A Modest Construct

I just figured it out trying to update to the latest. I’m using Unix unzip 5.52 and had to use the -U option to prevent it from converting filename case when the archive comes from a case insensitive file system. This is the first time I’ve had to use that option, but that solved it. Now I know.

Is there anyway i can make this backwards compatible with php4? Im currently stuck on a server running that older version, so obviously i cannot search amazon. How easy would it be to change the rss method so that I can get it working with php4?

Just upgraded to WP 2.7 and installed your version of the now reading plugin. Looks great.

One problem I’m having is that since the update the dates for the started reading and finished reading don’t come across right. They look like this
%Mon %b %2007

Anyone else seen this? Any idea what causes it?

Thanks! I’ve been searching for a way to manage my library and this seems like it may just do the trick! I had found the original plugin and was searching to make sure it would work with the newest version of WP and found your site. I’m excited to try it out.

Ignore my previous post, I changed my hosting yesterday and I now have php5 functionality. I’ve installed the now reading version from this page and all is working great!

Im after a bit of advice which maybe slightly out of the scope of this page.

I have a tabbed navigation system on my site that uses wordpress conditional tags to determine which is the active page etc. If the page is active it changes the tab colour to match the page, you can see by looking at my site http://www.dinsdale-uk.com.

Anyway, the problem im having is matching the now reading library page to a condition in worpress. Because the library isnt a ‘page’ in wordpress, i dot know how I can match it.

I wondered if anyone here ahd an ideas?

I just noticed that my sidebar was placed below the content when viewing a single books page. I believe that templates/single.php should have the outside the last closing div (as it is in templates/library.php). Changing this fixed the problem.

Sorry, "have the <?php get_sidebar() ?> outside the last closing div [tag]". Let’s see if that works…

I love this plugin, it’s easy to modify as well with the templates. But a slight problem with the permalinks.

If I change the default permalinks from library/ to maybe book/library/ instead. The single book page will have the correct permalinks, but the library link and the author page link will be wrong. they stay at the default library/. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks :)

I’ve only been able to add one book from Amazon so far.

When I search for books, the page seems to hang slightly (~1 second) and then comes back with the heading "Search Results" but nothing else, not even the stuff about adding the page manually. Looking at the returned source HTML, it ends immediately after that header. I wonder if the process is being killed as it’s writing the page because it takes too much memory or something. Debug mode didn’t give me any information (not surprising if the process is being killed).

The only way I’m able to add books is to put a single space in the title search field and search for that. The script successfully tells me almost immediately that it found no books and allows me to add manually.

I can’t find any documentation on search related problems, so any help is most appreciated.

What version are you running when you experience this problem?

I fix it by editing the URL inside the template-functions plugin file. I’m running version 2.7 by the way. Just wondering, is there a way to display a specific number of books randomly?

Thanks.

I wonder if you can help. Whenever I try to add a book I get an error. "Error adding book!" I don’t get any code errors can I can see, and the amazon lookup works fine. I’m on WP2.7, using PHP5 and MySQL 5.0. If I prime the database with a single bogus record, then I don’t get the error when I try to add, rather it seems to try and update the same record, though the details of the bogus record never change, even when I try to edit it.

Any thoughts?

Christy,

Can you enable debug mode (in the NR options page) and post any additional details about the error?

I’m wondering if you can help me. For some reason the font for Planned, Current and Recent is huge on my site. http://theresafrasch.com Is there a way to make it smaller?

BTW I’ve been keeping track of my books read for years, this last year on Goodreads: 91!

Thanks.

Those items are outputted as level-3 headers, which are sized a 24px, according to your theme. You might want to change it to more like 16px, or change the tags.

Haha. You must be some kind of god — I’ve been waiting for an update like this since forever. Thank you so much.

Hi Ben :)
First of all, thanks a lot for doing this upgrade. I’ve been having some issues with this plugin, though.
First – my layout gets broken (see: http://www.pozaschematy.pl/czytelnia/), the sidebar ends up at the bottom. Where do I change stuff, in NR templates? What would be the quickest fix?
Second – when I do a search to add a new book, I get a blank screen. When I turn on the debug mode, I get a bunch of tables with XML and the amazon search result. Strange. But I’m able to add a book then.
Third – I rarely use Amazon (since they don’t have books in Polish, which is my language) and I redirect to Polish bookstores. It’d be great if the "add manually" option would be available straight away, without having to do a fake amazon search. In one of the first versions of NR I was able to hack it easily, now the code got more sophisticated and I don’t want to screw anything up. Any ideas?
thanks a lot
Joanna

I want to second Joanna’s idea of having the manual add available immediately.