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Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by pe7er » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:21 pm

If you have any Joomla questions, please use the JTS-post Assistant (a Problem Post Generation Utility ) to include your configuration information, making it easier for other people to help you!

In this thread you can discuss about JTS-post Assistant,
which is available at: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=272481 (Thanks RussW !)
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by leahcim_dach » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:23 am

That's too cool, and I am sure will be a big help!! I'm going to download it and poke sticks at it. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 8)


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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by LocaLizeR » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:33 pm

Congrats and many thanks to RussW! It's an excellent tool, hoping that when you submit your issue with the help of this tool, it will fasten the resolution.
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by lostinthewoods » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:26 pm

:) Thank you very much RussW. This is a great tool. I hope that many people will make use of it.

Thanks again ;D

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by tusker » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:10 pm

Great tool. Can help a lot of people who are not actually coders or developers but use joomla extensively.
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by timothy.stiffler » Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:08 am

Excellent! I say we need to spread the word and get people to use it now!
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by richrock » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:26 am

Excellent idea! Now people have little or no excuse providing they know about this. This should speed up response times too, with more info at hand.

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by pvh123 » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:49 am

Hi Russ,
Fantastic tool. Special from the JBS point of view. So many times I have to ask posters in the forum to get the correct information and this way it is easy to do.
Congrats again. I will certainly be advising users to make use of it.
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by horus_68 » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:31 pm

JTS-post Assistant
Portuguese pt-PT translation

jtspost_pt_v101F.zip
- http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsre ... _v101F.zip
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by leolam » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:36 am

This is fabulous and will make life for the 'helping hands so much easier' KUDO's! :geek:

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by garethsquire » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:28 am

When I try to use this, I am redirected to the first page of the web-based installer for 1.52!

So I guess this widget is no good for all those of us trying to install? Or is it just me?

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by pvh123 » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:31 pm

Not quite clear what you are trying to do. JTS-Post assistant has nothing to do with installing Joomla on itself.
It must be run on its own and will give you diagnostic info about your environment.
Like: http://example.com/jtspost_en.php
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by garethsquire » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:59 pm

thanks Pieter - two things:

1) I used the tool as you suggest mydomain.com/jtspost_en.php

2) i followed the instructions and uploaded the file and then went to the url in question, but as Joomla is not yet installed, I was taken immediately to /installation/index.php.

As I came across jtspost_en.php in the installation bit of the forum, I assumed it would also help diagnose my situation even though my problem is my inability to get past Step 5: FTP Configuration.

Hope this is clear now, but if not please let me know.
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by pvh123 » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:38 pm

garethsquire wrote:As I came across jtspost_en.php in the installation bit of the forum, I assumed it would also help diagnose my situation even though my problem is my inability to get past Step 5: FTP Configuration.
Gareth,
May be you should do a separate post for your FTP problem. That way you might get more visibility.
What is your ftp problem anyway (may be I missed that out)?
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by garethsquire » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:57 pm

Hi Pieter - http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=429&t=278617 is the ftp problem post.

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by RussW » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:38 am

@All

Thanks for the great comments and support (and the additional translation) Apologies for not entering in to the post earlier, haven't been able to get in to the forums much recently.

@horus_68 & LocALiceR
The translation will be added in to the JTS project site as soon as possible, your time is very much appreciated.

@leo
Glad JTS-post could be of assistance to you and your users, it is GPL, so please feel free to modify or tailor it to you own needs, add a logo etc etc, if you find useful extra's, please also feel free to let me know and we can update JTS-post also.

If you would like to donate, could I ask if you could point your good will to the Joomla! Project itself. Much of my knowledge and experience has come from these forums and the assistance of those here.

Thanks again folks, don't forget the rest of the Joomla! Tools Suite tools for Pre~ and Post~ installation, health and security auditing assistance.

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by deilert » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:37 pm

Thanks for this utility. I have a WAMP server I use locally on my laptop and recently moved the site once I got it nice up to my host. The site and the JTS-post Assistant work great on my WAMP server - super tool for this forum!

The site at my server is working but I cannot install any extensions. I get the following errors:
* JFTP::mkdir: Bad response
* JFTP::store: Bad response
* Warning! - Failed to move file


But ignore that for now - I uploaded the JTS-post Assistant to in the hopes to figure things out but get the following error running it:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class JVersion in /home/<user>/public_html/<site>/libraries/joomla/version.php on line 26

Let see if I can give you all the info you might need on my host. I've copied the config from my WAMP server and replaced the relavent data with that of my hosts:

Diagnostic Information
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.1 Production/Stable [ Seenu ] 8-February-2008 22:00 GMT
configuration.php: Writable (Mode: 644 )
Architecture/Platform: gentoo 2.6.22-hardened-r8 | Web Server: Apache 1.3.37 (Unix) | PHP Version: 5.2.2
PHP Requirements: not sure about these...
MySQL Version: 5.0.45-community


I hope that gives you enough to work with. Any ideas why JTS-post Assistant would produce this error?

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by RussW » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:43 am

Thanks to the work of many of the forum staff and users, we are now also pleased to announce the immediate availablility of the following languages for the JTS-post utility

- English
- Greek
- German
- Spanish
- Danish
- French
- Swedish
- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Hungarian (UTF8 & ISO)

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jts/fr ... ge_id=3421

Thanks for all the hard-work guys, much appreciated....

