Have you enabled (or compiled) mbstring into your PHP? Go to php.ini and check it.

Augusto Pissarra
www.vintagemarketing.co.uk

Well, I guess I will have to dig into the code myself and figure it out.... Just thought I could get some insights so to save a bunch of ours trying to figure this out.

I will keep all posted with my finding... In the future it may help someone.

Augusto Pissarra
www.vintagemarketing.co.uk

I am getting this error when trying to start importing jommla articles or creating a catagory for K2, Can anyone advise what I should do. Thank you

Hi,

A quick and dirty solution to this question is to use the 'Modules Anywhere' plugin downloadable from the Joomla website.

I can confirm that I have tried it and it does work.

In operation you just place the appropriate tags and name of module in your K2 content where you want it to appear and it appears.

Best,

CHRIS

I perused parts of the forum section, and searched the site but have not found a real answer to why K2 fails to properly display categories on the front page when linked to via the menu. I've seen plenty of posts saying the demo version and the distribution version are different and the distribution version does not come with the demonstrated capabilities of the demo site, which I find to be very hard to believe.

I just upgraded to K2 v2.1 from 1.02b-ish. All settings are default. I had no errors installing the new version.

From what I can tell the template to display as categories appears to be intact. The CSS file appears to match what some have posted on the site when explaining how to modify how the categories display.

The default menu link when creating the menu item is "index.php?option=com_k2&view=default", and I am unable to change it in the Joomla backend.

Joomla version is 1.5.14, and MySQL is 5.0.22.

When utilizing debug and error reporting, the following message is generated in the area above the K2_breadcrumbs module:
"Notice: Undefined variable: path in /public/modules/mod_k2_tools/helper.php on line 425 Notice: Undefined variable: title in /public/modules/mod_k2_tools/helper.php on line 425 "

line 425: return array($path, $title);

Nothing is generated in k2_container area.

The only SQL processed related to K2 is:
"#
SELECT t.name
FROM jos_k2_tags AS t
LEFT JOIN jos_k2_tags_xref tags_xref
ON tags_xref.tagID = t.id
LEFT JOIN jos_k2_items i
ON tags_xref.itemID = i.id
LEFT JOIN jos_k2_categories c
ON c.id = i.catid
WHERE t.published=1
AND i.published=1
AND ( i.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR i.publish_up <= '2009-10-19 04:00:39' )
AND ( i.publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR i.publish_down >= '2009-10-19 04:00:39' )
AND i.trash=0
AND i.access <= 2
AND c.published=1
AND c.trash=0
AND c.access <= 2"

Every other method to access/search for data stored in the K2 tables seems to populate the webpage... just not the default frontpage view.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I'd suggest a reinstall then since at this stage you shouldn't be having any problems.

First, make sure you're using the latest version of XAMPP if on Windows or MAMPP if on a Mac.

Second, download the latest version (1.5.14) of Joomla assuming you haven't already.

Third, install Joomla in the normal way.

Fourth, install the latst K2 (2.1) in the normal way.

The problem you are experiencing may just have been a glitch with your previous install.

CHRIS

Hi all!
I designed a multi-language (english/portuguese/spanish) website that uses K2 tags module.
I've translated and published all the tags through joomfish but the module keeps showing the default tag language.
Is there any fix?

I'm using joomla 1.5.14 + K2 2.1 with a custom nexus 1.53 rockettheme.

I am using mod_k2_content to show just a list of the latest blog entries on my site. If I go to my blog (Interatividade->Blog) and click on one of the news, it correctly appends the Itemid and mantain all modules according to the Itemid.

If I move to any other page (say the homepage), K2 does not append the Itemid.

I would like to understand the behaviour of the module.

What I would like the hehaviour to be, is to always use the Itemid of the Blog Menu.

Is this possible?

You can take a look at the site I am developing: www.vintagemarketing.com.br/bt.


Augusto Pissarra
www.vintagemarketing.co.uk

Hi Chandell. It is simple.

mod_k2_tools module can be used for many ways. It is a packaged module. You can select module functionality to be used as Tag Cloud and select a module position to publish. If you want to use the same module for another purpose, for example, Calendar View, you can copy the module by joomla backend module management screen. I attached an image to thread.


Sincerely.




Chandell said:Hi, your website looks wonderful. , simple, proffesional, gr8 job..!

I have one question.. how did you manage to get the tags cloud? i'm still can't find it..!
can you help me with?

Chandell

Is there a way to copy my Joomla Articles into K2 (other than cut and paste)?

This would be awesome for my existing sites so I can take advantage of K2's awesomeness!

I want to be able to show tag items alphabetically too. I have no php experience. My lines 630 and 631 in the following are:

630 }
631 else {

if ($params->get('commentsPublishing')) {
$row->published = 1;
}
else {
$row->published = 0;
}

Is this the right spot to enter the code you mention below? If not, could you please list the actual code where I should insert it.

