Hi,

I have checked trac and there are not tickets regarding this. Categories and blogs appears to be broken in dolphin 7. I can get photos I have added to appear and be grouped using 'Categories' however blogs simply do not appear when they are added. I just get and "Empty" message. Having said that photos appears, it does when you click on the particular category link that it is in however the number on the link is zero even though there are photos in there e.g. family(0).

I like the categories module idea and would love it to work properly.

Paul 

Try to remove

cache\db_sys_objects_categories.php

and try to post new blog post again

Okay, I have tried that but still nothing. db_sys_objects_categories.php gets recreated in the cache directory and contains the following entries for blogs:

  'bx_blogs' =>
  array (
    'ID' => '17',
    'ObjectName' => 'bx_blogs',
    'Query' => 'SELECT `Categories` FROM `bx_blogs_posts` WHERE `PostID` = {iID} AND `PostStatus` = \'approval\'',
    'PermalinkParam' => 'permalinks_blogs',
    'EnabledPermalink' => 'blogs/posts/{author_name}/category/{tag}',
    'DisabledPermalink' => 'modules/boonex/blogs/blogs.php?action=show_member_blog&ownerName={author_name}&categoryUri={tag}',
    'LangKey' => '_bx_blog_Blogs',
  ),

I also tried turning off all the caching options in the advanced settings. Still nothing is appearing in categories.

This website is here: http://socialathens.com if you want to create a member and see for yourself.

Thanks

Paul

Ticket #824

Thanks Andrey

Hi,

This issue still persists in the new beta 3 of Dolphin 7 following a fresh install.

I tried deleting the cache\db_sys_objects_categories.php again but it reappeared.

Paul

I haven't installed DB3 yet, but after several failed installs, I have learned that the very first thing you should do is immediately disable all the cache settings before you even click on anything else.  Even with that, the cache folders will have several files.   May be posting prematurely as the cache issues may have been fixed, but I know it has been an issue for several of us here.

No, I have just disabled all the caching in admin and tested it again. The problem still persists. When adding a blog it does not appear in categories and the file reappears. I think the cache options in admin are just for CSS, javascripts and HTML files and not for php files.

This is probably in some way related to this topic so I thought I would post it here. The Blog categories issue still exists. I only mention this so as not to detract attention from yesterdays post. I also get the following.

I go to “Categories” and select “Common Categories”. I select Blogs and the click on the category “Baby Blogs” and it gives me something called “{ProfileNick}” under “Admin’s Blog”. What is an “Admin’s Blog”? I can understand how a website can have an Adminstrator’s Blog, much in the same way that the Boonex team has their own featured blog and it makes sense. However I cannot find any other reference to the “Admin’s Blog” apart from here. I have looked in the page builder and the menu builder.

With reference to the blogs and common categories issue. I have searched through the code and, with or without the cache file, the blog module does not seem to cater for categories properly in this instance. The actual function called when selecting a common blog category is GenMemberBlog(). The function deals with categories but I think it is expecting a specific member ID to display categories for a particular member. I could be wrong as I have only glanced at it an not taken the time to debug it through.