Author Topic: Recipe Book Revisited. (Read 3818 times)

Ken · « **on:** December 09, 2009, 01:19:49 PM »

Just has a reply to my SMF topic about the cookbook mod:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=306290.msg2397119#msg2397119

The member, orville, has been using the SMF Article Mod for his recipe book and at first glance it seems to have promise. He has offered to share the edits that he used to make his into a recipe book.

His pages are kind of plain and his choice of board icons kind of gets on my nerves, but the basic concept may be worth a closer look to see if we can mold it into a reasonable recipe book for our three forums.

Here is his version:
http://www.rednecksmokehouse.com/start/index.php?action=articles

Steve, if you and Les like the concept of this mod then I'll go ahead and install it here so that we can give it a test run and I'll get some tips from orville on how he did his coding.

Lesmond · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:23:58 PM »

sounds good to me Ken, I like smoked meats/cheese too

Ken · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:27:59 PM »

Quote from: Les on December 09, 2009, 02:23:58 PM

sounds good to me Ken, I like smoked meats/cheese too

Knew you would Les. :08:

I'm playing around with it some on my test site and it will take a little work to get it setup the way we want, but it may be worth the effort.

I'm gonna install it here and set you and Steve to admin status for it.

Ken · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:38:05 PM »

OK, it's installed... the address is; "?action=articles"

There is a link for it in both the Curve and the Christmas themes.

Both Les and Steve are set for full admin access, you can do anything you want to do because once we get it all sorted out and decide if we are going to use it I'll clean out any random stuff we do.
Spezi, because you are in the FF Staff membergroup you have admin access as well and you are welcome to work around in it if you want to.

One thing... it has an option for importing TP articles, I don't want to do that so please skip that part. :hah:

Lesmond · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:58:31 PM »

nice one will have a play with that later..

Oh I like the little tree icons for rating

only show in the xmas theme though :hah:

Ken · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2009, 03:04:35 PM »

seems to be broken here on the FF, the one on my test site work OK.

Skhilled · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2009, 08:30:48 AM »

Actually, I've been ahead of you guys for about 2 months or so. LOL

I have a test site that I've been playing with for converting my Doc Skillz site to SMF 2. I had installed the articles on there and had been playing around with it to see how easy TP articles could be converted on it. I thought about using it on my family site as well when I started doing recipes on it. I also have a test site for that but just didn't install it on there yet. I've been so busy that I put it on the back burner but was going to unveil it when I got the time to upgrade both sites.

I'm actually, impressed with Articles. It's like a scaled down version of TP but it works.

Ken · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2009, 08:54:48 AM »

I'm liking what I see so far as well.
Have you tried actually setting it up as a recipe book yet?

There has been a request posted asking for some extra admin defined fields, that would make it lots better imho.
http://www.smfhacks.com/index.php/topic,2787.msg18703.html#msg18703

In fact me gonna second that notion. :bigteeth:

Skhilled · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2009, 09:08:50 AM »

I think I remember someone asking about something like that at SMF for Articles. I had planned on asking for some changes after I get it going again. The test site I had was for RC1.2 when it first came out. When I got RC2 for the CM's I scratched it cause I knew there would be changes and wanted to wait. Now I just need the time to play with it. LOL

I was going to ask Jeza to see if he can make the changes I wanted...once I figure them out. :rofl:

Skhilled · « **Reply #9 on:** December 18, 2009, 10:48:22 AM »

Have you tried to convert TP articles with this yet?

Ken · « **Reply #10 on:** December 18, 2009, 11:20:02 AM »

Not yet, have you?

His converter for the Coppermine gallery didn't work for me, so I've not tried this one.

Ken · « **Reply #11 on:** December 18, 2009, 12:08:58 PM »

The renewed interest continues over on SMF.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=306290.msg2410571#msg2410571

Skhilled · « **Reply #12 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:07:31 PM »

The wiki does not work well. I know because we use it at SMF Arcade. It's buggy and has no admin. You pretty much have to add the "titles" into your php pages. You can add content easily...sort of but then words will clump together and you'll have to keep going back and fixing them. For instance,

"do this" will become "dothis".

Ken · « **Reply #13 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:11:29 PM »

That doesn't sound good.

It may not go anywhere, at first the guy sounded like he was very interested but now not so much.

Skhilled · « **Reply #14 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:29:18 PM »

It has potential but needs a lot of work.

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