Category: Documentation (or Advocacy)

I had to break in in my test installation of Tiki 21.4 (set a temp admin pw I did not write down in my keepass).

For this scenario, there is a documentation available at
https://doc.tiki.org/Lost-admin-password

First, this document lacks the information, that console.php of a Tiki 21.4 needs to be run on at least PHP 7.1. That is not the default with every ISP, and it isn't with mine (Ionos/1&1, second largest hoster in Germany). If invoked as recommend this will yield:

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING or '(' in <b>MYHOMEDIR/agim/tiki-21.4/console.php</b> on line <b>9</b><br />
{CODE}

Workaround is easy, in my case, the invokation of PHP needs to be "php7.1" instead of "php". But that's dependant on a users's ISP. But I think you should state the PHP level necessary.

But invoked as PHP 7.1, console.php still won't reset the admin pw, and only yields:

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
Only available through command-line.
{CODE}

This WAS run on a command line... Inspection of console.php shows an, IMHO, unreliable CLI detection mechanism. Line 21 reads:

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
if (http_response_code() !== false) {
die('Only available through command-line.');
}
{CODE}

So http_response_code() is assumed to be false, if run on a command line. A quick test script:

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
<?php
var_dump(http_response_code());
?>
{CODE}

yields this:
{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
int(200)
{CODE}

This is in line with the PHP documentation, which says on https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.http-response-code.php

"If response_code is provided, then the previous status code will be returned. If response_code is not provided, then the current status code will be returned. Both of these values will default to a 200 status code if used in a web server environment.

false will be returned if response_code is not provided and it is not invoked in a web server environment (such as from a CLI application). true will be returned if response_code is provided and it is not invoked in a web server environment (but only when no previous response status has been set). "

As I started both scripts definitely on a command line (Linux bash window running commandline SSH!) either PHP's detection is disturbed by something, or it only tests for the ''presence'' of a web server. This environment of course contains a web server (every Tiki installation will have that), but no distinction as to that HOW php got started (invocation on CLI or invocation by Apache) is done, so it defaults to 200.

So another, more reliable detection mechanism is needed here.

Thanks

Copyright and license notices are missing from several *.tikiwiki.org sites. These are required, or participation and content become legally ambiguous.

I can't make the basic example work.
https://doc.tiki.org/PluginCustomSearch#Basic_Usage

I'll reproduce it in show.t.o to make it easy for others to to review where the issue might be.

My goal is to leave one basic working example documented in doc.t.o

Admin password in that instance is:
u: admin
p: 12345

Go to Homepage, log in as admin, and try to search for any word found in the three items in that tracker. No results are found.
Index has been rebuilt many times.

At https://dev.tiki.org/Daily-Build we have a link that goes to https://tiki.org/tar/lastiki_26-x.zip this goes to a 404.

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
Hey Guys - I'm new to tikiwiki and have been trying to access the movies on this page -> http://tikiwiki.org/TikiMovies BUT most of the ones referencing USA point to an expired account and the ones mentioning Europe generate an error saying i don't have permission (even when logged in) ..??..

e.g., in the section "Preliminary_Settings", the USA link resolves to this -> http://esc45.midphase.com/suspended.page/ even though the link is coded for this address -> http://www.teluguvaariki.com/sri-addons/tikiwiki_videos/Wiki ... and when i hack the url to just the root domain, i get the same error and suspect this user's account is DOA ... i should note that i tried this a week or so ago and got the same response hence delayed sending this thinking it might clear up by now ..??..

and then when i click on "Editig a wiki page (Europe)" i get error - ie., "You do not have permission to use this feature" ... that link shows as -> http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-listmovies.php?movie=Wiki.swf&action=Display

the same thing happens with the other videos in other sections like "Editing a wiki page", "Image Galleries", "Articles", "FAQs", etc ... the only video link that does work is the 24 minute intro with David Lankes - which is excellent by the way :>)

accordingly, please advise ... i would really like to watch these videos to get up to speed as i'm already having numerous problems ... a) i was able to install okay but the images in the gallery won't upload, or when they do appear to upload, i get a blank screen and see no images ... b) i can't get the secure login link to work with my dedicated server that shares a SSL cert across domains ... thus i installed tikiwiki on avantigroup.com/tiki but for the https i need to make a url callout that is https://secure.cooltea.org/avantigroup.com/tiki but tikiwiki won't let me do this from admin control panel and forces https://avantigroup.com ... ugh ... sure, i could go in and hack the template but this kind of defeats the smarty template approach but i digress ...

thanks in advance for your attention to this matter and on positive side, it does look like you have a lot going for your project and i look forward to diving in further ... to be continued ... cordially, chuck scott

At https://doc.tiki.org/Login-General-Preferences I see:

{img fileId="1859" thumb="box"}

I can't edit it from the doc seems it is set as is in the PREFDOC.

https://doc.tiki.org/tiki-listpages.php
Go to page 10

Listing is truncated.

I didn't look at all pages, so there may or may not be others like this.

{img fileId="1095" thumb="box"}

A newly registered user cannot edit most of doc.tw.org

An anonymous user cannot edit doc.tw.org, even with CAPTCHAs.

There is no clear text on a page of doc.tw.org which tells a user why they cannot edit that page, or what they can do about it.

