Hello everyone!

Since the release of iWiccle 1.20 is lurking behind the corner, here's a little request for all of you enthusiastic users out there. Please list your top five complaints about iWiccle 1.11 in its current shape.

Don't list missing features (unless it's a totally blatant omission) — list your gripes about features that 1) don't work as expected, or 2) are defective in some other way.

Please be as descriptive as you can, but no need for overkill. Just a list with a heading and one paragraph description of the issue. Include some sort of info that will help me locate and replicate the trouble.

Thank you very much!

— Markus

Just for the record, a lot of the problems that may exist somewhere in the depths of some page are the kinds if things that are fixed in fifteen minutes. Therefore, please don't be shy in listing whatever comes to your mind. (We have of course already improved a great deal of the code --- basically I'm trying to cover my bases here to not miss something obvious I haven't paid attention to.)

No complaints Markus, only requests:

1. Menu items "Show All Members" and "Who's Online" don't show any results in IE - works fine in Firefox. An IE issue no doubt, but (unfortunately) most users still use IE.
2. Timestamping - "Date: Today, 6:00 AM" is only relevant when all users live in the same timezone. In international sites, an absolute server timestamp is more relevant, ie. - "Saturday, 9 January 2009, 6:00 AM (or similar, depending on preferances of dd/mm or mm/dd). An admin option of timestamp preferance would be good.
3. Apostrophes in Parent level titles - Users will, no doubt, create Galleries, Article Directories and Blogs called Karen's Gallery, Karen's Directory and Karen's Blog - the fact that the apostrophe (') creates a problem is a significant concern.
4. "Site closed for maintenance" (or similar message) should be an admin option - this does not currently exist in iWiccle1.11, but I believe it's a necessity.

Thanks for asking your users,

John

Thanks John,

We definitely want to hear every glitch you encounter reported. Those four above are all no-brainers and I will tune them up for the release. If you're in the mood, feel free to come up with the next list.

Regards,
Markus

Just realised that I didn't add my fifth in the above:

This is a strange one and may well be a user-created problem rather than a software problem - it has been bugging me (pardon the pun) for a while - same results in IE and FF so it's definitely not a browser problem -

• In my "Gallery" home page I have 2 columns - column 1 has 2 boxes - Gallery (Recently Updated + sorting) and Album (Recently Updated + sorting). Column 2 has 1 box - Photos (Newest First + sorting).  The Gallery home page displays without any problem, but in all 3 boxes the sorting doesn't work. Selecting any sorting variable (in any of the 3 sorting boxes) displays nothing - ie. there is no page between the top and bottom slipstreams. When I "Start Builder" on this page the "Layout" displays [[SHOW_HANDLE]].

I find this strange because sorting works fine everywhere else - Articles, Blogs, etc.

Markus, if you need to see this to better understand it, let me know and I'll PM you the site & access details.

Thanks again.

Yes I'd like to see that happening live, or at least get the URL query string so I can give it a test somewhere. Please PM that in.

Done.

So I got the details, and I see what's happening. The "show" variable isn't in the URL for the default page of a module, and confusion occurs when the URL now gets a sorting parameter, but no specific page identifier. This is owing to a defect in the system used for detecting whether a page has been defined — the check in 1.11 is done simply by checking if the URL has only one value pair (i.e. module=xyz) and if so, defaults to home. Now the sorting dropdown introduces a second value pair, which however is not the page identifier, so no default ("home") page is defined either, and the result is a blank page. This is easy enough to fix.

If you want to fix it yourself, this is the old line in gallery_core.php:

#53 if (count($_GET) == 1 && !empty($_GET['module'])) $_GET['show'] = "all_parents";

If you look at that, it's like going ass backwards up into a tree. So just copy the following over it:

if ( empty($_GET['show'])) $_GET['show'] = "home"; // default page

Or wait for 1.20 to land in. (By the looks of it you may have already touched this line to change the default page back to "home".

This issue is a residue in 1.11 gallery from a veeeery long time back (in fact from a time before the core was rewritten sometime prior to the release of 1.0) and isn't present in other 1.11 modules.

Thanks Markus. Think I'll just wait for 1.2.

Let's do that. In the meantime, I'm in the right direction here, so if someone has more lists of fixes required, please send them in.