News & Article Management [Support]

titangen:

Hi,

Is this contrib compatible with zen 1.3.7 ??

Thanks in advance

:lookaroun

I'm wondering the same thing myself.

Yes it is, i'm running it under latest version no problems.

For some reason, I can't get anything at all to show up. I don't see where it could be added. I see everything in the admin area. I even created a story as a test, but nothing shows up.

Layout Boxes, maybe? I'm using a custom template, so maybe this has something to do with it.

Any ideas?

In firefox, "Recent Zen Cart News" heading is on top of the date/rss stamp. Anyone know a solution?

Ok, I'm running the latest version of ZC. I installed the mod and "Recent Zen Cart News" shows on the main page. The problem begins when I try to click to read the full article or the archive page. As soon as I do, I get a...

Not Found
The requested URL /Something-com/products/index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It gets better. Prior to installing the "news and Article Management" mod, I installed the "ultimate seo urls" mod. I thought I would try and remove my .htaccess and see what happens. it gave me the same "Not Found" page as mentioned above with the requested url as products/news/XYZ.html

Help? Thanks in avancio

I have a question about where the Recent Zen Cart News heading color is changed. I've tried looking in a few of the css but no luck.

I changed the heading to "Latest SFF Store News" on my website if you don't know what I am talking about: http://store.sffclub.com/

i am having the same trouble. when I put on this mod. the news goes into the main page area and jumps out of the sidebox area! ::ohmy:

anyone please???????????????????????

please, help me
can i using fckeditor in news & article Managements?
if i can, please guide help me
thanks

BuysZ:

please, help me
can i using fckeditor in news & article Managements?
if i can, please guide help me
thanks

I think we can not.I use macromedia to edit and copy into news :D:wacko:

but i see image in Catalog Area Screenshots, they used editor in new articles management success.
i want made same this
http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zencart/News_Articles_Management/images/Admin009.jpg

Hi! I just installed the news & article management. Good stuff, thank you! I have two questions.

The bit that says Recent Zen Cart News is rather huge, and it gets overlapped by the date bar. Can you tell me what I need to edit in the stylesheet to fix that?

Also, how do I change 'Recent Zen Cart News' to something more appropriate for my site?

Thanks!

I have no idea why?
my zc is 1.3.7

Hi everyone,

I was having the same problem with FCKeditor as many of you so i took a look at the code. This is for zen 1.3.7, i don't know if it's retro compatible.

You need to change the file /admin/news.php

Find (around line 205):

// HTML Editors support
if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
	require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'fckeditor.php');
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {
	require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'htmlarea.php');
}

and replace with:

// HTML Editors support
if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']== "FCKEDITOR") {
	require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'fckeditor.php');
} elseif ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']== "HTMLAREA") {
	require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'htmlarea.php');
}

Find (around line 366):

if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
	echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
	$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor;
	$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_shorttext($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
	$oFCKeditor->CreateFCKeditor('news_article_shorttext[' . $lang['id'] . ']', '100%', '130') ;  //instanceName, width, height (px or %)
	echo '</td>';
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {

and replace with:

if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='FCKEDITOR') {
	echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
                $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('news_article_shorttext[' . $lang['id']  . ']') ;
	$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_shorttext($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
	$oFCKeditor->Width  = '97%' ;
                $oFCKeditor->Height = '150' ;
	$output = $oFCKeditor->CreateHtml() ;
	echo '<br />' . $output . '</td>';
} elseif ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='HTMLAREA') {

Find (around line 386)

if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
	echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
	$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor;
	$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_text($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
	$oFCKeditor->CreateFCKeditor('news_article_text[' . $lang['id'] . ']', '100%', '250') ;  //instanceName, width, height (px or %)
	echo '</td>';
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {

and replace with:

if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='FCKEDITOR') {
	echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
                $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('news_article_text[' . $lang['id']  . ']') ;
	$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_text($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
	$oFCKeditor->Width  = '97%' ;
                $oFCKeditor->Height = '400' ;
	$output = $oFCKeditor->CreateHtml() ;
	echo '<br />' . $outtut . '</td>';
} elseif ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='HTMLAREA') {

That should do it!
Best regards to the zen community!

rikreations:

Hi everyone,

I was having the same problem with FCKeditor as many of you so i took a look at the code. This is for zen 1.3.7, i don't know if it's retro compatible.

