Display issues in 2.5.4

[AIPman1]

Hello. I've installed Simple Review in hopes it will be better than the review system in virtuemart, which is not so good. I've got it all set up and here are my issues so far:

The back-end submit-review form appears inside a WYSIWYG editor, instead of as a form...it appears as a form for a split second, then becomes the editor...and you cant add a review from there...furthermore, I activated the front-end adding of reviews, which does work. And when you go to edit it in the back end, it appears in the editor box with all the info entered in the front end, but, you cannot change anything. The WYSIWYG editor has no SAVE button...it's hijacking the form.

Second issue: The front end display of reviews. They will not display. You can go here: http://www.selfpubmag.com/reviews/category/3-publication-reviews?layout=selectcategory to see what happens when you try to READ a review. It just, doesn't display.

third issue: Also from what you can see at that page...small issue with the thumbnail image being re-sized to distort the image.

Any help you guys can give in helping me fix these things, will be greatly appreciated.

[row1]

Hi,

I haven't been able to reproduce this problem in Joomla 2.5.4 and Simple Review 3.0.13.

Are you using the default Joomla WYSIWYG editor?
Have you tried another browser?

Your site appears to be down at the moment so I cannot see the front-end problem.

[AIPman1]

Yes, using default WYSIWYG editor. I have tried all browsers on it...the back end enter-review and edit-review pages both do the thing where for a second it's a normal form, then it all blows into a WYSIWYG set up that can't be typed in.

Now, I did have the yvBBCodePlugin-2.01.001 installed even though it is not for-use with current Joomla to start. I had to disable it because it was causing problems with other things..but it does not seem to be effecting the behaviors either way.

Dont know why the site appeared to be down, but it's up...so you should be able to see the front end activity and that the review that IS in the system, will not display...and perhaps you can point me to what is resizing the thumbnail, that seems to be the easiest thing to fix, but I cant find what is controlling it, lol

I appreciate your time in helping me out. I am going to try to change the WYSIWYG editor and see if that changes the back-end problem...I'll report back.

[AIPman1]

Ok, I can report that the Codemirror displays nothing at all, but using the No Editor option, you CAN edit the reviews. So at least I can do that for now.

I also wanted to say, I have ACESEF working on the site, but have it set to not use SEF on the URLS of your component, I turned that off when I thought maybe THAT was keeping the reviews from displaying in the front end.

If you would like access to my system to look under the hood, I will be glad to grant it, let me know.

[NRyan115]

Hello AIPman, it would be helpful if you could specify the version of joomla you are using.

Offhand there seems to be some URL issues going on and I cannot tell if they are from your component, or from an edited ".htaccess" file. For example, when you click the review from the list the URL is correctly changing and the page is reloading from the new URL but that URL is being pointed to the same page (the review list) instead of the review.

For example, all of these URL's are unique but are loading the same exact page:

Code: [Select]

1) http://www.selfpubmag.com/index.php?view=category&cat=3-publication-reviews&rev=1-monsters-101-book-1&Itemid=183&option=com_simple_review

2) http://www.selfpubmag.com/reviews/category/3-publication-reviews?layout=selectcategory

3) http://www.selfpubmag.com/index.php?Itemid=183&option=com_simple_review&view=category
As you can see these are not the same but the server is calling the same code.


My next large question is how you are trying to use the component. You have expressed displeasure with the virtuemart Rating functionality but at the same time our component will not interface to your existing products in your virtuemart store unelss you set up these connection manually. Further, being a review component and not a rating component I just want to find out how you intend to use the software once working fully.

I have used both the built in editor as well as JCE in the past with SR successfully.
The most likely reason the thumbnail images are being distorted is because you are using a thumbnail image which is not the same dimensions as the size being displayed by the template. The image you are using is 58x90 but the thumbnail is being displayed at 90x90. You will need to edit the template to use the size which fits best for you, or edit the images to fit the template.