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Beta 2 Now Available!
Hi,

I've put beta 2 up on the net. It fixes a lot of bugs, too numerous to mention here (see the ChangeLog file for details). Still to be done are:

- Investigate further blank emails that some people get (if someone can provide shell access to a system that this is happening, that would help a lot).
- Investigate further bugs with search engine not searching custom fields.
- show links user owns and let them pick which one to modify.
- bug with auto creation of users, also need to refine
- add linkowner to link display in category browser
- make @ sign in related categories an option.
- duplicate url check on submission
- confirmation screen on add/modify
- plugin api docs finished
- plugin api tested and debugged.

My schedule is a final beta by next friday, with a stable one shortly after that.

Cheers,

Alex

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Hi Alex...just to let you know I have installed the new beta and it is successfully importing my categories and links from Links2 - the missing $!,$@ in L2S2.pm also seems to be doing the trick!

A few problems I am having:

Newsletter subscriptions are not showing up in the admin page.
Adding/Validating links sends a blank email (I know you are working on this).
Also the option of searching the entire directory or just a particular category does not seem to be working for me...it just says "No results matched" every time!
Thanks


Paul Wilson.
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this new release sounds great.
Just a small addition you promised to add soon few threads ago:

- making the editors name available in the category template

I do know it is not a prority for most of the users, but it is a great enhancement for me and a lot of Links SQL users.
I hope you still remember that Wink.

Regards
Abdoulrahman

http://www.idleb.com
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Hi Alex,

Have you fixed the problem when BUILD with foreign_char=YES ?



William

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I did an import to the new version, categories were created that were missing, and everything seemed to go very smoothly.

I have to update my beta1 sites and see what's changed :)

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No, we are still working on some optimizations.

Cheers,

Alex

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Newsletter subscriptions are not showing up in the admin page.
Thanks! This has now been fixed. As for the search, did you get this resolved, or are you still unable to search?

Cheers,

Alex

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No it doesnt seem to be working right....

It either says that no results were found or it justs lists the same results as the original search.

Is there a quick way to fix the newsletter problem without reinstalling a new copy of NG?


Paul Wilson. Shocked
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Doesnt seem to be working for me.

Is the fixed version available for download because I just installed what I thought was the updated fixed version and it still isnt working.

When I subscribe to the newsletter is says that I have been successfully subscribed but the email address doesnt show up in the new database and the number of email addresses subscribed doesnt increase by one when I check in the admin area.

Paul Wilson. Shocked
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Sorry, when I say that it is fixed it is more for my reference. None of the changes will be available for download until the next beta is done.

Cheers,

Alex

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I need EMERGENCY help Alex...please help!

I just deleted the "Priority" column because I didnt want it and resynced the database and also installed a cgi script that lets me call SSI in cgi pages.

I had to enter the following code into the searchresults template:
<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/includer.cgi?banner.txt"></script>
The file banner.txt contains the SSI code..

Ever since I did those two things the first 3 search results are just FULL of "Unknown" tags.

Take a look...
http://www.audio-grabber.com/cgi-bin/*?query=mp3

What have I done?

Thanks in advance!!!!!!!

Paul Wilson. Shocked
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Sorry....forget that last post...

I resynced, reindexed, repaired tables, rebuilt, edited categories and a few other things and I eventually fixed the problem....lol! Smile

Only used about 100MB bandwidth doin all that!!!!!

Paul Wilson. Shocked
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Hi,

I guess you fixed it? It seems fine to me..

Cheers,

Alex

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I found this code in nph-build.cgi...(I wasnt sure whether to make a new thread or not)

sub _time_start {
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Start a timer.
#
BEGIN { local $@; eval { require Time::HiRes; import Time::HiRes qw/time/; }; }
$TIME_START = time;
}

sub _time_display {
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Return time results.
#
my $end = time;
my $elapsed = sprintf ("%.2f", $end - $TIME_START);
return $elapsed;
}

sub _footer {
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Print the footer.
#
my $end = time;
my $elapsed = sprintf ("%.2f", $end - $TOTAL_TIME);

print "All done. Total Time: ($elapsed s)\n";
if ($USE_HTML) {
print "</pre></body></html>\n\n";
}
}


Is it possible to apply this to search.cgi to print the time taken for the search...like Google does!

Would I add the first sub to search.cgi and then create globals with the other two?
Im not sure how to do it with having to add the <% %> tag to search_results.html

Paul Wilson. Shocked
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