I am happy to announce that the PageBuilder plugin has just been uploaded to the GT server, and is available for download.

Features:

- the plugin allows you to build dynamic and static pages very easily. Examples: "About Us" page, "Contact" page etc.

- all pages are template based. This allows you basically create your whole website using the power and flexibility of Links SQL.

- you can use all the globals and include any template of your default template set.

- page hierarchy: pages are structured hierarchically. This allows you to easily print "breadcrumb" navigation (similar to "title_linked" in Links SQL).

- you can create pages for every link, category, user, editor, review. Examples: create a second detailed page (more details, print view).

- conditional building: pages only for certain links, categories, etc. Example: special page for "premium" links.

- conditional viewing: in dynamic mode, you can control who is allowed to see which page. Example: link pages or other pages, that are only accessible to your registered users.

- build HTML pages, but also PDF or Postscript pages (you need to install HTMLDOC in order to produce PDF or Postscript files). Example: printable link page.

- static pages can be automatically updated whenever you build the rest of your directory.

Price: the plugin costs USD 50. You can pay through PayPal by clicking on the link that appears when you try to download the plugin. Once you have paid, you will get access to download the plugin.

Example site: most of the non-directory and non-forum pages on http://www.iyengar-yoga.com/ are generated by the PageBuilder plugin.

Happy downloading!

Feel free to post your questions and/or comments.

Ivan
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Hi Yogi

It sounds real nice...

Are the upgrades included? And what kind of support and mods add on and upgrades do you offer?
Regards
KaTaBd

Users plug In - Multi Search And Remote Search plug in - WebRing plug in - Muslims Directory

Yes, upgrades are included.

Support too, and modifications/add ons will done if by popular demand.

Ivan
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Hi

I am getting installation error:

Error running installation code: GT::SQL (12542): Unable to load subclass: 'Plugins::PageBuilder::Table::PageBuilderPage' Reason: Global symbol "$top" requires explicit package name at /pathto/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/PageBuilder.pm line 1542. Global symbol "$top" requires explicit package name at /pathto/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/PageBuilder.pm line 1543. Compilation failed in require at /pathto/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/PageBuilder/Table/PageBuilderPage.pm line 21.


Regards
KaTaBd

Users plug In - Multi Search And Remote Search plug in - WebRing plug in - Muslims Directory

Try adding:

my $top;

...on about line 1541

Sorry for this, should be fixed now. You can download the new version from the GT server.

Ivan
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Thanks

works fine now...
Regards
KaTaBd

Users plug In - Multi Search And Remote Search plug in - WebRing plug in - Muslims Directory

Hi Yogi

The error in building the title linked is still there....

We mentioned this during the beta and you said the solution should be added to the final..
Regards
KaTaBd

Users plug In - Multi Search And Remote Search plug in - WebRing plug in - Muslims Directory

Ok

In PageBuilder.pm

Find:

push @out_linked, qq|<a href="$page->{root_url}/">$top</a>|;

and replace it with:

push @out_linked, qq|<a href="your_domain">$top</a>|;

that should work till a solution is found in the hard code..
Regards
KaTaBd

Users plug In - Multi Search And Remote Search plug in - WebRing plug in - Muslims Directory

This should actually work, there is no need to edit PageBuilder.pm as far as I can see.

One of the plugin options is the "pb_root_url", which you can set to whatever you want, e.g http://www.yoursite.com. If you leave it empty, the build root of Links SQL will be taken.

I hope this answers your question.

Ivan
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I have just put up a new version of the PageBuilder plugin, which should fix this problem (in my previous answer, I was referring to my developement version, which had the fix, but I didn't notice that the download version was still the old version).

The new version also fixes a small problem with Link specific pages: in dynamic mode, the previous and next link urls where not completely correct.

So it's just a minor fix, the version is now 1.0.1.

Ivan
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hi

I have a litte question :

Can we make page buider buid the page where we want on the server?

Imagine the homepage of LSQL is at the following adresse
http://www.mysite.com/pages/index.html

Can I make pagebuilder build a page at the root of the site :
http://www.mysite.com/builpage.html

Can I make pagebuilder build a page in my cgi-bin directory?

Can pagebuider make any type of page (.html .php .txt .cgi...)


Thanks...

FMP

Hi

I am a user of that very nice plug in...

The answer is Yes, Yes, Yes... It can do al that and more...

Just let your imagination take you or go to my site (all files those are not LSQL pages) are built using that plug in including CGI scripts headeers and footers..
Regards
KaTaBd

Users plug In - Multi Search And Remote Search plug in - WebRing plug in - Muslims Directory

Hi

katabd has already answered your question, I'll provide you with some details.

1) if you want the pagebuilder build root directory to be something else than the LSQL build root directory, enter the path you want in the plugin options.

2) yes, just give the correct path and filename

3) yes, just select the filename you want. What may be misleading is that you have to set "file type" to HTML (not PDF or Postscript) for any text file, i.e. any file that is not a PDF of a postscript file.

I hope that helps.

Ivan
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I'm getting the following install error:


I can't recall having any trouble installing other plugins.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

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What version of Links are you using? You need version 2.1.1. for the PageBuilder plugin.

Ivan
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Hi yogi

Yeah, I've got 2.11 working here...

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Hmm.

Is that the original error message you get? Maybe your paths are not set correctly?

If you can PM me admin access, I can have a look.

Ivan
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Let me get back to you on this. I might have done something stuuuuuuuupid.... I'll report my findings, whether dummy or not...

Yep....I-a-dummie...I had changed the pw on the mysql table but not in the Links SQL setup. Once I corrected the pw, everything worked fine.

Sorry to have wasted your time

I'm now gonna dig into your nice plugin.

Thanks, yogi

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What if you are building the links in a subdirectory?

The page gets built okay, but the Simple Breadcrumb Link has a prob. The Top link goes to the top of the site, not to the top of the subdirectory. I'd like the Top link in the Simple Breadcrumb to go to the top of the subdirectory.

The only choices that I have for the Parent Page are "-" and "Root", even though my build path is ..../public_html/links/blahblah....

Thanks. This plugin is much more elaborate than I expected. It's quite a nice addition.

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So it installed OK this time?

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do. Could you tell me:

1) where your links directory is built
2) where you want to build the pagebuilder page
3) what your settings for pb_root_url and pb_root_path are?

Thanks.

Ivan
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Yes, it installed just fine

1. links directory built here:

/home/username/public_html/links

2. pagebuilder page to be built at the following location:

/home/username/public_html/links/about_us.html

3. pb_root_url and pb_root_path are blank...default

My build_root_path is:

/home/username/public_html/links

My build_root_url is:

http://www.mydomain.com/links

Perhaps I should fill in pb_root_path and pb_root_url with the above?

Thanks for your help.

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I entered the build_root_url and build_root_path data into the pb_build_url and pb_build_path boxes, but the Top link still points to:

http://www.mysite.com

not:

http://www.mysite.com/links

I'm not sure.....am I missing something? (Wouldn't surprise me....)

Also, what if admin wanted to switch to a different set of templates for the site? Would that set of templates have to be renamed "default"?


Many thanks

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If I understand you correctly, then you should be able to do the following:

1) leave pb_root_url and pb_root path empty (the Links SQL build_root_url and build_root_path) will be taken.
2) build a page, with empty directory, and filename "about_us.html". Make it a subpage of "Root".
3) The title linked should then be something like

Home : About Us

where Home is linked to your "links" directory (this is the simple breadcrumb type).

I hope this helps.

Ivan
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If the admin wants to switch to a different set of templates, they would have to change the file

.tplinfo

I will now say something like

{ inheritance => '../default' }

(or whatever your default template set is). Just change the default bit to whatever you want.