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To date we have had 693 downloads from the JTS Project Site, which equates to approximately 28 per day and around 115 posts containing the generated output from JTS-post ..... Pretty good result in such a short time...!
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by molok » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:54 am

Nice Script!

Thanks for sharing :)

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by hans2103 » Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:20 pm

very nice script indeed...
found a typo:

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OPEN
 jtspost_en.php
FIND
 [color=red]". _NOT_WRITABLE ."[color]
CHANGE BY
 [color=red]". _NOT_WRITABLE ."[/color]
SAVE & CLOSE
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by pkortge » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:24 am

The "[" and "]" around the .$_VERSION->CODENAME . on Line 65:-

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	$version 		= $_VERSION->PRODUCT .' '. $_VERSION->RELEASE .'.'. $_VERSION->DEV_LEVEL .' '. $_VERSION->DEV_STATUS.' [ '.$_VERSION->CODENAME .' ] '. $_VERSION->RELDATE .' '. $_VERSION->RELTIME .' '. $_VERSION->RELTZ;
should be changed to "(" and ")" as per

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		$version 		= $_VERSION->PRODUCT .' '. $_VERSION->RELEASE .'.'. $_VERSION->DEV_LEVEL .' '. $_VERSION->DEV_STATUS.' ( '.$_VERSION->CODENAME .' ) '. $_VERSION->RELDATE .' '. $_VERSION->RELTIME .' '. $_VERSION->RELTZ;
as it causes a formatting problem when posting to FireBoard Forums - it did for me with a posting to Gavicks' forum at http://www.gavick.com/component/option, ... Itemid,27/
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by mandville » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:37 pm

can i make a suggestion that a note is added that people copy and paste the contents of the post assistant should remove their url for security reasons
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by Reptileman94 » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:11 am

hi

i've downloaded it, unzipped it and im up to step 2 on installing it Installation

1. Download and unzip the attached file (result = jtspost.php )
2. Upload the PHP script to the Joomla! Sites "/" directory
3. Run the script through the browser IE: http://www.mysite.com.au/jtspost_en.php


where is the Joomla! sites "/" directory?

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Post by RussW » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:00 pm

" / " means root, so you need to upload the file in to the root directory of Joomla!

EG: if you installed J! in http://www.domain.com.au/cms/ you would upload to the /cms direcory as this is the "/" of the Joomla! install.
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by Reptileman94 » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:24 am

thanks!!

how to I upload it to the root directory? Do i install it in the admin section of Joomla! ?

sorry for all the nooby questions :D

thanks!!

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by RussW » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:48 pm

This is a standalone application, a single file that you run on its own, it doesn't install in to Joomla! in anyway.

So you FTP the file up to your server, placing it in the "/" (root) directory of where you have Joomla! installed. Then you go to your web-browser and open the file in your browser http://www.yourdomain.com.au/<your joomla directory>/jtspost_en.php

You should then see the tools webpage , ready to use, read the intrcutions about 3/4 of the ay down the right hand column of the page.

Once you have the output, you copy the information in the text box and then paste that information in to a forum post to provide us with some information about your configuration and instance as part of a problem post.
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by jumla15_guy » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:01 pm

deilert wrote:Thanks for this utility. I have a WAMP server I use locally on my laptop and recently moved the site once I got it nice up to my host. The site and the JTS-post Assistant work great on my WAMP server - super tool for this forum!
Hi

I've been trying to use version 1F of this file my WAMP server, if I use the URL "http://localhost/jtspost_en.php" I get the message "The Joomla! version was not recognised, or we were unable to find the appropriate "version" file." I copied 'jtspost_en.php' into my 'www' folder of the wamp installation. I am using Joomla 1.5.7. Am I using the correct URL?

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by RussW » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:55 pm

Is Joomla! installed in the "www/" folder?

The JTS-post tool is designed to be run from the "/" directory of the Joomla! instance. Thus if Joomla! is installed in "www/joomla/" then JTS-post is placed in the " joomla/ " directory, and accessed via http://<your host/domain>/joomla/jtspost_en.php
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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by jumla15_guy » Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:45 pm

RussW wrote:Is Joomla! installed in the "www/" folder?

The JTS-post tool is designed to be run from the "/" directory of the Joomla! instance. Thus if Joomla! is installed in "www/joomla/" then JTS-post is placed in the " joomla/ " directory, and accessed via http://<your host/domain>/joomla/jtspost_en.php
Yes, I copied the 'Joomla_1.5.7-Stable-Full_Package' folder to the www folder of WAMP amd renamed it to 'Joomla150'.

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J:_
   |_wamp_
          |_www_
                |_Joomla150_
                            |_jtspost_en.php
I copied 'jtspost_en.php' to both the 'www' and 'Joomla150' folders. When I use "http://localhost/Joomla150/jtspost_en.php" it gets redirected to "'http://localhost/Joomla150/installation/index.php" and Joomla installation starts.
When I use
"http://localhost/jtspost_en.php" I get the "The Joomla! version was not recognised, or we were unable to find the appropriate "version" file. - error message.

I am having MySQL problems betwixt Joomla and WAMP and this script would be the SO OBVIOUS solution for a forum post if I could figure out what I am doing wrong!

Thanks RussW

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Re: Discuss about JTS-post Assistant

Post by sherif » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:49 am

Hello RussW,
Arabic Translation was submitted in the project forum
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jts/fo ... d_id=10100
please check when you have the time
thanks for the great tool
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