Favorites not working?

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Last Post: July 28, 2010   (RSS)

By ILLUME-MEDIA-LABS - July 12, 2010 - edited: July 12, 2010

Hey All,

How do I make the favorites script work? I have installed and added to the site, but am not sure what I am doing wrong. Here is a link to the favorites: http://www.illumemag.com/zine/articleDetail.php?Hundreds-Protest-in-Oakland-After-Mehserle-Verdict-13103

Its the first icon (notebook with a star) amongst the icon set.

Thanks.

Re: [Illume Magazine] Favorites not working?

By Jason - July 13, 2010

Hi,

I took a look. You don't actually link to the favorites plugin to make it work. What you actually do is add some javascript files to your page that makes a call to the .php page for you. If you look in the folder that came with your plugin, there should be a "readme.txt" file (I've attached it just in case it isn't there). This will take you through the steps of adding website favorites to your pages. NOTE: You must have the website Memberships plugin in activated and in use in order to have websiteFavorites work.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Favorites not working?

By ILLUME-MEDIA-LABS - July 13, 2010

Hi Jason. Thanks for your help. I have updated with the instructions from the txt file. So now I am not receiving any errors. But I don't think the plugin is working. Would you mind testing it for me?

You can create an account by click on 'login' link on the header: www.illumemag.com and read any article and click on the 'star notebook' image. If you check your profile, the message we receive is 'there are no favorites yet'.

Thanks!

Re: [Jason] Favorites not working?

By Djulia - July 22, 2010

Hi,

I have a problem with the plugin (cmsB 2.05 and websiteFavorites 1.00).

The selections are correctly recorded in the table, but impossible to obtain the list.

print_r($favoriteRecords) gives the error :
Notice: Undefined variable: favoriteRecords in ...

An idea ?

Thanks, :)
Djulia

Re: [Djulia] Favorites not working?

By Jason - July 22, 2010

Hi Djulia,

My first guess is that you're missing the code that retrieves the list of favorites from the database.

It should look something like this:

<?php
require_once "cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";

// get favorite record nums
$tableOrTag = mysql_escape('news'); // update this with your table or tag name
$currentUserNum = mysql_escape( @$CURRENT_USER['num'] );
$favoriteNumsQuery = "SELECT recordNum FROM {$TABLE_PREFIX}_website_favorites WHERE tableOrTag = '$tableOrTag' AND createdByUserNum = '$currentUserNum'";

// load matching records
list($favoriteRecords, $favoriteMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'news', // update this with your table or tag name
'perPage' => '10',
'where' => " num IN ($favoriteNumsQuery) ",
'loadCreatedBy' => false,
'allowSearch' => false,
));
?>

You just have to change "news" with the name of your table.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Favorites not working?

By Djulia - July 22, 2010 - edited: July 22, 2010

Hi Jason,

I have more error message, but the array "print_r($favoriteRecords)" is empty.

Another idea ?

Thanks ! :)
Djulia
Attachments:

listfav.php 2K

Re: [Djulia] Favorites not working?

By Jason - July 22, 2010

Hi,

Have you made sure that you have added favorites to the database? Also make sure that you're logged in while testing.

Other than that, I'll need a link to your site and have you attach the .php page that you're working with to take a closer look.

Thanks.
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Re: [Jason] Favorites not working?

By Djulia - July 26, 2010 - edited: July 26, 2010

Hi Jason,

I have another problem with the use of link AJAX.
The use return a Javascript error on the pages which use rewriting rules.

You already made this observation on other sites?

Thanks for your assistance.

Djulia

Re: [Djulia] Favorites not working?

By Jason - July 26, 2010

Hi Djulia,

Could you tell me exactly what the error you're experiencing is?

Thanks.
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