TOPIC: Auto Publish not working?

It would appear as if the Auto Publish setting does not work for all groups as some still get the moderation message box after posting a comment.

I'm using Joomla Vr 1.5.15 and !JoomlaComment 4.0 Beta 2

Here's a screen shot to confirm the settings;


Surprisingly, un-registered members can log on and post messages, though anyone in the groups Registered and above will receive the message "Your comment has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be published after approval"

Am I overlooking something simple here? If you want to see it happen then either register an account or use the following temporary login;
UserName: TestAuthor
Password: 123456

Site: http://digital-diy.com

I am completely baffled, there is no other related setting that could do this. Do you have any sort of ACL-editing extension installed or any core hacks?

P.S. You should have probably installed RC1 instead of Beta 2

Thanks for the quick reply - I have no core hacks installed nor ACL-editing extensions.

Everything was working fine back in the day when I was using !JoomlaComment 3.26...

I upgraded to Beta 2 when it was available and things seemed fine. I did actually have the Auto Publish setting disabled to stop some spam, and when it quietened down it was re-enabled.

Since then I've noticed the problem and have been scratching my head as to what could be the issue...


Is there a way I can backup my just my comments, do a complete uninstall (remove all tables), and then install RC1? (only asking because a normal uninstall/install did not fix the problem)

digitaldiy wrote:

Is there a way I can backup my just my comments, do a complete uninstall (remove all tables), and then install RC1? (only asking because a normal uninstall/install did not fix the problem)

Yeah, sort of. The way you can do it is like this:

(1) Uninstall JoomlaComment, make sure 'uninstall complete' is set to NO as usual (keep the database)
(2) Now that it's uninstalled, load up phpMyAdmin and into your database - we will delete all the joomlacomment settings tables and keep the comments.

jos_comment < Don't touch
jos_comment_captcha < Drop this table
jos_comment_joomvertising < Drop this table
jos_comment_setting < Drop this table
jos_comment_voting < Drop this table

(3) Install JoomlaComment 4 RC1. You should now have a completely fresh, non-upgrade install of JoomlaComment only with the existing comments still intact.

Do a full site backup first of course incase yo do loose all the comments and they somehow don't come back.

P.S. You did remember to convert the Joomla database (including all tables and rows) to UTF8 when upgrading from 3.x yes?

One thing I see, you are using mymodern template.
This last !JoomlaComments has only the Modern template functional correctly at the moment.

But, on the upgrading process, altered templates do not get deleted, so they get easily re-used, despite not fully functional... yet...

At least, this is how I've understood it...

By using the Modern template, it should also fix your time view, on the far right, that has fallen to the next line.. not easy to see, but just underneath the datestamp.

I had the same problem, and it cleared itself up, with the Modern template.

Nils you are correct the custom templates don't get deleted. We could have made RC1 delete them (it'd make our work easier!), but that's a little... extreme. I think this will not be a problem for the future 4.1 release because it will use a completely new template format in PHP with some real AJAX-commenting action going on instead of this old 3.x code that is difficult to work with!

But hey none of that really matters - Digitaldiy was using beta2 and has not updated to RC1 yet so mymodern wouldn't be causing this FYI this is to do with internal code anyway, these RC1/Beta2 template issues we're having Nils only seem to make the comments look broken but this sounds like a code overflow behavior...


Back at hand, let us know how you go digitaldiy and if you found the problem or if that 'fresh' install step-by-step did(n't) solve it. Also if possible, please let us know the versions of your PHP and MySQL on the server. I noticed just now that you are on Joomla 1.5.15 but our development environment is 1.5.11 (and .14) so I will try to reproduce the error as best I can.

Nils Ally wrote:

By using the Modern template, it should also fix your time view, on the far right, that has fallen to the next line.. not easy to see, but just underneath the datestamp.

I had the same problem, and it cleared itself up, with the Modern template.

This was actually a bug in the modern template in beta2(a) - it was fixed in RC1 Basically, all custom templates need to be remade to reflect the new CSS and HTML in modern.

We've probably confused the poor guy now... but that's OK, I'm sure he'll agree that too much help is better than no help at all!

Thanks for the install tips Jonus, I've got some time this afternoon and have started on a full backup before going ahead.

Before I get to it, some info as requested;
MySQL: 5.1.30
PHP: 5.2.4

P.S. You did remember to convert the Joomla database (including all tables and rows) to UTF8 when upgrading from 3.x yes?

It's going back a while, but yes they are all in UTF8

I'll report back with any outcomes.

Good stuff - that all checks out fine, just wanted to make sure. Good luck!

The step-by-step guide was very easy to follow and fixed the issue. I now have a fresh install of RC1 as intended.

Afterwards though, I noticed that the comment activity module was not displaying the mouse-over text.

I've upgraded it to the latest version in the download folder, and double checked for the Overlib css code in the sites template.css (as previously added to fix a 3.26 overlib error);

To clarify, it was working fine previously, and has just become apparent after the update. Is there a setting I have overlooked?

Joomla Template: RedEvo_Aphelion

I'm not familiar with mod_comments at all, we will have to see what Daniel says about code changes. Something must have broken in the considerable code change between for 4.0 RC1 because this worked fine previously for 4.0 beta2 as far as I know.

Hey Jonus,
Your dev environment is perhaps joomla 1.5.11, but mine is 1.5.15

Hi Daniel,

Have you noticed any bugs with the module mod_comments and RC1 as I have in my last post?

I found the problem, but have not managed to fix it 100% yet. Will hopefully get it sorted and update the module within the next day or two.

OK digitaldiy, uninstall your mod_comments and try this one. Took me a while to figure it out!
mod_comments_2010_02_04.zip

Thanks Jonus, will try the update now

Once again, perfect fix.

Given I've received quite a lot of support over the last couple of days, I dropped a decent donation to your Paypal account.

Thanks guys, really appreciated

(by the way, the Paypal payment completion URL returned a 404 error)

Digitaldiy thank you for the donation. We got it I'm trying to figure out the 404 error page that paypal throws at us.

Again thank you for the donation!