Ivan
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Hi yogi

I've done exactly as you've mentioned, but the result is that the "Home" link in the title_linked thingy points to:

http://www.mysite.com

not:

http://www.mysite.com/links

I'm using the Simple breadcrumb type.

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This is strange.

Is this on your armynavy.com website?

Ivan
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No, I have it setup on a server on my desktop. That's where I do most of my beta stuff. I'll keep fooling with it.

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Hi yogi

Can pagebuilder do the following :

• build many "simple" page with the same template
  I have seen that a template was created for each page name. But the page name has to be unique.
  I just want to had a column in the database (content for exemple). then having a common template for the page I want
  Then we could have most of the datas contained in the database intead of in the statc html templates...
  
• for link page the build filename has to be unique
  What I want to do is to a a column in my links table called builder_name. I can specify that this field has to be unique
  Then I could use the following filename : <%builder_name%>.html (instead of <%LinkID%>) for all the pages created by page builder
  How to do it? What do I have to change? and where?

thanks for your answer



FMP

Hi

1. First of all, you can change the default simple template to your needs, so that you don't have to change the header etc every time a page is created. If you still want to put the page content into the database, do the following: change the default simple template (pb_default_simple.html) to contain only

<%include include_my_header.html%>
<%page_content%>
<%include include_my_footer.html%>

Then you create a new column in the table called 'page_content', where you store the page content. A new template is created anyway for every page, but it will just contain the three lines, and it will be the same for every template. This sort of setup is also used by katabd, maybe he has some more tricks for you.

2. You can easily change this by modifying the file 'admin/Plugins/PageBuilder.pm'. Around line 30 you see the following code
I have indicated the changes in red. Make sure the column is indeed unique, and that it only contains characters that are valid in a filename.

I hope that helps.

Ivan
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thanks for your answer

I would also like to know if I can build the same page in many places.

I could add some colums : page_directory2, page_directory3...

Then it build the page in the main page_directory and in the others if they are field in

Thanks..

This could easily be added for 'simple' pages, and a little be less easily for all the other page types. What would probably be the best solution is to put all the directories separated by commas on the page_directory field.

Why do you want to build a page in several locations? Just curious....

Ivan
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Hi

As i am not very good in programming so I Have installed many different scripts : GF, LSQL, quizz, poll, whois, news, gallery, chats, ....thez are all template based and the templates folder are in many places (sometimes, I could change the path of thoses templates and put them in the same place...but it will be long to do all that changes...it is just easier to change nothing and making pagebuider doing the job...

...Just a question of lazyness... ;)

Hey you...you want me to spend all my money...your GFplugin sounds good to... (but for me the champion one is still PageBuider... I am sure GT team will implement that kind of system in the future versions of LSQL)



FMP

Hi Ivan,

I was thinking of using you powerful page builder plug in to build the static pages for another language. I as well was a little bothered by the idea of having all the page builder templates in the same directory... I would like to keep the page builder templates in the directory of the language that the page builder pages are being used in. So if the templates could be in several different places, It would be much easier to handle several different languages with less confusion when modifying the templates since each language will have all it's templates in the same spot. Hope this makes sense to you.

Yes, it does make sense. I'll have to think about this....

Ivan
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I am getting this error while trying to Install Page Builder plugin

Error running installation code: GT::SQL::Editor (9339): Unknown method 'add_tree' called at (eval 1) line 440.

What would be the cause of that error.

Thanks in advance.

You need Links SQL version 2.1.1 for the PageBuilder plugin, and you are probably using version 2.1.0 or lower. Updating to version 2.1.1 should take care of the error.

Ivan
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Yogi:

First, congratulations on a great plugin. Very useful and powerful tool!

One thing I believe would be a great enhancement would be the ability to build pages based on a certain condition and that would SPAN pages.

An example would be:-

Condition - abc = Yes (are 'multiple conditions possible?)

Span Pages = Yes (additional field)

In this way, you could build certain custom pages that fit certain criteria and automatically create the SPAN pages links in each page.

Ideally, the first page created would be an index.shtml page and more1, more2 etc as linked pages.

Is this possible? (I hope I am clear what I am asking).



Regards,



Clint.
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Good suggestion, Clint. Would be great.

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Sounds like a good idea.

However, I need more information on what you want to do.

First of all, the condition is for building 'link', 'category', 'user' etc. pages. If you add a condition in there, a page is built for all links, categories, users, that meet the condition.

Can you tell me what sort of page you would like to define which has page spanning enabled?

Ivan
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hi,

the plugin is great. but at the moment i have some problems.

waht i want to do is to use some pages both, in static and dynamic mode.

i tried the following:

<a href="<%build_root_url%>/Static/mypage.html">click</A>

that works in static-mode well (/Static/ is my pb_root)

in dynamic-mode the link is:

http://www.mysite.de/.../mypage.html&d=1

and this link doesn't work. I always get an error, that the page doesn't exist.

I think the syntax of the dynamic link is ok, as its the same in the /New/, /cool/, ... areas.

But maybe it has something to do with the paths, as for New, Cool,etc. there is a path-definition in

admin->setup->Paths and URLs

Does anyone has a solution ?

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

The solution depends on whether you want the pagebuilder page to be dynamic when the directory is dynamic, or if you want it to be static even if the directory is dynamic.

The second case is easier: just use

<a href="/Static/mypage.html">click</a>

in the template (i.e. leave away the <%build_root_url%> bit.

For the first case use something like:

<a href="<%if d%><%db_cgi_url%>/page.cgi?page=mypage<%else%>/Static/mypage.html<%endif%>">click</a>

Does that make sense?

Ivan
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well that's nearly the thing i did now. but it blows up the template-code.

i did:

<%if Username%>

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Static&p=sitename&d=1">click</A>

<%else%>

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/...Static/sitename.html">click</A>

<%endif%>

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

I don't quite understand what you are saying....

You have to make sure that you do not include the domain name.

Ivan
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why not including the domain-name?

it works well.


my point was that i wanted to create a link, that works in both, static & dynamic mode.

the if-solution works but is not my favorite one.

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

Hi,

Does anyone have an idea how hard it would be to port PageBuilder to DBMan SQL? I am only interested in creating PDF output from my data. Would migrating PageBuilder be the right way to go, or should I consider other alternatives?

Thanks, Jasper

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http://www.bookings.org

If you include the domain name, and have a link to a static page, then Links SQL messes up things (there is nothing I can do about this at the moment, that's the way it is handled internally by Links). In particular, if you have a link like:

<a href="http://www.domain.com/pages/mypage.html">

then in dynamic mode, this will be translated to

<a href="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=mypage.html&d=1">

(assuming that http://www.domain.com/pages is your build_root_url and http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin is your db_cgi_url). If you don't want this to happen, then you can use a link as follows:

<a href="/pages/mypage.html">

In dynamic mode, this will not be changed.

There is no other way at the moment to have both static an dynamic pagebuilder pages than the one I gave you. There might be an easier way in the next release of Links SQL, but it will come at the cost of speed.

I hope that helps.

Ivan
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I think the plugin could be ported to DBMan SQL without too much problems. A lot of the code is completely independent of Links SQL. The parts that depend on Links SQL would have to be modified a bit.

I'll investigate this further, and contact you once I know more.

Ivan
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Yogi:

An example would be as follows:-

I have a field in my links database 'isPick', which are basically 'recommended' programs. I have quite a few of these (around 50 or so). When these build on one page I get a 'huge' page. At the moment I am calling this via the search.cgi?isPick=Yes call. Whilst this does display them correctly it uses the default search_results.html template - and I would like to use something different for these type of program listings.

