macguru2000

kristel_ttm,

Today I released a new version, 0.9.2. With this version you should be able to unlock your catablog directory for FTP uploads. Just make sure not to replace any of the folders, just the content of the originals folders. If you can backup the folders to your local machine you should be set. Good luck.

Brownie,

I’m sorry to hear that your table is empty, I think that reset would be the last option now. I’m not sure what happened, I really do hate when something like this happens. Perhaps you can put this in the bug reports forum with a detailed report. Please include information about your browser, server, WordPress, plugin versions before and after the upgrade and anything else you can think of.

Also thanks for helping me fix the rendering bug in the xml export. I appreciate your patience with CataBlog, I really do want to get it to a stable place at this point and not add to many new features.

brownie, can you replace the first line of that file, catablog/templates/admin-export.php using the plugin editor.

replace the line that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

with this line:
<?php echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>" ?>

my thoughts are that your server is setup to process php tags <?php ?> without needing the php after the first question mark, this is an older and less desirable configuration in my humble opinion, but CataBlog should work in both if possible.

brownie, don’t delete anything or do anything rash. try an export and see if the file contains anything, if so, please post it here so I may read it. also, did you make an export before you upgraded, if so try importing it. If all else fails try the reset button in the about page. then a fresh import from a properly formatted xml file (look above)

kristel_ttm,

keep in mind you could also do a mysql dump of the wp_catablog_items table. That should be sufficient for replicating your table data exactly as is. You should then make sure to do these two changes manually, change the price field type to float and change the name of the order field to ordinal. Don’t forget about the images as well and backup your catablog folder in the wp-content/uploads/ directory. A good article about file permissions can be read here, it might help you figure a way to upload files that you and php both have permission too.

I don’t know why you are getting an empty file, the export feature works on all the setups I tried it with. Make sure to open the file and confirm it is empty in a text editor like textmate. You could also easily make the xml file generated, just reference the code below and make a catablog_item for each database row. Make sure you have a value for id, ordinal and image at least, also be aware of the CDATA tags which are necessary for the import process. Good luck hope I helped and I hope that 0.9 will work better in regards to exporting.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<catablog_items date="2010-10-20" time="14:48:31">
	<item>
		<id>4</id>
		<ordinal>0</ordinal>
		<image><![CDATA[water-lillies-1287448511.jpg]]></image>
		<title><![CDATA[water lillies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[/somewhere/far/away]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[this is a standard windows image that is installed in every version. really i should be using a less generic image, but i am not.]]></description>
		<tags><![CDATA[flowers nature default photo]]></tags>
		<price><![CDATA[65]]></price>
		<product_code><![CDATA[SKU #345665 UTA]]></product_code>
	</item>
</catablog_items>