Hi , I need to implement a functionality where in the web site user can add his/her own tags to article. Basically give users the ability to categorize articles the way they want to . Is this possible in K2 ? If yes, how ? I tried with searchable labels and textbox, but both are configured from the backend .

More information: a) it appears to be linking to the wrong URL, eg:

     beckersorthopedicandspine.com/orthopedic-spine-practices-improving-profits/itemlist/tag/Medicare

 

But, b) even the correct URL results in a 404:

     beckersorthopedicandspine.com/component/k2/itemlist/tag/Medicare

 

 

I have some more information. If I turn off Joomla's SEF URLs, things work normally.

 

Is K2's tags feature incompatible with Joomla SEF URLs under some conditions?

 

Turning SEF URLs back on, and need to find a solution.

I also asked for help here forum.joomlaworks.gr/simple-image-gallery-pro-(plugin)/k2-items-title-tag-shows-on-empty-sig-pro-gallery/

maybe you want so subscribe that thread

If you are using a template from a template provider maybe you should ask them to help you with it, if not, provide a link to your site to take a look.

tell me which source u want to see?
the k2 part of that site is protected.
but you would only see the stuff i already posted:

the problematic part is

<?php if($this->item->params->get('itemImageGallery') && !empty($this->item->gallery)): ?>
  <!-- Item image gallery -->
  <a name="itemImageGalleryAnchor" id="itemImageGalleryAnchor"></a>
  <h2><?php echo JText::_('Image Gallery'); ?></h2>
  <div class="itemImageGallery">
      <?php echo $this->item->gallery; ?>
  </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

found in here:
joomla\templates\rt_gantry_j15\html\com_k2\templates\myk2template\item.php

here is the specific item.php (could not upload zip because your upload folder is full)
pastebin.com/y8XdweA7

somehow the !empty does not work
the item.php is actually the one which came with k2 i just did some small modifications

the gallery title is generated although there is no gallery set up for the article.
this is the generated (useless) html output:
...
span class="nodeTag">a id="itemImageGalleryAnchor" name="itemImageGalleryAnchor"> </a>
span class="nodeTag">h2>Title</h2>
span class="nodeTag">div class="itemImageGallery"> </div>
...

thanks for any help

Olivier,

 

Anynews on getting this finished? Or do you know of anything else that will do the trick?

Thanks in advance,

 

Vincent

Hi i  added first a column for tags.  K2 Admin Item View - found solution here and works fine. link

 

Now i face same problem like in article "Editing: Admin "steals" articles from users :o)"

 

So i thought to add in sql in k2_items a last item named created_by_first and try to save there the 

username of the logged admin. But this must not change. After creating an k2 article it must be not changeable. By this way you can see the article creator, and you can also assign an other author name.

 

Where is the php that i have to change for writing the user name in the db ?

I've just added K2 Tags auto links feature.

It will allow to find all your K2 tags, if compare with all words in content. Any word matched tags link convert to a href link that link to tag.

Nice ?

Simply with JOOdoms

K2 Tags auto linking ! Simply with JOOdoms and really useful yfrog.com/kfwcordp

Thanks Artur!

 

This is my PHP info

PHP Version 5.2.9


System
Windows NT elt0m 5.1 build 2600

Build Date
Feb 25 2009 15:51:41

Configure Command
cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--enable-debug-pack" "--with-snapshot-template=d:\php-sdk\snap_5_2\vc6\x86\template" "--with-php-build=d:\php-sdk\snap_5_2\vc6\x86\php_build" "--with-pdo-oci=D:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared" "--with-oci8=D:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared"

Server API
Apache 2.0 Handler

Virtual Directory Support
enabled

Configuration File (php.ini) Path
C:\WINDOWS

Loaded Configuration File
F:\jtEst\php\php.ini

Scan this dir for additional .ini files
(none)

additional .ini files parsed
(none)

PHP API
20041225

PHP Extension
20060613

Zend Extension
220060519

Debug Build
no

Thread Safety
enabled

Zend Memory Manager
enabled

IPv6 Support
enabled

Registered PHP Streams
php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.zlib, zip

Registered Stream Socket Transports
tcp, udp

Registered Stream Filters
convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, zlib.*



 

with best!

elt0m

You can try this.

 

I see that you have removed the &lt;?php echo JText::_('K2_CHILDREN_CATEGORIES'); ?&gt; at the category.php .

 

Now just remove the &lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; tags . It will reduce the spacing.

Thank you for your reply william.

I was able to upload atlast, but now i get this as a message in the front-end :


JFolder::files: Path is not a folder:


There was a problem rendering your image gallery. Please make sure that the folder you are using in the Simple Image Gallery plugin tags exists and contains valid image files.

 

Hey Joseph is that feed code something you can share, or perhaps we could purchase? I have k2 working as a podcast solution on the website, but need a modified feed to feed into iTunes.