This concept could be used for any specific field in the Links Table. I am not sure the easiest way to call it, however would think (if it's possible), in the Condition field such as isPick = Yes. Then you could be given the option of 'how many links per page' eg. 10 (or alternatively it could pick up on the default). You would then be able to build pages on a range of different criteria. As I said above, whilst much of this functionality can be done via search.cgi, it is a little slower, and does not allow the added benefits of using custom templates for different fields.

I would see the possibilities of this added feature as limitless.

Hope I have explained things

Regards,



Clint.
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Yogi,
I'm interested in this plugin, and was wondering, do you have a demo up to where we can play around with it and do a test drive??
Thanks,

EDIT: also, can it create categories or directories separate from the Links directory??

</not a clue>

Hi

there is no demo set up, because that would admin access for people trying it. All the pages on my website (see signature) that are not Links SQL or GForum pages have been built by the plugin.

The plugin can create separate pages based on the category and/or links database. Those pages can be created anywhere, i.e. also outside of your Links SQL directory.

Does that answer your questions?

Ivan
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I have PageBuilder building detailed pages in the same directories as the category index pages. Works great.

The main reason I want detailed pages is because I'm using LSQL in part to build a dictionary/encyclopedia. So on the What's New pages, I just want to point people to the detailed page, rather than to a jump.cgi link (since for the definitions, there isn't really an external URL to jump to).

Problem: Getting the last part of the URL is easy: <%ID%>.html. But how do I get the rest of the path in the URL in link.html?

Thanks!

Helps to browse the Resources area! here's the answer.

Does the PageBuilder Plugin allow users to use the default seach feature?

i.e. I have a contacts page, but how do I let users find it by searching?

Is the Database Information related to this? i.e. NONINDEXED, INTERNAL, MYSQL, MSSQL

I see a Search Weight field but I can't see this when I try and change properties?

I've added several new Columns which contain my content but is it possible to make this content appear in the Search Results?

Any help appreciated, as I would imagine I'm missing something obvious.
Best wishes,
Piers

I am not quite sure what you are trying to do? Can you explain a bit more?

In general, you can only search the "Category" and "Links" tables. The search function does not search your templates, or any other tables, in particular, it doesn't search the "PageBuilderPage" table.

Ivan
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I think that may answer the question.

I wanted Users to search for something, but allow the results to include my contact details page etc. It would seem the only way of doing this would be to include that information in the links table.

Piers

What will happen if the link title have special norwegian characters? Are those characters translated into somthing else when making the file name?









Kjetil
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Kjetil Palmquist
www.svanger.com

You can select the filenames you want to have for your 'link' pages. Obviously, they have to be unique (i.e. every link has to have a unique name), and standard, you are only allowed to use the ID field of the links database for the filenames. So, you filename would e.g. be defined as:

<%LinkID%>-printable.html

which would the build pages as follows:

1-printable.html
2-printable.html
3-printable.html
etc. etc.

If you want to use your link titles as filenames, you would have to make sure that they are unique. Plus, I would need to implement some more checking on the filenames. The reason why the <%Title%> tag is by default not allowed in filenames is that you would need to be sure that all titles are unique and that they do not contain bad strings, such as '../../../../../etc/passwd'

Does that make sense?

Ivan
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When installing PageBuilder from Links I get this error:

Error running installation code: GT::SQL::Editor (32685): Unknown method 'add_tree' called at (eval 1) line 440.

How can I solve this?
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Kjetil Palmquist
www.svanger.com

You need Links SQL version 2.1.1.

The plugins uses a module that was added in Links SQL 2.1.1, and it therefore won't work in earlier versions of links.

Ivan
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Hey Yogi,

I am thinking of using LinskSQL on another site (I am a bit addicted to the database, now). Anyway, on this partcular site, I wish to have 3 category pages get printed (static site). I'd like 3 category.html templates: category1.html, category2.html, category3.html. In each template, I'd love to find code to show a sort based on a different field. So on each category page, there was a pull down menu that showed category/subcategory sort choices. But also is on a static site (and very server friendly)

If you don't have the last part about sorts, that would be fine as I have a request into Mel at GT for that part. But the first part, where the system prints 3 category.html templates? Can pagebuilder do that?

Thanks Yogi.

Hi

you can definitely build the three different category pages with the PageBuilder plugin. On every category page built with the plugin, you have all links and all subcategories as tags. There is one small thing that does not work yet: there is no spanning of category pages (i.e. all links in one category will be on the same page). This will be changed soon, with the next release of the plugin.

Does that answer you question?

Ivan
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When using both the attachments plugin and the pagebuilder plugin...

Is the attachments loop associated with a link supposed be available on the new link-associated page being made by pagebuilder?

I might be doing something wrong (likely) but I'm not able to get them to show up on the new page being created. I did a variable dump on the new page and the attachments are not listed.

Chris

Good question!

I have updated the Attachement plugin (version 1.1.3 is in the download area), and you can now use the following tag on a 'link' page built by the PageBuilder plugin:
where $ID is the ID of the link. This will provide the 'link_attachments' loop.

Ivan
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Great! Thanks yogi!

Great Plugin Ivan,

I have been using your plugin to create all of the additional pages for my site and it works really well.

One use I found, that others may find useful as well:

For my detailed pages, I wanted a list of other featured sites to appear. I had a global that worked fine, but I found that when I went to build the pages (over 1000) the new global slowed down the build time considerably.

It seemed a lot of work for Links to have to run the global for each detailed page, so I decided to use Pagebuilder. The tricky part is to have Pagebuilder build a static page into the default templates directory.

That way, a static page exists with the Featured links list that each detailed page can grab. It cuts the time for builds down substantially. About once a week I just re-build the pagebuilder pages and the static list is updated.

Bryan

Thanks for the positive feedback.

This is a way of using the plugin that I haven't thought of before, but it certainly makes sense to build that page as a template!

Ivan
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A couple questions:

Can this plugin be used on a site that is using multiple templates?

Can this plugin be used for both dymanic and static pages?

TIA

Hi

1. The plugin currently only works with one template set. I am working on making it more flexible, so that you will be able to define a pagebuilder page that belongs to different template sets.

2. The pages created by the plugin can be displayed in both static and dynamic mode. For every page you can select which modes you want to allow.

Ivan
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So I would be able to use it on one template set (what ever is set to default) either dynamic or static.

If I call different template sets they will display correctly just without any pages attached to pagebuilder?

Example- If I use pagebuilder for support pages (about us, news, etc) these pages will display correctly with only one template set (lets call them default for this example). If I call another template set (lets say yahoo for this example) the templates will behave as they should only without any of the pages from pagebuilder? I hope I am being clear with my question, the more I try to explain the more confusing it becomes.

The pagebuilder pages will always display with the default template set. That means that if you are browsing the directory in the 'fancy' template set, and you call a pagebuilder page, the pagebuilder page will be displayed in the 'default' template set. They will not be broken, but they will just not be in the 'fancy' template set.

The problem with multiple template sets is the following: all pagebuilder templates are stored in a directory called 'pagebuilder'. This template directory inherits templates from the default template directory, i.e. you can include any template from the default template directory, without recreating them in the 'pagebuilder' directory. It is not possible to dynamically switch the inheritance behaviour, i.e. it is not possible to include header files from several directories. Does that make sense?

In the future, each template directory (e.g. 'default' and 'fancy') will have it's own pagebuilder template directory, (i.e. 'default_pb' and 'fancy_pb'). When you define a page, you will be able to indicate for which template set the page will be built/displayed (e.g. for 'default' and/or 'fancy' and/or 'yahoo' etc).

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

If I do not want the pagebuilder pages displayed on templates other than the default templates, can I just not include the pagebuilder links on the other templates and they will display and behave correctly?

