centered (with popup disabled).
Fresh installs will have the "Use SEO titles" (Article plugin) and "Use Forum Displayname" (MI - Login Panel) options set to "No" by default now.Customers that can not follow the frequent updates are highly advised to fully upload all files/folders of the distribution "upload" folder, with subfolders and "automatic" transfer mode in FTP client!

Changed files since patch #6 of 2.5.2:
/admin/languages/Thai.php (if needed)
/includes/functions.php
/plugins/p16_link_directory/link_directory.php
/plugins/p17_image_gallery/imagegallery.php
/index.php

...and of course upload the "install" folder!

Please perform the "upgrade" action after upload as usual.

Sidenote from myself:
the past weeks have been stressfull and partially painfull for some customers who ran into technical problems due to either newly introduced bugs - for which I'm deeply sorry - or till that time undetected issues which could only be uncovered with more customers actually upgrading or installing fresh.
Now with 2.5.3 all major issues should be resolved, little tweaks are surely needed in some cases or circumstances. Therefore from now on we'll no longer use "patches", but "updates". Only in case of database changes, including core plugin settings, the version number will change.
I thank again for all the great feedback we received from around the globe (literally) and your continued patience in bringing Subdreamer to the next level - after just roughly 8 weeks of coding. ;)
- Tobias

[corones]

Amazing job Tobias and the subdreamer team... Thank you guys ^^

[Chris Powell]

No. My friendly name for home category is "home" but if you type:

http://www.tupincho.net/home/ you are redirected to http://www.tupincho.net// with the double // at the end

not sure why your getting that.

if i goto http://www.djpassion.co.uk/home/ i just get a 403

so i created a redirect in cpanel

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.djpassion.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^home/?$ http://www.djpassion.co.uk [R=301,L]

try doing that Darth

[Mr_Bob]

This is what I'm getting *I've hijacked one of my member's accounts, hopefully they don't come to subdreamer.com :D*. I've bleeped usernames for privacy, the guy with the Yankees avatar is a site moderator so he does not notice a difference *he thought the comments were arranged in reverse order, hehe*. The user with the odd creature holding a lantern is the logged in normal user.

*see attachment*

I've updated everything to 2.5.3, rewrote all the files, etc...and still this. I've tried editing with this account and the edit will not go through and deleting just deletes their comment, so I'm not too worried, it's just really odd to have.

[Darth Pincho]

Hi tobias. Im testing the SEO urls:

Now .html is in fact the default extension. But if you delete the "L"at the extension in the url the page also exist and shows the same content. Thsi introduces a door to duplicate content. So all .htm extensions have to be redirected to html extensions. This is not too urgent due that this SEO urls are new and google does not have this url indexed yet. But its always important to not allow duplicates.

Congratulations for your REALLY HARD work. This product is awesome. There is a lot of enchancements pending. But with the speed of tobias i thik SD will skyrocket their sales this year. Im really happy with the support guys. Keep working in that way.

[Darth Pincho]

Link directory sections are not working. I had to move all my links to the root of the directory in order for them to display.

I have my links directory working perfectly fine with 2.5.3
http://www.tupincho.net/links/p16_sectionid/6

Reupload all your files again, maybe this will help.

[Tobias]

Darth: Thanks a lot for retesting, appreciated a lot!
However, I think the duplicates issue isn't really one since now the links have always the same extension and for those, which might gotten indexed in the past days, well, it's more hassle to add even more redirects - and Google wouldn't just leave out the "l", right? ;) I'm leaving it as is for now.

[Darth Pincho]

Hi tobias i detect some minnor bug in functions.php

Im using p54 plugin, sitemap generator. Then in that plugin there is a call to RewriteNewsLinks as follows:

$url = RewriteNewsLink($categoryid,$news['articleid'],null,null,2);For some reason in functions.php line 1106 the variable $sd_article_seo is empty and the function returns old urls to the sitemap generator plugin.

I echo 2 variables: $sd_article_seo and $mainsettings['modrewrite']. The first one is empty, so old urls are returned. I check my SD configuration and i have YES in the main settings for SEO urls, also i set YES for articles plugin SEO settings.

