Re: [kano] Converting from Listings Manager

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:03:58 -0800

Hi Kjell,

Thank you for your post.

While there is no automated way to do this we do have a consulting service available where we can upgrade your Listings Manager installation to CMS Builder for you.

We'll import your data and photos from your current install to the new CMS Builder software and also upgrade your templates for you.

If you're interested in having us move your Listings Manager installation over to CMS Builder please fill out the following form here for a free estimate:

http://www.interactivetools.com/hire-us/#freeEstimate

Once the form is filled out Ross or one of our consulting specialists will get back to you as soon as possible.

In the mean time, if you have any questions please let me know.

Cheers,
Luke

Re: [Deborah] categories + using an "or" with "where"

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:55:15 -0800

Hi Deborah,

Thank you for posting.

It's a little tricky to troubleshoot this without being able to work with the code directly.

However, try using "category LIKE" before each match.

list($calendarRecords2, $calendarMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'calendar',
'where' => " category LIKE '%\Music - Events\t%' or category LIKE '%\Art - Events\t%' ",

In the mean time, if you have any other questions please feel free to let me know.

Cheers,
Luke

Re: [zickey] CMS Builder sites indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing search engines

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:37:28 -0800

Hi Zickey,

Thank you for your email.

You won't have any problems getting your CMS Builder powered site indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing, or any other search engine.

