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Hi,

I'm trying to update from 4.0 beta2 but I'm getting this error:

Component Install: Another Component is already using directory: "/home/verbumde/public_html/components/com_comment"
Component Install: Another Component is already using directory: "/home/verbumde/public_html/administrator/components/com_comment"

Do I have to uninstall manually 4.0 beta2? Will previous comments be lost?

Thanks

Jorge

I have manually uninstalled two old (3.20?) joomlacomment plug ins and am trying to install zipped 4.0 - getting the same errors:

* Component Install: Another Component is already using directory: "/home/beecave2/public_html/lakewaybee.com/components/com_comment"
* Component Install: Another Component is already using directory: "/home/beecave2/public_html/lakewaybee.com/administrator/components/com_comment"

Plus plug in still shows up under plug in menu. What have I done wrong?

SE

log in with FTP with a program such as filezilla and make sure that the folders from the above message are deleted.

That enabled me to install but then my template was "broken" until I disabled the plug in - what did I miss?

Thanks for your mega quick reply BTW

Steve

You didn't read everything we wrote above:

So log in to your backend go to components->joomlacomment->content settings->layout and change the template to the modern one and click save.

Would it be possible for you to release a patch for beta2 that fixes only the security issue? I'd like to update to RC1 but that will take me a while as I've added custom modifications to the code.

You can see the changes in the repository:
http://dev.compojoom.com/repositories/browse/jocomment/branches/JoomlaComment-4.0

Thanks. I got it. The XSS fix is in the additional line below, would I be right?

this is one of the changes. Also the whole JOSC_ubbcode class was replaced. Also you will find that there are 2 new files (stringparser.php and stringparser.class.php)

I just finished the upgrade process. Everything seemed to go well, except the plugin doesn't seem to be working. My latest comment module is showing comments, but the comments aren't showing up at the end of my posts. I tried turning the plugin on and off. Any ideas?

Do you see the comment plugin when you go extensions ->plugins?

Is there update from 3.26 to 4.0 RC1?

Uninstalling 3.26 and installing 4.0RC1 should be just fine.

P.S. Guys don't forge tot always make a backup before doing anything on your sites!!!

I hope it will be possible to import old comments from 3.26 to 4.0 and later versions?

Look at the update info article and you will see how everything functions.

Which plugin?
Remember, some plugs need to be FTP'd over to the correct area.
And make sure the categories are assigned.

Thanks for the help Nils

The plugin I'm referring to is Content - !JoomlaComment. It was working before I upgraded. Do know you know if there's an updated one with the upgrade? The download link just gave me the component.

I doubled checked that categories are assigned. I could just be missing something. It's been a while since I first installed everything.

Do you see the content - !joomlacomment plugin in extensions->plugins?

If you don't see it there, then for some reason it was not copied to
/plugins/content/

Open the zip package
go to plugin/joscomment.php (and joscomment.xml) then manually upload those files to your server in plugins/content

Then active them if they are not activated.

Hey Daniel,

Yes the plugin was showing up, but still not working. I went ahead and uninstalled the component along with the plugins manually. After I re-upgraded, everything is working fine and dandy now.

Thanks again for the help!!

Hi, Ive installed new RC1 version (uninstalled the 4.0beta2 version before). And the new mod_comments ignores the comment size setting. So in my module position it show the whole comments instead of first 80 characters. Is it my mistake or a bug?

I remember that we had the problem, but as far as I can remember I have fixed it. I'll check it again tomorrow and let you know. Up until then just disable the latest comments module.

Are you sure that you use the right version? I've tested it again with RC1 and it works fine for me. Could you perhaps start a thread in the forum?

Thanks Daniel, upgrade was easy and problem free.

Thanks for a great component

Smoothly for me. well.. just needed to de-install and re-install the myblog plugin. (logical i guess, in this case). Thanks.

hi Daniel, i upgraded and message is sucsesful but it is bother me that there is no visible change. How can I know that I'm running the right version now? In "about JComments" tab now it is noted

. Is this the latest version? thx.

Just underneath the comments on the frontend, you should see the signature: Joomla components by Compojoom

From the backend, if you goto Components > !JoomlaComment > About

There you should see in the middle of the text area: !JoomlaComment 4.0 RC1 by Compojoom.com - http://compojoom.com

Well, the Content and a few other plugins are pre-installed, and should work automatically. In other words, if there has been any upgrades to this, it should be there already for you, with the component.
Sounds to me like it's something stupid in the backend settings.
Make sure you have the correct Include/Exclude, cause this may default the other way around to your previous setting.
Do you have a link?

Yeah - http://lebowskipodcast.com. Anything on the front page should have comments. I have a recent comment module on the left side where you can see the recent comments. If you click any comment from there, it takes you to the content item, but the comments do not appear.

Thanks again for the help!

Well, some problems just can not be explained. We had such things in the past (just look over the forum). Try to uninstall and install RC1 again. If it is not working, contact me and I will assist you through teamviewer.

I replied up above. I went ahead and uninstalled, then re-installed everything. Now it's working. thanks again for your help!