Your existing templates will always behave correctly. If you include a link to a 'pagebuilder' page on a non-default template, the only thing that will happen is that the pagebuilder page will be displayed as part of the 'default' template, but everything else will remain unchanged.

Does that answer your question?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Thanks for your prompt response.
You have answered all my questions, and I'm impressed, also very good feedback on these forums.
I will become a customer soon.

Kudos!

Your PageBuilder plugin is great! I am so impressed and happy I purchased it!

I do think that more complete documentation is necessary as I believe that this plugin can do more than I realize. Trying to serach these forums is a pain in the #$&%! It's own support area would be helpful. I would like to contribute to the docs, but my skills are questionable, however if you may need more server space for this I have plenty, just drop me an email.

Again, great job!

Thanks for the feedback.

What kind of information would you like to see in the documentation? You can just ask your question at the forum here, and I'll try to answer it.

(Thanks for the generous offer, but server storage space is not a problem, my host has plenty of it!)

Ivan
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Well I don’t want to be critical of GT, but these forums have grown so much that finding updated information is sometimes very confusing. (Don’t get me wrong; GT has probably the most complete resource library, in these forums, that has ever been compiled by humans… hmmm, well most of them are anyway. )

Your plugin is capable of so much that a list of functions as well as setup and syntax would be very helpful. I am confused with the static vs. dynamic setup, along with the correct url’s to call the pages. It would be, IMOP, very nice to have all the docs in one place and expand on the how to’s more.

Anyway, just a suggestion. I am sure I will get the hang of it after a little trial n error. Maybe I am making it harder that it is, I dono. But then again I have the tendency of making things complicated when they are in reality very simple.

I agree with you that the forums here are big, and it's sometimes hard to find precisely the thing you want. But you can always just ask, somebody might know.

If you want to display a pagebuilder page dynamically, use the following type of URL:

page.cgi?page=page_name

where 'page_name' is the unique name of the page (page name).

For building the same page statically, you have to enter the 'build directory' and 'build filename' of that page in the page definition.

Here it is also important to know that you can set the 'pagebuilder root directory' in the plugin options. This is the root directory for pagebuilder pages, and the 'build directory' you enter in a page definition is relative to that 'root directory'. (If you leave the option for the 'pagebuilder root directory' empty, then the plugin will take the 'links build root directory' as its root directory).

For example if you have

pagebuilder root directory => /home/domains/mydomain.com/www
build directory => foo
build filename => bar.html

then a page will be built at

/home/domains/mydomain.com/www/foo/bar.html.

Does that make sense?

Ivan
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Yes, thank you!

Includes problem.

Error: Can't load included file:

How do I use PageBuilder to include included files from the LSQL default template set? There must be a special includes tag. ??

try <%include template_name.html%>

If it resides somewhere else than in the default - you would need full path..

Ex:
<%include /home/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/yahoo/name.html%>

Klaus

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I am having a hard time with this. Nothing seems to work for calling the includes file from the default template directory. Here is where I'm at:

I am trying to use PB to create a dynamic directory help page. So far I have tried -
Using simple, build no = can't find includes (looks in the PageBuilder template directory)
Using the other page options, build no = finds includes but sends error No page identification specified

It would seem that the quickest, simplest option would be to put a copy of my includes into the PB template directory until I get this sorted out?

In summery: I would like to build a dynamic that is not necessarly associated with categories, links, users, reviews, etc., just displaying text, and the ability to use default includes, (although access to DB tags would be helpful) is seems there is no way to do this without having a copy of the includes in the PageBuilder template directory.

Assuming that the correct way to do this is using "simple", either I am doing something wrong or there is a bug in the plugin?
(I would bet it's the first)

Yes, you should build a 'simple' page for this.

The plugin should be able to find all your includes in the default template directory. Can you make sure that in your PageBuilder template directory there exists a file called .tplinfo (note the leading dot), and that it contains
where 'default' is the name of your default template directory (you may need to change it to something else.

Ivan
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That did it! The wrong template set was defined in .tplinfo.

BTW - Wonderful plugin, it's "all that" and then some...

I want to build some ststic pages. I noticed that when just adding the page name in the Build Filename field it just builds the file name without a file extension, i.e. pagename instead og pagename.html, however if I add a file extension to the page name in this field it builds the page with the specified file extension, i.e. adding .html builds pagename.html, adding .shtml builds pagename.shtml. This is really cool as I want some shtml pages. Will specifing a file extension (html, shtml, php) in the Build Filename field adversly effect Pagebuilder in ways not apparent (like in dynamic mode). I am hoping that this is okay as this is a very good feature.

Is there a way to link to PageBuilder pages so the page will be available in static AND dynamic mode?

You can choose any filename extension you like. Since the build filename is only used for building static pages, it will not have any negative effects on dynamic mode.

One (clumsy) way to link to a pagebuilder page both in dynamic and static mode is the following:

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

HI Yogi,

Have you seen any issues as of yet with 2.1.2 and Community?

Can PageBuilder be used to create forms?

Thanks!

Brian

Hi

> Have you seen any issues as of yet with 2.1.2 and Community?

The plugin works fine. There was a minor bug with Links SQL 2.1.2, which has been fixed, and I have not come across any strange behaviour in conjunction with Community.

> Can PageBuilder be used to create forms?

I don't understand. Could you explain more?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Thanks Ivan. That is good news.



About the forms, It looks as if I am going to be in a bad position (having to create numerous forms) within LinksSQL. This position is based upon a need for numerous, isolated forms for registration purposes for many different products and services. I was told that I would need to create a plugin potentially for each seperate registration form.

This is where my question comes in for PageBuilder. As I understand it I can create any type page with PageBuilder. The real trick it seems is having it work with a newly created form and having that form interact with LinksSQL.

I guess where this leads me is to ask if it is possible to create a "FormBuilder" as an add on to PageBuilder that will allow us the ability to create a form/add responses to a form/and track a form.

THis may be a seperate plugin or an extreme change in this one but I wanted your opinion as the plugins that you build are really rock solid.

Thanks in advance,

Brian

The plugin can build HTML pages, so I can also build forms!

You can of course hard-code the forms on a PageBuilder page, but that's probably not what you want.

Do you want to generate the forms on the fly?

What script would get called as the response to a sent form?

I guess this should be a separate plugin. Contact me in a month or so, if you still need it by then.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hi Yogi,

Thanks for the input. I think you are right.

I will send you some info seperate from the PageBuilder thread as to not go off topic here.

Thanks again!

Brian

Ivan,

Simple pages work great when buidling them, however review tags do not seem to work in a Review type page. standard tags work fine, but review specific tags like

<%loop Review_Loop%>

do not seem to work. WHat could be wrong? in the template generated file it says yiu can use review tags in a review page, then why is not working?

A 'review' type page is basically one page per review. Therefore, the 'Review_Loop' tag would not make sense on such a page. What I say you can use review tags in a review page, I mean all fields that are in the 'Review' table (to see which fields are in the table, go to 'Database->Reviews->Properties").

The 'Review_Loop' tag is available on a 'link' type page, though.

Does that make sense?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Got it, tested it and it worked. So, I can not use that loop tag then? any hack suggestion? I would like to create an index page (static) to link the reviews, how I'm supposed to do it without looping?

What kind of reviews would you like to have on that static page?

- all reviews of one link?
- something else?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

All reviews by ReviewID. You pagebuilder program builds specific pages for all my reviews (by ReviewID) What I would like is to link to those pages. Thats why I need the review index page by ReviewID.

Thanks for what you can do.

Hi Ivan, any news on how to do it?

You can use the following global get_review_list to get a list of all reviews (with the corresponding link details):
On your template, you would call

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hi yogi, question:

Can I build multiple pages (using the page toolbar) with the small numbers e.g page << 1 2 >> for pages build with pagebuilder? for example, I would like to just show 10 reviews per page. how Do I do that?

