mambelfish/joomfish not working after 1.04 patch

[chaosvg]

Since most mambelfish users like myself gave up on hoping for any support from alex, I hope I might find some answers here.

After upgrading to 1.04:
- some content translations are loaded when switching language, others are not.
- page navigation looks like this (at least in dutch): PN_LT_PN_LT Begin _PN_LT Vorige Volgende _PN_RT Einde _PN_RT_PN_RT
- doing a site search, these warnings are displayed:
Warning: array_keys(): The first argument should be an array in /home/***/domains/***.be/public_html/components/com_mambelfish/classes/mambelfish.class.php on line 167
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/***/domains/***.be/public_html/components/com_mambelfish/classes/mambelfish.class.php on line 167

I don't mean to be disrespectfull, but it seems like mf users are left in the cold for months now (since long before joomla). I suppose this will be the next fix-it-yourself issue I (we) 've encountered.
Thing is: once a website goes multi-lingual there's is no way back. I would never have got into this if I knew what kind of troubles were on the way...

regards
cvg

[tr34ser]

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,20530.0.html

[jpetrov]

No IT Doesn't work. Starting from Joomla 1.0.4 we need a new searchbot.

What you actually did was delete 1.0.4 index files with old 4.5.2 ones.

[tr34ser]

1.
yes it MIGHT be a security thing, but i can life with it (backups).

2.
the search mosbot is part of it, and i didnt use the search.

3.
Its possbile to run the mambelfish under 1.04!

cheers

[alexhokamp]

Yes, tried it out, everything is fine except the searchbot. So everyone who does not need the bot will be ok, but can please someone figure out a way to fix the searchbot for the ones who need it, at least temporarily, until we all can enjoy the new Joom!Fish ...

[Tonie]

The PN_LT_PN_LT error has nothing to do with whatever version of fish. It means that you don't have the updated language pack. You can find a location to a Dutch language pack here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg120575.

You can also ask about Mambofish on the Dutch forums. There is at least one user there who has it working under Joomla, though I don't know if he updated his site to 1.0.4 yet or us using the search bot.

[walb]

I have mambelfish running with 1.0.4, systembot and the mbf searchbot (unmodified) running.
All of it works. Not any core hacks done.

I got also those warnings of mbf as reported in the begining of this thread,  but they seem harmless. It does not prevent the operation of MBF.
You can lower the PHP reporting level of your Joomla at the global configuration->server.

Or what I did; changed mambelfish.class.php to test if $rows was set and returned if not.

[alexhokamp]

Yes, everything works fine, but did you try to search for a translated content? In my installation, everything works fine, except searching for translated content. The searchbot will not find any content except the ones of the original language set in the backend for the site.

[chaosvg]

Hi al ...

I was able to fix the navigation issue, it was indeed language-file related.

I have an additional problem, I don't know if it's mf related:
I have two newsflash modules on my frontpage. I'm not sure if this happened after the 1.04 update, but these modules won't display a 'read more' link anymore.
When I set the site to max error reporting, this error appears:

Code: Select all

Notice: Undefined variable: hrefVars in /home/***/domains/***.be/public_html/components/com_mambelfish/mambelfish.html.php on line 154

btw I'm not using the mf-bot to have mf running on a joomsite: I patch the index and index2 files with the relevant mf code.

cvg

[alexhokamp]

Maybe you can find some more infos here http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg119739

[walb]

@alexhokamp

Yes, it even displays also the language of the content with it.
Just visited your site in the backend and I could not find this mambot  multi lingual content searchbot
It seems not to be installed. At least I could not find it.

@chaosvg
Your problem is new to me. I can only think of incorrect patched index and index2 files.
Does it prevent mambelfish from proper working? It is only a notice.

[chaosvg]

@walb
My problem with the readon links seems to be new to the whole community  I can't find anything relating to this and it's getting me very nervous
But: really not sure if it's mf related/1.04 related http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,20855.0.html

What i did try before is replacing the patched files with the original 1.04 files. (and removing  mosLoadComponent( 'mambelfish' ) from the template. It had the same result on the newsflash module.

