Hotaru CMS Forums

Monitoring Site and Performance, NewRelic

shibuya246 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:59:03 GMT

Has anyone used this service before to try and find out where site performance issues can be discovered?
http://newrelic.com

Testing automation

valMETNG — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:33 GMT

For those of you who aren't familiar with automated testing tools, I am using one called Selenium which I find very useful. Amazingly, it works just as a plugin to Firefox and it allows you to record actions on a screen and then play them back. Think of it as a macro for web pages.

For example, because the initial plugins should be installed in a certain order, after doing a clean install, I run the attached test suite, which is made up of two test cases: one that sets the environment (so you can use it in different test environments just by setting one URL), and; 2) one that installs the plugins based on their a href link (I initially used xpath, but the order/location of the plugins in the table can change so that doesn't work so well). It then automatically installs all the plugins in the appropriate order. (If you'd like to use this, just edit the "Set Environment (Generic).html" document and change "mywebsite" to your website and "/[subdirectories]" to your subdirectories if Hotaru is installed somewhere other than root. You can also add additional plugins to the .html.)

Granted, it saves only a minute or two and a few clicks. However, building up many test cases (and potentially even sharing them with each other) would likely help test existing functionality in new builds more quickly.

Install Plugins (Generic).zip

Attached Files

Install Plugins (Generic).zip (1.8 KB)

Plugin not getting languages

valMETNG — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:41:51 GMT

I have a plugin that I call global_functions. These are the contents:

Code:

class Global_Functions

{

         /**

        * Nothing is necessary because it's all in GlobalFunctions.php

        */

}

(I'm making great progress... I know... I know...)

Actually, the meat of global_functions is in the lib GlobalFunctions.php, which is just a bunch of functions I intend to use across multiple plugins. The plugin has a language file in the languages directory with just a few error messages. However, it appears the languages file isn't being pulled (because the error messages are just coming back as the name). I'm not calling this from the backend, so I know that's not the problem. I'm wondering - does there need to be anything in the global_functions.php file in order for the plugin installation to pick-up that there's a languages file?

Oh... one more question please. I have an error message that, when you install a plugin, if the tables already exist in the database, you have to manually delete them before you can reinstall (so as to prevent deleting existing data by accident). I can post an error message that appears on the plugin installation page when the installation fails; however, I still also get the green message that the plugin installed successfully (when it didn't). Is there a variable I need to set to false to prevent the plugin from showing installed?

Easiest method to update old default hotaru to 1.5.2

slepua — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:45:21 GMT

Hi, just seen today that Hotaru is again active. I have a website with a database, which runs on old version of hotaru 1.4.2. the website is default, all I need is just database actually and I will get the project moving again. Is it possible to somehow install a new version of hotaru and import the old database? Because when I try to update, I get stuck at step 1/3 :>

"Step 1/3: Checking your existing setup
You are currently running Hotaru CMS version
To upgrade Hotaru to version 1.5.2-rc1, click 'Next'...
The database does not exist or the connection settings are incorrect.
Back Next "

The problem is that "next" button is not clickable.

How to load posts from one category on a page?

Graeme — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:10:35 GMT

I have created a new page called 'articles', something like this:

$(h)->pageName = articles

so I can navigate to www.myurl.com/index.php?page=articles

On this page I want to show everything in the articles category, how can i do this? An alternative would probably be to go straight to the articles category page, but I wondered if it is possible to do from a custom created page?

The reason is because I want to use a different stylesheet for this page

Download Hotaru CMS 1.5.2

shibuya246 — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:44:25 GMT

v.1.5.2 now officially released
http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...taru-CMS-1-5-2

Download Hotaru CMS 1.5.2

shibuya246 — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:43:38 GMT

Hotaru 1.5.2 is available for download.

Requirements

Hotaru CMS has been tested using PHP 5.2.5 ~ 5.4.2 and MySQL 5.0~

Instructions

1. Download hotaru-1-5-2-withplugins.zip file attached to this post.
3. Read Installing Hotaru or Upgrading Hotaru.
4. Look through Getting Started with Hotaru CMS.

If you are upgrading an important change to note
copy your hotaru_settings.php file from the root into the new config folder and rename it to just settings.php
You need to do this before you run the upgrade script

Plugins and Themes

You can download additional plugins from the Plugin Downloads forum and themes from the Theme Downloads forum.

