anatman

Ok, i found it – i guess i was just in to much of a hurry…

I was looking for a BB to run on my (very small traffic) site, and i came across this thread which made me look at miniBB. To those wondering why, oh why the developers chose it for this forum, one suggestion:
Download miniBB (90k), then reade the manual’s “introduction” section. If you substitute “miniBB” for “WP”, the text makes all the sense.
Not that i wouldn’t like PMs here, nevertheless…

The switcher works everywhere: in WP’s index.php, in the form i created (which uses WP’s index.php’s headers). What doesn’t work is: it seemingly doesn’t fetch the reader’s cookie when the wp_stylesheet() function is called via another file reading the header where the function is from the template i created. You see, wp_stylesheet() even returns the default value for the style, it just doesn’t return the value set by the cookie.
As this is the same behavior as what happens when i run the style switcher locally on my computer, i thought you might know what is happening.
I now zero, nil, nothing about PHP, all i say here is only from observing the output… i wish i were able to track it down…

Rboren,
Sorry for my lack of knowledge – but WHERE in CVS? I tryed browsing with
https://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog
But i have no idea how to find your file. Can you point me to it, please?
Thanks,
Eduardo

Ok, nice to see that the project went forward!
However, i would like to point out that the language file covers only the administration files. The index.php file in the multilingual edition still has hard-coded text in it (e.g. “Filed under:”). I think that if we want WP to be really multi-lingual, we have to focus not only on the authors, but on the readers too…
For example, after 4 or 5 months using WP, today i published a post closed to comments, only to discover that the comments_popup_link() function, which is deep inside wp-includes/template-funciotns.php, uses a $none variable that throws a “Comments off” english text on the page.
Now, it looks bad to a reader if i have all the page in portuguese (say), but there is a single phrase in english.
I don’t mean to just criticize – ithink this project is very important. But i think that someone who is authoring with WP is expected to know some english, the same doesn’t go for readers.
Cheers,
Eduardo

Nice! Looking forward to install it.

The hack by lennart is exactly what i want. But i can’t get it to work: i get a parse error in this line (weirdly enough):
global $tableusers, $tableposts, $wpdb, $author, $siteurl, $blogfilename;
What can i do about it?
thanks,
Eduardo

I will check it now, and try to run it locally first. I will post back – Thank you!

Hi,
Looks very nice on your test, LoganSix. Now for a question: when i post to my blog, the post header will say “filed under somecategory by eduardo @date”. Can i get <b>that</b> name to become a wp_people-link? That is, the hack would become a “who are we” thing for the authors.
Thanks
Eduardo

Thank you, LL, i will then wait for your update to the tutorial. Please post here when it is ready!

What does it mean “Alex’s Style Switcher compatible”? Do you mean i can have both hacks in my WP installation? If i do, then does the admin-based choose the “default” style, and with Alex’s Switcher the reader can override that?

I can’t see the code, unless you rename the files *.phps . Well, i can’t code anything either, then it’s no big deal i can’t see it…
I am looking forward for you mod, please post when you finish it!
Eduardo

Just noticed one more thing, as i started to read the code generated by the weather hack for the index.php page: sometimes the icon and the condition will not match. For example, i just got and icon called 4cloud_modrain.png (which seems to be moderate rain) and the text condition displayed was ‘light rain’.
And if one takes a look at the language.php file, one sees that there is no placeholder for ‘moderate’, nothing like _MOD or _MODERATE.
Maybe the code can be improved to acount for that?

Hi,
I had the hack working nicely, but it broke with a local time of 3:01 am and a condition of light rain. I mean, the weather text was diplayed, but the icon didn’t show up, just the question mark meaning the image wasn’t found. Upon checking the source for the page, i noticed the img src called for the correct directory, but the icon requested was just “n_”, which makes me suspect there is a problem in the code, because it means no condition was specified.
I then unziped the hack zip file again, and installed it fresh (to check if i didn’t mess it up myself when localizing), but the icon still didn’t show.
Could someone check that, please?
Thanks, Eduardo

Thank you Alex! If i knew any PHP, i would have tried to contribute something. I will keep an eye on your site for the update.