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Errors Within EFiction 5

lucy — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 05:38:42 +0000

Hi guys, I have no idea where to put this thread, so move it if I'e put in the wrong section, however I have come across an error in the admin panel when adding more than one character. This is the error:

{ICON:sort} ID {ICON:sort}
Internal Server Error
Undefined variable: LN__Sort_Label

Base->{closure}()
Preview->render()
ViewBase::render()
ViewAdminCP->listCharacters()
ControllerAdminCP_Archive->characters()
Base->run()

This error occurs in the two newest versions of vapourware.

Private stories - thought

Sheepcontrol — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:30:08 +0000

This is partially a presentation and partially a memo - and on some issues I'd like to get your feedback:

I heard there's an interest in the option to set a story to private so only people considered friends can read them.

I fiddled the following ideas together:

People can add others as friends, this is a one-way action

People can re-friend, making it mutual

If you don't (currently) want to consider this person a friend, you can:

Mute the friendship - it will be listed, but you will not see the other persons private stories or get notifications

Reject the friendship - it will be deleted and the other party will get notified

Now as always, there are some issues to that:

Tags and other statistics are calculated on event and cached to reduce DB load.
This happens using default visibility settings, in other words private stories are not counted, leading to a mismatch in number of tags shown e.g. in the tag cloud and number of stories with said tag actually available for a friended reader.

Being an added feature, this will not happen right now, but still, the issue remains.

So what are your thoughts on this? Accept the mismatch, accept more load on the database (might be possible to counter that using extended caching), count tags although you might not be able to access stories referrd to (the way LifeJournal does it)

I need your language for "yes" / "no"

Sheepcontrol — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:16:22 +0000

Since I have no idea how many langua packs there are around, I need the entries for
_YES (Around line 128)
and
_NO (Around line 82)
from your language file.

Like this:

define ("_NO", "No");
define ("_YES", "Yes");

So far I have:
English
German
Turkish

Reason is that for some forms, eFiction 3 didn't save like 0 and 1 for no and yes, but the localized words themselves. That makes it hard to do queries on when it could be anything.

Friendly URL

FP And — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:12:26 +0000

Heloo!!

Would be cool if you make the version 5 compatible with friendly url's. Nowadays this is a think very important, and if the code php is compatible, turn all more simple for who use the eFiction.

It's just an idea. If is most complicate for you, and demand many code alteration, any person can do this in your own instalation, if is important (I'm just thinking what this is more simple for who know the code very well). :oops:

Sorry the bad english and good look with your work!! I'm anxious for the new version!

Help: Need tracker module database definition

Sheepcontrol — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 23:36:00 +0000

Hi there,

I am building the tracker function into eFiction (actually, it's in for a while now).
Now I need to tell the installer how to import data from this mod, but I can't get my hands on it. :bye2:

All I need is a dump of the structure (e.g. phpMyAdmin -> Export -> Structure). :help:

Appreciated

Insanity strikes - a post to regret (maybe)

Sheepcontrol — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:04:17 +0000

Well, here I am, it's about midnight local time, and I fear, that a lot of people are not believing in eFiction 5 any more, and I can't blame them, ~~it's not~~ it wouldn't be the first promised successor to go AWOL.

So, here's the deal:

https://github.com/eFiction is hosting the current status of eFiction 3, the pretty much working eFiction 3->5 updater (no clean install, yet), and the current state of the eFiction 5 script.

I know it's a setback in some areas, but it is finally on a sane base, whenever I find the time I am pushing it forward, currently working on the search form, and there's stuff to be added to the user and admin panel, but maybe somebody will look into things and tag along.

I was hoping to be able to show a more mature version, but I hope I can at least prove that it's not exactly vaporware after all.

Now let's be clear on this - this is somewhere between "it exists" and "early alpha", so unless you are ~~pretty confident~~ die hard when it comes to this kind of scripts, don't bother installing it just yet.

Now here's the catch:

I am by all means no "real" programmer, I am what was earlier called a dilettante, a person who does something for the love of it, not because of qualification or profession.
Now I'm all open for constructive criticism, since I already know my stuff is far from perfect.
If you don't like my coding and think you could have done it better - the reply is: you didn't, so have a seat a cookie and be quite.
Or you can hop on and be part of it, improve or add code (once I figure out how that stuff works on github).

There is no manual or safety instruction yet, the code usually will not eat the kittens, it has grown far more hungry, so use at your own risk. It requires a config file which will be created by the installer, there is a basic documentation to be found on the efiction wiki @ https://efiction.org/wiki/Main_Page.

The installer/upgrade tool error

Ariane — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:29:56 +0000

I tried the upgrade tool and got this error after I filled everything in and clicked Submit:

Internal Server Error

Fatal error: syntax error, unexpected '['

The installer/upgrade tool - a first glimps

Sheepcontrol — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:28:50 +0000

Well, in order to make the codename "Vaporware" a bit less realistic, here comes a first look at the thing called installer.

First of all, this is a test version, so unless you really know what you are doing - don't use it.

It should be safe to use, even on a live eFiction 3 site, since the part where it actually starts making changes has been disarmed, but it is called test for a reason, right?

What does it do, then?
Now the part that's active, the upgrade, will do all kinds of tests before it starts, recommend where to store chapter data (either inside the main database or in a local file storage via SQLite 3). Yes, this means you can finally start changing where your chapters are being stored at. So far, only on upgrading, later on this will be a feature in the admin panel.
It will then create the new tables, start to copy data from the old tables, create a data cache and then perform the above mentioned chapter thing.

If anything fails, I need to know in order to make it more stable, so yes, anybody that has the time and knows how not to shipwreck an efiction, be my guest, give it a shot (not me, maybe you will, but I'd highly advise against that, for personal reasons).
Be sure to drop a note in here about your impressions, create error topics if things went bad.

Requirements:

This script, like the actual eFiction 5.x will require:

Apache only so far, nginx needs certain directives set in the configuration, manual is to be found here.
PHP >= 5.4.0
PDO and at least one SQL-ish database server supported via PDO
SQLite with PDO for local storage

Installation:

Unpack the archive and put the install/ folder in your test archive, might want to remove the old one first if it's still there, but that should not be a requirement.

Limitations:

Right now, it only speaks MySQL, since I neither run a PostgreSQL or any other Servers I can't test it, so it's not in there, if anybody feels like creating support, be my guest.

That's all at this point of time, getting late and my English pretty bad, but I wanted to get this out tonight, and by some definition, I did.

Update: Changed PHP requirements to 5.4.0

install.zip

We have name :)

Sheepcontrol — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:23:51 +0000

Well, after figuring how long it has taken me to work on a new version of eFiction - and I really appreciate your patience - I have come to realize what a lot of people must think of it:

Vaporware !!!

Well, to make fun of me and to point that it WILL be released, this will be the name of the initial release.
So yes, you will get vaporware, and I hope you will love it.

P.S.: Explanation of the term vaporware.