Bug list for Newstopic 3.0 beta

[pixelsquares]

Please post the bugs you have encounted with during your tests with newstopica 3.0beta. My are below:

1) Unable to submit RSS links
2) The "next page" and number of pages does not appear in the RSS Link
part in the admin panel
3) During RSS Imports, the first link generated from the RSS import, does
not work. It combines both the title of the RSS, as well as the first RSS
feed. Please goto http://www.pixelsquare.com.au/findit/news/national/ (http://www.pixelsquare.com.au/findit/news/national/) and
have a look at the very first link. Now you can goto
http://feeds.smh.com.au/rssheadlines/national.xml (http://feeds.smh.com.au/rssheadlines/national.xml) to check out actual RSS
feed. YOu will notice the problem. This occurs every time a feed is
imported.
4) Not really a bug, but when you import a RSS feed with a large descript,
the WHOLE descript gets displayed in the directory without even clicking
"more detail". So if you have a page with 20 links, with 15 links having
Large descriptions... well you get the idea.
5) Sometimes when you delete links or rss feeds, you get redirected to the
actual directory away from the admin panel.
6) Page rank absolutely does not work. Every single page added has "N/A"
for their page rank, even if I add google.com (which should have a page
rank of 10)
6) Inability to search through RSS Links in the admin panel
7) Search function does not search properly. For example, I have alot of
war related links, if I search "war", I will get things related to
"computers" with no "war" in the description
8) In the RSS Links page within the admin panel, you are unable to change
the status of the RSS Feed. for exmaple, in the Links page, you can change
a link to "Active, inactive or pending" but just clicking on the Status
link. the RSS Links page cannot do that
9) When I check the page rank of each link, they have "-1" in it, when it
should be blank for automatic pagerank calculation

[David]

Thanks for your testing. We are working on it today, and probably the next few days, and then I hope we can release 3.0 to all. :)

[leeshindig]

Hi Pixelsquares..

Here is my bug list, although I know David is already aware and looking at some of these, I thought Id share my findings anyway..

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in admin/system/directory

need option

sort by last updated

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submitting RSS feeds..

dont see a free option with a reciprocal link... so they get their RSS news feed included for a regular link back to the directory.

A must include really if this is to work...

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submitting RSS feeds paid inclusion.

see attached screen shot when trying to submit one

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wont save RSS feed (is that same as the other error I found within admin trying to save them?)

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I also found on my copy after a fresh install when I dumped my feeds and categories back into MySQL (which were from newstopica2) that the feeds and categories were there but the feeds had not been saved to the categories..

When I tried to manually select a category for the feed I got an error messge similar to the one above

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Ill post any more I come across once we see where we are at with the submitting feeds bugs..


Lee.

[pixelsquares]

When you click on "more details" for a link (regardless if its a RSS feed or not) there are not "category" displayed for them

Category for "more detailed" does not seem to work.

Also, there is no way to determine if there is an indentical link in the database. Is it possible to have a function to remove "duplicate" RSS Links, because sometimes, news article gets repeated for unknown reasons and it looks really tacky on the website

Cheers

[David]

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I have tested - users can submit RSS Feeds and Single Links from the site frontend and from admin backend.
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Fixed.
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Fixed.
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I have tested a lot of times - I don't see this problem...
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This has been tested and is working, but still many webservers are blocked by google, and we have no control over this.
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Added.
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Users can search only keywords bigger than 3 characters - all keywords shorter than 4 characters are ignored because of MySQL server settings.
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Fixed.
- I don't find which file I have to use for cron jobs
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[pixelsquares]

Ok, I realised when you search for say "computers", they display a whole bunch of links, which is what it is supposed to do.

Now what I am thinking is, is it possible to "bold" or "HIGHLIGHT" all occurances of "computers" in the returned results, so the users has some idea why those links where given.

For example, when you search for something on google, the words searched for are highlighted (by bolding) in teh results.

Possible to provide a patch to fix / add the things you have done already so we can continue debugging? Greatly appreciated

Thanks

[pixelsquares]

The page rank doesn't seem to work for me for some uncanny reason. If I change the pagerank in the database, it shows up properly, however, if the pagerank is left untouched in the database, it remains as -1 which is N/A.

So all my links have N/A. Just wondering when the pagerank is calculated and such, maybe its not able to calculate the page rank for some reason.

[David]

If there is time, we will create a changlog. What we are doing now is integrating the calendar and uption to display links from categories on the homepage, and then we may just release if there are no major bugs.

The pagerank thing is likely google blocking you/us.

The highlight mod I believe is avaialable over on monster-submit.com

[pixelsquares]

I think google has blocked the pagerank thing for everyone =(

Anyway, when i was in the admin panel, clicked on "reviewed link" and i got the following

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/ld180304/public_html/findit/admin/dir_reviewed_links.php on line 65

[pixelsquares]

The back up function does not work. It does not save on server, nor does it enable me to downlaod the backup

I tried both "no compression" as well as "with compression zipped".

[David]

Thanks, I will get these last 2 items completed, and hopefully we are getting very close to completion now.
Thanks,
David

[pixelsquares]

The validate link process, is it possible to break it down into batchs, for example. It can be seperated in batches of 500 links / refresh, or somethign like that, so after 500 links has been validated, it refreshes the page, so that it doesn't time out and the server doesn't complain.

Possible?

Also is it possible to ad "sort by date" since RSS is based on chronological order, esp news, so it makes more sense that way.

[David]

The validate link in batches will need to be done to phpLD first, and this is planned for the next version of phpLD.

And yes, sorting by date is essential. I'm surprised I didn't notice this. I will get it done.

[pixelsquares]

Oh also, is it possible to search for events happening on a specific date as well as in a specific category (if none selected then search in all)?

For example, someone wants to search for politics which happened on the 5th of November 1998. So basically people can search for somethign which happened on a certain date in a certain category.

Once again, I believe is essential due to the nature of news and how often it gets updated. Will eventually become increasingly hard to find stuff without something like this.

hahaha, sorry if I seem like a pain in the arse, but I think everyone would appreciate features like these at newstopica :)

[David]

You have good ideas, and I think it will be good to do this too, but I want to also move toward public release of the 3.0 version. Barring any new discoveries, we will work toward a final release for tomorrow.

[spainexpat]

The Google pagerank feature seems to be spotty at best. i know other scripts that are seeing the same blockage problem. Is there any way to disable this from appearing without messing with the templates?