Hi,

 

On www.040uit.nl there is an error message after searching with the K2 Search module:

 

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/nl040uit/public_html/components/com_k2/models/itemlist.php on line 749

Earlier I read about removing the Search-in-tags option for the K2 search plugin. This makes the default Joomla Search function normally, but I still have this problem with the K2 Search module.

 

What is the advantage of the K2 Search instead of the default Joomla Search, anyway?

In other words, should I use the K2 Search (after solving this problem) or should I just keep using the default Joomla Search?

 

 

With kind regards,

Edze

@lefteris i have the same problem here
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_regex_encoding() in /home/petlakec/public_html/components/com_k2/helpers/route.php on line 56
Multibyte string is enabled but still have the problem
PHP Built on: Linux nexus.web4africa.net 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 07:32:21 EST 2010 x86_64
Database Version: 5.0.91-community
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.13
Web Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.17 Stable [ Wojmamni ama woobusani ] 27-April-2010 04:00 GMT
User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53
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Display Errors: On
Short Open Tags: On
File Uploads: On
Magic Quotes: On
Register Globals: Off
Output Buffering: Off
Session Save Path: /tmp
Session Auto Start: 0
XML Enabled: Yes
Zlib Enabled: Yes
Disabled Functions: show_source, passthru, exec, phpinfo, popen, proc_open
Mbstring Enabled: Yes
Iconv Available: No
WYSIWYG Editor: Editor - No Editor

The problem is if your temple uses HTLM tags to produce graphical bullet points you get two points together - is there a CSS override to make K2 only use it's bullets and not the main templates?

Hi,When we create a menu item linking to K2 tags, the result page is made with only one column.I would need to present it in 2 columns. Can somebody help me?Thanks & regards,Lenne.

Does it work with the new k2 (2.3)? Does it override the default module?

I am Still working on it to get comments integrated along with Item Contents, as its just currently integrate contents only, but I found joomla is using very old TCPDF library, while new TCPDF has got of features, so I am scared pdf generated can be in broken format if using lot of advanced html tags. :( trying to check if we can include new tcpdf library somehow without hacking core joomla and k2

Marcos Peebles said:Awesome Nilesh, gonna test this, thx for your efforts and work! Marcos

The default category view with everything turned off except extra fields produces a verticle listing of extra fields. My desired result is to have them in a table format.I have used k2 override with onecss4k2 css file to produce a category view that creates a table (really multiple tables) populated with xtra field values. One of the fields would be "link type" to carry you to the item view. Changes to template_style.css tightened up the spaces and made it appear to be one table.I got inside the first foreach loop in category.php and embedded the xtra field foreach loop into it after removing the divs and spans and replacing them with table tr and td tags.This works so long as:1. there are only 4 extra fields2. they are all populated in each k2 itemThis will most certinally break. ? is there a better approach to this end?

You pointed me in the right direction. I will need to find a work around or plug-in for sh404SEF which is one of the most popular SEF components for Joomla. sh404SEF also has security features and Meta data features while also providing SEF advantages so I hate the idea of turning it off. I tried just skipping the K2 component in sh404SEF but no luck.

My feeling is that K2 needs to be careful about creating URLS that are more standard. The email URL that is produced is chaotic with '&', '%' characters that obviously would break SEF rules.

Hi. It seems to be PHP's parse_url function problem. More specific Joomla! uses parse_url when constructing the JURI object ( line 772 at /libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php ). The parse_url function for some reason converts the greek character 'ρ' to an unspecified character. And because K2 uses the tag string to find your items it finds nothing.

Chrysovalantis Mochlas said:Hi Lefteris and thanks for the answer. Are you sure it's an issue of Joomla's router? I'm asking you because I know that K2 uses a router too for the links generation, doesn't it? The thing is that it affects only one letter of the Greek alphabet "ρ"! I don't get it.. I tried for example some other extension, called "Joomla Tags", which doesn't have any problem working with Joomla's own router and generating the right URLs. I wonder if this is a K2 issue. Either way it makes K2 pretty useless for Greek websites, because the letter "ρ" is used very very often in the Greek vocabulary and you know that! I hope this issue is going to fixed some time soon.
Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. It seems that you are right. I m not sure yet what's causing this but as it occurred when you turned on SEF it may be something with the Joomla! router class.

hi,
inserted the slideshow module, but the images not cooperating
www.samratbazaar.com.sg
where exactly do we insert this code, as per your description in the installer

Option 2: You use a custom tag with syntax:

for example this image inside the file below (Samsung
Toners.jpg")
in a source file like this (file attached)