Ivan,

Can pagebuilder allow me to span multiple pages when building static pages? is this something possible or a custom modification is required?

For a specific proyect I need pagebuilder to create pages with x records per page, where x is the same variable Links SQL uses for spaning multiple pages
when building. I desperately need to accomplish this, but don't know how. can you or anyone else please help me?

Thanks,

A few questions:

1. what page type is this (simple, link, category, review, etc)?
2. what is on the page (link information, review information), i.e. what are the 'records' you mention?
3. is this for static of dynamic mode?

It's not possilbe out of the box, but I could do it as a custom job. Contact me if you are interested.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

1-. Just for Category and Simple Pages

2-. Link Information mostly, displayed using globals (but following standards, like using nh, mh variables to let a possible, future next_span module know how to span pages if you know what I mean. In fact, the global I use for displaying links is custom code I extracted from Build.pm

3-. Static mode Only.



Ivan, I don't want to mess with you plugin, but I'm a intermediate Perl programmer, so what you can do is implement the basic stuff and point me in the right direction, i'll do the rest. and please don't forget to quote me the custom modification. how much will it cost?

Hi Ivan:

I think I may have already made this suggestion before ...

The ability to span pages would be a great enhancement to Pagebuilder. I principally use the 'simple' pages options. At the moment I generate my TOP TEN Programs on one page - that is quite workable, however where I also have RECOMMENDED Programs, these are substantially more than 10 - and therefore the page gets 'very big'.

Whilst I can do this with the Search function - which will split them up - it doesn't give me the flexibility that Pagebuilder would if it could span pages (ie. static pages - search engine friendly etc).

Whilst I see you have made the offer to do a 'custom' job - I believe a lot of people would like this added functionality. Maybe you could consider it for version 2 OR add a 'Pro' version that people could upgrade to for a reasonable price.

Just a few suggestions for you to ponder.

Regards,



Clint.
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Hi,

I'm haven't (yet) got the pagebuilder plugin - so I'm not sure how it works, but if you can use globals and set the page number you could modify this global (modified from a sub taken from somewhere in the links core code) to get what you want. Or Ivan could modify it for the plugin. I've taken out the urls and suggested that your pages would be called page1.html, page2.html etc. I'm using it successfully on dynamic pages on my site.

sub {
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# Display/calculate a "next hits" toolbar.
#

my ($nh) = @_;
my $maxhits = 10; #links per page
my $numhits = 100; #total number - use a table count to get a precise number or just add your max here
my ($next_url, $max_page, $next_hit, $prev_hit, $left, $right, $upper, $lower, $first, $url, $last, $i);

# Return if there shouldn't be a speedbar.
return unless ($numhits > $maxhits);

$next_hit = $nh + 1;
$prev_hit = $nh - 1;
$max_page = int ($numhits / $maxhits) + (($numhits % $maxhits) ? 1 : 0);

# First, set how many pages we have on the left and the right.
$left = $nh;
$right = int($numhits/$maxhits) - $nh;

# Then work out what page number we can go above and below.
($left > 7) ? ($lower = $left - 7) : ($lower = 1);
($right > 7) ? ($upper = $nh + 7) : ($upper = int($numhits/$maxhits) + 1);

# Finally, adjust those page numbers if we are near an endpoint.
(7 - $nh >= 0) and ($upper = $upper + (8 - $nh));
($nh > ($numhits/$maxhits - 7)) and ($lower = $lower - ($nh - int($numhits/$maxhits - 7) - 1));
$url = "";
# Then let's go through the pages and build the HTML.
($nh > 1) and ($url .= qq~<a href="page1.html">[&lt;&lt;]</a> ~);
($nh > 1) and ($url .= qq~<a href="page$prev_hit.html">[&lt;]</a> ~);
for ($i = 1; $i <= int($numhits/$maxhits) + 1; $i++) {
if ($i < $lower) { $url .= " ... "; $i = ($lower-1); next; }
if ($i > $upper) { $url .= " ... "; last; }
($i == $nh) ? ($url .= qq~$i ~) : ($url .= qq~<a href="page$i.html">$i</a> ~);
if ($i * $maxhits == $numhits) { $nh == $i and $next_hit = $i; last; }
}
$url .= qq~<a href="page$next_hit.html">[&gt;]</a> ~ unless ($next_hit == $nh or ($nh * $maxhits > $numhits));
$url .= qq~<a href="page$max_page.html">[&gt;&gt;]</a> ~ unless ($next_hit == $nh or ($nh * $maxhits > $numhits));
return $url;
}

Hope it helps,

Laura.
The UK High Street

Hi Yogi,

I think it would be great if there was a "VIEW" link in the admin area when you list all of the pagebuilder pages. I can't find one at present - but think it would be an excellent addition for being able to view individual pages quickly.

contact Contact Details Simple Details | Modify | Delete | Template | VIEW

Regan.

hi yogi,

Is there a tag in pagebuilder that shows all of the children under a particular page? - if there are any. I guess it would be similar to the way links works with categories.

What I have is a page that has others below it, and I want to have those show up as links so users know that they are there.

Or do I manually have to enter in the links?

Thanks!

Regan.

There is a template tag <%sub_page_loop%> that you can use to build a list of all subpages. It doesn't contain the actual link of the sub pages, but you should be able to build the link to the various pages from the information you have.

Try e.g. something like

<a href="<%build_root_url%>/<%page_directory%>/<%page_filename%>"><%page_title%></a>

within

<%loop sub_page_loop%>
...
<%endloop%>

Hope that helps.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Lovely - that worked a treat.

Thanks!

Regan.

Hi Yogi. Question:

is there a way to implement in pagebuilder staggered AND update building? I do not use the detailed page function of Links SQL, i'm using pagebuilder exclusively, but I will eventually have a problem when building detailed pages in excess of 100.000. can this be done or implemented in a later version?

Hi Yogi. Question:

is there a way to implement in pagebuilder staggered AND update building? I do not use the detailed page function of Links SQL, i'm using pagebuilder exclusively, but I will eventually have a problem when building detailed pages in excess of 100.000. can this be done or implemented in a later version?

Staggered building is not possible at the moment.

For this number of pages, you might consider building from the command line. Just type
in your Links SQL admin directory.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hi yogi

I have done some changes and it works fine (very good for seach engines)


I would also like to do the following


sub init {
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
# initialize plugin variables

$PB_CFG = Links::Plugins->get_plugin_user_cfg('PageBuilder');
$PAGEBUILDER_FIELDS = { link => { filename => [qw/LinkID Title/],
directory => [qw/LinkID Full_Name CategoryID/] },
category => { filename => [qw/CategoryID/],


I would like to know if there is an easy way to make my <%Title%>.html files working like the full catégory name (with a _ instead of spaces, &....)

Txs

FMP

hi yogi,

building static pdf-files is working now.

but I can't get working building dynamic pdf's.

Page Type Link
Page Name sponsorvertrag

Page Title Sponsorprogramm-Vertrag

Parent Page Root

Page Root 0

Breadcrumb Type Link
Page Condition

Meta Description

Meta Keywords

Build Static No
Build Directory

Build Filename sponsorvertrag.pdf

Display Dynamic Yes
View Permissions Registered Users
File Type PDF

page_mimetype application/pdf



All I see then is nothing!

Any ideas??

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

Are you using HTMLDoc for this?

You should have 'build filename' and 'Mimetype' emtpy, it's not needed for this.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Yes I'm using htmldoc.

calling the page http://www.shop-netz.de/...amp;link=265&d=1

shows an empty page, even if I leave BuildFileName and mimeType empty.