In fact, you can even use CMS Builder to update the content between the tags of your pages where you can place relevant keywords. Also, you choose the filenames for the pages that CMS Builder updates (e.g. your-webpage.php), so you can also place your targeted keywords in the URL.<br /><br />If you're looking to get your site indexed more easily and get a higher ranking in search engines you'll just have to follow basic SEO (search engine optimization). CMS Builder will not negatively affect your ranking in any way.<br /><br />I've included a few useful SEO resources below for you that you might find useful:<br /><br />http://www.seomoz.org/ - a good place to start<br />http://www.spyfu.com/ - excellent for keyword research and competitive research<br />http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm - goes over in detail what works and what doesn't work in Google<br /><br />I hope this helps. If you have any questions please let me know.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [next2u] Good Host for CMSB?</h1> <p>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:25:29 -0800</p> Hi next2u,<br /><br />Thank you for your post.<br /><br />For smaller web hosts I've found dreamhost to be quite reliable. A couple of us here at the office have used it for personal sites and we've also used them as a testing server for some CMS Builder. You can find them here:<br /><br />http://www.dreamhost.com/<br /><br />If you're looking for a good dedicated hosting provider you might want to check out http://www.serverbeach.com/.<br /><br />Also, over the years interactivetools.com customers have posted their recommended hosts in this thread here:<br /><br />http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P4506/<br /><br />I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [k4tlove] Google maps</h1> <p>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:58:53 -0800</p> Hi k4tlove ,<br /><br />It's a little hard to tell what's causing the problem without looking at the source code.<br /><br />Would it be possible for you to post the full source code of your listingsdetail.php page?<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [rez] CMS javascript pop-ups r just empty white boxes</h1> <p>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:42:51 -0800</p> Hi rez,<br /><br />Thank you for your feedback. I'll make a note of it and pass it on to the developers.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [rez] CMS javascript pop-ups r just empty white boxes</h1> <p>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:07:09 -0800</p> Hi rez,<br /><br />Thanks for your post. That's a strange problem we haven't run into anything like that but we would be happy to help you out.<br /><br />What browser and version are you using? Do the buttons (paste text, word, html and links) work in another browser?<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [jtedescojam] CMSB Timing Out</h1> <p>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:03:44 -0800</p> Hi jtedescojam,<br /><br />I received your email and I'll be looking into it from there. I'll have to try and recreate the time out issue. Without being able to recreate the time out it may be a little tricky to know what the problem is.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [jtedescojam] CMSB Timing Out</h1> <p>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:58:16 -0800</p> Hi jtedescojam,<br /><br />It's hard to tell what the problem is without being able to recreate it.<br /><br />Are you able to recreate the problem from your end?<br /><br />Can you send me an email to luke@interactivetools.com and provide FTP and CMS Builder login details. Also in your email please provide me with the steps used to recreate the error.<br /><br />(Note: Make sure to email me and don't post here.)<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [gkornbluth] 1.36 not restricting characters</h1> <p>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:48:32 -0800</p> Hi gkornbluth,<br /><br />Thank you for your feedback.<br /><br />We're aware of the issue and it's been fixed for 1.37. If you need a patch right now let me know and I can have one of the programmers post something for you.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [Kristamk] Picture, left and right side spacing in CMS Builder</h1> <p>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:38:49 -0800</p> Hi Kristamk,<br /><br />Thank you for your post.<br /><br />There isn't an easy workaround for this as right now the only way to do it is to manually modify the code using the HTML editor. <br /><br />Here are some options:<br /><br />1. You could create a separate image upload field and have images output exactly as you want. Your users could then upload images using this upload field.<br /><br />The benefit here is it creates a uniform feel for each pages, so your images are always output in the same place on each page, use the same horizontal width, etc.<br /><br />2. Through our consulting service we could add a feature to the WYSIWYG editor where your users could set a custom style to your images depending on whether they are aligned to the left or the right. You can fill out a consulting request on our website here and we can give you a free, no obligation quote:<br /><br />http://www.interactivetools.com/consulting/index.php<br /><br />In the mean time, if you have any other questions please let me know.<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [bruno] RSS Feed date/time problems</h1> <p>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:59:27 -0800</p> Hi bruno,<br /><br />Thank you for your post.<br /><br />While you're using the correct code to generate an RFC-822 date it looks like it's outputting the year with only two digits instead of four. This may have something to do with the version of PHP that's installed on your server.<br /><br />Because of this we'll have to recreate the date using PHP date format characters. An example of RFC-822 dates can be found here http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/InvalidRFC2822Date.html.<br /><br />I was able to recreate one using the following code, so try using this for your <pubDate> instead:<br /><br /><?php echo date("D, d M Y H:i:s O", strtotime($record['date'])) ?