By Brad Wendel on Wednesday, 29 July 2015
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We recently upgraded our Easy Blog to version 5.0.17. For the most part, the new features are working just fine. However, some of our existing modules from version 3.9.x are not working properly under the new version. They include:

- In the Latest Blog Module, if you click on the title of a post that was created by the Mailbox posting, it reloads the same page rather than redirecting to the post. Other posts created via the EasyBlog front-end open just fine.

- We have a Categories Module that is in the sidebar alongside the listing of Posts and it lists all of the categories. If you click on one, it appends the clicked category onto the end of the current URL (which fails to load anything) rather than taking you to a new page for the new category. For example, if I am viewing the list of Posts under the category "Announcements" and then click on the category "Stories" listed in the module, the URL becomes "..\announcements\stories" instead of "..\stories"

- We have a page on the site which lists all of the Posts for a single category called "Sermons." Each post in the category has an audio playback/MP3 attached at the beginning of each post. In version 3.9, the Introtext would include the audio player as well as the first paragraph of text. In version 5.0.17, when you try to open the page with all of the posts for the Category, the formatting and template information is lost and you can't see anything but the first post. (URL is http://pcmwindow.org/index.php/ourmedia/listen-to-a-sermon).
Hey Brad,

It seems like you hitting this 2 error, can you provide us with your FTP access so we can troubleshoot on this?
Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/pcmomaha/public_html/administrator/components/com_easyblog/includes/truncater/truncater.php on line 117

Undefined $url variable in /home/pcmomaha/public_html/modules/mod_easybloglatestblogs/tmpl/default_item.php on line 75
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Thursday, 30 July 2015 00:14
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Thanks, Arlex ... unfortunately FTP access not available. Can you make the changes needed through the back-end console?
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Tuesday, 04 August 2015 23:55
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Update on each issue:

- Posts created on the Easy Blog front and back-end that are listed in the Latest Blog module are able to open just fine. The problem seems to only occur for those posts created Mailbox posting.

- The Categories module appears to be working fine now. No problems with links appending the URL incorrectly. Not sure what we changed to make it work.

- Removing the embed code for the MP3 file on the 3.9.x posts restored the normal view in that Category. New posts that embed an MP3 file inside a block are working normally. If we try to re-add the MP3 file to the 3.9.x post, the view gets messed up again. Do we need to reupload the MP3 file and apply to the blog post?
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 00:22
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Hey Brad,

I am sorry that delay of this reply,

I have applied some fix in this file -> JoomlaFolder\administrator\components\com_easyblog\includes\audio\audio.php

http://pcmwindow.org/index.php/ourmedia/listen-to-a-sermon

it should work fine now.
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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 18:30
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Thanks, Arlex ... unfortunately it does not appear to be working. I go to embed an audio file into a post created in version 3.9.x and the HTML code is in the post, but the media player does not appear on the actual post. The page formatting issue has been resolved.

I tried resetting the Easy Blog settings to use the Easy Blog Composer and then add a block for the media file to an old post, but I can only edit the old post using the JCE Editor we've used in the past. It's almost like any post created in version 3.9.x cannot be modified to use the new audio settings for version 5.x, or use the new Easy Blog Composer to modify it.

I'm sure you noticed but we went ahead and applied version 5.0.18 to our site yesterday.

Brad
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Thursday, 06 August 2015 01:11
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Hey Brad,

You're welcome.

Hmm, I have a little bit lost here, may i know this post audio is it embed it from Easyblog 3.9? ( http://pcmwindow.org/index.php/ourmedia/listen-to-a-sermon > this post [ Sermon from July 26, 2015: Thank You! ] )
If yes, it seems work fine. Check my screenshot : http://screencast.com/t/ZddnhTcQ
if no, can you elaborate more detail regarding this?

Regarding with your second question :
I tried resetting the Easy Blog settings to use the Easy Blog Composer and then add a block for the media file to an old post, but I can only edit the old post using the JCE Editor we've used in the past. It's almost like any post created in version 3.9.x cannot be modified to use the new audio settings for version 5.x, or use the new Easy Blog Composer to modify it.

That was correct default behaviour actually is because we would like to prevent blog content styling mess up so all the post created from Easyblog 3.9, it can't change to Easyblog 5 build-in composer.

Example : If I using one of the Joomla default editor (JCE - editor) and added gallery in the blog content then publish it. After that, I would like to change to Easyblog build-in composer and add new block in blog content, but Easyblog built-in composer do not know how to render JCE-editor gallery feature, so it will messed up the content. In other word, Joomla default editor also do not know how to render Easyblog build-in composer block feature. Hope this explanation will help.
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Thursday, 06 August 2015 01:52
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Thanks for the clarification, Arlex. Looks like the blog posts from version 3.9.x can only be modified with the original JCE Editor, and embedding the audio file works fine now. When I go to the list of the entire Category, the audio plug-in only appears in the list for the posts made with 5.x (including the one you specified). In order to hear the audio on the 3.9.x posts, the browser will have to open the post and then the player appears there. Works for us. Thanks for resolving this!
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Friday, 07 August 2015 23:31
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Hey Brad,

Thanks for getting back to us everything is work fine now.
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Saturday, 08 August 2015 11:01
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