Thanks.

FT1 said:Hi If you want to help yourself in this just add this line: $query .=" order by name ASC"; between line 630 and 631 of /components/com_k2/models/item.php

Hi,

I've been using K2 for some time, and I'm overall really satisfied.

However, I can't figure out how to use the tag cloud-part of the tools-module.

One of my sites is almost exclusively build with K2, and as such, I have different sections with different content.

When using the tag cloud on the blog, for instance, I don't want to show tags from all over the site. Is there any way to achieve this?

Hi, I use SIG and uploaded a zip in the article.

works fine. The gallery will be added.

But: I want to show a single picture in the article. So is use:

the Tag: {gallery}k2/galleries/7:::1

But: I can click the image, but now there are my gallery 2 times :(

instead 10 pictures there are now: 20 pictures.

how can i Use the ajax effect of SIG with just ONE gallery

When I try to install K2 second time, I get this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/www/users/vorsch/joom/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysql.php on line 678

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /usr/www/users/vorsch/joom/administrator/components/com_k2/install.k2.php on line 72

In the first installation, I could not make catagories: the tables did not exist.

When I try to make a new category, I still get the error:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /usr/www/users/vorsch/joom/administrator/components/com_k2/views/category/view.html.php on line 48

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/www/users/vorsch/joom/libraries/joomla/html/html/select.php on line 68

Could you help me solve this problem?

System information:

Web Server Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) mod_auth_pam/1.1.1 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8c mod_perl/1.29 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_jk/1.2.18 AuthMySQL/4.3.9-2
PHP version 5.2.11
MySQL version 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge3
GD image library bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
Multibyte string support Aktiv
Upload limit 5242880
Memory limit 20M
Open remote files (allow url fopen) Nein
Simple Image Gallery Plugin Not installed
Simple Image Gallery PRO Plugin Not installed
AllVideos Plugin Not installed

Everything writable.

Thank you

Julius

Thanks to all for the help!

JCE is definitely a better editor, but it wasn't the answer. I had the "Introtext HTML cleanup (tag strip)" option set to yes in the K2 parameters.

Is it a Windows or Linux box?

Bart Pluijms said:Oke... My host uses the IIRF filter for URL-rewriting. It works just perfect, but I have problems with the rewriting of K2 categories.
K2 items and tags are rewriten on the right way, but categories are giving an error.

So the category url: (build like this:)
index.php?option=com_k2&view=$1&layout=$2&task=$3&id=$4&Itemid=$5

has to be rewriten in something like this:

/category-name/ OR k2/category-name or everything else what's in someway a kind of SEF.

Thank you!

Hi
Would be grateful if you could also pm me the link - I would love to implement this on my site.
Thanks so much

FT1 said:Hi I did the requested mod as I wanted for my self
I don't know exactly how is the contribution process in this proyect (if any)
So I just uploaded the file here for you

The mod was applied ONLY to the mod_k2_content so you can specify the tag filter on the module parameters

P.D: I had absolutly no knowledge on PHP since today, but it was very intuitive as source code is well structured and google is plenty of language reference sites ;)

Hi. So if you are a Joomla! professional then you can try implement these features and commit them to us. So we can include them on a future release. Anyway, we will take under serious considerations your wishlist.

Aytac ZEREN said:To summarize;
I am a joomla profesional. I establihed many web sites. I am following K2 from the first release. I waited until it gets stable. Finally it is stable and I used K2. However google indexed the other web sites I created on the same day despite I did not informed them but when I use K2 google do not index any of my pages.

This is not a bug but I wanted to take your attention and considered it as conceptual bug.

1. K2 must have native joomla suppurt because sh404SEF is a commercial component anymore. On the other hand K2 can deal with keywords and description tags more professional than sh404sef.
2. I do not want to explain what is ping back to professional web programmer.
3. I know I can edit my meta tags but I want K2 can deal with this on th fly. Please just take a look at JoomSeo Plugin, you would understand what I am saying.

My post was not a bug report for software failures.

Currently each administrator view is setting the submenu items i.e. Dashboard, Items, Categories, Tags, Comments etc.

Be helpful if this could be controlled via a helper class to avoid duplication and to enable smoother k2 customisation.

Reason for this?
I'm using noixacl to limit access to backend users depending on their usergroup (I've created a noixacl adaptor to allow different user groups permissions to certain categories and to different k2 sections); some will only be able to see the 'Items' section, while others will be able to see 'Comments' only etc.

There for I now find myself needed to change the sub menu on every view (actually going to put it into a helper class).

Ok I still can't get a link to post right on my articles. I can get the whole url to post in there but can't tag it with a name. It just shows up with the full address. I've also tried using the attacked box with no luck. This is something so trivial but it's driving me nutts!!! Please someone else explain what I'm doing wrong, and could you "break it down barney style". I have no idea what Matthew Murphy is talking about.