><br /><br />I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any more questions.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [misery217] php include not working on multi-listing page</h1> <p>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:23:23 -0800</p> Hi misery217,<br /><br />Thank you for your post.<br /><br />Try removing this line:<br /><br />'where' => whereRecordNumberInUrl(1), <br /><br />The only URL that has "1" in it is:<br /><br />http://174.143.92.42/waxahachiechamber.com/calendar/defaultDetail.php?New-Site-Opening-1<br /><br />So this is why your Upcoming Events are only displayed on the above event.<br /><br />Your other events have "3" and "4" in the URL.<br /><br />Also, I noticed when clicking on an event the URL was doubling up in the browser's address bar. I'm not sure what's causing this but you might want to take a closer look at the source code for your hyperlinks to remove the duplication.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [dalfort] View Website - Uploading Code - Very Confused</h1> <p>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:07:21 -0800</p> Hi Dalfort,<br /><br />CMS Builder doesn't create the pages for you, instead it generates the PHP code for you. You then copy and paste this code into a an HTML editor and save it as the page you want it to update. You can then use CMS Builder to update the content on this page. <br /><br />For example, if you wanted to create an "About Us" page you would start things off by creating an About Us section editor, generate the code and then paste it into your HTML editor and save it as aboutus.php. You would then customize aboutus.php to match the web design of your choice, and use CMS Builder to update the title and content on your newly created About Us page.<br /><br />Because you're creating a simple 7 page website, I've prepared a small tutorial below to help you get started. In this example, we'll create a section editor for updating your about us page, and a viewer for aboutus.php so you can view the page through your web browser.<br /><br />1. Log into CMS Builder and go Admin -> Section Editors and click Add New Editor. For Menu Type we're going to select a preset called "About". Once done, click Create New Menu. You'll see the "About" Section Editor is now available in your CMS Builder's navigation. (You've just created a Section Editor)<br /><br />2. Go to Admin -> Code Generator. For "Select Section" choose About and for "Viewer Type" choose Detail Page. Click "Show Code"<br /><br />3. You're going to now want to copy and paste the code you generated into your HTML editor (e.g. dreamweaver) and save the page as aboutus.php. Upload the page to your website's web root. (You've now created a Viewer)<br /><br />4. Visit the page by going to http://www.yourwebsite.com/aboutus.php. You'll see that you have a newly created aboutus.php page. Go to CMS Builder and click on "About Us" and update the title and content field and then revisit the aboutus.php page. You'll see the content you input (using the About Us section editor) is now output on your aboutus.php page (About Us viewer).<br /><br />5. The last step is to format the aboutus.php page. Using your HTML editor you can customize the page to include your own design. You can use HTML and CSS to modify this page to match the look and feel of your website.<br /><br /><br />To go over terminology, here's what they generally mean - <br /><br />Section Editor: These are areas in CMS Builder that you use for updating sections of your website. You can create sections for updating your news/articles, about us pages, etc. About Us pages, Contact Us pages, etc are "Single Records", you don't have multiple about us pages. Things like News and Articles are Multi-Records, this is because you have several news items in a news section.<br /><br />Viewers: This is how the content is output on your website. Viewers are HTML pages with some extra PHP tags that load content from the CMS Builder database. You can create viewers using the "Code Generator". <br /><br />So in the example above, in steps 1 you created a Section Editor for your about us page, in steps 2-3 you created a viewer for viewing the aboutus.php page.<br /><br />I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any questions. :)<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [noff] How can i add css to the wysiwyg editor?</h1> <p>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:00:29 -0800</p> Hi Noff,<br /><br />Try adding the following to your /cmsAdmin/lib/wysiwyg.css.<br /><br />a { color: #FFF !important }<br /><br />Where #FFF is the color you want your hyperlinks to be.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Luke<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [efi-revivo] photo gallery</h1> <p>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:53:58 -0800</p> HI efi-revivo,<br /><br />No, there isn't a way to change this in the program. <br /><br />If you are comfortable editing the source code you can change this by modifying the /cmsAdmin/lib/menus/default/uploadForm.php file and changing the value here:<br /><br /><?php foreach (range(1, (int) min($uploadsRemaining, <span style="color:red">10</span>)) as $count): ?><br /><br />As always, make sure you back up this file first.<br /><br />Keep in mind that you may encounter other limits from your server if you try to upload too many images at once. I would try changing this number to 25 and test, then 50 and test, etc.<br /><br />I hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions. :)<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [Mr Jim] Bug with Image Upload in 1.36</h1> <p>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:40:08 -0800</p> Hi Jim,<br /><br />Thank you for your post. I'll forward this to the development team so they can look into it/fix it in an upcoming release.<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [drewh01] navigation modification to display list and detail pages within dropdown</h1> <p>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:27:16 -0800</p> Hi drewh01,<br /><br />Thank you for your post. <br /><br />This looks pretty complex so I'll have to take a closer look at your set up.