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  Posted: Mar 03, 2005 - 01:18 AM

  I'm using the Books module and there are quite a few things I need to tweak.
  -First, when there are multiple pages of books, I want the links to each page to appear at both the top of the list and the bottom. (It currently only appears at one or the other.) And when you get to a second page, you will see a previous link, but I want there to be a next link appearing on any page that has a page following. I don't know where to go to fix this. I've managed to tweak several of the problems on other areas of the site, although it's a learning process since I'm new to PostNuke and not a programmer.
  -I would also like a way to sort the list of books by author, title, and username (person who added book)
  -Can you get rid of the colored "New" images? I couldn't find this in the module - I'd like to keep the red image for "added today" but eliminate the green and blue images for "added in last 3 days" and "added in last week."
  
  The site is http://www.recycledbookclub.com - if you go to the Recycled Books link you will see the Books module. Please help!

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• denisrf
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 03, 2005 - 05:48 AM

  If you have a search in these forums there is a thread refering to an updated version of the books module. I'm pretty sure Jm Vedrine did it and has allowed some people to have it for beta testing. It's a lot better than the older version and might have some of the things you need.

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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 03, 2005 - 06:12 AM

  Hello,
  Unfortunately most of the changes that you are interested in aren't in books .750. And currently these changes would require to make changes in the PHP code of the module.
  An exception is the buggy code of the books .721 pager wich (I think) I have fixed in books .750 so it should behave as all pagers in other modules.
  Among the changes that you are interested in the more diffilcult to do would be the ability to sort books by author or username of submitter because there would be quite a lot of lines to change due to the way sorting is done.
  I will send you a mail explaining how to add a pager both at top and bottom and how to suppress green and blue images for new books.
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 03, 2005 - 07:00 AM

  Thanks for your help! I'm getting ready to try out the new books module - I'll let you know how it goes.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 15, 2005 - 09:43 AM

  jmvedrine helped me out on a gazillion issues I've been having with books module, but here's something new I need help with for anyone willing to help:
  
  If you go to my site here: http://www.recycledbookclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=books&file=index&req=view_subcat&sid=24
  you will see that it is set to sort by Title, Author, Submitter, and Date - only problem is, the Author and Submitter are sorting by title - this is because I copied the lines for title and inserted author and submitter in appropriate spots, but I can't figure out how to make the sort work. I updated pages bk-functions.php and bk-showcat.php but I'm obviously missing something. Anyone know what needs to be changed?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 15, 2005 - 10:36 AM

  Where can we download the books module.

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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 15, 2005 - 10:43 AM

  books .750 is not yet released but I have updated all files in the sourceforge CVS.
  
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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 15, 2005 - 10:51 AM

  nokturnalmuse

  I'm obviously missing something. Anyone know what needs to be changed?

  
  You asked me about that and I answered you "it is not so simple, and it would need quite alot of changes". When I said something, please beleive me. There is not a single thing to change but a lot ! for instance you need to modify all the convertorderbyin, convertorderbytrans, convertorderbyout, ... functions and a lot of other places.
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2005 - 06:04 AM

  Are the files on sourceforge all updated to .750? I just downloaded them and tried to install them (on PN750) and got error:

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  books Module Table1 Creation Failed

  
  Is this supposed to work on PN750? If not, where/how do I get a version that runs on PN750. Jmvedrine -- I emailed/PM'ed you a few times requesting to be a tester for your books mod. Are you not accepting new testers?

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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2005 - 06:25 AM

  Hello,
  I am surprised because all the files in the sourceforge CVS are up to date and the module has not only be tested with PostNuke .750 but also with .760 RC2 and RC3
  Also the message given by books .750 when something goes wrong during install is not the one you show it is
  _CREATETABLEFAILED . " table <name of="of" table="table">: <mysql error="error" message="message">
  (well there is obviously a language define missing somewhere but I didn't had time to fix that until now !!!)
  So my guess is that there is obviously a problem with the files that you are trying to install
  - did you use the old books 721 zipfile on sourceforge ? only the CVS is updated because the module is not yet released and files are changing very often so I didn't made a zipfile, you need to download files directly from the CVS
  - did you read the docs ? the install/upgrade procedure has completely changed from books .721 and the install.php upgarde.php files are no more used and should be deleted if you had an old books version installed.
  I am sorry for your beta testing request but I have a few of them pending this week because to send a zip file to testers I need to upgrade the one I used with all the last bugfixes and I had a lot of work in the last days but your request is queued and I will send you the zipfile. As you may know I work at the same time on several modules (phpcomic 2.0 was released this week and caused quite some supports requests !!) so I am in desesperate need of time !!!
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 17, 2005 - 04:41 AM

  jmvedrine

  nokturnalmuse

  I'm obviously missing something. Anyone know what needs to be changed?

  
  You asked me about that and I answered you "it is not so simple, and it would need quite alot of changes". When I said something, please beleive me. There is not a single thing to change but a lot ! for instance you need to modify all the convertorderbyin, convertorderbytrans, convertorderbyout, ... functions and a lot of other places.

  
  
  Well maybe this is something that can be added for a future release - because I'm sure I'm not the only person who would like the ability to sort by author. Not everyone has other users add books so not everyone will need the ability to sort by member name, but I think everyone can benefit from making it sortable by author.

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  Posted: Mar 18, 2005 - 01:36 AM

  OK, I got the updated books module from CVS and I am having problems getting the Look up at Amazon to work. I signed up and received my Dev. token from Amazon, plugged it in the bk-config.php and I am getting the following error in my Amazon cache directory.
  
  

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Errors><Error><Code>AWS.MissingServiceParameter</Code><Message>Your request is missing the Service parameter. Please add  the Service parameter to your request and retry.</Message></Error></Errors>

  
  
  I have tried installing just the CVS version and also tried installing old version and upgrading to the new. And I am sure I got the right files from CVS. Any ideas why I am unable to use the Look up at Amazon feature?
  
  Thanks

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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 18, 2005 - 12:23 PM

  nokturnalmuse

  Well maybe this is something that can be added for a future release - because I'm sure I'm not the only person who would like the ability to sort by author. Not everyone has other users add books so not everyone will need the ability to sort by member name, but I think everyone can benefit from making it sortable by author.

  
  I must agree with you : the sort procedure need some work, but it's just there are so many other things to do on the module because a lot of people are waiting for a release compatible with PN .750 so my priority is to fix as much bugs as I can and finish the features planned for .750, and release but there surely will be a .751 and a .760 and ...
  So please add this as a feature request to the Tracker here : http://sourceforge.n…d=46980&atid=448105.
  
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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 18, 2005 - 12:26 PM

  brammerv

  I have tried installing just the CVS version and also tried installing old version and upgrading to the new. And I am sure I got the right files from CVS. Any ideas why I am unable to use the Look up at Amazon feature?
  
  Thanks

  
  There is no need to install the old version and upgrade. I really don't understand the problem because the amazon_functions file is in fact a library released by somebody else. You are the first one to report the problem. I will try tio download the files from the CVS and install on a test site. Maybe something is wrong ?
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 19, 2005 - 01:11 AM

  jmvedrine

  There is no need to install the old version and upgrade. I really don't understand the problem because the amazon_functions file is in fact a library released by somebody else. You are the first one to report the problem. I will try tio download the files from the CVS and install on a test site. Maybe something is wrong ?

  
  
  Actually, the amazon_function file wasn't in CVS so I had to use the one I found in the original books module. Do you suppose this could be the problem. Can you post or send me your amazon_function file.
  
  Thanks

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