http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/user-732 YACS team (UK) fr 2002-2008, Paxer Conseil bernard.paques@bigfoot.com bernard.paques@bigfoot.com 40.32 -111.68 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:35:24 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5083-working-clavardage-chat-in-english-june-19th.-8pm-london-9pm-paris-time. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5083-working-clavardage-chat-in-english-june-19th.-8pm-london-9pm-paris-time. General discussion for help and support with YACS, including current and future releases (included the next big version, 8.6) NickR Interactive channels Public events Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:39:00 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5083-working-clavardage-chat-in-english-june-19th.-8pm-london-9pm-paris-time.#comments 109 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/5083 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/5083 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5083 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5071-8.3-and-8.5-setup-problem-memory-limit http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5071-8.3-and-8.5-setup-problem-memory-limit When trying to install 8.3, upgrade to 8.5 or install 8.5 from scratch or running setup.php after the failed install I get a blank screen at the part which populates/ensures the database structure/schema. By increasing my memory limit to 16mb I was able to get 8.5 installed. Cheers, Nick N1ckR Bug tracker Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:13:08 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5071-8.3-and-8.5-setup-problem-memory-limit#comments 3 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/5071 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/5071 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5071 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5032-clavardage-chat-in-english-june-19th.-8pm-london-9pm-paris-time. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5032-clavardage-chat-in-english-june-19th.-8pm-london-9pm-paris-time. After a long wait, there has been demand for another chat session for English-speaking members of our community.This will be a general help and support session for current and future versions of YACS (including the next major (8.6) release).Beginners and experts are welcome to come along and ask questions, discuss problems and suggestions and we will do our best to help in the time available.Do not forget there are usually English speaking team members to help you out in the Community section of the site N1ckR Coffee machine Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:04:17 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-5032-clavardage-chat-in-english-june-19th.-8pm-london-9pm-paris-time.#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/5032 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/5032 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5032 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4794-better-seo-permalink-the-titles. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4794-better-seo-permalink-the-titles. Hi Due to google having clever duplicate detection, can ignore all links with the text "permalink" so it is useful to make the titles of the articles into hyperlinks N1ckR Post your requirements here Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:54:01 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4794-better-seo-permalink-the-titles.#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4794 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4794 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4794 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4718-incorrect-languages http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4718-incorrect-languages The Menu on the top left AND emails are coming in as French, even though I am using english NickR Bug tracker Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:18:56 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4718-incorrect-languages#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4718 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4718 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4718 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4592-chats-email-confirmation-and-reminder. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4592-chats-email-confirmation-and-reminder. Hi It would be nice to be able to email an invitation to chat (and reply confirmation of attendance similar to how outlook does) and also send an email reminder X amount of minutes before the chat session is due to start NickR Post your requirements here Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:22:27 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4592-chats-email-confirmation-and-reminder.#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4592 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4592 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4592 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4549-gallery http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4549-gallery Hi After a bit of thought and looking at the code, I decided not to write an overlay as I would not be storing any additional data, but I have come up with a really simply solution ! I noticed the view_as_thread.php file in the articles folder, so I decided to make a view My first challenge was to work out how to stop image thumbnails automatically into the article. After looking at the code and following haow images are added (images/edit.php) I noticed that the image tag is added via the article object (which ... more» NickR To be integrated Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:31:55 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4549-gallery#comments 4 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4549 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4549 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4549 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4491-user-validation-pretty-url-not-working http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4491-user-validation-pretty-url-not-working http://www.ngr78.co.uk/user-validate/04924b4744a6916fa31d1463069882aa I think the issue is with htaccess rule NickR Bug tracker Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:39:49 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4491-user-validation-pretty-url-not-working#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4491 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4491 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4491 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4442-help.php-is-not-an-article http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4442-help.php-is-not-an-article Privacy and about got converted to articles, but I noticed help.php has not been. Cheers, Nick NickR Post your requirements here Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:11:15 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4442-help.php-is-not-an-article#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4442 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4442 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4442 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4436-updated-skin-skeleton-images-addthis.com-bookmarks-and-feeds-needs-testing