Trying to set up remote blocks

What you have to put in the url field is the url of the site where the remoteblocks server is enabled. After the URL field loses the focus (you click somewhere else), it sends a request to the remote site, and asks for the list of blocks. After that is creates two select boxes and populates them with the data (as you can see on the screenshots).

Do you have adblock or any other javascript blocker installed?
I developed it with Chromium and Firefox 3.6 with Firebug installed.

I can confirm this issue.

In Firefox 3.5.7, when I try to add a URL, the page does not change onblur. Only option is to click 'create' and that gets the "Module field is required" error.

In IE 7 on page load I see a momentary FOUC (flash of unstyled content) and I can tell that there is a textfield hidden for the Module section. When I type in a URL and try to shift focus, I do get a warning that says "This page is accessing information that is not under its control. This poses a security risk. Do you want to continue?"

If I click yes, nothing changes. Fields aren't populated. I am getting a javascript error on line 1294, character 7: "object doesn't support this property or method."

I have just committed a proposed fix to CVS.

Thanks for your support!

The response starts like this:

jsonp1266130305033({"type":"error","code":400,"message":"Invalid arguments"

I still don't get a modules field created. Thanks!

I'm using Windows Vista Firefox 3.6/Chrome 4.

Thanks a lot!

In fact, the more I think about it -- using AJAX to load up UI form a remote site, which is going to be a slow process -- is a big UI nono. This needs removing or changing.

I'm enable server at "general" tab on two sites. When I add url, see

* Module field is required.
* Invalid server
server for both sites active.

Hi,

Do you mind sharing your hacked version? Or rather, can anyone help me get this module to work? I'm on Firefox on a Linux machine and I have tried every known browser on this machine and none do anything. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Thanks.

OK. Did so, and now the invalid server thing still comes up. Let me be a bother again and ask you for a quick cheat sheet with a few details, like what to put in the module part since its not automagically selected for you and why the invalid server is. Possible quick walkthrough?

Appreciated

Which I am doing but its not working. Its always invalid server. What else am I missing?

The server is enabled.

This is my process.

1. Installed the module on the site as usual. All modules accompanying this are enabled.
2. Enabled the server on the site (host) and the site (remote) so both of them have the server enabled.
3. Clicked on Add and put in the URL of the remote site with a trailing slash. The place it says enable block is left blank since I am expecting it to do a "fetch" of the modules list and have a list with which i can then select. Where it says delta, I leave blank but there is a "0" on it.
4. Clicked on create and get the error message in the attached PNG.

Anywhere I'm going wrong?

Also noted in Watchdog

Thanks.

Kahenya

Ok. I have switched off the server on the host then in the module part I put in the name of the module, in this case the invite module.

Layout as follows

URL: http://127.0.0.1/
Module: Invite
Delta: 0

The response on this is Invalid Server.

What is the format I should follow?

Thanks

Which is cool. But honestly, I have no clue how to go about that.

Joachim and Yorirou

I'm checking the Content Distribution Module. Looks quite interesting, but I still find troubles. You guys are on a very deep tech level and I'm not quite there. All I have been trying to do is to get the module to work, and not quite getting it right. Now, I'm not even quite sure what I am doing next.

Is there a step to step model of hacking, an implementing. When I get a moment after the project is done, will go to code level, but unfortunately, I need a quick way of getting this to work.

I will cut and delete whatever I need to, but I am absolutely lost on what to do right now.

Thanks.

Kahenya

Sweet. It works, but you need to put this in a multistep at some point. The javascript is cool, but as I learnt from Google. only when absolutely necessary. That would be the best thing to do, I think. Anyway, appreciated very much. Has solved a lot of problems for me.

I can't close this as I did not initiate it, but it worked for me.

Kahenya

I seem to be having the same issue as Kahenya -- I enter a URL and name, the module and delta fields are populated, I select the desired options, hit save, and get an "invalid server" error each time. This happens whether trying to load from a remote server or my localhost. Both are "server enabled" at the moment, so that is not the issue.

Any progress on this or any recommendations on how to get it working? It's the perfect solution for a problem I'm trying to solve at the moment and would love to be able to implement it.

Thanks.