By the way. I've seen the htmldoc doesn't convert ä ö ü ß &ouml; &auml; etc or ascii codes like &#174;

Is there a trick?

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

I just tested the PDF feature at my testing site (I hadn't been using HTMLDOC for a while), and everything works fine.

So your problems might have something to do with your installation of htmldoc.

I don't know about the problems with the Umlaute, you could have a look at the htmldoc documentation page at http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/htmldoc.html, maybe you'll find something there.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

mmmh,

but building static pdf-pages via pagebuilder works fine....

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

It must have to do something with dynamic mode, for I can view pages in static-mode but not in dynamic:

http://www.shop-netz.de/...cheDatasheet&d=1

http://www.shop-netz.de/...ktsucheDatasheet.pdf

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

If I use the dynamic link from my posting above, the source code of the blank page is the following:


Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

Hi Yogi, I've played around a little bit and I think the problem hasn't to do anything with my htmldoc-installation at all. The PageBuilder-Plugin converts static-pages, so it works. But in dynamic mode the plugin doesn't create pages on the fly and/or it isn't possible to display already existing -pdf-files by page.cgi?page=....&d=1.


Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.

Hi Yogi,

I have a problem with category pages - it works ok but the problem is that when making a caregory page it uses a lot of resources as I have several thousand links in each category.

Where can I insert LIMIT 10 for example so it only output the latest 10 links?

I found a way to reduce the number of links actually displayed using row - but I don;t want to use the recources as it is a frequently used page.

Any suggestions are welcomed..

Cheers
Klaus

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http://www.ameinfo.com

Yogi,

Can I made extra detailed2 pages in the category directory where they belong?

Thanks,
Ron

Yes you can - I use it for example to make a printer-friendly version of all detailed pages.

Just make a new page - Page Type: Link

And then link to is as:
page.cgi?page=print&link=<%ID%>

Klaus

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Thanks Klaus,

But must be STATIC also, possible??

Thanks,
Ron

I guess you can just set Build_Static to YES :-)

Klaus

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Yogi,

I'm considering modifying your plugin to allow the creation of aditional pages when building category pages (span pages) this will also allow me to have a certain degree of control when building directories with a very high number of links (I can implement a staggered build)

The question I have for you is related to your plugin development roadmap. It really doesn;t make sense for me to start making modifications in your Plugin if you have them planned in the near future. So, what I really want to know is that.. your intentions regarding the Pagebuilder plugin future developments.

Thanks,

Hello Klaus,

But I want to build the detailed pages in their own (sub)directories
Not in default build directory.

Thanks,
Ron

Look at the Build Directory field - enter the loccation of the subfolder relative to the root path set under settings

Cheers
Klaus

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I hope this is the correct place to ask a few pre-sales ?'s.

1. Can the Plugin be uninstalled if it doesn't work out w/o causing any problems or data corruption?

2. I've already made changes to existing fields in links and categories tables and added a few new fields. Is installation of Plugin going to cause any problems with my data structure changes?

3. Will this work with v2.1.2?

4. Does this make use of the users table? I am planning to use the vBulletin integration and I "guess" this option causes the existing users table to be bypassed in favor of the data in the vB database.

Yes - I have tried it several times

no


Yes


No quite sure what you mean - but you can make pages with the Pagebuilder and set it to be only viewable to registered users for example. So you can make pages for indidual users as well - if that is what you refer to.

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Hi yogi do you have an idea to replace the spaces but an underscore? then Icould have the following :

http://www.mysite.com/...itle_of_my_link.html

txs

FMP

fmp:

I couldn't agree with you more!
I posted previously:
---------------------------------------------
Pagebuilder is excellent. Buy it.

IT DOES need an update, which will make it more excellent. But it does not crash, and appears to be pretty bug free.

IN the near future, I hope that Yogi adds:



1. The ability to allow building a file based on the site name with spaces turned into underlines or dashes. For example, for the link Titled "Gossamer Threads" , Link ID # 27 would be built as: /Site_Reports/Gossamer_Threads.html instead of /Site_Reports/Report_27.html

2. A way of choosing to NOT build a page , or limiting the page build to "x" links.

A checkbox to activate or deactivate that pages building and a

"build first X links" setting would be excellent.

3. A way of changing the build order of the PAgeBuilder pages.

Hi

thanks for the comments.

1. something similar to this will be added to the next release.

2. If you don't want to build a page, simply set 'Build Static' to 'No', and it won't be built. If you want to build only links with ID less than a certain number (let's say 100), set 'Build Condition' to 'ID < 100'

3. Why is changing the build order important for you?

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hello Ivan,



May I please ask you if you have any idea of when your next update will be released?

My bad if you have already answered this one recently...

Yogi;

1. Fantastic, how soon??

2. Thanks for the tip about build static=no. Also thanks about the link < 100. I just figured that out yesterday. Still, a global or overriding "test" mode where all would build only x links, would be easier.

However, this trick is not always practical.

In our case, we build multiple pages (over 10 per link) so we would constantly have to go in and change the build info. So far, PageBuilder builds over 25 different pages:))

3. Why is changing the build order important? If build order was changable, we would not have to wait 30 minutes for the latest page test to build, as it could be put first in order. The last page entered into PageBuilder is always the LAST to be built!

4. Some basic random element functionality would be fantastic, also. That way, not all pages would be exactly the same.

Highest regards,

webslicer

Just to confirm before I buy ...

Could I use PageBuilder to output a file containing a list of all the top level categories so they could be SSI'd into all other .shtml pages on a site?

(assuming there isn't already a way to do this - but I can't see how)

Hi Yogi

With PB plugin, to have the following : www.mysite.com/link1_title_L1.html (for all my links)

I have created the following global called title_nospace :

sub {
my $ID = shift;
my $Title = shift;
$Title =~ y/ \t\r\n?"'#/__/d;
return $Title . '_L' . $ID;
}

(inspired by your URL rewriting global)

then in the Build Filename Field I did put <%title_nospace($ID,$Title)%>.html

but when I try to build pages I have the following erreor message :

Unable to build link page
Filename should contain one of the following tags: , and/or
Directory should contain one of the following tags: , ,

Could you help me

Txs

FMP

Hiya;

Who wants this:

14.html
(from ID/LinkID)
when they can have this:

Quality_Perl_Sites.html
(from Title)

as built filenames.

It can't be done as a plugin, as Pagebuilder will NOT run/compile a global.

However, you inspired me to try to solve this.

There is a solution if you are willing to hack his plugin.

Two changes are needed.

1. To make "<%Title%>" to be passable (there is a list!) into the link page type build routine.

2. The second change is just as you had in your global - replace spaces with underlines.

Steps:

Edit PageBuilder.pm (uninstall, hit edit, then edit again next to PageBuilder.pm) 71870 bytes in ver. 1.04


1. In the sub init routine , the top line must be edited to be as follows:

$PAGEBUILDER_FIELDS = { link => { filename => [qw/LinkID Full_Name Title/],

I added in the Full_Name and Title variables.
Once you do this, you can use <%Title%> in the filename field. But the spaces in the title will remain. To get rid of the spaces, I used the previous published routine.

2. Edit the sub _build_link_page subroutine. It's about 40% of the way into the file.
For dynamic displays, there will be another routine to edit. This covers static pages only.

Just before this line:

$filename ||= $CFG->{build_index};

add in this line:

$filename =~ y/ \t\r\n?"'/__/d;

to change spaces to a underline.
(thanks to fmp)

3. Hit UPDATE, then install or re-install the plugin.

Notes:
Backup your PageBuilder file first.
I am NOT a PERL programmer. I don't know PERL.
I only hack...
I hope it is ok with Yogi publishing this hack!

Edit: Having reread your post, I'm guessing that maybe I did misunderstand if you want them on non-links pages!

