xPattern

Community Driven

hcgtv — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:39:52 +0000

Long time no post :)

Was testing out Gallery3 beta 2 today, giving it a test drive since they're heading towards a slimmer code base. Ran into some issues and started reading their support forum.

Gallery has little to do with xPattern you might be saying, but the reason I'm writing this post is because I came across this: One of the beautiful things about using git as our source management system, is how easy it is to fork a project and integrate patches from the forks.

I would of tacked it onto the Community driven SVN branch thread, but it was closed.

Re: xPattern features

SquishyPixel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:57:13 +0000

Hello. I'm chomping at the bit for a release of xPattern. When the fork happened, I really thought there'd be a resurgence of the only CMS I've ever loved. :) I'm not a coder, but as with Textpattern, I'd love to find a place to help, and I bet I can if there's a clear roadmap and a little momentum.

BTW, to the developers who are putting so many countless hours into this project, they're greatly appreciated. I've followed your work for a long time now, and hope to continue to long into the future.

Thanks!

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

Renobird — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:47:45 +0000

Steve,

ah. Wondered what happened to you. Glad to hear your getting back into things.
I'm hoping to have time soon to knock out the HTML mockup soon.

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

iblastoff — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:47:16 +0000

lovely! i took a huge break from web related stuff (focused on ad design for the past year or so) but now i'm jumping back into things. i'm not interested in working with the original TXP anymore and am looking forward to this! will pop into the irc channel occasionally once again.

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

TheEric — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:41:38 +0000

Another sneak at the db code behind categories : [pastie.org]

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

TheEric — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:19:54 +0000

Here's another sneak of something we're implementing for categories : [abeautifulsite.net]

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

Renobird — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:50:57 +0000

One more thing...

There will be a "classic" version of the admin that has the nav tabs across the top.
However, I suspect you will soon fall in love with this new method and convert.

:)

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Tom

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

hakjoon — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:43:05 +0000

This looks really nice all. Keep up the good work.

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

Renobird — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:34:36 +0000

Jakob,

Cool. Please keep the comments/suggestions/ideas coming - this is still somewhat fluid.
I love the TXP admin redesigns you've done - and I really value your opinion on this.

A new feature of note:
The media picker (launched via the "Add Media" link) - will allow uploading of images directly from the write tab.
I'm not working on the code - so that'll be up to TheEric or Manfre to make work. - I assume a little ajax magic.

There are a lot other feature enhancements that are very exciting - but you'll have to wait for the HTML mockup.

:)

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Tom

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

jakob — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:23:36 +0000

Hi Tom,

that clears up quite a lot. No IE6 does make life somewhat easier – now if only that IE 8.1 announcement hadn't been an April fool...

I understand the images now and that makes sense. I just jumped to the wrong conclusion. I use JM's picker too to assign images. Image uploading is via the image tab as with txp?

Regarding the datestamp: it doesn't necessarily have to display in the date format used by different languages, I was just concerned that if it was based only on user text input some parts of the world will consistently input it wrongly. If using the datepicker gets it right, one quickly gets used to using the datepicker so I don't think that's the problem.

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

TheEric — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:08:42 +0000

Ideally, we want to have the initial HTML mockup done sometime within the next week. Once we get that stage, it should be a relatively simple process to merge that over to the core.

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

Renobird — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:00:31 +0000

Hello all,

Just wanted to clear up a few things - and answer some questions.

In the "attached media" portion of the mockup - the thumbnails are previews of the images that are attached to the article.
If you haven't attached any images - then nothing will show there. I always find it frustrating to add 15 images to an article and only have the image ID by which to verify or sort them. Maybe I need to make it more clear that these are just previews.

The "Add Media" links will launch a full featured media picker - similar to JM's image picker - but with the ability to insert/attach a variety of media. I'm working on a visual of how that will look now...screenshots soon.

Jakob

Thanks for the kind words and the feedback.

• Exanding/Collapsing: just about everything can be set to open/closed by default.
That way you can customize the initial view of the admin to fit your workflow.
I don't have all the details about how/where yet.