I comment the functions.php code in this way (note /* and */):
// IF the article plugin "Use SEO title" option is off, use regular RewriteLink:
if(/*empty($sd_article_seo) || */ empty($mainsettings['modrewrite']))
{
return RewriteLink('index.php?categoryid='.$categoryid.'&p'.$pluginid.'_articleid='.$articleid.
(isset($page) && ($page > 1) ? ('&p'.$pluginid.'_page='.$page) : ''));
}And the p54 sitemap generator outputs the right SEO urls like:
<urlset>
−
<url>
<loc>http://www.tupincho.net/</loc>
<priority>0.5</priority>
<lastmod>2008-03-17T13:23:47-05:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
</url>
−
<url>
−
<loc>
http://www.tupincho.net/culturismo-musculacion-y-esteroides-anabolicos-anabolizantes-a9.html
</loc>
<priority>1.0</priority>
<lastmod>2008-03-14T20:50:44-05:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>

So this variable needs a little review.

[Tobias]

The Sitemap plugin needs to add the variable in it's function as global.

[Tobias]

... on the other hand a different way (by "define") would prevent this problem for other occasions/circumstances as well, thanks for the heads-up, Darth.

[Sveat]

Hello,
In next version 2.5.4 Subdreamer will have SEO in Image Gallery ?

For example :

http://website.com/Image_Gallery/Yesterdayparty/title_of_photo-idphoto.html


For example :
http://website.com/Image_Gallery/Yesterdayparty/super/katy-1.html
http://website.com/Image_Gallery/Yesterdayparty/super/victoria-2.html
http://website.com/Image_Gallery/Olala/suzy-45.html

Because it's not good and not beautiful :::: /Images_Gallery/p17_image_gallery/423 :(

[Tobias]

SD 2.5.3 Updated

Fixed issues:
Image Gallery: editing the root section made it "lost" on the frontpage
phpBB2 / phpBB3 integration: improved cookie/session handling (e.g. phpBB3 was counting too many Guests; PM counts in Login Panel for phpBB3 fixed)
Added new "Spanish-Venezuala" language file (thanks to "Pincho")
Several smaller or internal fixes.New: Hover Menu - Forum transliteration
The hover menu can now be transliterated for the Forum Skinning process (if the skin offers a "forummenu.php"). Note: in this first step, the below is only applied if there are multiple levels of menu items.

This may become required if Subdreamer has as it's "Character Set" set to e.g. "iso-8859-1", but the forum uses a different one, e.g. "utf-8".
There is currently no automatic way from within the core and requires for now a manual code change in one skin file:
From your active skin's folder open the file "forummenu.php" and find this line in it:
CreateHoverMenu();Change that line to include the forum's character set (and the "0,1,") like this:
CreateHoverMenu(0,1,'iso-8859-9'); // <-- forum character set!!!Replace the iso-8859-9 to your forum's character set, save the file and upload it to your server in the active skin's folder.

Customers that can not follow the frequent updates are highly advised to fully upload all files/folders of the distribution "upload" folder, with subfolders and "automatic" transfer mode in FTP client!

Changed files:
/admin/*.php
/admin/languages/*.php (if needed)
/includes/converttables/* (NEW!)
/includes/*.php
/plugins/*
/index.php

Please upload all files and folders (+subfolders) as outlined above!

[Tobias]

SD 2.5.3 - IMPORTANT FIX:

In case you use certain "Character Set", it is possible that the frontpage will display a blank page. This issue has been fixed and is available immediately for download (in the 2.5.3 download).

Please download SD 2.5.3 asap and upload these files immediately:
/includes/core.php
/includes/ConvertCharset.class.php
/converttables/*

[ChrisChristian]

Tobias, please update the lang file for portuguese brazilian in SD.

Subdreamer still has version 1.0. The latest version is 2.1. Get it here:
http://subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9937

[william]

Tobias I must say I am indeed impressed by the new update. I wished that I had time to give feedback during the process, but my life has been very busy of late.

However I wanted to give you a note of appreciation that all went well from 2.4.3.1 to 2.5.3, even the extra files you just updated abit over an hour ago. All went nice. So far all my plugins work without issues and the site functions completely normal !!

Of to update my personal site and a couple of customers!

Keep up the great work!

[Tobias]

Thank you William! It's very nice to hear this! :)

[emmi]

Had any chance to look at the "Link Directory" problem?

[kernel]

My log file is full with this errors:

[20-Mar-2008 20:24:03] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function sd_redirect() in /home/nalov/public_html/index.php on line 15

[Tobias]

kernel: Make sure to have uploaded all files of 2.5.3.