http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4436-updated-skin-skeleton-images-addthis.com-bookmarks-and-feeds-needs-testing Updated addthis.com bookmark image and link. Replaced myyahoo, netvibes and feedgator feed links with addthis.com feed link NickR To be integrated Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:42:07 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4436-updated-skin-skeleton-images-addthis.com-bookmarks-and-feeds-needs-testing#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4436 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4436 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4436 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4101-ability-to-turn-lightbox-off http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4101-ability-to-turn-lightbox-off Hi. The lightbox is pretty, but I would like to be able to turn it off and use the old way of viewing images. This will be helpful when I write the image gallery this month (I might require further options...) Thanks Nick NickR Post your requirements here Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:18:44 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4101-ability-to-turn-lightbox-off#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4101 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4101 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4101 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3798-typo-on-404-page http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3798-typo-on-404-page "adress" should be "address" :D NickR Bug tracker Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:58:57 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3798-typo-on-404-page#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3798 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3798 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3798 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3728-image-gallery-and-image-display http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3728-image-gallery-and-image-display I am starting to use more and more images and finding YACS too basic, so I have some suggestions to improve images: Use an article to hold images (with an overlay ?), the article becomes the gallery itself, but with specific layout options for display formatting of the gallery, eg layout options, titles, descriptions. Of course a content assistant option would be great I think Bernard mentioned about wanting to use the light box, though pretty, is not my preference, what I prefer how www.smugmug.com does it. They show thumbnails at the side or bottom and the ... more» NickR The development backlog : Vote for new features Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:52:52 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3728-image-gallery-and-image-display#comments 8 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3728 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3728 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3728 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3703-my-daughter-born-today-scarlett-rhodes http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3703-my-daughter-born-today-scarlett-rhodes Sorry I was missing from Mondays meeting... Scarlett was born today, 18th Decemember 2007 at 12:32 GMT, in Bradford, UK, weighing 8lb 8oz (3.9kg). It was an 18 hour labour and 1 hour before the end we hit a complication as Scarlett's head was starting to show... she was back to back, so they had to be rushed into theatre so that Scarlett could be rotated with forceps and if that failled a cesarean before Scarlett was too far down. This was very worrying and upsetting for both of us as there was ... more» NickR Coffee machine Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:23:07 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3703-my-daughter-born-today-scarlett-rhodes#comments 5 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3703 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3703 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3703 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3679-support-google-analytics-outbound-link-tracking-and-search-tracking http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3679-support-google-analytics-outbound-link-tracking-and-search-tracking I noticed on http://analytics.blogspot.com/2007/10/exciting-announcements-at-emetrics.html Google now has the ability to track links and also searches. These are Beta, but Google does a great job of this stuff, probably better than we can ever do, due to providing great tools to analyse the results (why reinvent the wheel ?) NickR Post your requirements here Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:15:02 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3679-support-google-analytics-outbound-link-tracking-and-search-tracking#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3679 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3679 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3679 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3678-ability-to-disable-link-click-tracking-and-statistics-performance-indicators-etc http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3678-ability-to-disable-link-click-tracking-and-statistics-performance-indicators-etc This would be useful for those that rely on google analytics, have no need to track links and don't need to know how fast a page is generated (or possibly just for Associates ) NickR Post your requirements here Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:30:58 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3678-ability-to-disable-link-click-tracking-and-statistics-performance-indicators-etc#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3678 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3678 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3678 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3670-further-enhancements-to-nice-titles http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3670-further-enhancements-to-nice-titles As we know someone nasty could change the incoming link to something like "article-1333-sex-viagra-bill-gates" and it would still work. If there would not be too much overhead, what I suggest we do, is query the database for the correct nice title and compare, if it is different, 304 redirect to the correct link, eg "article-1333-correct-title). Not only should we do this for correctness, but it will help google index sites and therefore SEO, as it dislikes multiple URLs to the same page and will reduce the score that page can get NickR Post your requirements here Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:23:22 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3670-further-enhancements-to-nice-titles#comments 3 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3670 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3670 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3670 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3484-7.10-upgrade-guide http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3484-7.10-upgrade-guide Hi, Would it be possible to provide a simple guide to upgrading to 7.10. This would make a chat session far easier (might not even need it at all). Nick NickR Installation support Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:42:40 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3484-7.10-upgrade-guide#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3484 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3484 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3484 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3448-enhancements-to-nice-titles http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3448-enhancements-to-nice-titles Here as some ideas to improve the quality of pretty urls. I think we should strip common words out of the prettyurl, like "a", "the", "this", "that", as they are no use from a SEO point of view (search engines ignore these), this is called a stopword list and I guess one for each language would be good as well. FYI fulltext search of mysql has a stopword list as default http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-stopwords.html Also possibly consider a minimum word length of 3 as well for the pretty urls and maximum length of around 100 characters ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:55:12 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3448-enhancements-to-nice-titles#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3448 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3448 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3448 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3447-couple-of-pretty-url-nice-title-bugs http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3447-couple-of-pretty-url-nice-title-bugs I recently created the following article: http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/yacs/article-3446-addthis.com-feeds-link Notice, the url has "addthis.com", note the ".", we should strip out (or replace with a "-") all non alpha-numeric chars (apart from the "-" used as a seperator), could create problems for example if someone uses a "" could wreck a page that has that a hyperlink. Also another bug is after edditing an article and submitting the changes, the url shows the id twice. Nick NickR Bug tracker Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:51:30 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3447-couple-of-pretty-url-nice-title-bugs#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3447 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3447 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3447 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3402-google-maps-ability-to-set-zoom-level http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3402-google-maps-ability-to-set-zoom-level As the title says - if possible Nick NickR The development backlog : Vote for new features Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:34:31 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3402-google-maps-ability-to-set-zoom-level#comments 6 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3402 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3402 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3402 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3394-improve-meta-tags-seo http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3394-improve-meta-tags-seo Google hides pages which have the same meta description - you need to click on the "show all results" link to see them. For google it is better to have NO description tag at all rather than the same one on everypage. Google does read meta tags, but does not use them for rankings, just information that is displayed. My suggestion is that we vary the description, using the title and also the Introduction or even a snippet of the page content (possibly user configurable) to generate individual descriptions per page. I don'y know which combinations would ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:28:15 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3394-improve-meta-tags-seo#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3394 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3394 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3394 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3393-seo-www-redirects-in-htaccess-code-included http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3393-seo-www-redirects-in-htaccess-code-included How about this to help improve SEO. Will require hand editting to enable correct rule and domain name. I have this running my my site without problem. Needs to be the first rewrite rule in the list. # redirect all to http://www.example.com/... # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] # # redirect http://www.example.com/... to http://example.com/... # # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301] ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:22:12 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3393-seo-www-redirects-in-htaccess-code-included#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3393 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3393 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3393 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3392-blank-screen-uploading-large-images-code-included http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3392-blank-screen-uploading-large-images-code-included I was uploading an image that was larger than the normal 800x600 that I usually upload and I noticed a blank screen. Having encountered this problem before I knew it was the default php memory limit. So I simply updated my htaccess file with the following: # Increase memory limit if you encounter a blank screen uploading images # php_value memory_limit 16M This might be worth adding to the htaccess as standard to be uncommented as required. Cheers, Nick NickR Bug tracker Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:05:11 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3392-blank-screen-uploading-large-images-code-included#comments 4 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3392 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3392 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3392 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3384-make-all-areas-of-text-in-yacs-editable http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3384-make-all-areas-of-text-in-yacs-editable A while ago I had idea of making privacy policy and about this site into articles. I was thinking that we could extend this idea further to try and make everywhere that there is text into editable regions for example the help message that you get when creating a new comment or article, or the paragraph of text you get under the "post a new page" heading... in a similar manner to how we can customise the menus now. Of course would have to consider our internationalisation efforts. Cheers NickR Post your requirements here Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:37:35 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3384-make-all-areas-of-text-in-yacs-editable#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3384 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3384 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3384 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3363-templating-of-all-html-output. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3363-templating-of-all-html-output. Hi, I came up with the idea to make items like the privacy and about pages editable (make them articles) and I have now come up with the idea of making ALL html output as templates. My idea is to store them with relative skins in subfolders, so the html for viewing an article would be in skin/articles/view.php. Idea is that if you want to add a feedburner link next to netvibes or newsgator link, or change the way "Permalink · comment · Discuss · Trackback" links look this can be done by editing the skin ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:52:27 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3363-templating-of-all-html-output.#comments 4 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3363 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3363 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3363 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3362-lots-of-emails-from-chat http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3362-lots-of-emails-from-chat I have had 6 emails whilst in the chat tonight, maybe the email alert feature needs to be suppressed for chats (or atleast until the chat is closed/finalised) NickR Bug tracker Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:30:09 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3362-lots-of-emails-from-chat#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3362 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3362 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3362 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3349-paging-issue http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3349-paging-issue If you look at my blog (http://www.ngr78.co.uk/sections/9-blog) and then try to look at the older articles eg 11-20 it breaks. This is using rewriting rules in htaccess NickR Bug tracker Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:45:22 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3349-paging-issue#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3349 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3349 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3349 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3343-site-explioted http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3343-site-explioted Someone has managed to expliot my site and modify a link: http://www.ngr78.co.uk/articles/71 Notice the date and username are missing. I am getting hold of the server logs NickR Bug tracker Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:20:32 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3343-site-explioted#comments 20 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3343 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3343 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3343 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3183-approach-to-using-ajax-hijax http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3183-approach-to-using-ajax-hijax I have noticed that AJAX has started to be implemented into YACS. I like AJAX, but my concerns with using AJAX are around accessibility and is the main reason I have only used it on one of my websites to date. One suggestion is to look at HIJAX - which is a way of designing websites that degrade gracefully when featuers like Javascript are not enabled. Wikipedia (en)- Hijax The idea is that your site design should always degrade and still be full usable, so if you dont have javascript or images or css you can still 100% ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:00:15 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3183-approach-to-using-ajax-hijax#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3183 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3183 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3183 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3020-bugs-seo-error-sql-error-pretty-urls http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3020-bugs-seo-error-sql-error-pretty-urls http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/yacs/articles/ error in sql statement. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/yacs/categories/bugs.html gives a 404. link is in the tags for this article. Also, with the new pretty urls, there is a mix of underscores and dashes, for best SEO, we should be using dashes as they split keywords, underscores do not. Check "red_widget" vs "red-widget" at google ! Ref: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/ http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/hyphens-versus-underscores-133385.html i would consider this a bug SQL tag seems to have been duplicated, glitch or bug ? Finally the visited box has missing line breaks in ... more» NickR Bug tracker Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:53:17 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3020-bugs-seo-error-sql-error-pretty-urls#comments 6 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3020 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3020 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3020 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2762-room-42-preview http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2762-room-42-preview Hi. After many delays, here is the 95% complete skin for room 42. http://www.room42hairsalon.co.uk/yacs/ (please ignore the content as its out of date and copy/pasted in) The I current have not implemented the extras box on the right and there are a few styles to sort out (eg links, footer etc). This skin started life as digital, with custom header and some extra div tags and lots of changes to fonts and colours. I have just finished making the php template file from the html and in a few days I shall be ... more» NickR Coffee machine Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:00:37 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2762-room-42-preview#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2762 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2762 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2762 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2749-not-been-round-much-.-some-good-news http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2749-not-been-round-much-.-some-good-news Not only did I take some time away from things (work, training) over Easter to get a break, but I find out 2 weeks ago my wife is pregnant, which is really really good news as its something we've been hoping will happen for a while. And to top it off I decided to reinstall my PC which went pear shaped, and then I broke my laptop power supply (snapped the connector), so I have also been without a computer for a while whilst I buy new parts for my PC and wait for new power supply for my ... more» NickR Coffee machine Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:50:49 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2749-not-been-round-much-.