HiJust found a fault with the latest release of K2 (v2.3) -  I have added the fix below)I was really happy to find the new feature of a html editor in the Extra Fields "text area" as I was about to make the required hacks to the core files for another client....However I have found that the "default html editor" used in this new feature incorrectly sets the "open in same window" target to either empty quotes "" or "target" which opens the link in a new window...I have found the offending line replaced the empty double quotes and added the missing "_self" instead and tested it works before posting this.I hope this helps.Affected file : /administrator/components/com_k2/lib/nicEdit.jsline : 72before:var nicLinkButton=nicEditorAdvancedButton.extend({addPane:function(){this.ln=this.ne.selectedInstance.selElm().parentTag("A");this.addForm({"":{type:"title",txt:"Add/Edit Link"},href:{type:"text",txt:"URL",value:"http://",style:{width:"150px"}},title:{type:"text",txt:"Title"},target:{type:"select",txt:"Open In",options:{"":"Current Window",_blank:"New Window"},style:{width:"100px"}}},this.ln)},submit:function(C){var A=this.inputs.href.value;if(A=="http://"||A==""){alert("You must enter a URL to Create a Link");return false}this.removePane();if(!this.ln){var B="javascript:nicTemp();";this.ne.nicCommand("createlink",B);this.ln=this.findElm("A","href",B)}if(this.ln){this.ln.setAttributes({href:this.inputs.href.value,title:this.inputs.title.value,target:this.inputs.target.options[this.inputs.target.selectedIndex].value})}}});nicEditors.registerPlugin(nicPlugin,nicLinkOptions);after:var
nicLinkButton=nicEditorAdvancedButton.extend({addPane:function(){this.ln=this.ne.selectedInstance.selElm().parentTag("A");this.addForm({"":{type:"title",txt:"Add/Edit

Link"},href:{type:"text",txt:"URL",value:"http://",style:{width:"150px"}},title:{type:"text",txt:"Title"},target:{type:"select",txt:"Open
In",options:{_self:"Current Window",_blank:"New Window"},style:{width:"100px"}}},this.ln)},submit:function(C){var
A=this.inputs.href.value;if(A=="http://"||A==""){alert("You must enter a
URL to Create a Link");return false}this.removePane();if(!this.ln){var
B="javascript:nicTemp();";this.ne.nicCommand("createlink",B);this.ln=this.findElm("A","href",B)}if(this.ln){this.ln.setAttributes({href:this.inputs.href.value,title:this.inputs.title.value,target:this.inputs.target.options[this.inputs.target.selectedIndex].value})}}});nicEditors.registerPlugin(nicPlugin,nicLinkOptions);

Hi Lefteris and thanks for the answer. Are you sure it's an issue of Joomla's router? I'm asking you because I know that K2 uses a router too for the links generation, doesn't it? The thing is that it affects only one letter of the Greek alphabet "ρ"! I don't get it.. I tried for example some other extension, called "Joomla Tags", which doesn't have any problem working with Joomla's own router and generating the right URLs. I wonder if this is a K2 issue. Either way it makes K2 pretty useless for Greek websites, because the letter "ρ" is used very very often in the Greek vocabulary and you know that! I hope this issue is going to fixed some time soon.

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. It seems that you are right. I m not sure yet what's causing this but as it occurred when you turned on SEF it may be something with the Joomla! router class.

Hi,

You gave me a link, but they do not respond....
How strange that it wouldn't be possible to give the search result of the tag search the same layout (number of items per page and number of columns) as for the search result per category?
Isn't that something that one would expect to find default in K2?

Kind results,
Edze

Followeyes said:Hi "Edze"Am not sure I can help you with your issue here.I advice to use another solutions like This.BTW:- You need to e-mail the developer to obtain the module.- This will use Extra fields and help you finish your project.Hope helped you.

I'm really keen to use K2 as an event listing component. As I don't really don't like eventlist by schulu. I just want something simple. Plus I need to be able to put the event listing slideshow on the front page. You could look at the 24phuket.com as the example.  I'm pretty sure they use the joomla article and use the yootool to show off their event on the front page. Does anyone know how to do it like them? I can't seem to make the K2 article sort out by date. and catagorize by city. (Not the day they publish but the they the event start. + automatically delete when expire like after 24 hrs.)

(...all are welcomed to add to this user guide...)

Understanding the big picture design of K2 category-subcategory-item layout-listing and the component and category parameters of K2 will help you get the most out of K2.

The whole system of k2 seemingly is (IMHO):
CATEGORY LISTING--> SUBCATEGORY LISTING (multiple subcategory allowed)--> ITEM LISTING--> ITEM

The item is the article (your piece of writing).

The item listing is a listing of items in a subcategory or category, if no subcategory exist. The item listing could list items that's shortened or fully displayed with a "Read more".

The subcategory listing is the listing of subcategory or category, if no subcategory exist. 

The category listing is the layout display of listed category.





The parameters of the k2 component and category are ways of customerization for how the whole system would look. In order to test out the parameters, you need to create a category, subcategory, and an item. Playing with the parameters will actually result in changes that you could see. 

To create things, go to the dashboard. Create a category first, a subcategory (category with another category as the parent/root), and an item. 