[Darth Pincho]

Well as i can see anyone have another bug to report. This means this is the final relase. Congratulations tobias. Very good Job.

[Tobias]

Ohh unfortunately there are still some "special cases" I have to deal with but the past week has been much more quiet support-wise, a good sign. :)

[Chris Powell]

hi tobias not sure whether this is a big problem or not but i noticed that when in the submit article window/section the template was out a bit. bit hard to explain really but if you check now youll noticed everythinks alligned ok but if you reupload the original p2_news/news.php youll see the template go of screen

to get it to display correctly i changed this


// ########################### SUBMIT ARTICLE FORM ############################
function p2_SubmitArticle($author='', $title='', $description='', $article='')
{
global $categoryid, $userinfo, $inputsize, $sdlanguage, $p2_language, $p2_pluginid, $p2_settings;
echo '
<form method="post" action="' . RewriteLink('index.php?categoryid='.$categoryid.'&p'.$p2_pluginid.'_action=insertarticle') . '">
';
if($userinfo['loggedin'])
{
echo '<input type="hidden" name="p'.$p2_pluginid.'_author" value="' . $userinfo['username'] . '" />
<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
';
}


to this


// ########################### SUBMIT ARTICLE FORM ############################
function p2_SubmitArticle($author='', $title='', $description='', $article='')
{
global $categoryid, $userinfo, $inputsize, $sdlanguage, $p2_language, $p2_pluginid, $p2_settings;
echo '
<form method="post" action="' . RewriteLink('index.php?categoryid='.$categoryid.'&p'.$p2_pluginid.'_action=insertarticle') . '">
';
if($userinfo['loggedin'])
{
echo '<input type="hidden" name="p'.$p2_pluginid.'_author" value="' . $userinfo['username'] . '" />
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
';
}


see bold. look into it if you like. not sure whether the problem was just for my skin or not.

and yes its a bit quiter now :cool:

good work everyone, espically tobias !!! :D http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[alcapon]

Hi,

after update from V2.5.3 to V2.5.3 last patch, i got a Database error in Link Directory plugin!

Database Error Notification
Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO sd_p16_links VALUES (NULL, 3, 1, 1, 1, 'alcapon', 'Test', 'http://www.test.de', 'Ist ein Test')
Error: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1
Error number: 1136
Date: 'Tuesday 25th of March 2008 07:20:37 AM
Filename: /admin/myplugins.php
URI (cleaned):
***** Warning: potentially malicious URI detected *****
***** Please check server access logs for details *****


this error comes in Backend and Frontend.

regards michael

[Tobias]

Chris: thanks for that, will be fixed with 2.5.4.

Michael: are you using a modified version of the link directory? This plugin's table structure was not officially changed from 2.4.3.1 to 2.5.3..

[Chris Powell]

Ok, Tobias. No problem.

[alcapon]

Tobias:

i am so sorry....i found it! i used that modified "Link Directory" from jessenco. He updated the original plugin with new feature:

- Use SD CAPTCHA functionality
- Ability to add a logo or thumbnail above link descriptions
(does not resize logo neither generate thumbnail)
- Keep all columns width proportionally

i found it on sudreamer.org for long time ago...

the feature with logo, was my error. He makes a new entry in Database, called "thumbnail"! If a update to latest patch from Subdreamer, old code was make over and nothing works. I deleted my Database entry "thumbnail" and now all is perfect.

regards alcapon

[a squared]

The current version of TinyMCE in SD 2.5.3 is injecting garbage code. Highlighted in red below and can be found when viewing page source.


<a href="http://www.subdreamer.com/" mce_href="http://www.subdreamer.com/">
<img src="http://www.subdreamer.com/images/Image/key_features/wysiwyg.gif" mce_src="http://www.subdreamer.com/images/Image/key_features/wysiwyg.gif" height="120" width="120"></a>


This is very frustrating and really needs to go.

[Tobias]

For 2.5.4 I intend to add an admin WYSIWYG menu item to allow customisation of the TinyMCE configuration header.

[Jeff]

For 2.5.4 I intend to add an admin WYSIWYG menu item to allow customisation of the TinyMCE configuration header.

Will that be solving the issue around the garbage code? I'm still running on 2.4.3.1, but have the same issue when I work within Safari and edits are done through a pop up screen.

