Hello,

We just purchased your module and are hoping it will suit our needs.  After installation and activation, some elements of the back-end user interface do not seem to be working properly.  Allow me to enumerate:

1. When attempting to select the “Manage Mime Types” link in the “Settings” Tab of the Module CP, a white screen is all that appears.

2. When creating a new resource group, I cannot use the GUI to assign additional group members to the resource members box - I also get two page load errors, “jQuery is not defined http://www.obxguides.org/?ACT=80&file=jquery.moveto.js Line 53” and “$ is not defined http://www.obxguides.org/?ACT=80&file=resources.js Line 159”

3. Your Docs state on the first page, “General Requirements

  1. ExpressionEngine 1.6.7
  2. jQuery javascript library loaded in the templates that are using resource tags.
  3. jQuery javascript form plugin loaded in the templates that are using resource tags.”

Does your module require a JQuery extension of some kind for the backend forms to function correctly, or is it only required for template code in the head of templates?

Also, I was wondering if you could help me understand the usage of your extension a little better.  Could you provide an example of the best approach to relate resources to weblogs?  For example if I have an existing weblog with several custom fields for text data, and want to include an image field, a video field, and a downloadable PDF document field to the weblog, what would be your recommended approach using the Resources module?  Is it possible to assign more than one resource to an entry?

We have a long list of installed extensions, and could provide it to you if necessary.  Four in particular seemed to be causing a conflicts, so they have been uninstalled and/or deactivated.  They are Playa, NGen, jQuery for the Control Panel, and FieldFrame.

Thank you for your work on this most excellent module.  I see a tremendous need for this and am hoping to maximize its potential.

EE version 1.67
PHP Version 5.1.6
Hosting: Go Daddy dedicated server Apache/2.2.3 (Cent OS)
Website domain for EE backend CP is using https://

Hi Todd, and thanks for your thorough post.

First, lets make sure you uploaded your files properly to your server. All files must be uploaded in Binary mode. The blank CP page that you reported makes me believe that something in the files is corrupted.

Second, make sure that you upload and use the jquery library included with the module. It includes the plugin to allow for AJAX uploading of Resources in your template forms. Adding the resource head tag on every template that you use to access the resource tags will properly load the right files.

Having multiple file uploads to one weblog entry is currently not capable but is a feature we will be adding in the next version. Resources is works well for setting up groups of files and making them accessible to members. So you could have images, videos and PDF’s in separate groups and provide access to your members based on their privileges.

We also are going to add the ability to use off site storage facilities once we determine the best method.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have anymore questions.

Michael,

Thank you for your speedy reply.  Regarding the second and third items you replied to, I now understand better what to do and your advice was very helpful.  I now have an approach in mind that will work for our needs using the Resources module, and I will tag the templates using your jquery tags as mentioned in the docs.

Regarding the first item, however, I am still stuck.  I went ahead and de-activated the extension, un-installed the module, re-copied the files (making sure they were uploaded in binary format), then re-installed the module and re-activated the extension.  I am still getting the same issues mentioned in my original post.  I am theorizing that there may be a conflict with some of our other extensions still in use, so today I will be systematically troubleshooting that scenario.

If you have any other ideas that may be applicable, please let me know.  I will be posting again soon to give you an update on my progress.

Thanks.

Hello again, Michael,

Just a quick update: I disabled all other extensions except Resources and I am still experiencing the same problem.  Any suggestions?  Are their possible htaccess, Apache, PHP, MySQL, or other server settings that may be the culprit?  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Michael,

Not to be a nuisance, but I am also running into problems being able to see uploaded files in templates.  I created a quick test template like so:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html >
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
{exp:resources:headers load_jquery=“yes” load_jquery_form=“yes”}
</head>

<body>

{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“resources”}
  {if resource_is_file}
  Download
  {/if}
  {if resource_is_image}
  {resource_image}
  {/if}
  {if resource_is_url}
  View
  {/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

</body>
</html>

The template link is here:  http://www.obxguides.org/test/resource_weblog_query/

I do not see any Javascript page load errors when the page loads.  When I view source of the rendered HTML, I get this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html >
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
[removed][removed]
[removed][removed]
[removed][removed]
[removed][removed]
[removed]var resourceAjaxACT = “82”;[removed]

</head>

<body>

        http://www.obxguides.org/?ACT=81&resource_id=2
     
        http://www.obxguides.org/?ACT=81&resource_id=1
     
       

</body>
</html>

However, as you can verify, there is no image output.  I looked on my FTP server to find the physical (encrypted) files in the upload directory I defined in the “resources settings” setting for this weblog, but I only see empty sub-directories.  The sub-directories are named by letter, then by number (i.e. “c” then “4” and “8”).  Is this the expected behavior?  Can you explain why the images don’t seem to be displaying?  I am probably doing something wrong…

Hi Todd,

If you are still getting errors in the CP then that is the source of the problems are are having. First we need to sort that out. From your explanation it sounds like you have done everything correctly. It is hard for us to determine what the problem could without access to your install. If you want to PM me Super Admin access I will look around and see if I notice anything.