"File Galleries configuration templates" is an option in the General Settings. But there is no help icon and the documentation at https://doc.tiki.org/File+Gallery+General+Settings has no information.

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
at the pages in dev.tiki.org I often get an error in chrome.
Like page: http://doc.tiki.org/Wiki+Plugin
Error on the screen: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 201326592 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 350 bytes) in /home/two/doc/lib/init/initlib.php on line 187

New feature about duplicate alias;
[ENH] Display error in wiki pages with duplicates alias links

Page https://doc.tiki.org/Tracker+Synchronization show multiple errors.

×
Error
Alias Tracker Sync link already present in 트래커 동기화 page(s)
Alias TrackerSync link already present in 트래커 동기화 page(s)
Alias TrackerS15n link already present in 트래커 동기화 page(s)
Alias Tracker S15n link already present in 트래커 동기화 page(s)
Alias S15n link already present in 트래커 동기화 page(s)

Also on : https://doc.tiki.org/Dynamic%20items%20list

Also on : https://doc.tiki.org/Requirements#PHP
Alias Requirements and Setup link already present in Anforderungen, 요구 사항 page(s)
Alias Requirement link already present in Anforderungen, 요구 사항 page(s)

This may be 2 bugs:

When you select Admin - External feeds and create a new feed, a blank page is presented after clicking "Save." It appears as though the external feed is saved, though.

Created feeds are not being updated on a schedule, nor are they being updated when the "Refresh" option is clicked. Clicking "Refresh" results in a blank page being displayed.

This has been ((http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=37418&topics_offset=23&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&forumId=4|reported on the forum.))

Logged as admin, when you navigate inside the File Galleries you can see the name of the Gallery you are in and close to it a wrench. The wrench tootip let you understand that you will be able to interact with THIS file gallery settings but in reality you are sent to the Admin Control Panel "File Galleries".
https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-admin.php?page=fgal#File%20Galleries

{img fileId="2091" thumb="box"}

This is quite confusing for new Admins.

Tested in v3.1. When choosing to store File Gallery items in a directory instead of the database, the directory field requires the full server path. If the abbreviated relative path to the wiki is entered, file uploads fail.

This conflicts with both doc.tw.o (as of today's rev) and Admin > Wiki, which allows the attachment directory to be specified relative to the wiki directory.

https://doc.tiki.org/Windows-Server has no content while it is linked to other pages. I can be better to fill it.

http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Features

I stumbled upon this while googling something else (the documentation of Tikis Paypal interface):

https://github.com/romoxi/BobShop

The claim is "BobShop is a shopping cart system for TikiWiki. "

So far I haven't taken a deeper look. Has anyone else seen this? Or tested? Advantages/disadvantages compared to CART? Is this independent development or are the authors known or identical with Tiki devs?

I am asking those questions, because
* I am looking for something that accepts more than just Paypal
* Tiki Credit Card integration is in it's infancy

Thanks
hman

Help System is not listed as a feature for Tiki Tracks. Is it the same as WebHelp? If so, then one or the other should be renamed for consistency

The "Help System" link on Admin::General points to non-helpful swamp on doc.tw.o

If the user didn't change the value of the destination of the help system, it should be updated to what the default value is now.

Need to hunt down what all the previous values were (ex.: http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=) and to update via sql

And for clean installs as well (of course)

However, if someone modified the default value, we don't touch.


Reminder to add a reset to default value in 3.0 (new admin panel should permit this)

The URL's for the help buttons are not being built correctly. Users are unable to get help during the initial setup.

Tested on 1.10.0b1. To reproduce:
After a fresh install go to the Administration:Administration page
Click on the General icon.
Click on the help icon at the top of Administration General
The help URL will use the local host name instead of doc.tikiwiki.org

Other notes:
Help shows enabled on the features page (apparently enabled by default)
All pages reached through tiki-admin.php seem to have this problem

In some PHP version, http_build_query would not work correctly and would not show correctly URL parameters for admin and edit options (in converting the templates from SMARTY).

Make sure that http_build_query function from php is working correctly as some version work only with 2 parameters (even it is said to be Php 5.1.1) and others 3 parameters.

See this issue reported in:

http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?topics_offset=1&forumId=6&comments_parentId=37095

http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki/branches/4.x/changelog.txt (got link to that from -german- http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki4) contains link to http://tikiwiki.org/ReleaseNotes42 which does not exist

Right now PluginJQ documentation ( https://doc.tiki.org/PluginJq ) is very helpful, and I made a profile in 12.x to manage the conditional display of some fields in forms.
http://profiles.tiki.org/Conditional_Display_in_Forms

But in 14.x the required syntax seems to be different, and I don't get it right:
http://profiles.tiki.org/Conditional_Display_in_Forms_14

See it reproduced in here:
http://xavi-9794-5642.show.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=CDF+instructions
u: admin
p: 12345

When selecting Case A or Case B in the radio button, all fields are shown, but no bg color for all the shown fields below the radio button.

When selecting Case A in the radio button, still some labels from fields for Case B are shown (text area)

Xavi

At the admin search preferences I entered "alias" and it didn't returned aliases.
Something that should have been done to be user friendly.

May be by extension is concerns all murals form of a term ?