[Maxius]

I remember people talking about FCE editor. Why was it rejected in favor of the TinyMCE?

Tobias, does it mean we will be able to insert youtube clips WITH TinyMCE turned off? Because I need to turn it of each time, and that's really annoying.

[Tobias]

I can't promise anything as TinyMCE is a 3rd party product and we won't work on their code to achieve any different results. Moxiecode offers it's own forum and wiki on how to configure TinyMCE and we'll probably include links to their pages as well for everybody interested in changing the default config.

[Chris Powell]

yeah i mentioned about tinymce in another thread. real crap code used in that. one paragraph i made resulted in showing around 60 + errors when running it through w3c due to the crap tinymce throws out. wouldnt mind but a lot of it is easy code for them to fix. they just use wrong tags like <STRONG> instead of <strong> <P> instead of <p> , <A> instead of <a> this stuff was standard yonks ago. why they havent updated it for i dont know. easy to correct. i wouldnt know where to start going all through there code though so ive just disabled the tinymce feature in subdreamer admin and use my own xhtml vaild code instead. much cleaner pages = faster loading etc.

[Tobias]

WYSIWYG editor behavior update

If you should have experienced "unclean" tags in your HTML for e.g. articles or have had problems to embed a Flash object with the "Media" button, this is important for you. :)

The SD 2.5.3.2 archive has just been updated to enable again the automatic HTML cleaning (like "mce_href" tags added by Firefox) and therefore also fixing the flash embedding.

If you should have already downloaded it, you need to download the ZIP again now as it was just updated.

For this issue please make sure to re-upload this file to your server: /admin/adminfunctions.php

For testing then edit an article and/or try again to embedd a flash object (by clicking the "Media" button looking like a "celluloid strip") and view it on the frontpage.

[takingflite]

Tobias, thanks for all of your hard work.

Will this update address the skinning issue of vBulletin too, as I described in this thread. (http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11178)

You might want to check my support ticket for more details on this problem and the neccessary info related to it.

Thanks

[Tobias]

takingflite: I don't think so. The vB skinning code is the same as in 2.4.3.1; we're looking into this in the support ticket.

[Riki]

None of my forum dropdown menus seem to be working anymore, however I did a restore forum skin and they are even broke then. Is it possible the subdreamer skinning broke this?

[Chris Powell]

Riki, a link to your website would help. do you have the vBSEO plugin installed?

[Tobias]

Riki: after you used the "Restore Forum Skin" go to your vB admin panel and have it rebuild the theme/styles cache. At that point no SD code will be in vB anymore. If the links are then still broken, it's not related to SD.

[mongeron]

yeah i mentioned about tinymce in another thread. real crap code used in that. one paragraph i made resulted in showing around 60 + errors when running it through w3c due to the crap tinymce throws out. wouldnt mind but a lot of it is easy code for them to fix. they just use wrong tags like <STRONG> instead of <strong> <P> instead of <p> , <A> instead of <a> this stuff was standard yonks ago. why they havent updated it for i dont know. easy to correct. i wouldnt know where to start going all through there code though so ive just disabled the tinymce feature in subdreamer admin and use my own xhtml vaild code instead. much cleaner pages = faster loading etc.

Actually one culprit there is your browser and its internal representation of HTML. Many browsers still use the HTML 4.0 way internally to store HTML documents. This means, that the tags are often in upper case etc.

I think TinyMCE fixes these with the right options, at least the output is nice when using TinyMCE in Firefox. I have no experience with other browsers and TinyMCE.

- mongeron

[Tobias]

Fyi, the TinyMCE output should be clean again with the latest update.

[Tobias]

Please note the Hotfix #1 (http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11257) announcement.

[ChrisChristian]

Tobias, please update the lang file for portuguese brazilian in SD.

Subdreamer still has version 1.0. The latest version is 2.1. Get it here:
http://subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9937

253 days later, the oldest langfile version 1.0 is still present in the the current 2.5.3.2 download package. Ok.

[Tobias]

Hi Chris,
thanks for the reminder, it'll be included with the next update.

[ChrisChristian]

Hi Chris,
thanks for the reminder, it'll be included with the next update.

Thank you! :)

Please see this thread:
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=11303

EDIT:

The Forum News plugin has a bug in IPB with the QUOTE tag.

When a user is logged in, the tag is not parsed. It only parses the tag when a user is logged out.