-some-good-news#comments 7 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2749 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2749 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2749 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2654-protected-page-in-search-result http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2654-protected-page-in-search-result I did the following search: extreme If you scroll to the bottom of the page, there is text for an article about YACS marketing. If you follow the link to the article it is a protected page and I (logged in as myself or not logged in) get an access denied message. Obviously, we should not be able to get these search results if we cannot access the content NickR Bug tracker Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:31:04 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2654-protected-page-in-search-result#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2654 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2654 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2654 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2539-nex-design-drop-shadows-easy-to-create-into-a-skin http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2539-nex-design-drop-shadows-easy-to-create-into-a-skin For a project I recently worked on, I had to develop a html template and it required some drop shadows. I struggled to find a single example on the web that worked in IE and Firefox and was simple/generic to implement, so I can up with my own solution, using some elegant css and a black image for the drop shadow itself. This example has space for a header that is 116px high, this needs altering in the stylesheet to match the height. The footer has the drop shadow removed as a comparision. Tested in IE6 and Firefox ... more» NickR Coffee machine Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:02:30 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2539-nex-design-drop-shadows-easy-to-create-into-a-skin#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2539 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2539 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2539 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2395-working-on-a-new-skin-. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2395-working-on-a-new-skin-. Hi, I am currently working on modifying the Digital Skin to look like: I will share the skin for others to use/modify when it is complete. Cheers Nick ! NickR Coffee machine Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:03:42 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2395-working-on-a-new-skin-.#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2395 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2395 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2395 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2329-who-uses-linux-as-a-desktop http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2329-who-uses-linux-as-a-desktop I am tempted to make a move to Linux and dump Windows XP, I realised that theres nothing I need Windows for and in the long run will be less hassle than Windows. Anyhow, I wondered who here uses Linux as a desktop and also for Web development (and in particular for YACS) ? NickR Coffee machine Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:32:20 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2329-who-uses-linux-as-a-desktop#comments 7 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2329 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2329 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2329 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2233-yacs-server-dates-broken-all-coming-up-as-jan-1-2006 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2233-yacs-server-dates-broken-all-coming-up-as-jan-1-2006 Check the dates in this section: Post your requirements here I am not sure if this is a server problem or the YACS code... Nick NickR Bug tracker Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:18:13 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2233-yacs-server-dates-broken-all-coming-up-as-jan-1-2006#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2233 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2233 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2233 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2159-ideas-and-thoughts-for-yacs-in-2007--. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2159-ideas-and-thoughts-for-yacs-in-2007--. Some things I have been thinking about, might be useful to YACS, predictions of new features that are going to be asked of YACS... Implement stemming into the search, for more acurate search results: Stemming algorithm - Wikipedia The Porter Stemming Algorithm (free and includes a php version) I know you rely fulltext search in mysql - not sure how this would work, could always index content into its own table - maybe this would woork with fulltext, if not could write own search algorithms .... One of those link bars, that allows you to quickly link to digg ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:26:37 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2159-ideas-and-thoughts-for-yacs-in-2007--.#comments 14 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2159 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2159 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2159 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2119-ajax http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2119-ajax Hi, Has anyone used AJAX yet, I've done a small amount (xml data binding to html tables), but a project I have to help with early next year requires me to use ajax alot. Has anyone got experience of using AJAX librarys that are about and is there any plans for YACS to use AJAX at all ? NickR Post your requirements here Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:02:48 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2119-ajax#comments 4 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2119 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2119 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2119 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2111-allow-duplicate-links-in-rss-feeds http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2111-allow-duplicate-links-in-rss-feeds I have an rss-feed incoming to my website which lists music I am listening to (via last.fm but obviously I listen to the same set of music many times, but because of this, yacs treats these as duplicates and wont update a correct list of what I am listening to... Recent Music I am not sure if that is a fault of the way I am using RSS or the way I am wanting to use YACS... Cheers, Nick NickR Bug tracker Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:36:08 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2111-allow-duplicate-links-in-rss-feeds#comments 7 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2111 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2111 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2111 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2032-problems-with-google-maps-urls http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2032-problems-with-google-maps-urls Just started moving a site to YACS (only 4 pages) and the only problem I have come across is that the google maps URL does seem to work (using the YACS click.php link system) http://www.room42hairsalon.co.uk/yacs/ I don't know if this is a bug (but will investigate when I get time). Cheers, Nick NickR Bug tracker Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:16:44 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2032-problems-with-google-maps-urls#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2032 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2032 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2032 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2033-problems-with-google-maps-urls-fixed