Random/popular content block per group

Hi Robert,
Thanks for updating.
Looking forward for random & popular block for groups and will look into link you told me.

Greetings,
Martijn

Hi,I set my remark to the wrong issue, here the right issuelog:

Hi Nancy,

I finally could test this feature thoroughly. Family business took me out.
And I think it is not yet working, or off course I do something wrong.
It is also in 6.2.dev right?
I enabled weblinks_block also.

I see all weblinks: Weblinks-vocabulary blocks, and still only one most popular, recent, unclassified and unpublished block. Not blocks like this per group.

I check the: Blocks by group
Create Random, Recent, and Popular blocks for this group. Requires "Create block" above.
But I do not see the "Create block". May be that's why it is not working. See attached screenshot for what I see.

Thanks a lot in advance for still going into this, and sorry I couldn't test it earlier and posted it on wrong issue.

Greeetings,
Martijn

Attached picture where you can see, I do not see a Create block setting.
Greetings,
Martijn

nancy,
Still thinking about this...I think when it works, all groups have 4 blocks right? A normal group block, a random group block, a popular group block and a recent group block.

greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy,

Yes it is working now for the first level groups, In my situation: Africa, Asia, Europe, America.
Thank you a lot for this already!

Would it also be possible to have this option one or two levels down please?
So I have the possiblitily to create the Blocks_by_group, random, popular on level Nepal, Egypt?

Next to this on theming, something is not going ok.
See attached picture for request and theming issue (whole block is cut off on the right)

Thanks again for your reply!
Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy,
I tested this immediately. The Most popular and Recent blocks are now one layer deeper shown, so thats great!
But still some thingies:
1) The weblinks-blocks are not shown layers deeper than country. While there are groups on province level like Kathmandu
2) Only the Random block is not shown a layer deeper. Only on Africa, Asia level.
Great it is moving this way!
Greetings,
Martijn

EDIT: Can test this evening hopefully.
Thanks in advance.
greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy,

I tested the new code 30-march .dev, and it didn't work. Sorry..
I also added the code from http://drupal.org/node/341076#comment-1414138

It is still working for the first level groups, In my situation: Africa, Asia, Europe, America.
But now NO weblinks_block is shown on a level deeper, even not the normal weblinks_block.
I only see the weblinks on attached picture, so no weblinks on Egypt or Nepal or other countries (a level deeper than continent).

greetings,
Martijn

Set to active.
Greetings, Martijn

Hi Nancy, Is there may be something wrong with "$term->allow = $allow_this_group;" Something that the subterms are not touched anymore? Right now only the top-terms are shown as weblinks-block in the admin/build/block list..just to try to help you.
Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy, thanks for your remarks.
I did clear the directory before uploading the 6.2 30-dev versions of the modules. Checked again on modules page that is was the version of the 30th, also the weblinks_blocks module. Cleared all cache tables through the database...so that should do it.

But no blocks on a level deeper than toplevel anymore. The 28th version had at least those weblinks blocks shown.
- I have a different vocabulary than weblinks as my weblinks basis.
- I have a lot of subterms, and subsubterms (countries/cities) => could that be a problem.
Thanks for going into this again. It drives me crazy what could be the problem..sorry..

greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy, the 2-april dev, succes on country-scale! But sorry..not on province level down (depth 2 in my term-hierarchy).
Term hierarchy is: - continent - countries - provinces - places.

Would it make sense to make a setting for the depth? So that when there is a big vocabulary, with lots of terms on different level people can select which level of random, most popular, recent weblinks block they want to have.

So great it is working on country scale now. But please could it also be possible on province and down, so I can choose very flexible which block to insert on a page?
Thanks a lot still for this!

PS: thanks for the working Visit url on full node-view pages!
Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy,

On the second level (country), the weblinks_blocks arise, but on levels deeper NO GO. Also the normal weblinks_blocks are not shown on that level and deeper.
I did clean cache, deinstalled, and installed 2-april dev. version. Disabled/enabled all weblinks modules (including weblinks_block).
So situation is, Yes it is improved, because on country level there are now the most popular, recent and random blocks. But no block shown levels deeper.
May be still something with If..then.. code?

Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy, Which module could block the levels down? How could I see this? Could somewhere be set something like Drupal_set_message or something to get this clear?

Nancy, I found the following in my apache-log, may be this is of help?