You need to change the file /admin/news.php

Find (around line 205):

// HTML Editors support
if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'fckeditor.php');
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'htmlarea.php');
}

> 
> and replace with:
> 
> ```
// HTML Editors support
if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']== "FCKEDITOR") {
	require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'fckeditor.php');
} elseif ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']== "HTMLAREA") {
	require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'htmlarea.php');
}

Find (around line 366):

if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor;
$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_shorttext($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
$oFCKeditor->CreateFCKeditor('news_article_shorttext[' . $lang['id'] . ']', '100%', '130') ; //instanceName, width, height (px or %)
echo '</td>';
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {

> 
> and replace with:
> 
> ```
if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='FCKEDITOR') {
	echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
                $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('news_article_shorttext[' . $lang['id']  . ']') ;
	$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_shorttext[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_shorttext($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
	$oFCKeditor->Width  = '97%' ;
                $oFCKeditor->Height = '150' ;
	$output = $oFCKeditor->CreateHtml() ;
	echo '<br />' . $output . '</td>';
} elseif ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='HTMLAREA') {

Find (around line 386)

if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
$oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor;
$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_text($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
$oFCKeditor->CreateFCKeditor('news_article_text[' . $lang['id'] . ']', '100%', '250') ; //instanceName, width, height (px or %)
echo '</td>';
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {

> 
> and replace with:
> 
> ```
if ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='FCKEDITOR') {
	echo '<td class="dataTableContent" align="left" colspan="4">';
                $oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor('news_article_text[' . $lang['id']  . ']') ;
	$oFCKeditor->Value = (($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) ? stripslashes($news_article_text[$lang['id']]) : news_get_news_article_text($nInfo->article_id, $lang['id']));
	$oFCKeditor->Width  = '97%' ;
                $oFCKeditor->Height = '400' ;
	$output = $oFCKeditor->CreateHtml() ;
	echo '<br />' . $outtut . '</td>';
} elseif ($_SESSION['html_editor_preference_status']=='HTMLAREA') {

That should do it!
Best regards to the zen community!

Thank you for posting the fix. Would you be so kind to please attached the changed news.php file to this thread?

I found another error that was making my news edit page take almost 5 minutes to show.

Everytime you want to insert or edit an article, the "Store product link" gets all the products from the database. I have 12 languages in my store (s) and almost 600 products.

The problem is that the 1st language was getting 600 produtcs, the 2nd language 1200, the 3rd 1800 products and so on... when the page finished loading i had 46800 product links in dropdown menus on a single page.

A big problem with an easy solution

Find:

$dropdown_products = $db->Execute("select p.products_id, pd.products_name from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where pd.products_id = p.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$lang['id'] . "' order by pd.products_name");
$dropdown_products_array[] = array(
	'id' => '', 
	'text' => TEXT_PLEASE_SELECT,
	);
while (!$dropdown_products->EOF) {
	$dropdown_products_array[] = array(
		'id' => $dropdown_products->fields['products_id'],
		'text' => $dropdown_products->fields['products_name'],
		);
	$dropdown_products->MoveNext();
	}

and move it before:

foreach ($languages as $i => $lang) {

This way it's outside the loop!

I'm attaching the file "news.php" in zip format.

Regards

If you wish to use FCKeditor for newsletters, there is a one line fix here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58779

I've had this installed for a while now, and working fine, until I upgraded to 1.3.7.

Now, it looks like this: http://play2winbilliards.com/index.php?main_page=news

My right column is pushed way to the bottom, and I can't for the life of me figure out where this is falling apart.........

Any ideas?

rikreations:

You need to change the file /admin/news.php

Find (around line 205):

// HTML Editors support
if (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'FCKEDITOR') {
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'fckeditor.php');
} elseif (HTML_EDITOR_PREFERENCE == 'HTMLAREA') {
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'htmlarea.php');
}

> 
> and replace with:

if ($editor_handler != '') include ($editor_handler);

Thanks a_berezin, that's what i was looking for!
The method i used was for the "old days"... :)