[wxtracker93]

Hello,

It appears there are issues with Subdreamer and the Safari browser. The WYSIWYG editor does not work (after making changes and clicking Update Plugin, changes do not take affect).

Also, on the category page, the list of plugins do not load.

[Tobias]

ChrisChristian: please open a Bug Report in the Bug Tracker for the Forum News plugin, please.

wxtracker93: I'll look into this, though I only have the Safari Win version available. Does the problem also exist in IE7 or FF2 for you (if available)?

[wxtracker93]

Hi Tobias, the problem does not exist in Firefox or Internet Explorer.

[Tobias]

Brett: I tried Safari with editing a category and plugins show up fine. If this does not work for you, is there any setting in your Safari which would prevent JavaScript to be blocked/ignored?

[wxtracker93]

Tobias, I tried disabling and then enabling Javascript and the problem still exists. The problem didn't exist until I upgraded to 2.5.3.2.

I haven't installed the Hotfixes if that matters. Were there any issues that were resolved in the Hotfixes?

[ChrisChristian]

ChrisChristian: please open a Bug Report in the Bug Tracker for the Forum News plugin, please.


http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/project.php?issueid=234

:)

[Tobias]

Brett:
yes, to make sure download SD again and please re-upload the files mentioned in the 3 hotfixes in any case.

Chris: thanks :)

[Barabulka]

Hello Tobias, we have a problem. :)

It is about SEO of article conversion, its characters to be precise.

The site I'm making is in LITHUANIAN language. And this language has few unknown characters to english language.

Though some lithuanian characters converted normally - some of them failed :(

So here I give you the letters, which you could fix up right?

As of now here are the errors:

č Č -> into e E instead of c C
ę Ę -> into ae AE instead of e E
į Į -> into a A instead of i I
Š -> into d instead of S (thus the small letter š converts fine into s)
ų Ų -> into o O instead of u U

I have even posted this as an image, if your computer cant display these characters normally:

http://www.ipix.lt/images/14880558.gif

Eventhough I have tried to help the situation by editing functions.php file and add extra lines:


// the first below '-' char is (hex)2D, not (hex)20
$title = ereg_replace('([\!|\$\%|\#|\;|\:|\.|\,|\/|?|-|+|*|~|_]+)', '-', $title);
$title = str_replace("'", '', $title);
$title = str_replace('"', '', $title);
$title = str_replace('č', 'c', $title);
$title = str_replace('ę', 'e', $title);
$title = str_replace('ė', 'e', $title);
$title = str_replace('į', 'i', $title);
$title = str_replace('ū', 'u', $title);
$title = str_replace('š', 's', $title);
$title = str_replace('ų', 'u', $title);
$title = str_replace('ž', 'z', $title);
$title = str_replace('Ą', 'A', $title);
$title = str_replace('Č', 'C', $title);
$title = str_replace('Ę', 'E', $title);
$title = str_replace('Ė', 'E', $title);
$title = str_replace('Į', 'I', $title);
$title = str_replace('Ų', 'U', $title);
$title = str_replace('Š', 'S', $title);
$title = str_replace('Ū', 'U', $title);
$title = str_replace('Ž', 'Z', $title);
/*

[Tobias]

Thanks for the additional info, we'll add this soon.

[Tobias]

Barabulka: what "Character Set" have you set in Main Settings?

[Barabulka]

I have set WINDOWS-1257 charset.

[Barabulka]

I hope after celebrating your birthday you can look into my problem ;)

Cheers by the way, Tobias! :)

[wxtracker93]

Brett:
yes, to make sure download SD again and please re-upload the files mentioned in the 3 hotfixes in any case.

Chris: thanks :)

Hi Tobias,

I reuploaded all SD files however both problems still exist.

Should I submit a support ticket?

[Tobias]

Brett: yes, please use the Support Desk

[wxtracker93]

Ticket: 4915

[Chris Powell]

Hi Tobias

I updated my site with hotfix #4 and noticed youve added the Custom Page Title

A category may have a custom page title to be displayed e.g in the browser window.

I tested it but it doesnt seem to work. I entered Website into the field and updated the category page but when i checked the homepage there was no change. So i tabbed back over to the admin page and noticed the Custom Page Title field is blank so i guess it isnt saving correctly....

