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Month: January 2009

Bugfix

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On January 8, 2009

In Joomla

Uncategorized content did not work in the latest version of mod_placehere, this is fixed now. However there seems to be another bug (I had two commenters who say that the module did not work for them) that I could not locate or reproduce yet.

Please, don’t be shy – if the module does not work it’s much more likely a bug in the code than an error of yours, there is not much you can do wrong. If you have a live site where the module does not work you can provide me a temporary login via email and I have a look and try to fix the problem (email adress is in the left colum).

    New Features

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    On January 4, 2009

    In Joomla, Manual

    Keywan Ghadami (who has not given his web adress, so instead I link to the project he’s working on – studieren-ohne-grenzen.org) has added a “related article”-feature to the place here module which has found with very little modifications it’s way in the “official” release. That’s how it works:

    Related articles

    If a) the module is set to display articles; b) no article ids are given; “show related” is set to “yes” (default); and site visitors look at an article page (not an blog or component page) then related articles are displayed. This is at the moment a very basic implementation – relationship between  articles is determined by meta-keyword(s), if at least one keyword is the same for both articles the articles are related.

    Edit Button

    There is now an edit button in the frontend  (for logged in users with proper permissions).

    Start display with an offset

    There is a new parameter “offset”. If for example you set the module to display a category with ten articles and set the offset to 5 the module will display articles six to ten from the category (unless you limited the display further with the “number of items displayed” parameter).

    General Bugfixes

    The sql query used a Joomla function to determine the current date. As long as J! is Mysql only I replaced this with the simpler NOW() function from MySql (since this was easier than to look up how Joomla date functions actually work and why they gave wrong results in the module).  The “gallery mode” displayed pictures from the main content even when disabled, I fixed that, too.

    Version Number

    Since there is a new major feature I set the version number to 1.2.1. This has been quite thoroughly tested on Vista/Apache/PHP 5.2 so I don’t expect any major bugs (knock on wood), but if anything doesn’t work, well, you know where to find me.

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