Edit:
Comments plugin was updated after this release to v.2.7
Please download and install separately
http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...3-Comments-2-7

Attached Files

Hotaru-1-5-2-withplugins.zip (1.70 MB)

[Upgrading] SQL Script to Uninstall Plugins from the Database?

nothingman — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:26:36 GMT

Whenever there's a new version of HotaruCMS I create a subfolder, upload the files of the new version and then go about testing an upgrade on a cloned database of my 'live' site.

Now, I want to 'go for'/test an upgrade and not a new installation. As is mentioned in the steps of upgrading a site, the first step is to uninstall all plugins and then proceed. How do I go about testing an upgrade of an existing site without copying the files of the old version, overwrite them with the new one and then go about upgrading the site.

To keep it short: Too scared to test a new version on my 'live' site. I have files of the latest HotaruCMS version while the database is that of an old version BUT I'm not in a position to uninstall the plugins. How do I uninstall plugins from an existing HotaruCMS database?

Making the most of the CKEditor Plugin using the oEmbed CKEditor plugin

nothingman — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:03:19 GMT

What you will be able to do after following this tutorial
1. Post/Embed content on your HotaruCMS web site from over 140 Web sites!
2. Configure the CKEditor toolbar

What you must first do
1. Follow the instruction of enabling the iframe HTML tag here.
2. Follow seekyt's instructions of uploading images via CKEditor here.

First off, the CKEditor javascript folder that comes along with the CKEditor Plugin is quite outdated. So first, download the latest version of CKEditor - I chose the one with 'Full' Features.

1. Once you have downloaded CKEditor, upload all the files to the /content/plugins/ckeditor/javascript/ folder
Tip:
- Before uploading the CKEditor files, delete the languages you will not need from the lang folder located at /javascript/lang/
- I like my toolbar to be simple. So, delete the plugins you will not need located at /javascript/plugins/. I believe the folder names are quite self-explanatory.

2. Go to http://ckeditor.com/addon/oembed and download the oEmbed plugin.
3. Upload the oembed folder to /content/plugins/ckeditor/javascript/plugins/
4. Open config.js located at /content/plugins/ckeditor/javascript and paste the following lines of code.

PHP Code:


/**
 * @license Copyright (c) 2003-2013, CKSource - Frederico Knabben. All rights reserved.
 * For licensing, see LICENSE.html or http://ckeditor.com/license
 */

CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config )
{
    config.toolbar = 'MyToolbar';
    //for Oembed
    //Enable the plugin by changing or adding the extraPlugins line in your configuration (config.js):
    config.extraPlugins = 'oembed';
    config.oembed_maxWidth = '560';
    config.oembed_maxHeight = '315';
    // Load the English interface.
    config.language = 'en';
    // In CKEditor 4.1 or higher you need to disable ACF (Advanced Content Filter) in the config.js file:
    config.allowedContent = true;
    config.removePlugins = 'elementspath,save,font,preview,find,forms,iframe,liststyle,magicline,div,pagebreak,pastefromword,colordialog,a11yhelp,wsc,clipboard,scayt,print,templates';
    config.toolbar_MyToolbar =
    [
        { name: 'document', items: [ 'Source' ] },
        // { name: 'clipboard', items : [ 'Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Undo','Redo' ] },
        { name: 'basicstyles', items : [ 'Bold','Italic','Strike','-','RemoveFormat' ] },
        { name: 'clipboard', items : [ 'Undo','Redo' ] },
        //{ name: 'editing', items : [ 'Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','-','Scayt' ] },
        //{ name: 'paragraph', items : [ 'NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','-','Blockquote' ] },
        { name: 'paragraph', items : [ 'NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Blockquote' ] },
        //{ name: 'insert', items : [ 'Image','Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak' ] },
        { name: 'insert', items : [ 'Image','oembed','youtube','HorizontalRule','Smiley'] },
        { name: 'links', items : [ 'Link','Unlink' ] },
        { name: 'tools', items : [ 'Maximize','-','About' ] }
    ];
};

An explanation of some of the code above.
The following code loads ONLY the language of your choice. So, your CKEditor will load faster.

PHP Code:


    // Load the English interface.
    config.language = 'en';

If you haven't deleted some of the plugins from the CKEditor plugin folder, the follow line of code disables the said plugins. Again, this makes CKEditor load faster.