If I understand you correctly, you can do this with a simple global:

sub {
my $tags = shift;
my $cat_db = $DB->table('Category');
$cat_db->select_options ('ORDER BY Name');
my $sth = $cat_db->select ( { FatherID => 0}, ['Full_Name','Name'] );
my $output="";
while (my ($root_cat,$full_name) = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
my $url = $cat_db->as_url($root_cat);
$output .= qq~<a href="$CFG->{build_root_url}/$url/"><b>$full_name</b></a><br>~;
}
return $output;
}

Laura.
The UK High Street

Yogi,

Had already a discussion with Laura about the possibility to build pages with an alpha-bar.

Ex: For each category there must be a A-Z listing.
a|b|c|d|e|f etc.... All must be done static.

Is that possible with PageBuilder??

Thanks.
Ron

Simple for you perhaps Works great - I hadn't thought about using globals for this kind of thing, still getting to grips with the possibilities.



Thanks



BTW - bought pagebuilder anyway - will use it for other things.

Txs webslicer

Its works fine...


What is the command if I want also the following :
- replace the . by an underline
- replace the , by an underline
- replace the : by an underline
- replace the ; by an underline
- replace the ( and the ) by an underline
- replace the & by an underline
- replace é, è and ê by a the letter e
- replace à by the letter a
- replace Upper Case by lower case


txs

FMP

Hi

Yogi

The more I use your plugin then more I love it

Could you tell us what will be all the new features (categories span pages? ability to use more than one template set? ability to build some chosen pages? and when the next release will be out ?

Txs

FMP

I'm still working on a problem mentioned in http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=232182 back in February.

It just occurred to me that Pagebuilder might hold the solution ...

In brief, our categories are not really categories at all -- they have no hierarchical structure, and any attempt to impose one would be unworkably artificial. It would be better to think of records rather than categories. LSQL is so much more developed than DbmanSQL (URL checking, plugins, better search, etc) that I think it is worth exploring an LSQL solution.

We need a hashed directory structure with depth = 4, eg: ../a/b/c/d/ and within each leaf directory, up to 100 pages, eg: ../a/b/c/d/index00.html to ../a/b/c/d/index99.html -- this structure would allow us up one million records (much more than we will ever get to -- 150,000 is a more realistic maximum).

We can't use LSQL in the normal way to build a directory with depth = 6, eg: ../a/b/c/d/e/f/ because there is nothing at the intermediate depths, eg: at level 'c' there is nothing at all, so we neither need nor want to have index pages at those levels, as they would be meaningless.

So I'm wondering if Pagebuilder could ...

* Using normal LSQL tables, build static category pages in a directory specified in a category column (the record would say where to build the page).

* Build only pages that were new or updated

Here is the difficult part -- if the pages were built, how difficult would it be to search them? What we would be hoping for is search on category data as much as link data.

Hi


You can build static pages for all categories with PageBuilder. The build directory and filename can contain all the fields in the Category table. I thinks this is precisely what you want.

When you do a 'Build Changed' of your Links directory, also the PageBuilder plugin will only build the changed links/categories.

I hope this helps.

Ivan
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Yes, it helps a lot -- Pagebuilder is a remarkable plugin.

No problem building the pages how and where we want them (though we don't yet know how we will obtain a value for the 'destination directory' column).

One problem remains -- it's not something that can be fixed in Pagebuilder, but maybe other pagebuilder users have already done it -- how can we get search.cgi to return links to the Pagebuilder pages instead of the normal LSQL category pages?

This can be done quite easily. On search_results.html, you need to use <%loop category_results_loop%>, and you can easily construct the path to the PageBuilder category page.

Ivan
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Thanks Yogi ... this is turning out to be much easier than we imagined.

What we are actually trying to do is take a database of information about people (some of which have multiple links, but most have none) and present them in LSQL with its advanced features.

Each person record would be one LSQL category. As there is no logical categorisation scheme, DbmanSQL initially seemed like a good choice, but we can't quite get it to do what we want, and it does not build static pages (an option we require at this stage).

However, a combination of LSQL + Pagebuilder now looks like a very good alternative to DbmanSQL (assuming we can tidy up the remaining loose ends).

Alternatively, we could envisage using DbmanSQL (or some other database system) to acquire new records, and write a bit of Perl to insert them into LSQL at regular intervals.

The columns required to build the directory structure can be calculated when a new record is added, eg: if the new record has ID 9876, the static page should be ../0/0/9/8/76.html, so we calculate and store 0/0/9/8 and 76 in two columns to be passed to Pagebuilder build directory and build filename

Hi-

I'm using the PageBuilder plugin, and it works great. With regard to the Page Condition, I would like to be able to build static pages only for those pages where a certain field has a value. In other words, if the field is empty then I don't want it to build that page. What should I enter into the Page Condition to make this happen if the Field is called User_Introduction? Would it be something like:

if User_Introduction is Not Null

I'm not sure the syntax that could make this happen.

-Frank

Try setting the 'Page Condition' to

Ivan
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I'm having trouble calling the pages dynamically.

The static url is http://www.mysite.com/pages/test/11239.html

No problems with the above but what is the correct url to call this Dynamically.

I have Display Dynamic to yes.

Thanks

Regards

minesite

If this is a links type page, and the page name is test, then you would call it like

page.cgi?page=test;link=11239

You will find this information also in the 'About' menu for the PageBuilder plugin, under the section 'Dynamic Pages'.

I hope this helps.

Ivan
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Thanks Yogi, I new it was simple but could not work it out,I was using the "build file name" as the "page name" as well as replacing
( for simple type ) page.cgi?page=page_name;
( for link type ) to page.cgi?link=ID;

I read the "About" menu but misunderstood the reference.

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+ Dynamic Pages:



Generally, dynamic pages can be accessed through the following URL:

page.cgi?page=page_name;

Pages which are not simple pages need more arguments.
Link pages: page.cgi?page=page_name;link=ID
User pages: page.cgi?page=page_name;user=Username
Editor pages: page.cgi?page=page_name;editor=Username
Review pages: page.cgi?page=page_name;review=ReviewID

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Thanks again for your help.

Regards

minesite

I'm getting the following message at the bottom of the page when calling any of the pages in dynamic mode.

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GT::Plugins (13116): Plugin pre handle_page stopped further plugins. at mysite/cgi-bin/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 99

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Does not occur in static mode.
MSSQL Database - NT Server - Links 2.1.2

Any idea's why this is happening ?

Regards

minesite

The message you get is due to a bug in a GT module.

However, the message should only be written to your error log file, not to the screen, maybe your webserver is not configured properly....

As a quick fix, open admin/GT/Plugins.pm, and replace
with
Note that there are two points in the Plugins.pm file, where you have to do the replacement.

Ivan
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Also, is it possible to::

1) Creating a Static Page for Rate Listing (example :: http://www.test1.trpn.com/cgi/rate.cgi?ID=1103)

Thanks for the help.

Vishal Thakkar

Vishal
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Fixed !

Thanks Yogi,

Regards

minesite

Hi Yogi, could you give us some news? date of next release? new features... Regards Olivier

Yogi,

How long after payment does the download become available? Already paid through paypal so just checking.

CCUnet
my Christian web

Hi

I just contacted you by mail.

Ivan
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Where can I find this global? Is it on the GT site anywhere. I did a search and came up with nothing.

CCUnet
my Christian web

I sent the info but the DL isn't accessible.

CCUnet
my Christian web

here is the link

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=216197

Regards

FMP

Thanks much appreciated

CCUnet
my Christian web

OK I installed the pagebuilder plugin. updated the build static build options built one page and poof all my plugins disappear from the plugin manger and now it says I have no plugins installed.

