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On the site I am using it on, you have to create an account and login before you can see the "Add New Recipe" link in the Recipe Menu.  I was going to try your site but I don't see where I can login or create an account.

Look on the lower left hand side.....I was logged in when I tried to enter a recipe, thats whats so weird.

The NEVERMIND is me talking to myself, "duh" I see it now, thanks for replying.

NEVERMIND the login, I found it on your home page, might want it on every page.  I created an account and clicked on add new recipe and got the creation page, I did not create a recipe because I did not want you to have to delete it (have to do that in the base)  If you want me to I will put in a "test".

I am on a pc win 2000 with Firefox.

Must be me. Maybe my Firefox is configured weird, I do tend to have dropped logins a lot.

I tried on IE and it works, which is the most likely  one to be used anyway 
Would you like me to put in a test recipe (if you don't want to delete it post one here that you want posted)?

Nope, don't trouble yourself. It works for me in IE too. Apparently I've a weird setting somewhere in FF that needs changing. It tends to log me out of my admin account without telling me too. I'll have to make time to hunt down the problem......

Thanks!

I am having a weird problem with a client's paypal cart in Firefox, when I try to do a test order it requires me to join but others can just use their credit card.  Hopefully the upgrade 1.5 that they just released will solve some of this. 

Glad to know what Christmasberry honey is now.

Best of luck with the mead.

The instructions for the javascript I used are here.
You need to modify accordinly the file "include.pccookbook.php" in the function pccb_EchoCatList
If you want me to do it for you, send me a pm or contact me via instant messager


It is not possible without changes to the code. It IS possible with changes in the code. As before, the place to change is the function: pccb_EchoCatList in the file "include.pccookbook.php"
Feel free to do it (that is a good thing with GPL). If you do it in a way that others can benefit from it (without excluding the other way), then send me your changes, and I will incorporate them in the base files for all to have.
If you dont know how to do it, contact me via pm or instant messager


As far as I can see those problems have now been solved, right?

Eugene.  I like your site.  Your thumbnails are not working on your groups (red x).
Can you tell us how you added the pictures?  I am guessing you added a field for an image file.  Can you give us the code you added so we can look at it?  Specifically, I am looking for:
1. The code to display a small thumbnail next to the category
2. The code to display a larger image next to the title when looking at the recipe
3. The code you used to insert the image into the record
4. Any code or module you used to upload images

I tried entering html code to display an image in the "Description" box, and it did not work.  This component displays the contents of this field as a numbered list, so it cannot work with HTML.  I am wondering if it would be a nice hack to create a second description field, an HTML field that could be edited with the Mambo default editor.  Since I am using FCK editor, there is an image upload feature already incorporated in the editor, and it would give me complete flexibility in laying out a recipe, photos next to each step, etc.  This would leave intact the default text-based numbered-step description field, but would give advanced users an additional field for tables, images, videos, special formatting, etc.

I also tried looking for some simple "Upload Image" code or module, but could not find it.

Nope, I changed the mktree.css and now it displays just like I wanted it to!

The other problem is still happening, but it's my Firefox setup, not the component.

Here's an interesting thing though. I changed my layout last night, going to one that is closer to my old HTML format, and everything is going well, except that the PCCookBook is now displaying oddly when you pull up a recipe. Take a look:
http://gotmead.com/component/option,com ... cipe_id,1/

Notice how the instructions are now overlapping the ingredients? I know this is a formatting issue, but I haven't tracked it down yet. If you've any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them....

Oh, and on another note, once I get all the beer and wine varieties in here, I can send this to you to add to your component if you like, as the 'beverage' version of PC Cookbook.

Thanks, Koyan!

*Bump* Has anyone a clue where I can find the code that deals with formatting the recipe in the site:
http://gotmead.com/component/option,com ... cipe_id,1/

I've been all through the code, and can't find out where it's having the issue. The include. pccookbook.php file has the printer friendly stuff, but no stuff for in-site display.....

Thanks for any suggestions, I'm tearing my hair out about this, I've got hundreds of recipes to add....

Sorry for the delay my computer commited suicide, so I'm trying to gather back the data

For the code, well, it's a dirty and quick hack, as I'm not a coder or developper, so I try to adapt something with my limited knowledge.
Most of the display was made with the CSS and image manually added in specific places, and image have the number of the category.
So I'll be pleased to give the modified code but I'm afraid it won't be of a great help, anyway feel free to PM me

The php code that serves the html is the function pccb_EchoOneRecipe in the fle include.pccookbook.php.
Now if you want to format it differently than what it is now, you can edit this funciton, or you can create some css definitions for every class="cookbook_SOMETHING"  that you find (where "SOMETHING" is the different parts that Dagonee had given class definitions).

But everything is actually in this one function, so all the changes you need to do are in there.
Be well,
Konstantinos

Any update on a fix for this issue?

Thanks,
-Mitch

Thanks, Konstantinos!

I'll look into both the code and css, see what I can do. It's odd that it displayed fine in the old standard Joomla template, but has issues in this one.

