Using Spartacus

[Colin]

I've been trying to get Spartacus to install the google plugin but I seem to have a more basic question. Simply put, how do I access the spartacus program?

I've enabled it as an event plugin so if I click on the "configure plugins" form the Admin Suite I see the program is installed.

Where is the plugin manager? Per the user guide I'm looking for the new link "Click here to fetch a plugin from the Remote Plugin Repository".

In my Admin Suite I have the following choices is the plugin manager supposed to show here?:
* Frontpage
* Personal Settings

* Entries
* New Entry
* Edit Entries
* Comments
* Categories
* Statistics

* Media
* Add media
* Media library
* Manage directories
* Rebuild Thumbs

* Appearance
* Manage Styles
* Configure Plugins

* Administration
* Configuration
* Manage users
* Manage groups
* Import data
* Export entries

* Back to Weblog
* Logout

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Spartacus hooks in very tightly to serendipity. Once it is installed (= listed in the plugin configuration overview) it will integrate with serendipity.

That means, as soon as it's installed, it will fetch the plugin repository online when you click on the link "Click here to install an event [sidebar] plugin". All plugins that would be downloaded through the web are marked with an icon that has an arrow in it.

In newer versions of serendipity the link "Click here to fetch ... from the remote plugin repository" has been removed, that'S why you don'T see that specific link. Can you tell me where exactly you read about that, so I can change the documentation to reflect that change?

Also spartacus should give you output like "Fetching file from ..." or "fetching package.xml from ...".

The plugin manager can be accessed when you click on "Configure Plugins" in your admin suite.

Regards,
Garvin

[Colin]

Hi Garvin,

Thanks for being so patient, but I'm still not getting anywhere. I have removed the google directory from my site and double checked to see that spartacus is installed.

From the Admin Panel (in the forst post) I select "configure plugins" Now I see a page that shows me Sidebar Plugins and Event Plugins. Under Event Plugins I see Spartacus listed (at the bottom) along with others like Spam Protector, Statistics, Browser Compatability etc.

If I click the Floppy Disc (who uses these anymore?) "Click here to install a new event plugin" I am taken to a new page that has the following at the top of the page:

Trying to open URL package_event_en.xml...
The URL http://netmirror.org/mirror/serendipity ... ent_en.xml could not be opened. Maybe the Serendipity or SourceForge.net Server is down - we are sorry, you need to try again later.

But the Google plugin is not listed among my choices. Is this message the reason I'm not given a choice to "fetch new plugins?" Thanks again, I know we'll figure this out!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Okay, when you get that error message it means two things:

1. Spartacus is installed

2. Spartacus cannot be used on your server, because it is firewalled and does not allow outgoing connections.

So you can only use spartacus if your server provider allows your webserver to access outgoing connections. Since that's not the case, you might want to ask your server admin if he can change it. Otherwise you need to uninstall Spartacus and will need to download plugins manually from http://spartacus.s9y.org/ - then unzip the ZIP files, FTP them to your serendipity's /plugins/ subdirectory.

Best regards,
Garvin

[Colin]

Thanks for all the help. The google plugin still wouldn't work, I'm not sure but maybe it doesn't like the tables that everything is contained in. I added the code manually to ('only') about 150 pages. It could have been worse, I might have had 300 pages!