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Need Help With Cms

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:13:50 +0000

My name is Piotr and I am a student at Edinburgh Napier University studying Web Technologies. As part of my course I am required to write a dissertation on a topic of my choice, therefore this dissertation is designed to enable me to understand differences and similarities of Open Source (Wordpress, Drupal, Wiki, Joomla etc.) and Commercial (SiteCore, EpiServe, Ektron, Alterian, Amaxus, Sitefinity etc.) Content Management System within user point of view.

I am aware of the busy schedules of everyone, but I would appreciate it if you could take just a few minutes to answer my questionnaire. I would appreciate honest answers so that varied responses can be collected. This questionnaire is completely anonymous and will only be handled by myself and my supervisor if need be.

I would appreciate it if this questionnaire could be completed and returned to me by the 30th of February 2012. Thank you in advance for your co-operation in taking your time to complete my questionnaire, it is much appreciated.

link to questionnaire

Thank You for your time spent:)

Site Suddenly Not Saving Pages - Probably Nothing To Do With Etomite Itself :-(

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:55:17 +0000

Hi,

I don't think this has got anything to do with Etomite, but probably with the hosting environment (which is not my own in this case) but an Etomite site I help out someone with suddenly will not save any page changes. The save button just does not do anything. As far as I can tell, none of the files have changed or altered, and the site was working perfectly.

Has anyone experienced a similar thing before and if so, does anyone have any clues about a possible solution.

Thanks for any help anyone can offer,

Best wishes,

Paul.

Problems With Etomite Cache After Hosting Company Moved Site To New Server

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:33:56 +0000

As I've posted elsewhere my hosting company has moved site to a new server and seems to have messed up permissions in the process.
Caching doesn't work
- new pages can't be cached - it gives a permissions error
- the cache can't be cleared - it gives a permissions error
- pages can't be editted - or at least they can, but pages can't be cached even if the old cached page is manually deleted

Can someone advise on the permissions needed in the directories, please, and on the procedure for re-initialising the cache (I thought it was empty the cache directory, and then go into the manager and clear cache, but, you guessed it, that gives a permissions error)

It also outputs an error on every page that has been when viewed see http://www.mikefinley.co.uk for an example.

eg
« Error »
Etomite encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource: « PHP Parse Error » PHP error debug Error: fopen(/home/mikef/public_html/assets/cache/docid_82.etoCache) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied Error type/ Nr.: Warning - 2 File: /home/mikef/public_html/index.php Line: 454 Line 454 source: if($fp = @fopen($basepath."/assets/cache/docid_".$this->documentIdentifier.".etoCache","w")) Parser timing MySQL: 0.0015 s s (7 Requests) PHP: 0.0152 s s Total: 0.0168 s s

now resolved ... this server needs to have 777 rights on directories that PHP wants to write in.

Need new hosting company

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:28:10 +0000

The company I currently use for hosting my sites is closing down shortly, so I need to find a new hosting company urgently.

I manage about ten sites currently, using Etomite, phpBB, and Wordpress, and am considering trying to expand this, so I'm looking for a small 'entry level' reseller type package. There seem to be few suitable options in the UK -
does anyone have any experience of Daily.co.uk or jabwebsolutions.co.uk
alternatively, maybe its time to look at US offerings, so does anyone have any recommendations for what I should look for there?

what minimum versions of PHP and MySQL should I be checking for?
what are the disadvantages of running etomite, wordpress and phpBB from a single database? (I've always kept them in separate databases so far, but i find odd restrictions get placed on some packages)

thanks for any help!

mike

How To Use Snippets

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:13:02 +0000

Hello. I installed Etomite just fine and I'm using the basics of it just fine. However, I'm missing something with Snippets and the documentation doesn't help. How do snippets work?

For instance, I just downloaded the News Listing snippet. I have it open in DreamWeaver. What do I do from this point to get the snippet to work?

Thanks.

PHP Parse Error after upgrading from 0.6.4

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:33:40 +0000

Hi,

Today I've upgrade my Etomite installation from 0.6.4 to 1.1. The installation was succesfull the only error I got was while running the script that did some database modifcations (Failure: Query failed: Out of range value for column 'visitor' at row 1). After emptying the visitors table from the manager and re-run the script everything was fine. I checked the manager and save the configuration.

But now when I open my site the site is displayed but underneath I get a PHP parse error.

What's wrong? My PHP version is PHP: 0.0620 and I'm running Etomite on a server with IIS.

Note: I did the same upgrade on my test envoirement (debian apache) same site, no errors.