Hope you're able to get to the defects with the other templates soon - it cost me over an hour of re-applying and testing mods to the Modern template to make it even partially compatible with my Joomla template. Other than that the RC1 installed and ran like a charm. Keep up the good work.

ok thaks for information,i'm a new people in the web...

Writing this comment in Safari v4.0.4...

Making this edit it Chromium (Chrome 3) v4.0.240...

Tested with all major browsers on my localhost too . The new templates will come in a week or two, probably the JQ ones (unless the MT's have something unique and useful?)

we better concentrate on the MT ones, because joomla comes automatically with mootools, so we will not have to load an additional library like jquery. This will make the user website faster.

Hi,

Is 3.26 affected by the above mentioned vulnerability?

Will the old comments preserved if I upgrade?

Thanks,
J.F.

Hi J.F.

Yep, 3.26 is also affected.

To update:
1.Make a backup.
2. check if under components->joomlacomment->content settings the option for complete uninstall is set to no
3. Uninstall the component
4. Install the new one

Detailed steps on upgrading from 3.x or 4.0 beta to the RC1 can be found in the FAQs. http://compojoom.com/faq/122-joomlacomment-upgrading-to-40-rc1-from-3x-or-40-betas

I understand that i would have to uninstall 4.0 beta2 and then install 4.0 RC1 to upgrade. Will this retain all my existing comments?

Please read the comments under the post:

Is this option is set to no, then the comments would stay untouched. But make a backup first in case anything goes wrong.

thanks.

Hi,

I tried to uninstall 3.26 and install 4.0rc on a test server as instructed. Uninstall complete mode: No. Old comments were preserved. But posting new comment yields an error message: Request failed.

debug info is shown inside the text box

Unable to call JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks(testing 123...) in (omitted)/components/com_comment/classes/ubbcode/stringparser.class.php on line 381

the message was posted despite the error.

first is there away to disable showing of debug info on the website? What has gone wrong?

I hope you use php5 and mysql5?

$ php -v
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Apr 7 2009 080:1
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
$ mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.45, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.0

it looks pretty much like a php version problem.
There is a similar bug for php 5.0 here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25038 and a guys is complaining that the bug is present with php 5.1 . Are you able to upgrade your php server or is this not an option for you?

edit: also could you post the whole error code?

This is what appeared on the "List of joomlacomment Comments" page

Warning: call_user_func(JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks) [function.call-user-func]: Unable to call JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks(testing 123...) in /var/www/html/(website domain)/components/com_comment/classes/ubbcode/stringparser.class.php on line 381

the debug info that appeared in the text box is basically saying the same thing but with the html code.

My production server is running php 5.2. I will attempt an upgrade and let you know the outcome.

Thank you.
Everything is fine. The upgrade is smooth.

I have version 3.12c on several of my sites but I am concerned about doing the upgrade. I am not really a techie and don't even know how to back up my dbase. I also don't want to lose all the comments people have been posting on my sites over the past 2 years or so.

Can you post a few basic steps with respect to how to do this upgrade. Given that this is a security issue I would very much like to do the upgrade but I (and likely a number of other folks) may need a little handholding on this one.

thanks
emily

http://compojoom.com/faq/122-joomlacomment-upgrading-to-40-rc1-from-3x-or-40-betas

Languages mizzing from the distribution

For instance this one: http://compojoom.com/forum/29-languages/7684-finnish-translation-for-joomlacomment

Using joomlacomment4.0.0RC1.But after commenting showing error like the following....
Warning: call_user_func(JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks) [function.call-user-func]: Unable to call JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks(nice blog... ) in Campphtdocsmyjoomlacomponentscom_commentclassesubbcodestringparser.class.php on line 381

Urgently need your help.
Thank you

alert('XSS');

as you see no XSS is possible

Hi, after uninstalling 4.0B2 and installing 4.0 RC1 I get "Request Denied" and this message when posting a comment:

Warning: call_user_func(JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks) [function.call-user-func]: Unable to call JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks(Yo!) in D:\www\golf\components\com_comment\classes\ubbcode\stringparser.class.php on line 381

Bentot

you need php 5.2 I think that it should work on php 5.1 too, but I'm not sure.

I'm running php 5.2.1.1 on my server. However, I installed a server with php 5.2.9, and its working ok on that version. Definitely a php version problem.

Bentot

what means?
Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\asdffdf\administrator\components\com_comment\class.config.comment.php on line 294

what can I do?

I noticed a bug in RC1. Line breaks disappear when bbcode is turned off.

For example, the following sample text:

Will appear as:

My temporary fix:

(Applied to components/com_comment/joscomment/comment.class.php)

Code:

--- comment.class.php.orig 2010-02-14 16:302.000000000 +0800
+++ comment.class.php 2010-02-14 19:57:20.000000000 +0800
@@ -2584,6 +2584,16 @@

if ($this->_support_UBBcode) {
$html = $this->initUbbParsing($html);
+ } else {
+ // Fix line breaks; respect character and word limits
+
+ $html = nl2br(JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks($html));
+
+ $maxlength_word = ($this->_maxlength_word!=-1) ? $this->_maxlength_word : 999999;
+ $maxlength_text = ($this->_maxlength_text!=-1) ? $this->_maxlength_text : 999999;
+
+ $html = JOSC_utils::setMaxLength($html, $maxlength_text);
+ $html = JOSC_utils::wrapWord($html, $maxlength_word);
}
if ($this->_support_emoticons) {
$html = $this->parseEmoticons($html);

Great components.Easy to install. Work for the first time!