Sun Apr 05 01:18:17 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Notice: unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Error at offset 0 of 520 bytes in //includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: /admin/settings/weblinks/group 
[Sun Apr 05 01:18:17 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Notice: unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Error at offset 0 of 584 bytes in //includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: /admin/settings/weblinks/group 
[Sun Apr 05 01:18:17 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Notice: unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Error at offset 37 of 44 bytes in //includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: /admin/settings/weblinks/group 
[Sun Apr 05 01:18:17 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Notice: unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Error at offset 45 of 52 bytes in //includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: /admin/settings/weblinks/group 
[Sun Apr 05 01:18:17 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Notice: unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Error at offset 22 of 37 bytes in //includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: /admin/settings/weblinks/group 
[Sun Apr 05 01:18:17 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Notice: unserialize() [<a href='function.unserialize'>function.unserialize</a>]: Error at offset 18 of 33 bytes in //includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: /admin/settings/weblinks/group 

PHP 5.1 Nancy. Greetings, Martijn

Hi, I will ask my provider to upgrade, but don't know if and when he wil upgrade.
Will look into taxonomy modules.. If you know a known module to limit taxonomy trees.. I would be very glad.

Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Robert, Will try tp get my provider to go to 5.2.

I disabled all taxonomy related modules. Tried getting to the bottom using DEVEL module, but that gives the following errors:

Error at offset 18 of 33 bytes in /includes/bootstrap.inc on line 478, referer: weblinks 
[Mon Apr 06 14:47:48 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /modules/filter/filter.module on line 942, referer: admin/settings/weblinks?destination=weblinks 
[Mon Apr 06 14:47:54 2009] [error] [client ] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 128 bytes) in /includes/bootstrap.inc on line 735, referer: admin/settings/weblinks?destination=weblinks 

On admin/settings/weblinks/group the right blocks are shown, with all the possibiliy to create a most popular, random, recent block. On all term-depth. Continent, country, province, city.
But when I click save and look at the admin/build/blocks only the first 2 levels (continent and country) are populated.
greetings, Martijn

Hi Nancy,
The sql statement:

SELECT count( * ) FROM term_data WHERE vid =138;

Says: 1172.
Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy, It is a geographical vocabulary build of all sorts of weblinks in different continents, countries, provinces, cities like my development aid site:www.trekking-world.com only on D6 and in test.
Thats why I think it is smart to have a setting to which hierarchy-level of vocabulary the blocks should be build.
Also maybe for larger vocabularies it is better to build the blocks on webpage-building time. I explain more in next comment, setting it to active if thats fine by you.
greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy,

May be for larger vocabularies this is not the way to move forward. I foresee then more then 1000 prebuild blocks on the /admin/build/blocks page which is unmanageble then.

For larger vocabularies I propose using argument handling as view-blocks are handled within panels-pages.
So when the url is http://www.trekking-world.com/over/nepal/kathmandu-valley/kathmandu all arguments can be handled differently by a panels-page (over) with different panel-page-panes using the same weblinks_randomblock!!

So there needs only to be one weblinks_block, which can handle arguments like views. So almost the same as you told me on http://drupal.org/node/388870#comment-1312750 except that there should not be a page been build, but a block on a page. And it should work within panels as view-arguments does because it should get the termid from the termname context.

It will look like as follows then:www.trekking-world.com/[panel-page]/[country-termname]/[province-termnam...
PANEL-PAGE "over" will have the following content:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Panel-pane 1: Weblinks_randomargument_block
|Argument %2 (country termname context)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Panel-pane 2: Weblinks_randomargument_block
|Argument %3 (province termname context)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Panel-pane 3: Weblinks_randomargument_block
|Argument %4 (city termname context)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

So only on page-buildup, the different blocks are constructed through argument handling then. Panels works so, that if there is no right argument or trigger to show the block, it is simply not shown. So above will also work for www.trekking-world.com/over/[country-termname] and then only the country random weblinks block should show.

Hopefully this is helpful in getting a solution for larger vocabularies?
Greetings,
Martijn

Hi Nancy,

Panels and views are complex content and context (ha..3 c's :). But I love the flexibility it gives the non-programmer website builder like I am. Off course only amateur, not pro like you!.

I think this random block will never work for large vocabularies, because then block admin becomes to slow. So proposing a solution for larger vocabularies, and flexible usage on http://drupal.org/node/426422

Closing this issue and thanking you 2 a lot for your time and effort for this!
Greetings,
Martijn