« Error »
Etomite encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource: 
« PHP Parse Error » 
  
PHP error debug 
  Error:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at D:\Websites\user\vaagsite.vaagsweb.nl\wwwroot\cms\index.php:2069)   
  Error type/ Nr.:  Warning - 2   
  File:  D:\Websites\user\vaagsite.vaagsweb.nl\wwwroot\cms\index.php   
  Line:  323   
  Line 323 source:  header('Content-Type: '.$type.'; charset='.$this->config['etomite_charset']);

Mobile Site

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:52:20 +0000

Hi guys,

I wanted your opinion on the following problem: I have a website for which I want to offer my visitors a mobile version as well.

I have installed a new etomite installation in the m.mysite.tld subdomain. It uses the same database as my www. site but i'd thought I could use a different css file in the m. subdomain for mobile visitors.
I have now come to the conclusion that this does not cut it: my site navigation is way too complex and too long for a mobile site so I would need a new menu structure as well.
How do I go about this considering that I would like to continu to use the content of the main site without duplicating anything?

Maybe I am handling this the completely wrong way, I do not have experience with mobile sites. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

v.

Trying To Create A New Snippet

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:24:46 +0000

Hello,

I am a newbie here, so please bare with me.

I am trying to create a new snippet that calls a php page located on a different location on the same server. I realize I could just use a wrapper, but I'm trying to embed the code because I believe that this would be great way to create simple as well as sophisticated contact forms using the a nifty little program.

Anyway, here is the code I am using:

//Embed form
// Usage: [[contact-form]]
$contact_form = 1; // set desired form number.
$contact_form_path = '/home/XYZ/public_html/my-folder/'; // set path to /contact-files/ with slash on end.
require $contact_form_path . 'contact-form-run.php';

As you can see, the snippet is simply requiring to run a particular php script (contact-form-run.php) which contains a form created using a form-creation script. When I place this snippet on a page within etomite, it does work perfectly, except that the form (the content of the snippet), appears before the HTML tag at the top of the page instead of the content of the page.

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? If this works, I would submit as a nice way to add forms to etomite.

Thanks,
Rodrigo

Custom field in database?

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:08:36 +0000

Hi,

I would like to add email address field for each of the page just like we have pagetitle and longtitle, is it possible to add a new field which will be populated throughout the CMS?

Please help.

Thanks

Right Click Menu Bug In Firefox 8

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:37:31 +0000

I've made an update to firefox 8 yesterday. Now the right click menu in the tree structrue doesn't work any longer.

Can someone tell me, how to fix this problem?

Defining How Many Levels Deep Current Page Is

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:20:30 +0000

Hi guys,

It's been a while since I've been in. Hope everybody's doing ok

I need to find out how many levels deep a certain page is. How can you do this in a snippet?

Let's say the sites setup is something like:
Home
Products
|_category1
___ |_product1
___|_product2
|_category2
___|_product3
___|_product4
|_category3
___|_product5
.....

How can I use a single snippet that will return 1 when run from category1.html and 2 from product1.html ?
Looks easy enough, but I have been struggling with this for over an hour....

Mailforms - Where Do I View / Edit The Email Address These Go To?

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:20:52 +0000

Hi

I am new to Etomite, having taken over support of a customers website that we didn't build. The client is trying to ascertain where all his enquiry emails are going, as he isn't receiving them. I have logged in to the CMS, using username and password, but I cannot find where this email address is set. I can see code for a module called mailform. Any suggestions?

Voodoo Template

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:37:15 +0000

Hello,

here are another Template

Template works fine with the snippet MenuHori, but better would be the PHP Layers Menu Snippet from Ralph.
Can everybody adapt PHP Layers Menu to this Template?

All files are in the ZIP-Archiv.

by freemind

Attached Files

Voodoo.zip 21.4K 347 downloads

Security for POST and GET

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:08:21 +0000

Hi all,

I am using, for example,


if (isset($_POST[help])) { $help = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'help', FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS); } else { $help='';}

to sanitise the post from a user input (such as a search field or form). I am also using it on any GET variables too.

Is this enough to secure my site from hack attacks? Sure I am not running a bank or any military systems, but is this enough to be secure for text fields?

Any opinions on this would be gratefully recieved as I have only just discovered the filter_input functions. Is this enough to secure for SQL statements too?

Best wishes all,

Paul.

Limit To Nested Folders

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:10:37 +0000

Is there a limit to the nesting of folders/ I have created, successfully, 3 deep, but when displaying the website outside Etomite, when I click the lowest level, the display reverts automatically to Home without displaying my folders. The 3-deep folders contain only weblinks.
If I move the folders up one level everything displays correctly.