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Making phplinks links show up in What's New block


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I recently installed phplinks on my RV-8 aircraft construction site - everything went smoothly, except I was getting parse errors when I made the changes to make the phplinks links show up in the What's New block. I eventually tracked the problem down to my misinterpretation of the integration directions.

The parse errors looked like:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /Library/WebServer/Documents/lib-common.php on line 4147
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: template in /Library/WebServer/Documents/lib-common.php on line 607

Step 7 in the README directs you to make a number of changes to lib-common.php. A file is provided with a bunch of code to replace everything after the "// Get newest links" comment in the "COM_whatsNewBlock". Well, I did that, and I kept getting the parse errors. I finally figured out that you don't want to quite replace all the code. Specifically, you must not replace the following lines at the end of the COM_whatsNewBlock:

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$retval .= COM_endBlock( COM_getBlockTemplate( 'whats_new_block', 'footer' ));

    return $retval;
}
 

I think the source of the problem is that Squatty had inserted a new file management section in the "COM_whatsNewBlock" in his lib-common.php. His file management code went between the newest links code, and the the lines I mention, so he overlooked them when he wrote the directions.

Other than this small glitch, phplinks integrated into GL without any problems. Thanks Squatty!


Kevin Horton
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