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Hi there!

I'm currently using Serendipity (0.6.6-CVS) as my news system of my site. You could refer to: http://www.pdauser.cn/news

I found that the categories aren't working. No matter which category I chose, they all appear the same contents, that's to say, the category is broken.

I have modified several PHP files (actually they were just some HTML code related to the page layout). But I am VERY SURE that, I didn't do anything wrong to corrupt the category function.

I used to use version 0.6-pl3, and it's working fine. However, I need to use the newer version as my site is UTF-8, and 0.6-pl3 doesn't support RSS/XML in UTF-8.

Please anyone could help me.

Thanks guys!


Fred

Hi Fred!

No, the feature is not broken 'per se'; it works on my blog. The current category system has been reworked quite a bit in CVS (to allow hierachical categories). As you said you've modified files, it's hard for me to tell you if you broke anything.

If you contact me privately (me -at- supergarv -dot- de) and send me a mail with FTP access to your site, I could try to find out what's wrong with your installation. If you don't like that (which I could understand), maybe you can create a 'cvs diff' of your checkout, and make that available. Then I could see and tell you if you modified important parts...

Regards,
Garvin.

I experience the same problem, with an unmodified installation of serendipity v.0.6.6-CVS.

I made two categories: "Allgemeines" and "Lexikon" and have 4 articles, 3 only assigned to Lexikon, one assigned to "Allgemeines" and "Lexikon".

Selecting either "Allgemeines" or "Lexikon" always shows all four articles.

Hi!

Could you give me the URL of your blog so that I can look at it? A sql dump of your entrycat and categories table may be helpful as well.

Fred's bug has been fixed my calling serendipity_rebuildCategoryTree() once. That should be done by the installer, but not if you update your blog manually...?

Regards,
Garvin.

The URL is:

http://pomona.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/serendipity/

Categories dump is:

INSERT INTO `serendipity_category` VALUES (1, 'Allgemeines', '', 'wofür sonst kein Platz blieb', 0, 0, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `serendipity_category` VALUES (2, 'Lexikon', '', 'eLearning von A-Z', 0, 0, 0, 0);

Entrycat dump is:

INSERT INTO `serendipity_entrycat` VALUES (1, 2);
INSERT INTO `serendipity_entrycat` VALUES (2, 2);
INSERT INTO `serendipity_entrycat` VALUES (3, 2);
INSERT INTO `serendipity_entrycat` VALUES (4, 1);
INSERT INTO `serendipity_entrycat` VALUES (4, 2);

There was no manual update as it is an absolutely fresh installation, now about 9 hours old...

Hi!

You seem to be facing the same bug as fred. I justed updated CVS to let it rebuild the categoryTree anytime. We put that function out a few days before to only rebuild the tree on certain actions, but apparently that didn't cover everything.

Please open your serendipity_entries.php and insert the line 'serendipity_rebuildCategoryTree();' somewhere at the end of the file, so that s9y will rebuild your tree. Then everything should work as expected as a quick fix.

Regards,
Garvin.

Unfortunately this has no immediate effect. I put the function call in different places in serendipity_entries.php, but nothing happend. Now it sits in line 121. Do I have to restart or may be clean up anything?

Or should I replace some files with current CVS versions?

Hm, no, you shouldn't really be using new files. the rebuildCategory() just needs to be called once to generate the right category listings. Can you see if your serendipity_categories table has changed? The last dump you send, with all the zeros at the end of the dump, they were wrong. This should be corrected by the rebuild-Function...

Regards,
Garvin.

Hmm, no they didn't change... I must have made some strange mistake, but that doesn't matter: I did a brand new installation from the current CVS tree and entered new toy data - everything works ok now...