<br /><br />Could you please send me your phone number, CMS Builder login info, and FTP info to luke@interactivetools.com. Also any additional information or details of what you're trying to do would be great.<br /><br />Note: please don't post login details to the forum, send them to email only.<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [codenoobie] Switched servers and deleted database</h1> <p>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:27 -0800</p> Hi codenoobie,<br /><br />Were you able to save any of your data or has it all been lost? What version of the program are you using?<br /><br />If you've lost all of your data you can do a fresh installation and that will recreate the accounts database. If you were able to save some of your data let me know what you still have and we can take it from there.<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [jtedescojam] URGENT** changed upload directory</h1> <p>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:18:31 -0800</p> Hi jtedescojam,<br /><br />Thank you for clarifying things.<br /><br />Every time you upload an image the images path is saved to the database. Your website will continue to look for your old images in /jt/cmsAdmin/uploads folder because this is the path that was saved to the database when you first uploaded the image.<br /><br />There are three possible solutions to this:<br /><br />1. Create a folder named /jt/cmsAdmin/uploads and move all of your old uploaded images to there. Also, if you haven't uploaded any new photos you might want to keep the Upload Directory and Upload Folder URL pointing towards /jt/cmsAdmin/uploads just so all of your old and new images are in the same place.<br /><br />2. If you don't have that many records with image/file uploads you can go through the process of editing your records through CMS Builder and reuploading your images to the new /cmsAdmin/uploads directory.<br /><br />3. You can manually modify the path for each of your records in the database from /jt/cmsAdmin/uploads to /cmsAdmin/uploads. I recommend this option last because when working with your data the smallest mistake can have a serious undesired result. If you do want to attempt to update the paths manually by modifying your database let me know and I can explain what needs to be done, or if you want we can make these changes for you through our consulting service.<br /><br />In the mean time, if you have any questions please let me know. :)<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [jtedescojam] URGENT** changed upload directory</h1> <p>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:36:24 -0800</p> Hi jtedescojam,<br /><br />I'm not totally clear on what happened here. Did you create a new folder and move the program files into there, but decided to keep /cmsAdmin/uploads/ directory as your uploads folder (both on the server and in the general settings)? <br /><br />Can you upload new images now or are the old images not being displayed?<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [noff] How can i add css to the wysiwyg editor?</h1> <p>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:53:14 -0800</p> Hi Noff,<br /><br />Yes it is possible to change the colors of the WYSIWYG box. You can modify the following file:<br /><br />/cmsAdmin/lib/wysiwyg.css<br /><br />To change your colors so the text is white and the background black, change this:<br /><br />body.mceContentBody {<br /> background:#FFFFFF;<br />}<br /><br />body.mceContentBody, .mceContentBody td, .mceContentBody pre {<br /> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;<br /> font-size: 12px;<br /> color: #000;<br />}<br /><br />To this:<br /><br />body.mceContentBody {<br /> background:#000;<br />}<br /><br />body.mceContentBody, .mceContentBody td, .mceContentBody pre {<br /> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;<br /> font-size: 12px;<br /> color: #FFF;<br />}<br /><br /><br />I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any more questions.<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [efi-revivo] photo gallery</h1> <p>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:16 -0800</p> Hi Efi-Revivo,<br /><br />With CMS Builder you can upload as many as 10 images at a time. <br /><br />Are you already using CMS Builder for uploading photos to your photo gallery? Or were you looking to get started?<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [Shore] run php script on record update</h1> <p>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:08:41 -0800</p> Hi Shore,<br /><br />Thank you for your post.<br /><br />Do you already have a script that adds an event to google calendar?<br /><br />This is something that we could help you out with through our consulting service, as it's a little more involved than a simple customization.<br /><br />To get started, send us an email to consulting@interactivetools.com and we'll go from there. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know.<br /> </article> <article> <h1>Re: [hegadmin] Creating Custom Presets?</h1> <p>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:23 -0800</p> Hi hegadmin,<br /><br />To create a CMS Builder preset do the following:<br /><br />1. Log into CMS Builder and create a new section editor (Admin -> Section Editors -> Add New Editor). For this example we'll create a new Multi Record editor and enter in Articles as the Menu and Table Name. Click "Create New Menu".<br /><br />2. Modify your new "Articles" section editor and add new fields as you see fit.<br /><br />3. When done, on your server go to /cmsAdmin/data/schema folder and copy over your articles.ini.php file to your /cmsAdmin/data/schemaPresets folder. (Make sure you copy the schema file and not move it or else your initial table will disappear).<br /><br />4. For new CMS Builder installations you can simply place the articles.ini.php file in the /cmsAdmin/data/schemaPresets folder and when creating a new section editor select "Articles" from the "select presets" drop down.<br /><br />I hope this helps. If you have any questions please let me know.<br /> </article> </main></body></html>