• Timestamp: There will be a date picker.
I'm not sure how the code will work for different languages, but Manfre and Eric will figure that out.

• Branding: There will now be a pref to show/hide "Sitename" next to the logo.
For more wholesale branding you can simply replace the xpat logo.

• HTML Mockup status: We haven't built the HTML mockup yet - but I've successfully implemented most of the ideas in the mockup on other sites - so I'm fairly confident we'll be able to create a live version that looks just like this. There will be no support for IE 6 - so that will help. It's time to pull the plug on that browser.

As for the middle column being flexible: Currently the design is based on a 960 grid (not the 960.gs code) - so nothing is fluid.
However, this is just the default theme - it would be pretty easy to customize the CSS to make a theme that behaves however you like.

I hope that makes things a bit clearer - comments/suggestions always welcome.

:)

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Tom

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

Dragondz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:32:06 +0000

Nice admin!

Look clear and smart!

For article image picker why not make a link that open a popup to choose an image that can make easier to put much thumbnails and can lighten the page view?

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

jakob — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:46:53 +0000

Looking good Tom. Clean and nicely structured and I applaud the two-column write pane. So much clearer as one sees immediately where things begin.

Some promising looking additions to the write pane in there too, particularly the attached media and media popper carousel and the re-arranged custom field block (can't wait to see what kind of fields are possible). Lots of good choices too: URL title together with title, expiration date as extra option so a not to complicate things. Also your visual concept of 'vertical blinds' expanding between the lines, whether in the menu, the main section, the side bar lends it consistency. I presume you can make the various open/closed pane states stick as you wish. Also like the clean "I don't promise you the world" textile bar.

I don't know if you're looking for some feedback at this stage or not as things as probably still moving around a bit. If I may make the odd comment:

View Site: would seem more logical to be (pre)view page here with view site by the logo. I presume the next/prev go up here too.
Timestamp: Date entry conventions and separators differ from country to country, even between US and UK (e.g. England DD/MM/YYYY, Germany DD.MM.YYYY). The separate fields are, I agree, visual staccato but clearer in terms of data. A date picker helps here to avoid people putting dates in wrongly (for all I know you have a click-in-field date picker already implemented :-).
Like the carousel idea to flick through images a lot but the implementation you show might get frustrating for sites with lots of images. How about a adding 1 or 2 rows to get a small paged grid that appears so that one can scan in groups of 16 or 24. Something along those lines for files would be good too.
Options for self-branding in the header?

Is this already implemented in code? You have lots of nice UI-stuff in there which I wonder how you implement in code, e.g. rounded corners with drop-shadows, expando-buttons, special form widgets... They look great, but I often have problems getting even simple things like the button to work consistently in different browsers with text or window-width resizing and without excessive extraneous markup. I very much hope the central section can stretch width-wise.

Re: Admin Sneak Peak

TheEric — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:33:28 +0000

So, about those Modals....

Admin Sneak Peak

Renobird — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:18:45 +0000

The party rages on....

Here's a sneak peak at the latest version of the xPattern admin.

I'm sure there will be questions/comments/concerns/critiques.
Hang tight - things will become clearer when we release the HTML mockup.

admin_040609.png

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Tom

Re: Phorum 5.2.10

hcgtv — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:15:27 +0000

Quote
Manfre
This is for you Bert.

A very uplifting performance, I give it a 9 ;)

Re: Phorum 5.2.10

Dragondz — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:15:21 +0000

Thanks for the job man!

Cheers

Re: Phorum 5.2.10

Manfre — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:44:40 +0000

This is for you Bert.

Phorum 5.2.10

hcgtv — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:31:02 +0000

The forum has been upgraded to Phorum 5.2.10.

Changelog is here, just minor bug fixes and inline documentation for hooks.

Please report any issues.

xPattern features

towndock — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:25:17 +0000

Reading the forum, it sounds like a usable initial release of xPattern is near. Can someone provide a simple list of key features/differentiations that xPattern has vs Textpattern. I'm trying to understand the advantages of xPattern vs the new release (4.07) of Textpattern. Thank you....

