PhotoPost joomla integration - Page 2

Chuck S · February 3rd, 2008, 09:26 AM

What part of we do integrations in our free time is hard to understand?

ionut · February 3rd, 2008, 11:55 AM

Maybe it shouldn't be in the free time, you do sell a product. More integrations, more customers.

Chuck S · February 3rd, 2008, 12:07 PM

I do support 3 products which have 16 integrations to support and I code classifieds and reviewpost so sorry it is in my free time which is very sparse to say the least.

carpman · February 4th, 2008, 05:38 AM

Nothing like alienating your customers to improve sales!

To be honest i don't expect a product out of the box to support integration with every application, there are just to many.

What i would advocate is some form of voting to ascertain what are the most wanted integrations as over time the popularity of some apps fades or increases.

RaceJunkie · February 4th, 2008, 07:35 AM

Chuck you sure are very rude to your customers.

No one is asking you to re-write the will here, all you have to do is consider it. I don't use PP with Joomla but it looks like there would be a market for it though.

Chuck S · February 4th, 2008, 07:44 AM

I was not rude in any manner! I was asking what is so hard to understand what was said. I stated writing integrations is something I do in spare time which I do not have actually because of support etc. It is pretty cut and dry actually here. If I go through this thread I see a constant bashing by people because we have not released a Joomla Integration and its getting worse and people are getting quite rude. Not exactly a ringing endoursement to have us write one. We have about 16 forum integrations and it is quite alot to keep up with those. I have been very honest and up front stating from the beginning of this thread as we have no plans to write any more integrations but if we do get some time we would consider it. Thats all I can say really as we have not wrote any integrations in about 2 years except to update the ones we do support.

RaceJunkie · February 4th, 2008, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

I was not rude in any manner! I was asking what is so hard to understand what was said. I stated writing integrations is something I do in spare time which I do not have actually because of support etc. It is pretty cut and dry actually here. If I go through this thread I see a constant bashing by people because we have not released a Joomla Integration and its getting worse and people are getting quite rude. Not exactly a ringing endoursement to have us write one. We have about 16 forum integrations and it is quite alot to keep up with those. I have been very honest and up front stating from the beginning of this thread as we have no plans to write any more integrations but if we do get some time we would consider it. Thats all I can say really as we have not wrote any integrations in about 2 years except to update the ones we do support.

It was just your tone and I do understand where you are coming from. Don't agree with it, but understand it. Ever thought about trying to get someone to work with you on it? Joomla is a great CMS and will only get bigger and better.

I was just trying to point out if I was a potential customer and ran across this thread I would have to question it.

I like this answer better.

Chuck S · February 4th, 2008, 08:15 AM

Well I was directly quoted and bashed that I see in this thread which is quite pold so I dont think I had any tone there I asked a simple question what was so hard to understand about my response that I made a year or so go. Sorry if you think it came across that way. Honestly there is no one to assist with this Customers are free to modify the code in any way they wish and if they use the Mambo integration as a template and modify that. To support an integration it usually takes a month or so of testing and unwrapping forum code etc to understand how that works etc to write an integration, I have been struggling with phpbb3 for 8 months now and have has to table that as I am in the middle of a classifieds beta. Its all about free time. If I spend 6 or 8 hours a day doing support there is no time for anything else. Simply put here supporting what we already have and developing the core product takes priority over writing and supporting new integrations. If we get a break in support etc and I get free time I usually do find new things to play with but that usually only happens once or so a year.

shakeme · February 10th, 2008, 06:36 PM

I have been a Joomla user for a very long time. While it's a great piece of software to get a CMS up and running for your company, anything further is a nightmare and a mess - as are the licensing issues surrounding it and the people involved in creating it. Having ditched it for other products when building social applications (I still use it for simple CMS needs), I can only tell you I'm MUCH happier. As of right now there already is a vbulletin Joomla integration so there is no need for any other integration within Joomla.

I don't know Chuck very well so don't get the wrong idea. Chuck seems like he's doing the best he can to support the integrations that are likely to be most popular and within his ability to support. I don't blame him for not wanting to go down the Joomla path. That certainly doesn't stop you or me from hiring a developer to do the dirty work if we really want it so badly.

Chuck S · February 10th, 2008, 08:30 PM

Yeah much my same opinion I installed it a while back and found it to be a nightmare of an application. We have over 16 applications we currently support and phpbb3 is my next job on trying to tackle as we support phpbb2. My priorities around here keep me focused on supporting 3 products and developing 2 of the 4 applications we sell so that leaves very little time for anything else.

Swanny · February 11th, 2008, 01:22 PM

Chuck, no offense but I get the impression that whoever runs PhotoPost / All Enthusiast needs to hire another techie person to better handle the workload (Is Scott still the boss?).

I can read and comprehend when you say you're doing things "in your spare time". Please tell whoever runs the site I think maybe you should do development only and they can hire someone else for support! Maybe there is someone else but all I've seen is you responding to everyone ;-)

Chuck S · February 11th, 2008, 01:50 PM

Swanny we have been looking to find people who know the product to help lessen the load for support for along time but it is hard to find people. We have hired people here and there and they did not work out lasting only a few months. The only people working for support are Zach and me and he mainly does vbgallery and I support the other 3 products which obviously takes alot of time. If you know anyone who has a good knowledge of the program then feel free to let me know and I will pass it along. Yes you see me responding to everyone as I am the one main person who does things around here.

Swanny · February 11th, 2008, 02:02 PM

I understand Chuck. Years ago I was a moderator here but eventually didn't have time for it. I'd offer to help but I just don't have the time... well how much do you need someone here (full-time/part-time?) I don't know vb but do know phpbb and certainly some of the pp products code.

Chuck S · February 11th, 2008, 03:54 PM

I guess the kind of help we are looking is someone with enough knowledge to assist with general support questions. I really cant say what time it generally takes or what Scott's requirements are but if you have someone you think is up to the task I will gladly look over their posts here and assess their capability and pass their name along.

tradenet · February 19th, 2008, 07:56 AM

I am going to try 1.0.14 with the Mambo bridge and see how that works out. The current postnuke one is flaky and I just don't have the time to jigg it. Not a big fan of Joom-Mambo as it isn't flexible enough.

**Update. Setting the cookie path in PP fixed the problem ie. the postnuke is not in the root directory of the site.
Tried. Joomla version above and it does NOT work "out of the box" with the current Mambo bridge. I'll stick with postnuke (v0.7.6.4), it's way more flexible.

Chuck S · February 19th, 2008, 08:53 AM

Correct as we support Mambo not Joomla and post nuke should work fine as long as you have cookies set correct as you found out.