Oh, and I'm getting an odd problem you may have run into before: People are logging in, and when they click to the menu for the recipes and click to add a new recipe, they get the error: 'Sorry, you don't have rights to add or delete a recipe. Please login or create an account on Gotmead to add recipes.' So, this has happened in both IE and Firefox to multiple people on multiple computers all over the country, so its not just me. I'm completely puzzled by this, since it doesn't happen all the time, just some of the time.

Any ideas? I'm getting desperate on this issue.

I see that when you press "printer friendly" it shows fine. Try applying the same css to the screen. (if you need help on how to do it, send me a pm or contact me via instant messager)


I have never gotten this problem before. My wife used to run the component in her own site and we never had this problem ever.
I created an account and I added a recipe in your site, and I didnt meet any problem at all: recipe id 66: Mead By Euell Gibbons
I tried both from IE and firefox and I had no problems at all. I cannot understand what happens.
The code that controls what will appear there (the form or the "you have no rights to add" message) is very simple:

So, if it shows the message, it is because it believes that the user is not logged in.
Can you check with one of the users that report this: when they see the message, do they see the login part of the login module, or they see only "Hi, user" ?

Well, it looks like they log in, click on 'recipes' and when they're transferred to the recipe page, it logs them out. Odd. I think it may be a session issue. I see a fair number of dropped sessions on my own computer, and others are getting it too. I'm going to research it from that direction, and see if I can solve it.

Really odd. I cannot understand what happens, and I cannot reproduce it.
Has anyone else met the same or similar problems?

Life is good for me and the component, however im still wishing i could get a fix for the articleid not being appended to the url. This is causing my users to having to be logged in.


also.. any chance you could write an SEF advance extension for the component? I'd be so damn happy to have that going, as all my other components run great with it.

http://www.sakic.net for info on writing an extension.
-Mitch

I have applied the "itemID" and I have uploaded the files. I havent had time to test it thoroughly, so please do:


Most popular module
Latest recipes
Recipes Menu

Component
http://developer.joomla.org/sf/frs/do/d ... s2809?dl=1

Only the files (for those who want to update only):
css file
pccookbook .php
include.pccookbook.php
also, added a css call in the normal viewing of the recipes, for whoever knows and can edit a css file.

Please all of you (or at least some) try it, come up with the bugs it has, and be nice :-)
Be well,
Konstantinos

Im trying to update this, and for some reason.. my ftp and any other means to update files keeps telling me that permission is denied. Any idea why it would do this?
-Mitch

My best guess: The server that hosts your website is running linux. You installed the component through joomla administration, so the user who owns it is "apache" or the user that runs apache anyway. The files are not writtable by "world", so you cannot update them with your ftp user.
2 things you can do:
a) if you have shell access, then you should chmod the files so that you can write to them (and thus be able to replace them with the new ones).
b) You ask the server administrator to chmod the files for you, and then you update them
Note: in any of the above cases you will have to chmod them as they were (for security reasons).
Also note: this is not a problem with the specific component, it is a general problem with mambo/joomla and administration and linux servers.

What would i have to chmod them to? I dont have shell access, but i can CHmod via ftp...

if i need admin help, would i just be better off backing up my database and then reinstalling the component?

766 would be fine.
BUT: if you cannot update the files via ftp, this means that the user you are ftp'ing us cannot chmod them either..


Yes, but you have to be certain that you know how to restore your pccb tables. If you know how to do that (normally you export them from phpmyadmin, and then you add them by running the sql's you exported), then go on, this is the easiest way.

And after meadwench's good try exercises I found the bugs I had introduced. I think they are fixed now :-)
they were 2: the itemID was not loading, and the css was not being installed (I had not added it to the xml file).

So here is the link to the component installation file

Hi Konstantinos,

I installed the new files. You can see the layout here: http://www.gotmead.com/index.php?option ... cipe_id=69

It still comes out oddly in this template for some reason. I've tweaked as much as I dare, any thoughts on what I can do to get it looking right?

Thanks!

Mead, I used the template changer on my site and looked at the recipe component with several of the default templates.  I discovered that this display problem occurs on templates which use a graphic image instead of a special character for bullets.  I finally chose a different template that does not use a graphic for bullets so that I would not have this problem on any application down the road.  I don't have a solution for you, but I wanted to put it out there that this is a problem on a number of different templates.

Also, I noticed that your template has a problem with your top menu.  When you mouse-over a menu item, the reverse text is in bold, so your menu jumps around as you mouse over it.  I also had this problem on a template I used to work with, and I changed the default text on the menu to bold.

Hmm. I'll try removing the graphic bullets and see if that helps. Thanks! I'll fiddle with the menu layout too.

Ok, I can see 2 problems with your page:
a) the directions come next to the ingredients and not bellow them
b) The bullets break the list numbers

Solutions:
a) in your template css there is a block of code saying:

This is what causes the problem.
You have either to remove it from your template css OR
Add in your pccookbook.css the following:


b) You can overide the li background image, by editing your css file:
where it says

I changed it to:



Note: I am making both the above changes standart in the css, so for new downloads from the next release these will be standart.
If you dont want to edit your css, you can download it from  here (right click, and save as)

Another thing i noticed is that the CSS file overwrites the BG color of the entire page, which i had to remove, because of course my site doesnt have a white background.