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Posted by Bruno Barros on 09/29/07 23:53
On 29 Sep, 02:21, lawrence k <lkrub...@geocities.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 6:46 pm, Doan Noahlot <doannoah...@dis.org> wrote:
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> > lawrence k wrote:
> > > I've never worked with Textpattern before. I've been asked to transfer
> > > it to a new server. I moved the files and the database but I'm still
> > > getting an error message:
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> > >http://thesecondroad.org/old_site/
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> > > I've looked through the code and I found that this error message is
> > > stored in the database. I found the function which calls this message
> > > out of database. However, I have not yet found why this function is
> > > being called. Does anyone happen to know?
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> > > WordPress has active forums where anyone can post a question. Does
> > > TextPattern have anything similar?
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> > I rebuilt a site (with code of my own) that once ran on Textpattern.
> > The original motivation for using Textpattern in the first place was
> > to make it possible for office staff (who don't know how to write html)
> > to update the newsy-change-every-two-or-three-days pages of busy
> > University research department.
>
> > But the staff found Textpattern intimidating and hard to use.
> > To find a page (in order to edit it) they had to negotiate a series
> > of query forms. And then they had to know something about Textile, which
> > is supposed to be an easy-to-use markup replacement for HTML.
> > But the end result was bad: pages seldom got updated.
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> > I wrote a replacement that uses css, Smarty Template and the Fckeditor.
> > The staff loves it. To edit a page you follow the normal navigation
> > to get to that page (not a forms system) and then you log in as user
> > admin. Once logged in as admin, each div in the page has an edit link,
> > that jumps out to fckeditor. fck edits an include file, pushed into that
> > part of that page by Smarty Template. Because fck looks like a generic
> > word processor, anybody can use it. Because they only get to edit the
> > contents of pre-defined divs, the users cannot so easily change (ruin)
> > the consistent look and feel of the website.
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> I've done similar projects, though I've avoided Smarty because I've
> felt it was heavy. For simple weblog projects I've given up writing my
> own code, because WordPress has gotten good enough that it seems
> pointless to try to write my own code, with the inevitable bugs.
>
> But I'm in a situation now where I've got to save a broken TextPattern
> blog. I'm wondering if there is some forum I can post a question in?
DAMN now that was real asking (and replying, for that matter) without
googling. Just put textpattern in google and this came up:
http://forum.textpattern.com/
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