The parameter of K2 component, found by the trash can icon in the upper right corner, come setup mostly system-wise. Personalization is needed for Twitter account, additional social button, comments chronological ordering setting, recaptcha, and avatar setting usually need to be changed or added by you. That's about it. The parameters of k2, the component, specifically let determine CSS and way more:
1. CSS setting of k2
A.
2. Image Setting
A.
B.
C. 
etc...
3. Layout & view options for users (author) pages (...make title into link. ususally activated to "show")
A.
B.
C.
4. Layout & view option for Search, Tag, & Date listing
A. 
5. Comments
A.
6. Social setting (additional social button)
A.
B.
7. RSS Feed setting
A.
B.
8. Content Cleanup setting (...may strip image in item)
A.
B.
9. Extra field setting
A.
B.
10. Frontend editing
A.
B.
11. Advanced setting
A.
B.




The parameters for Category set up the category, subcategory, item listing, and item layouts. It's easier to managed category, subcategory, item listing, and items if you set a parent category setting and set the children subcategory to inherit parameter of the parent category repeatedly.

Category parameters has 5 major tabs and many setting within each tab.
1. Category item layout
2. Category view options
3. Item image options
4. Item view options in category listings
5. Item view options


CATEGORY ITEM LAYOUT
1. Layout template
A. Select a template

2. Layout grid
A. Leading count
B. Columns for leading (determines how item listing layout is displayed in number of columns)
C. Other Layout option
A. Catalog mode (...hide or show item listing under listing of category)
B. Featured items show or hide
C. Item ordering
D. ect..




CATEGORY VIEW OPTIONS (setting for category and subcategory listing)
0. For Category, show or hide title, item counter next to title, description, image or RSS feed.

1. Sub-category handling
A. Subcategory blocks hide or show
B. Columns (...determine how the subcategory are displayed in numbers of columns).
C. Ordering
D. Title
E. Item counter
etc



ITEM IMAGE OPTIONS
Title
Link on title
etc


ITEM VIEW OPTIONS IN CATEGORY LISTINGS (layout of summarized or not item in item listing layout)
Introtext (show or hide intro text)
Introtext word limit (limit how may words will be displayed in the summarized items in item listing layout. the introtext will not display any image. to get an image to display, you must upload an image in the image tab.)
Turning off image gallery, if any, is probably good because the gallery could break out of layout and ruin the listing.



ITEM VIEW OPTIONS
Setting of item.

Hi - I've been scrambling around for a few days in an attempt how to figure out how to do just that -- and that's what brought me to K2 :).

This post looks very promising in terms of filtering pages based on tags:

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/content-module-filter-by-tag-1

Haven't tried it yet since I'll have to nuke Flexicontent, install k2, the mod, set up new fields/tags etc and try it but thought to share the lead here in response to your query.

I loaded the K2 2.3 Beta on my test server:Fedora 13 - 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMPApache 2.2.15 (64-bit)MySQL 5.1.47Joomla 1.5.18I still can't create unique, category-specific tag clouds...does anybody have a howto on this?

I'm a bit confused. We've been adding new categories/items into our K2 catalog for a couple months now. Each time we use the gallery uploader to add a .zip file and display images in the gallery section of the item view.For the last couple days all new .zip file upload DO successfully copy the images into the appropriate folder "/media/k2/galleries/###/image1-2-3-etc.jpgHowever the system does not seem to be properly calling the images anymore.If I inspect the source of a current working gallery (one created a couple weeks ago) I see:<ul id="sig0ee23bc9a4" class="sig-container"> **Followed by <li> tags of each image with links**<li class="sig-clr"> </li></ul>In the new ones I just see:
<ul id="sig6dafdf9484" class="sig-container"><li class="sig-clr"> </li></ul>
In other words it does not seem to be inserting the {gallery}###{/gallery} tags.Any ideas?

Hi there,First of all thanks for the great extension. I have recently installed the newest version of K2 and since SEO is very important for me, I tried K2 with all Joomla's SEO functions enabled on a local server installation (XAMPP 1.7.3). The local Joomla installation used Greek UTF-8 as the standard Joomla language.I created a category, then just one item for that category. I assigned a couple of tags to the item, some written in English and some in Greek. I detected the following bug: when used the Greek letter "ρ" in any of the tags and clicked on it no items were displayed on the page! I tried all Greek letters (not the capital ones) and saw that the issue lies only upon using the letter "ρ"!Please see if you can reproduce the bug on your own system and let us know if you have found a fix for that. Thanks in advance!

Hi AllWell after about 8 months of research and development finally got my site converted to Jooma/K2 a week ago.Its not all completed yet, i`m still trying to work out how to use the tags to display items correctly rather than a long list, i`d like it to be displayed as items are under categories. If anyone knows give me a shout please.site address is www.cambags.comPlease let me know your opinions.Thanks