PHP Code:


    // In CKEditor 4.1 or higher you need to disable ACF (Advanced Content Filter) in the config.js file:
    config.removePlugins = 'elementspath,save,font,preview,find,forms,iframe,liststyle,magicline,div,pagebreak,pastefromword,colordialog,a11yhelp,wsc,clipboard,scayt,print,templates';

The following lines of code define the way I want the toolbars to be arranged in my CKEditor.

PHP Code:


config.toolbar_MyToolbar =
    [
        { name: 'document', items: [ 'Source' ] },
        // { name: 'clipboard', items : [ 'Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Undo','Redo' ] },
        { name: 'basicstyles', items : [ 'Bold','Italic','Strike','-','RemoveFormat' ] },
        { name: 'clipboard', items : [ 'Undo','Redo' ] },
        //{ name: 'editing', items : [ 'Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','-','Scayt' ] },
        //{ name: 'paragraph', items : [ 'NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','-','Blockquote' ] },
        { name: 'paragraph', items : [ 'NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Blockquote' ] },
        //{ name: 'insert', items : [ 'Image','Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak' ] },
        { name: 'insert', items : [ 'Image','oembed','youtube','HorizontalRule','Smiley'] },
        { name: 'links', items : [ 'Link','Unlink' ] },
        { name: 'tools', items : [ 'Maximize','-','About' ] }
    ];

5. Save the file
6. Open ckeditor.php located at /content/plugins/ckeditor/
7. Look for public function pre_close_body($h) and paste the following i.e. replace the whole pre_close_body function with the following lines of code.
Notice that MyToolbar is the toolbar that we had declared in the config.js file - we're just calling it.

PHP Code:


    public function pre_close_body($h)
    {
        // Exit if this page name does not contain 'submit' and isn't edit_post
        if ((strpos($h->pageName, 'submit') === false) && ($h->pageName != 'edit_post')) {return false;}
        
        echo " window.onload = function() {CKEDITOR.replace( 'post_content',{toolbar : 'MyToolbar'});this.dataProcessor.writer.setRules( 'br',{indent : false,breakBeforeOpen : true,breakAfterOpen : false,breakBeforeClose : false,breakAfterClose : true}); };";
    }

8. Save the file

Further stuff:
I've enabled uploading files using CKEditor as posted by seekyt. Follow the steps and you can allow users to upload images using CKEditor

Download Hotaru CMS 1.5.2 (RC1)

shibuya246 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:19:34 GMT

RC1 for Hotaru CMS v.1.5.2 now ready for download
http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...MS-1-5-2-(RC1)

Download Hotaru CMS 1.5.2 (RC1)

shibuya246 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:15:50 GMT

I have made a few changes to the package for RC1 on v.1.5.2
There was a problem with adding new user manually through admin panel. This should be resolved

I have also added a few indices to the database and tweaked a few queries to try and reduce the php/db load time
This should particularly help when using widgets like latest comments and latest activity
The pages for activity and comments should now also load faster

I would like to get this update out and working with everyone as it is starting to feel like it is becoming a 1.6.0 release with the extra coding being done to improve db queries

The goals for v.1.6.0 have not been set yet, but am currently looking at a few db improvements as well as a possible new library for autoloader of classes. There could be a tidy up of some javascript and should look again at the minify script

The auto updater for plugins advanced one step and I could update my plugins using it, but I have not finished the FTP updater yet. This will be looked at again for v.1.6.0

As we move to v.1.6.0 new versions will probably be split into zips for just the Hotaru CMS core for upgrades and a pack of Hotaru CMS core and starter core plugins for new users

Note: There are database index updates in this v.1.5.2-rc1 release so make sure you run the install upgrade script

v.1.5.2 now officially released
http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...taru-CMS-1-5-2

Attached Files

Hotaru-1-5-2-rc1-withplugins.zip (1.71 MB)

Russian Language Packs (Русский перевод) in Hotaru CMS

Sv9t — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:29:28 GMT

Всем привет! Закончил доделывать перевод Hotaru CMS, на данный момент версии 1.5.1. переведена админка, точнее большая ее часть. Переводил с помощью google translate, поэтому смысловая нагрузка кое-где может потеряться, но постарался перевести все осмысленно. Если уведите ошибки или неточности пишите, исправлю. Далее, буду стараться перевести также и плагины, выкладывать буду здесь же.

