Wow - that is one helluva Release Candidate 3!
So there I was just hanging out at my desk, minding my own business, went my friend, coworker, and now Media Manager co-hort sat down next to me as casually said, "so I have been hacking on Media Manager."
What an understatement! Mark went to town and added a lot of great enhancements to Media Manager. His effort inspired me to take a break from my latest obsession and focus on my favorite Movable Type plugin once more. I went back through my email archives looking for comments people have posted regarding problems they have experienced using Media Manager and knocked out a good number of issues. I even addressed a small nit of mine: displaying some kind of indication of the item you are reviewing on the edit review page! God, I love Amazon Image Hacks.
Check out the change log to see all the cool new features and bug fixes that have been added and made.
Release Candidate 3 is ready for download! And please, if you like Media Manager, don't forget to donate. Or at the very least, help me pimp Media Manager a little bit!
Change Log
- Added postgres support.
- Added sqllite support.
- Added link to Media Manager homepage at the bottom of pre-installed templates.
- Added tooltips to the ratings.
- Fixed bug the checkbox in the Media Manager toolbar didn't select the checkbox when you clicked the label text due to missing id attributes.
- Overhauled item stashing framework to speed up page rebuilds and to enable the creation of many more template tags.
- Added the following template tags:
- MTReviewRatingIs0, MTReviewRatingIs1 .. MTReviewRatingIs5
- MTEntryIfReview
- MTReviewRatingNumber
- MTReviewRatingName
- MTItemCreatedDate
- Prepopulated new reviews with item title
- Fixed minor CSS layout issue with Media Manager toolbar
- Added really simple image context for toolbar where a micronail is displayed on the right hand side of the toolbar.
- Fixed bug where filter button didn't appear in IE
- Fixed bug where the filter preferences didn't "stick" or persist when paginated through results.
- Users can no longer re-install Media Manager once it has been installed.
- Fixed a few warning showing up in logs:
- "Useless use of a constant in void context at..."
- "'my' variable $fin_on_display masks earlier declaration..."
Comments
Woohoo!
Posted by: markpasc | November 18, 2005 9:52 AM
Hehe... Funeral is such a kick ass album too!
Posted by: Jamison | November 18, 2005 1:27 PM
hey one note I have seen so far. you didn't update the version level in the mediamanager.pl file. It still says rc2.
Posted by: Tommy | November 18, 2005 1:50 PM
Digging RC3. Just blogged about my use of it tonight, and included a link to my now-working MM RSS feed. I'm finding one bug. (Feature?) When I link a new MM item to an existing blog entry (with its own title) and then subsequently use the item's "review" link to get to that entry, the item's title (auto-grabbed from Amazon) asserts itself as the entry's new title. I don't like that. Is this the intended behavior? Can it be changed?
Thanks again for the plugin.
Posted by: aharden | November 18, 2005 7:34 PM
Media Manager has tremendous potential. I am just playing around a bit with it so far, but I like it. My biggest gripe though is that it is PAINFULLY slow. I am wondering if maybe I have something set up wrong, or is it just typicall beta slowness.
You are doing great work, thanks.
Posted by: amishrobot | November 19, 2005 10:57 PM
I was using a previous beta release of MediaManager which was working fine and decided to upgrade to the RC3. Unfortunately, it didn't go well. I initially received the upgrade screens when I clicked on the plug-in after installing the required files. Then when the MediaQueue popped up, all my previous queue entries were gone. When I logged out and logged back in, every time I clicked on the MediaManager link, I get the hourglass and it just hangs there waiting for a response from the server. All the other plug-in links work fine from the other plugins I've installed. I tried erasing all the files and re-installing from scratch but it still hangs every time I click on the MediaManager plug-in link. I don't receive any errors and there are no errors in the error logs on the server. I am very confused, any help would be appreciated.
Posted by: skellam | November 26, 2005 7:22 AM
My problem appears to be some type of authentication problem because it won't load the mmanager.cgi program. I have set the permissions appropriately. I tried to uninstall everything and re-install but apparently when you erase the files it doesn't clear out everything for a clean installation. Is there any way to uninstall MediaManager beyond erasing the installation files or are there files that need to be erased or changed in some way to do a complete reinstallation?
Posted by: skellam | November 26, 2005 5:02 PM
Minor nit. When you click "Show Display Options" on the main media queue screen, the "Delete Selected Items" button and the list block the popup editor, so you can't change display options.
Major nit. For some reason still unknown to me, I can add items to my heart's content for a while, and then I start getting the "Could not find Error retreiving Amazon info" error. Reinstalling gets me back to where I started, with no items in the queue, obviously not an option. I can't tell what I'm doing that's causing it. Turning on debug appears to do nothing, I just get: Calling fetchamazonxml(...) Checking to see if... exists. Cache Exists. But the error it's spitting out implies that it's trying to retrieve the info from Amazon again, even though the cache exists. I can't get any further debug messages to show up, even ones I insert into the code. Is it possible that some item in particular is causing the problems?
Posted by: Brian D. | December 7, 2005 8:37 AM
The features of layout and image seem to only work on Firefox.
I can't seem to get it to work on Opera or IE.
Posted by: conkerer | February 3, 2006 11:09 AM
I think I've found a bug.
If you click on preview when you do a review, the picture and amazon link isn't shown.
Posted by: conkerer | February 3, 2006 11:15 AM