[Steven Zahm]

@ Age

RE: I modified the certification extension and renamed all parts in it so we can register disciplines… I’ve included the zip file of it.

Thanks!

RE: What is the best way to use ‘own’ extensions so they wont get overwritten in the future?

Making you own extension is the only/bets way. As you;ve done.

In regards to the menu position, there is the possibility of an index collision in the future. If I remember of the top of my head correctly, you could use a decimal value for the index, such as 66.9123. Which would have a far less risk of a collision.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ giri

Please navigate to the Connections : Tools admin page and click the Logs tab. Are the email being logged? Are they being reported as success or fail?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marcel

I suspect it has to do with the way that https has been implemented on the site.

Open the page in Chrome, hit the F12 key and then click the Console tab.

You find several errors, unrelated to Connections, about mixed content. Those images are being blocked by the browser as unsecure.

I suspect the method to force https is “corrupting” the path/url for the Connections image. I say this because the path/url is not a valid one.

I would first check the General Settings admin page and make sure both the home and site URL are set correctly. I would also suggest double checking the method used to force https to make sure that is setup correctly and matches the home and site URL in the Settings.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sergio

Try resetting the Connections role capabilities.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Age

Glancing at the code and everything appears correct. Could you please attach a sample CSV file so I can take a look and give a quick test?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Age

You could use code to get the first, middle and last name and concatenate together the first letter of each… I do not feel a special field is necessary for this.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Age

RE: map certificates in the CSV import, but no luck because we cant see them in the dropdown.

That is because the Certifications extension does not have the code which registers the field so it can be imported. Honestly, I have even looked into what exactly would be required, code wise, yet. I do not think it would be too difficult because they would be imported similarly to categories since Certifications are attached as a taxonomy.

RE: Fields are delimited with a semicolon and all certificates with a comma.

That is no problem. You would wrap the certificates in quotes, eg. "Cert One, Cert Two, Cert Three".

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carrie

Hmmm… well, it is possible that the setting is correct but is being overridden by the .htaccess file… assuming Hostgator permits setting the PHP version in that file. Or, and I’ve seen this before… The setting is not actually doing anything due to a misconfiguration of cPanel. Unfortunately it is impossible for me to know which. You’ll have to contact them to correct it. Sometimes these types of issues crop up when a server is upgraded by the web host.

You can see the PHP version, memory and execution time I’m seeing by navigating to the Connections : Tools admin page and clicking the System Info tab. Scroll down to the Webserver Configuration section.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carrie

RE: I updated my php to 7.1, hopefully that will help.

Can you please confirm the setting? It is still reporting PHP version 5.6.

RE: I went to ‘Errors’ on my cpanel dashboard and the page is blank?

You may have to enable PHP error logging in order for anything to show. Hostgator should be able to help with that.

RE: I will provide the temp login under separate private reply below.

I took a look and this is almost certainly due to PHP running out of memory. Even on pages unrelated to Connections I would run into out of memory errors. It seems Hostgator might be “hard limiting” the max memory to about 170MB even though PHP reports 256MB.

Running PHP version 7.1 would reduce memory usage to around only 25% and run the site faster to boot.

I would also recommend setting the PHP max execution to 300. If the server is slow due to being overloaded at the time of the request, it is possible PHP will simply stop running, not even able to log errors.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bh

Probably the easiest solution is the Custom Entry Order extension. With this you could set the order of the entries you wish to have list top and in a specific order.

To set an entry to display at the top, you would set the entry order to 1. To have an entry show second, after the entry assigned to 1 you would assign that entry the order of 2. If there is no entry assigned as 1, then the entry assigned 2 would actually be first.

That said, I would recommend setting order by 10’s or even 100’s. This will allow you the opportunity to insert entries in between others. For example having entries assigned orders of 100, 200 and 300 would display those entries in that order at the top. So you could insert an entry in between 100 and 200 by assigning the order as 150.

Hope that makes sense!

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