Способ русификации: оригинальные файлы заменяете файлами из архива.
Перевод осуществляли:
- Aldous линуксы.рф
- Sv9t Amoremo

Hello everyone! He graduated finish translating Hotaru CMS, currently version 1.5.1. translated admin panel, or rather most of it. Translated with google translate, so the semantic load in some places may get lost, but tried to translate all meaningful. If you away; errors or inaccuracies write, fix it. Next, I will try to translate well and plug-ins that will lay out here.

The method of Russification: the original file is replaced with the archived files.

Hotaru_1.5.1_Admin_Panel.zip

Attached Files

Hotaru_1.5.1_Admin_Panel.zip (9.5 KB)

Hotaru CMS 1.5.2 beta

shibuya246 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:43:21 GMT

A beta version of Hotaru CMS v.1.5.2 has been released and is available for immediate download
http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...Beta1)&p=13554

Download Hotaru CMS 1.5.2 (Beta1)

shibuya246 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:41:28 GMT

Hotaru 1.5.2 beta is available for download. There have been a number of minor updates and extra admin features added here since the v.1.5.0 release. Most of these are tidy up features and not considered security related.

This v.1.5.2 should be a good chance to update your site without having to consider major changes to your existing themes from v.1.5.0

Requirements

Hotaru CMS has been tested using PHP 5.2.5 ~ 5.4.2 and MySQL 5.0~

Instructions

1. Download hotaru-1-5-1-b1-withplugins.zip file attached to this post.
3. Read Installing Hotaru or Upgrading Hotaru.
4. Look through Getting Started with Hotaru CMS.

Plugins and Themes

You can download additional plugins from the Plugin Downloads forum and themes from the Theme Downloads forum.

Some plugin version numbers may need to be updated still and the plugin search/updater feature in the admin section will work properly once the remote plugin server gets populated with the latest information.

Points to Note
Apart from a number of minor fixes in this release we have added drag and drop re-ordering of the plugin management dashboard as well as a separate menu item which lists the static pages in your /content/pages folder

The install section has been updated again for newcomers to Hotaru CMS which is also one of the reasons for putting out this release

This release is considered stable but is being put out as a beta version. If there are no major problems then it will be released as v.1.5.2 by the end of the week or early next week.

If you are going to help by testing this version, it would be good to get your feedback here

Attached Files

Hotaru-1-5-2-b1-withplugins.zip (1.76 MB)

Paypal 0.2

valMETNG — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:01:16 GMT

Paypal
Version: 0.2
Author: valMETNG
Created on: 2013/06/10
Last Updated: 2013/06/11
Tested on: Hotaru 1.5.0~
Plugins Required: Messaging
Plug & Play: Yes (but you'll likely want to modify it)
Supported: I'll do my best :)

Description
This plugin provides the ability to integrate Paypal transactions into your Hotaru site. The example used here is for purchasing an admin membership, but the core can be easily modified to any purchases/money transactions on your site. Anytime a purchase occurs and Paypal sends a notice, the plugin will also send a message (using the required messaging plugin) to the admin and user letting them know of the purchase.

Instructions
1. Upload the paypal folder to your plugins folder.
2. Install it from Plugin Management in Admin.
3. Access it from the Admin sidebar under Plugin Settings.
4. Complete the Admin settings.
5. Make sure to thoroughly test the IPN. Paypal can be very strange sometimes (search the web for "paypal ipn issues" or "paypal sandbox issues" to get a sense). I suggest using their IPN simulator more than constantly resending IPNs because resending IPNs often has a delay of 2-3 minutes. For testing, you can generate an initial purchase, grab the IPN data (at least what it's supposed to look like), and then enter that data on the IPN simulator page to do immediate re-sends. To grab the IPN data, click on the relevant Message ID. The IPN Message is the data you can use to populate the IPN simulator (along with your IPN handler URL). The transaction type is Web Accept. The most important field for testing is the invoice, which you will find by clicking on "show all fields." The invoice number is what drives the processing in this plugin (the rest of the data is really for information purposes only and not relevant to testing).

Purchase Membership.png

Revision History
v.0.2 2013/06/11 - valME - Removed old code
v.0.1 2013/06/10 - valME - Released first version

Please click "Rate Thread" and give this plugin a rating. Thank you.

Attached Images

Purchase Membership.png (35.0 KB)

Attached Files

paypal.zip (14.9 KB)