http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2033-problems-with-google-maps-urls-fixed Just started moving a site to YACS (only 4 pages) and the only problem I have come across is that the google maps URL does seem to work (using the YACS click.php link system) http://www.room42hairsalon.co.uk/yacs/ I don't know if this is a bug (but will investigate when I get time). Cheers, Nick NickR Bug tracker Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:31:29 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2033-problems-with-google-maps-urls-fixed#comments 3 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2033 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2033 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2033 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1949-rss-aggregation-size-limit http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1949-rss-aggregation-size-limit I have a section on my site http://www.ngr78.co.uk/sections/view.php/31 that pulls an rss feed from last.fm of my most recently listened to tracks, which works great. Only issue I have is, will this list keep growing or does YACS limit it and remove older entries ? NickR Post your requirements here Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:07:25 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1949-rss-aggregation-size-limit#comments 7 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1949 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1949 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1949 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1943-anyone-using-yacs-commercially http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1943-anyone-using-yacs-commercially I notice with other CMS's like Joomla, Drupal etc that the platform is used for commercial sites and also by web development companies as platforms for making sites for clients. From what I've seen of the YACS community so far, is that all the sites have been personal/hobby/non-profit sites. So I was wondering if there have been any commercial sites made with YACS ? I will converting my wife's business site (a small hairdressers www.room42hairsalon.co.uk ) to YACS and also the rock band my brother is in www.angelofsin.co.uk but nothing of big ... more» NickR Coffee machine Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:35:52 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1943-anyone-using-yacs-commercially#comments 7 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1943 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1943 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1943 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1923-silktide-sitescore-useful-tool. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1923-silktide-sitescore-useful-tool. http://sitescore.silktide.com/ I have run my site through it and of course YACS does rather well too. Sitescore for yacs Very useful for pointing in the direction of errors and problems NickR Coffee machine Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:41:24 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1923-silktide-sitescore-useful-tool.#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1923 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1923 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1923 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1916-occasional-bug-with-gravatar-. http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1916-occasional-bug-with-gravatar-. SELECT id, anchor, geo_place_name, latitude, longitude, geo_country, description, edit_name, edit_id, edit_address, edit_date, abs( 3956 * acos( sin(radians(48.85,)) * sin(radians(latitude)) + cos(radians(48.85,)) * cos(radians(latitude)) * cos(radians(longitude - 2.33333)) ) ) AS distance FROM `yacs_locations` AS locations WHERE latitude BETWEEN 48.85, - 45 AND 48.85, + 45 AND longitude BETWEEN 2.33333 - 45 AND 2.33333 + 45 ORDER BY distance, locations.edit_date DESC, locations.geo_place_name LIMIT 1,5 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')) * sin(radians(latitude)) + cos(radians(48.85,)) * cos(radia ... more» NickR Processed queries Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:07:58 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1916-occasional-bug-with-gravatar-.#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1916 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1916 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1916 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1907-categorising-links-and-images-and-file-etc http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1907-categorising-links-and-images-and-file-etc Something I was thinking about in a meet today and that is the ability to categorise the various items that can be attached to an article. So if I view and image, file or link, I could goto related categories. Not sure if this fits in with the grand design of YACS or not, but would be a nice feature, as when browsing flickr images for example, its nice to use the tags (categories in yacs) to view related images by category rather than using sections NickR Bug tracker Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:21:19 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1907-categorising-links-and-images-and-file-etc#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1907 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1907 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1907 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1897-google-sitemap-now-supports-rss-feeds http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1897-google-sitemap-now-supports-rss-feeds The only issue is that google will only accept the sitemap from the site root url, but that could easily be fixed by having a sitemap file that simply includes the rss2.php feed file. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34654&hl=en IMHO this would be a neater solution than using the existing sitemap as its more universal. Nick NickR Post your requirements here Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:32:32 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1897-google-sitemap-now-supports-rss-feeds#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1897 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1897 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1897 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1851-file-cache-progess http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1851-file-cache-progess Hi Heres some file cache code ive been working on, its litterally a translation of the code for cache to the sql cache table into caching to file. Its unfinished, ive not even tested it one. It is ONLY for render output. The cache size is unlimited. I need to write a function to delete expired items only (Possibly hook to a use a cron job). The setup routine is basic. Also need to implement an option to turn this caching on or use default caching. I've written this as a seperate class, but I don't really know ... more» NickR Post your requirements here Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:17:46 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1851-file-cache-progess#comments 5 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1851 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1851 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1851