Hi Mark,
Thanks for helping. I am trying to get easyblog going, it seems to have made a step forward, but one thing has come up that is very frustrating: the latest blogposts module is empty and - foolish me - I tried to change that. Instead of showing the latest posts it somehow damaged the template putting the blogposts themselves on the "pole position" of the homepage. I checked any possible solution on the backend, nothing helped. I even unpublished the module - nothing. The only way to get the "normal" articles back to front was to set an end of publishing date before today. Thank God this made the mess disappear. It was my last measure before uninstalling it. For some unknown reason the module I used to use with version 3 is back where it belonged - but still empty. I am out of ideas.
When I went to the administration of the Easyblog component (not the module) I discovered this:
Warning: is_file() [function.is-file]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/xxx/www/wwwadministrator/templates/isis3/html/com_easyblog/styles/style.css) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/xxx/www/www:/tmp::/home/xxx/www/www/tmp:/home/essenzen/www/www/logs) in /home/xxx/www/www/libraries/joomla/filesystem/file.php on line 562
No idea what that means. Could it have to do with the strange module behaviour?
When I tried to trash the empty blogpost - the one because of which I came here in the first place - I got another error:
An error has occurred.
1054 Unknown column 'language' in 'field list' SQL=INSERT INTO `en_finder_tokens` (`term`,`stem`,`common`,`phrase`,`weight`,`context`,`language`) VALUES ('fünffingerkraut', 'fünffingerkraut', 0, 0, 1, 1, '*'),('potentilla', 'potentilla', 0, 0, 0.6667, 1, '*'),('reptans', 'reptans', 0, 0, 0.4667, 1, '*'),('fünffingerkraut potentilla', 'fünffingerkraut potentilla', 0, 1, 1.8667, 1, '*'),('fünffingerkraut potentilla reptans', 'fünffingerkraut potentilla reptans', 0, 1, 2, 1, '*'),('potentilla reptans', 'potentilla reptans', 0, 1, 1.6, 1, '*')
Again ... no idea what that means.
May I add a personal comment? I have been using Easyblog for a while and have always been overwhelmed with the features of which the most I do not even understand what they do and mean (could be because English is not my mother language), so mostly with every new installation first thing I do is go to the backend and disable 90% of the features in order to make Easyblog really easy. Nevertheless the feedback of my few - admittedly unexperienced - bloggers is that they have problems using Easyblog, find it not intuitive and always struggle with it. So my idea is: would it be possible to create a kind of "light version", an Easyblog reduced to the core of simple blogging? I understand many of your customers want this huge software with tons of features and I guess they know how to handle it. However there may be a couple more users like me who find Easyblog getting more and more difficult to use, get frustrated and consider alternatives. Please do not get me wrong I do not want to criticize your work and effort - but if I had a choice I would pay twice the price for half of the features;) .
Thanks for your patience.
Best wishes
Dirk