The files are still on my server I can see them but atempt to reinstall gives me this error

Unable to load plugin EditorMonitor Reason: No Install.pm file found in tar!

I'd appreciate any help with this.

CCUnet
my Christian web

This has nothing to do with the PageBuilder plugin itself. There have been reports on various occasions that all plugins suddenly disappear, see for example http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...rum.cgi?post=207557;

If you have a backup copy of the file 'admin/Plugins/plugins.cfg', your best bet is to restore this file, it seems.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Yogi,

Thanks for the lead. This is a major bugaboo if this just happens like that. The plugin.cfg backup did not help. I had to totally delete the plugin directory and contents and download and reinstall every plugin. Not good.

Thanks for the help anyway.

CCUnet
my Christian web

Hi everybody

I also try to span the pages when I build a category (some of my categories have 90 links :: so the builded pages are toooooooo long)

Yogi ... Could you hep us? I think that all your pagebuilder plugin buyers would like this to be done (and probably the futures buyers to)

txs
FMP

I've had this happen before. It seems to be a bug when you press the INSTALL link more than once in a row. It gets rid of plugins.cfg :(

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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I'm trying to build a conditional plugin page that will only build pages for the root categories.

I have created a new column called Build_pagelinks enum with yes/no as the options.

I create a page in page build which I can get to work in dynamic mode without the condition. But when I try to build the page conditionally "Build_pagelinks=Yes either in static or dynamic mode it doesn't build.

I'm calling in dynamic mode like this

/cgi-bin/page.cgi?page=pagelinks;category=XX

Thanks for the help

Andre
CCUnet
my Christian web

Make sure there are spaces in your condition, e.g.

Build_pagelinks = Yes

and not

Build_pagelinks=Yes

Ivan
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Thanks Yogi.

That did it.

Andre

CCUnet
my Christian web

hello every one, please help to solve my problem.
at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=244334#244334
topic webslicer describe how to build <%title%>.html with page builder.
i did what he sad, but i have strange result when i try build pages:

A fatal error has occured:Unable to open page: c:/html/links/The_$20_Bill_Commemoration_of_9/11.html. Reason: No such file or directory at c:/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/PageBuilder.pm line 1523.
Please enable debugging in setup for more details.

but i need The_$20_Bill_Commemoration_of_9.html

not a The_$20_Bill_Commemoration_of_9/11.html



please help.

Your title probably contains the character '/', that's why it won't work (and that's why the plugin usually doesn't allow the <%Title%> tag in the filename!

The easiest fix is probably to remove the '/' from your title!

Ivan
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its working now.

its possible to build smaller letters on file name?
now i have
The_$20_Bill_Commemoration_of_9.html

need:
the_$20_bill_commemoration_of_9.html

Trying to get htmlarea or other wysiwyg editor in Links and in Pagebuilder.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...ring=wysiwyg;#227236

Has anyone gotten this to work?

I'm assuming that there would have to be a separate mod for the Pagebuilder plugin.

Thanks

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guys please help to solve my problem.i think it will be interest everyone who build static pages.

my problem is:

"its possible to build smaller letters on file name?
now i have
The_$20_Bill_Commemoration_of_9.html

need:
the_$20_bill_commemoration_of_9.html"


webslicer sad me that i need to use "several filters to remove unwanted characters..." but im not programmer.

please help.

We have two parts of our site that have different looks (and even functionality - one part is built in JSP, the other is static HTML).

Using PageBuilder, I'm outputting category pages into the two different templates - and two different directory paths.

The problem comes with the sub-category links on the new category pages - they use the default build_root_path. What I'd like them to use is the path of the new directory. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

i have run pagebuilder finelly on my local pc.

but when i trying to run it online(nph-pagebuilder.cgi), i have strange error:

Building simple pages:

Scalar found where operator expected at (eval 9) line 11, near ""<li><a href="$build_detail_url"
(Missing operator before $build_detail_url?)
String found where operator expected at (eval 9) line 13, near "html">$name</a>

""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 11)


Done (0.00 s)


Building category pages:

Nothing to do.

Done (0.00 s)


Building link pages:

Nothing to do.

Done (0.00 s)


Building user pages:

Nothing to do.

Done (0.00 s)


Building editor pages:

Nothing to do.

Done (0.00 s)


Building review pages:

Nothing to do.

Done (0.00 s)




how to solve this problem?

Hello Yogi,

I must translate Home.

You can say to me how to translate ?
It is necessary to modify the code of script?

Thank you for your assistance.

Mick

Hello Yogi,

I have many difficulties to obtain your answers !
There are conditions to obtain your assistance ?

I did not find answers on the forum.
How to translate "Home" for the construction of the pages ?

Thank you for your assistance.

Mick

You can change the 'Home' text, by going to 'Build->User Language->pagebuilder' and then setting 'PB_TOP' to the text you want.

I hope this helps.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

I'm using PB to create a number of pages, among them, some static XML-pages (some 300 pages).

It seems I run into memory issues - PB never finishes, just stops around 80% through.

Can a job be split somehow?

Can you try running the build form the command line? In your admin directory, run

perl nph-pagebuilder.cgi

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hello Yogi,

I would like to know if it is possible to replace a detail page (detailed.html) by a page built with script PageBuilder ?

For example:

<%if Option eq 'Yes'%>
PageBuilder (page.html)
<%else%>
detailed.html
<%endif%>

Your opinion ?

Thank you for your answer.

Mick

Yes, this is easily possible.

You can define a 'link' type page, and put a build condition

Option = 'Yes'

to only build those pages which have option set to yes.

I hope this helps.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hi, Yogi;

How much $$$ for you to update PageBuilder?

Some 6-10 pretty simple features - many posted here as questions... Can Pagebuilder do this ...

Filters like upper to lower conversion, space conversion in titles, bad char in titles removal, test building, more variables passed to the PB templates?

More than a few of us would put up money, up front, no joke!!

Thanks for any reply.

i have a diectory named xxx in pages/xxx

i followed your instruction in this post for building a category page

pagebuilder root directory => /home/domains/mydomain.com/www
build directory => xxx
build filename => singles.html


i got the following error:

Building category pages:

singles (Unable to build link page}.
Filename should contain one of the following tags: and/or
Directory should contain one of the following tags: ,


what am i doing wrong?

First of all, a 'category' type page, will build pages for all categories in your directory (or a selection of them if you use a build condition).

You have to give select an unique name for each category page, so for your 'build directory' field, you should use either

<%Full_Name%>

or

<%ID%>

as I indicated in the previous post.

I hope this helps.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

how do i include different files from various template sets(not just the default)? this does not work


<%include /home/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/yahoo/name.html%>

This works in my installation, e.g.

<%include /home/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/yahoo/home.html%>

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

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First of all, a 'category' type page, will build pages for all categories in your directory (or a selection of them if you use a build condition).

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first, let me thank you for your help this morning. i did as you suggested
and i worked.
Build Directory:<%Full_Name%>
Build Filename: name.html

it created a page for every category. however, i only want to create a page for one category. (1) how do i make a build condition so i only build pages for category xxx (2) how do i make a build condition so i only build pages for category xxx and its children?

i know these basic questions are frustrating, thanks for your help

cheers

i am geting a message:

Can't load included file
/home/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/yahoo/home.html/home/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/yahoo/home.html

please help

Hi Yogi,

Is the plugin that you show/format the workshops with on your site? I like how you sort on country, instructor, date etc. Or is that something else?

Rod

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My Workshops section is a custom module I wrote.

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins

Hi Yogi,

Thanks for the feedback. Is there anyway for you to share that custom code?

It would be great to use that approach to display our Yoga Teacher Training Class Timetable, where you could search by date, by subject etc?

Rod

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