Ive been looking forward to the custom page title addition :cool:

[Tobias]

Yes, that field is not active yet but will be fully active and used with the next version update, which is coming next weekend.
Thanks for bringing it up, Chris.
Edit: removed that field display from the SD download.

[Chris Powell]

Ok great.

[mohachenawi]

My forum get messed up when I updated to to 2.5.3.2., I see CSS codes on the top, menu is compeletely messed and I don't see the forum.

I have phpbb3 and i am using a customiezed style.

[mohachenawi]

If I put the default SILVER style the website works normally , if I put my customized Style, it get mess with the CSS ????

[Tobias]

Hi,
please, if possible, open a support ticket. There seems to be an issue with the customized style which I'd need to take a look into.

[Darkwoods]

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[mohachenawi]

Hi,
please, if possible, open a support ticket. There seems to be an issue with the customized style which I'd need to take a look into.

My website is completely down, i have 4000 users and I can't have it down. How I can downgrade ???????

[Chris Powell]

noticed a little problem since upgrading

http://www.djpassion.co.uk/contact

the vvc image isnt displaying now

when do a properties check of image url it displays as

http://www.djpassion.co.uk/http://www.djpassion.co.uk/includes/vvc.php?vvcid=1193

for some reason its adding the domain name twice

http://www.djpassion.co.uk/includes/vvc.php?vvcid=1193

works fine

another hotfix need please, Tobias ; )

[Brent]

My website is completely down, i have 4000 users and I can't have it down. How I can downgrade ???????

Hi there,

Your problem description is quite unique so we will need to review what has happened in your case. Please submit a ticket.

On critical and live sites, you should have a development/test installation that you test run a major upgrade on before upgrading your live site. If you do upgrade your live site and experience problems, you can in these urgent situations revert to your backups while the issue is sorted out.

Regards

[Chris Powell]

VVC fixed, Tobias.

Thanks for the update dude.

[Barabulka]

Still Tobias, lithuanian (windows-1257) urls are not all correctly converted. Here take a look, i made screens:

BAD (how SD latest version hotfix 4 converts):
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/7417/badnu4.png

Here's how it should be converted:
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7321/goodnx0.png


All in all I believe that there should be a setting in admin panel made, for users, to make and manage their own conversions.

For example a new setting called "url character conversion", and empty tables where user can input a character and in next table input their substitute. you get my idea? because editing functions php, not all chars can be replaced.

[Barabulka]

sorry I've fixed the bug myself page cannot be recreated.

but you can mimic this on your own, simply set windows-1257 charset, then open up windows regional settings and add lithuanian language LT and press number keyboard buttons below F1-F2 etc so press all the numbers and "=" and here you will have all the characters of lt language.

" ą Ą č Č ę Ę ė Ė į Į š Š ų Ų ū Ū ž Ž "

[Tobias]

Everybody please note the v2.5.3.2 Hotfix #5 and today's update:
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11489

[Maxius]

great work as always Tobias! I also saw that Forum News plugin was updated too. sweet :)

[blueracer66]

Everybody please note the v2.5.3.2 Hotfix #5 and today's update:
http://www.subdreamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11489


Thank you, Tobias! You are always so fast at fixing, creating, and updating plugins and core files! Not to mention you provide great support all of the time!

[Tobias]

Here're 1 more interim fix for IPB and 1 long-due fix for vBulletin 3.7.x (require download of SD 2.5.3.2 now):

1. there was a typo in the IPB userfile, IPB users should redownload and upload the file /includes/usersystems/ipb2.php

2. the vBulletin forum skinning has been enhanced for vB 3.7.x since the User Control Panel tabs in vB did not show before.
Please upload the file /admin/forumintegration/vbulletin3.php
and run "Restore Forum Skin" and then "Skin My Forum" again.

[gnubittol]

Hi,
I don't know if this the right session but i can't find anythings about the update of cloned plugin...
For examples the last hotfix correct some bugs about the

/plugins/p3_latestnews/

I've cloned this one and my question is:

what's the right procedure to update the cloned plugin?

NB: In ftp the owner of plugin is "Subdreamer" and i cannot overwrite the original files..


TIA

[Tobias]

There is no automatic method available right now to update clones. This is a feature on our todo-list for the near future.
To update cloned plugins, which themselves do not store any data (except settings), it may be easier to uninstall the clone and recreate it. Other plugins, unless completely disfunctional, should be left as-is for now.