Very fast suport, many tanks to Daniel.
Integrate perfect with adsmanager.

Hi,

After installing the component and try to access whenever Item of the menu Component->!Joomlacomment-> Item...

I always have this or similarly error

string(67) "joomlacomment: unexpected error. No plugin found for component '' !" string(67) "joomlacomment: unexpected error. No plugin found for component '' !"
Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /~/www/guandedio.awardspace.co.uk/administrator/components/com_comment/class.config.comment.php on line 294
string(67) "joomlacomment: unexpected error. No plugin found for component '' !"
Fatal error: Call to a member function getViewTitleField() on a non-object in /~/www/guandedio.awardspace.co.uk/administrator/components/com_comment/admin.comment.php on line 692

I unzip the file into my server and then install it from Joomla, the file that I have installed is joomlacomment4.0.0RC1.zip, I don't know if I miss something

Best Regards,
GUAN

guan please start a new thread in the forum. I have the feeling that there is a database problem at your end or something like this. As I said start a new thread in the forum and we will find the problem.

Hi, I have installed !JoomlaComment 4.0 RC1. Everything works fine until I send the first comment. Then I receive the error message:

"
Warning: call_user_func(JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks) [function.call-user-
func]: Unable to call JOSC_ubbcode::convertlinebreaks(Testnachricht) in /var/www/web16/html/components/com_comment/classes/ubbcode/stringparser.class.php
on line 381
"

Do you have an idea how to fix this?

I uninstalled 3.12c then attempted to install 4.0.0RC1 (following the directions at (http://compojoom.com/faq/122-joomlacomment-upgrading-to-40-rc1-from-3x-or-40-betas) and the installation failed - I got the following error:

ERROR: Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package.

Anyone know what to do here? I would like to get this fixed very soon but I am stumped. I can't seem to install.

-Emily

Hey Emily, do you have joomla 1.5 or 1.0? 4.0RC1 is working only on joomla 1.5.

Hi Daniel,

Uh-oh. I have 1.0.15 on two sites and 1.0.13 on another. I don't really want to upgrade to 1.5 at this time - too much work. Is there anything I can do? Or do I just have to turn !JoomlaComment off? I really like the product.

thanks,
emily

Well, we don't offer anymore support for joomla 1.0.
But instead of un-installing you could disable the ubbcode support in the component - then you are safe.

Thanks for the info Daniel. I have just turned off UBBCode on all my sites. I am glad to be able to still use the component!

Hi,

maybe I should add that I have php 5.2.0-8 on my server. Is there a chance to run !JoomlaComment 4.0 RC1 under this php version?

I've tested it with 5.2.5 - and it works with this version for sure. I don't know if it is running on 5.2.0, but it should run.

In the meantime I have disabled the UBBCode - and now it works.

Another issue is that the limits for character length of words and in lines don't work. I have set limits of 50 characters each. But if I type in a word of 100 characters, it will be shown in one line.

wordwrap should work, line wrap not anymore. I don't see a reason of using line wrap. If the words are not longer than 50chars, then why should we stop the lines at a specific character length? We can use css for this.

Wordwrap works only if I use short words.

I am not a css expert.

So it would be much easier for me to limit the size of the message window by line or word length.

would you start a thread in the forum for this?
thanks!

OK!

Hi,
Since i upgraded to RC1, sitemap generator doesen`t crawl the comments links so are not included any more on the sitemap. I have disalowed component in robot.txt, is a problem in the new version or just i have to change configuration somewhere in my site ?
Thanks in advance for help.

Hey Zinovsky,
Would you start a thread in the forum for this?

Hi everybody.I am from Azerbaijan.And i have translated this extension to Azerbaijan language.How can i send this file to joomla.org to publish this file and every azerbaijanian could use it.Sorry for my english.Thanks

you must not send the file to joomla.org, just post it in compojoom's forum and I will make sure to include it in the next release.

How many I must pay in order to use it without the signature "Joomla components in order to Compojoom"?

How many I must pay in order to use it without the signature "Joomla components in order to Compojoom"?
And how to get rid of lines on inscriptions: "Your Contact Details:"
"Comment:"
"Security"
?

You must pay nothing. You can make a donation if you wish.

And to get right of your contact details edit the language file and if you don't want a security image turn it off in the backend.

Thank You
One of my comment was duplicated, if You wish remove it.

And how to get rid of lines on inscriptions: "Your Contact Details:"
"Comment:"
"Security"
It this only in opera - peek here
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6778/formj.jpg

am using windows 7 and when ever i nid to post a comment(testing) i get thses weird lines on comment pages somethin like this:

Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\KOSIBAY_SCHOOLS\administrator\components\com_comment\class.config.comment.php on line 565