I'll attach the patched files. (I think it's a patch you provided on this forum)

cvg

[tr34ser]

@Chaosvg
Can u plz open a new topic with the newsflash "read more" issue, its not mbf related.
And did you checked your site cfg to show the read more link?
And try to dublicate the newsflash module again.
Or try the xtd news comp/module which is even more detailed (category,section, values). You can find this with a search @ mamboforge.net

cheers

[walb]

@chaosvg
The read more seems to be known issue and is in the bugtracker
http://developer.joomla.org/sf/go/artf2253?nav=1
Also check this discussion
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,20122.0.html

To me it has nothing to do with mbf

[alexhokamp]

@walb

I uninstalled the searchbot from mabelFish, because it did not serve any purpose if it is not installed. but if someone got a fix for it, i will install it back.

[chaosvg]

@walb

thanks for pointing me there

[alexhokamp]

@walb

installed the searchobot back ... nothing changed ...

[walb]

alexhokamp
I just visited your site again and published the search bot and looked for 'wollte'
And it worked....

[alexhokamp]

hey, where did you get that searchbot from? thanks a lot ... you've got a link or so to the bot?

[alexhokamp]

@walb

Now I know that I drink too much coffee, PUBLISH IT. That's it, I take a break ... Forget the simplest things ...

[walb]

No comment 

[consigliere]

I have working joomla 1.0.4 with mambelfish in my site, but if I have the searchbot installed or not, when I do a search site it works perfect, shows me the search results but, I got this warnings, even if I turn off the system error displays...

Warning: array_keys(): The first argument should be an array in W:\www\joomla\components\com_mambelfish\classes\mambelfish.class.php on line 164

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in W:\www\joomla\components\com_mambelfish\classes\mambelfish.class.php on line 164

how can I get rid of this warnings without affecting the mambelfish good performance I have?

[consigliere]

I have mambelfish running with 1.0.4, systembot and the mbf searchbot (unmodified) running.
All of it works. Not any core hacks done.

I got also those warnings of mbf as reported in the begining of this thread,  but they seem harmless. It does not prevent the operation of MBF.
You can lower the PHP reporting level of your Joomla at the global configuration->server.

Or what I did; changed mambelfish.class.php to test if $rows was set and returned if not.

do you already have the solution?

[walb]

As said before I did not really solve it but prevented it from throwing a warning.
I just added this line before line 164
if (!isset($rows)) return;
The solution is deeper because that function 'translateList' is called with no $rows specified. I did not investigate the cause that. Since mbf did work OK.
There are several liitle flaws within mambelfish as you may have found in the forum. PHP version problems
Even the lttle mbf search bot has a flaw. The search results are returned twice. Just by adding DISTINCT right after the SELECT statement will correct it.

The following thread goes deeper into the problems and solutions http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,8785.0.html

I did not go that far and only solved the things that bothered me.
For that reason I made the mbf system bot and I use already a different version to be prepared for Joomla.1.1 
But for some reason I would be more happy if it was released by Alex to tighten the gap between MBF and Joomla.
In general mambelfish works OK

[jpetrov]

I did it! I forced it to work - no additional changes!

All I had to do is to delete the bot from the mambot list, install it again and publish it. It even works better then before! (It was not language-selective in searches, and now it works just fine).

Guys and girls, check if you could do this on your installs??

[Vin Mariani]

I did it! I forced it to work - no additional changes!

All I had to do is to delete the bot from the mambot list, install it again and publish it. It even works better then before! (It was not language-selective in searches, and now it works just fine).

Guys and girls, check if you could do this on your installs??

Didn't work for me on a fresh install, I followed the steps in consigliere's Mimi-howto
( http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,20940.0.html )
I still get the warnings after doing a search.

Did you make additional changes?

[jpetrov]

I forgot this step - I unpublished the sections search bot. You can still search the contents. This has eliminated the errors. Play with the search bots (publish/unpublish) one by one and see what happens.

[Vin Mariani]

jpetrov, that did it! 

I unpublished the "Search Sections" bot and the errormessages are gone.

Thanks!!

[jpetrov]

no problems... joomla stands for community