 

Thanks,James Friesen

Joseph Cotten said:

I hired Joseph Kwan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to do a custom solution. He created a new feed in K2 that adds in all the necessary iTunes tags. I just submitted it to the iTunes store and they accepted it!

With K2, VirtueMart and K2Mart (and the usermeta plugin) installed,  I am trying to provide the most straightforward registration process for my clients.

Virtuemart Registration includes shipping info and other related info but is not extendable.

K2 offers Male and Female and description

While usermeta allows me to extend the joomla registration process using an extra table.

 

K2s choice of fields seems arbitrary. Are they example fields? Is there a way of extending it's functionality similar to usermeta? 

If not what are the disadvantages to turning the plugin off and sticking with usermeta?

 

Any other issues I might need to address?

 

thanks

 

Rob

 

Do you know how to fix the issue so K2 loads the tag for mp3 Browser properly? This is the tag that K2 needs to load so mp3 Browser to work.

 

{music}podcast/showtitle{/music}

 

Thanks so much!

 

Hi there, we are in process of launching our new site and K2 has been everything we could ask but we need some help making mp3 Browser work with K2.

 

mp3 Browser is a plugin that pulls the mp3 files from a specified folder and you enter the tags below on the page. It works fine using Joomla's article but when we paste the line below on K2's item it prints out just as shown below.

 

{music}podcast/showtitle{/music}

 

Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

 

From my experience, make sure to put .html in sh404sef configuration.  Since I did, I have drastically reduced my 404 errors to just a few old ones from google's index.

 

www.primocraft.com is now 99% K2! 

The custom 404 error page is the only joomla article.

I am using k2 and sh404sef on www.primocraft.com

 

In Google Webmaster Tools, I am seeing crawl errors for www primocraft com/tag/Oxford.html?ml=1

 

The sh404sef url is www.primocraft.com/tag/Oxford

 

QUESTIONS:

1. What is ?ml=1



2. What is going wrong between k2 and sh404sef that  /tag/Oxford.html?ml=1 doesn't redirect to /tag/Oxford for google's crawling bots?  



3. Why is /tag/Oxford.html?ml=1 being crawled if the source code shows: 

&lt;ul class="itemTags"&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/tag/oxford"&gt;oxford&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

 

4. What is the best way to fix the errors?  

a. Should I use a RewriteCond in my .htaccess ?

1. Should I add it to the core joomla sef section of my .htaccess ?

i) ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section #
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|\.ini|\.zip|\.json|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L]
#

 

 

Hi Dennis,

 

I did this last night for latest item from author with an image and i just tested with related item by tags with a category blog view. I just limit it to 1) Title with Link  2) The Image  3) The Introtext and  4) The Read More link, i didn't include all the other rating and social stuffs. It did work but you need to style it according to your site.

Note : I just did a quick copy and paste the div tags from the category_item.php, so change the class details if you want to style it better.

 

Just do this with template overrides.

 

Go to item.php line Around 440 to 442.

Remove this

&lt;ul&gt; &lt;?php foreach($this-&gt;relatedItems as $key=&gt;$item): ?&gt; &lt;li class="&lt;?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; ?&gt;"&gt;
&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;link ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;title; ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt; 

 

Replace with this

&lt;div class="&lt;?php echo ($key%2) ? "odd" : "even"; ?&gt;"&gt; &lt;h3 class="catItemTitle"&gt; &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;link; ?&gt;"&gt;
&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;title; ?&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;!-- Item Image --&gt;
&lt;div class="catItemImageBlock"&gt;
&lt;span class="catItemImage"&gt;
&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;link ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;title; ?&gt;"&gt;
&lt;img src="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;imageLarge = JURI::root().'media/k2/items/cache/'.md5("Image".$item-&gt;id).'_L.jpg'; ?&gt;" alt="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;title; ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;title; ?&gt;" /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;div class="clr"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="catItemIntroText"&gt;
&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;introtext; ?&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="clr"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="catItemReadMore"&gt;
&lt;a class="k2ReadMore" href="&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;link ?&gt;"&gt;
&lt;?php echo JText::_('K2_READ_MORE'); ?&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;


Have a go and let me know if it suites your needs.

I found this request posted in November 2009... and have not found any reply to it. Now, two years later, I have the same need.

I've been on the hunt for a "catalogue view" type of UI for my website for a while now. K2 has just about everything I'm looking for but there's one thing I wish it (and many other catalogue view components) had. When you select a product, many websites will also recommend similar products or related products. K2 has a related items option by tags but only shows it in link (text) format. What I would like to see is an option to view related items in blog view, with the options equivalent to a K2 menu item. In the end, I'm looking to display the related items in catalogue form (represented by pictures) rather than a list of links which can often be overlooked.

 

Are there any workarounds? Is there anyone working on changing the related items links into actual content?

 

Thanks,

 

Dennis

Hi Fred,

 

I believe the above link leads to a K2 Category page and you want to show the rating on each article ?

 

Have you tried changing the particular Category page K2 parameter - Item view options in category listings - set the Rating (voting) to Show ?