Re: Txp to xPat Migration/Upgrade

thebombsite — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:12:19 +0000

So what's the non-lazy way?

If we are using a script to import do we use the MT script?

What do we do when there are several sections? Is it possible to do an sql dump of single sections?

Are there major differences in the db structure that stops you just importing the db which is my usually preferred method?

Too many questions! Sorry about that. :(

Re: Pending User Confirmation

Manfre — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:32:39 +0000

Keep up the good work Bert!

Re: Pending User Confirmation

hcgtv — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:48:08 +0000

After wrestling with Spam bots for almost a year, banning domains and deleting users from the database, I have taken a different approach.

I have enabled the Spam hurdles module, this adds a Captcha to the registration process, and no more Spam bot signups have been detected since. I had the option to do this from the start but I wanted to see who and from where the bots were coming from. It was a good exercise to compare my Spam notes, after doing the same with PunBB.

Yes, from the start you can turn on every imaginable option to combat spam. But it can get real annoying to your users, and if it's not needed, then you're being annoying for no legitimate reason.

Re: Txp to xPat Migration/Upgrade

Manfre — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:57:07 +0000

Yes. (For the lazy)

Re: Txp to xPat Migration/Upgrade

thebombsite — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:20:51 +0000

Is it the download from Bitbucket that we have to use?

Re: Warning msg on rev 1290

Dragondz — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:30:10 +0000

Hi I updated to rev 1292 and here some other messages:

Notice: Undefined index: plugin_cache_dir in E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern\include\txp_diag.php on line 389

There is also missing file on diagnostics :

Missing files: E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/../css.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/include/txp_tag.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/lib/admin_config.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/rpc/index.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/rpc/TXP_RPCServer.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_1.0.0.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_4.0.2.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_4.0.3.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_4.0.4.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_4.0.5.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_4.0.6.php, E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpatManfre\textpattern/update/_to_4.0.7.php

Thers is also a pb with style, here is the content of style tab (just a part because it s a too long line):

LyogYmFzZQ0KLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0gKi8NCg0KYm9keSB7DQoJbWFyZ2luOiAwOw0KCXBhZGRpbmc6IDA7DQoJZm9udC1mYW1pbHk6IFZlcmRhbmEsICJMdWNpZGEgR3JhbmRlIiwgVGFob21hLCBIZWx2ZXRpY2EsIHNhbnMtc2VyaWY7DQoJY29sb3I6ICMwMDA7DQoJYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvcjogI2ZmZjsNCn0NCg0KYmxvY2txdW90ZSwgaDMsIHAsIGxpIHsNCglwYWRkaW5nLXJpZ2h0OiAxMHB4Ow0KCXBhZGRpbmctbGVmdDogMTBweDsNCglmb250LXNpemU6IDAuOWVtOw0KCWxpbm

The warning on login page is still there.

Cheers

Re: Warning msg on rev 1290

Manfre — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:31:15 +0000

Both of these are fixed and in the main branch.

The update logic was not working properly. We are officially versioned as "0.9" right now. The landing version for txp --> xpat will be 1.0, regardless of the source txp verison. Right now, it will definitely fail if the txp version is anything less than 4.0.6.

Warning msg on rev 1290

Dragondz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:42:49 +0000

Hi I get this warning on login page:

Warning:  You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
select perm.name from `perm`, `group_perm` where perm.id=group_perm.perm_id AND group_perm.group_id =  in E:\Temp\wamp\www\xpat\textpattern\lib\txplib_db.php on line 98

And Also in publish.php comment the line 35 cause there isn't admin_config.php

Language: PHP
//include_once txpath.'/lib/admin_config.php';

Cheers

Re: Log system for xpattern

Dragondz — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:20:01 +0000

Hi I make some changes and transfered them to bitbucket, but when i tried to test on local the result i couldnt because i use easyphp (with php4) and the function hash is not supported!

I must upgrade my local server to continue

Cheers