Geeklog Bugtracker - ISSUES

0001093: [Usabilty] Attract User to Pay Attention on New Submissions

When I installed Geeklog for the first time, I wouldn't know that there are new submissions on my site if I didn't try admin's menu one by one. I think this is the theme's developer should consider. My suggestion is to make it bold just like mail's inbox or using a tooltip like Facebook notification.

0001079: Allow autotags in the links description

Autotags don't seem to be allowed in link descriptions.

0001090: Forever loop on non-existent link's category

Passing non-existent link's category to public_html/links/index.php?category= will cause forever loop.

0000879: The blogroll could be added to the link plugin

The blogroll could be added to the link plugin.
http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=64051
http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=86015

It would be a nice and typical feature of a blog.

0001081: Introduce a [user:] autotag to link to a user's profile

In other words: [user:Dirk] on geeklog.net should resolve to

< a href="http://www.geeklog.net/users.php?mode=profile&uid=408">Dirk

0001092: Have Story Submissions display Author in list

In the list of story submissions on the Admin Submisstion page it would be helpful to have a new column added for the author's name.

0001020: List of allowed HTML tags in Advanced Editor

When calling up the Story Editor with Advanced Editor enabled, the list of allowed HTML tags (and available autotags) is sometimes not visible (exact steps to reproduce see below).

Now, you could argue that the HTML tags are not relevant in text mode, but since the list also includes the autotags (which work in text mode), I think that list should always be displayed.

Not sure which code (JavaScript?) is responsible for hiding it in the first place, though.

0001091: Implement captcha on link submission

There is no {captcha} variable in the submitlink.thtml template file.

0000728: Comments Form on same page as story

Just a feature request-reminder for a future version. See http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=84336

0001088: Calendar Login Required is not honored

For anonymous user $_USER['username'] is anonymous, so calendar Login Required is not honored as check is:

if (empty ($_USER['username']) &&
(($_CONF['loginrequired'] == 1) || ($_CA_CONF['calendarloginrequired'] == 1)))

Possible solution:

if (COM_isAnonUser() &&
(($_CONF['loginrequired'] == 1) || ($_CA_CONF['calendarloginrequired'] == 1)))

0001089: Fatal error on new stories (changeset: 542470fa726d)

When i clicked on the new stories i got this error:
Fatal error: Cannot use assign-op operators with overloaded objects nor string offsets in /home/akeda/www/geeklog/public_html/index.php on line 305

0001087: Cannot merge on PLG_getWhatsNewComment when plugin_getwhatsnewcomment_pluginname return NULL (changeset: b62e11b8d65b)

When one of plugin_getwhatsnewcomment_pluginname return NULL, PLG_getWhatsNewComment will fail (shows error if a root). In my environment, this is happened when plugin_getwhatsnewcomment_polls is called and returned null.

0001086: Categories for static pages

For sites with a lot of static pages or with multilangual on, it would be nice to be able to store them in categories and sub-categories.

0000911: make staticpage textarea expandable like story editor + and - Buttons

If you change the layout from html to Advanced Editor for a static page, you won't see much of your content, especially, if you have a more complex static page.

The solution could be the same mechanism like you use within the story editor.
A + and - Button for the textarea.

Below you'll find a simple solution as a intermediate step - for a full solution the layout must be changed to DIVs I guess.

0001085: Add templates to StaticPage plugin

Problem: I have about 50 staticpages on my site which are formatted the same but contain different text information. If I want to make one html tweak I then have to update 50 pages.

Solution: Allow a staticpage to be assigned as a template in which other staticpages can be based on. If I then modify the template then all staticpages using it will reflect the change.

There is a number of ways this could be handled. How I see it possibly working is the template staticpage is created like a normal staticpage except it will contain template variables wherever the user wants.

When creating a new normal staticpage I can then select a template to base it on. From there I can input the data (text, html, etc...) for any variables from the template. The real question is how do you handle inputting of this text for variables? Should we just use the current staticpage text editor which you could do something like this in to define the variables:

templatevar1 = "Text goes here"

templatevar2 = "More text blah blah blah blah blah blah blah "

The staticpage plugin could then parse this page and then combine it with the template when this page is viewed.

OR

Should we actually have a new form and table to hold this template variable data?

0001068: Combine and compress static CSS and JS files

Could we have a function to combine and compress static CSS and JS files. So each plugin could add css and js without impacting to much the time page's load.

0001083: Allow autotag description and link to information page

When geeklog display the autotags list in the story submission form, an autotag description and a link to an information page would be a nice feature for users.

0001084: kses library breaks HTML attributes written in a multibyte language

When posting an article, what you post is filtered by COM_checkHTML which uses kses library. Some HTML attributes (like "alt" or "title") can have "\xad" in its value when you write in utf-8 in a multibyte language. Unfortunately, kses library eats any "\xad" byte included in the value, thus making it an illegal string which results in MySQL error.

Of course you can avoid this by setting $_CONF['skip_html_filter_for_root'] to true, but I think this only compromises security, Geeklog's main strength.

It is high time we were looking for an alternative to kses library. For example, HTML purifier is a good candidate. Its current version runs only on PHP-5.x, but v2.1.5 (which was released on 2008-06-19) runs on PHP-4.x as well. As far as I know, it is not very difficult to integrate it with GL.

0001082: Disable Comments Enabled check box In story editor page is not Working

Advanced Editor is true case
Disable Comments Enabled check box In story editor page is not Working

Advanced Editor is false case
Disable Comments Enabled check box In story editor page is Working

0000761: Poll Created Date gets updated if you modify a poll

Notice this when I was updating the poll topics. Modifying a poll changes the creation date which affects the poll list.

0001002: Sort by date not working in search results

Try this search on my site:

http://www.macosxhints.com/search.php?query=applescript&keyType=all&type=all&mode=search&order=date&direction=desc

In theory, that should return the newest matches for "Applescript" at the top of the list, as it's told to sort by date descending.

In reality, I have no idea what it's returning. The first page starts with a hit from 2002, then other pages start with seemingly random different years. Screenshots attached.

This is a very key feature for searching on my site, because almost always, the newer information is more relevant than the older information.

0000950: Only root admins can see and use Site Configuration

When you're someone else's admin, they may want to configure stuff themselves, especially with the nice new GUI. But it doesn't mean you want them to control every little thing in the site...plus it makes you equal to them even though you're supposed to be the "real" admin.

What do you think?

0000859: No buttons under the preview tab in the advanced story editor

As in title: there are no buttons "Save", "Preview", "Cancel" or "Delete" on this particular tab.

IMHO, they should be put there for user's convenience (since the workflow could go like this: write somethin -> preview -> save) or merely for GUI consistency.

0000780: RSS feeds that take into account access rights

It would be cool to have RSS feeds display any content you want but also take into account access rights for the respective content. This would allow you to have any content displayed in an RSS feed, but require authentication depending on what the content is.

0000706: Allow bypass of censorship filter.

Would be good to allow people to bypass the censorship filter in individual areas. i.e. Root users could bypass everywhere, and story admins perhaps to bypass in stories, but not in comments for example.