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Hi I found 3 error on in object action, and add 1 little feature.

TIME CREATION
In some condition, if the Joomla installation is set to a timezone and the user is set to another the article published isnt visible until UTC time pass virtual user time.

The solution is to patch line 26:

			$form->data['created'] = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s', false, false); // date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

with:

			$user =& JFactory::getUser();
			$date = new JDate($myDate, $user->getParam('timezone')?JFactory::getConfig()->getValue('offset'):0);
			$form->data['created'] = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s', false, false); // date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

LANGUAGE
Another patch required, is to add somewhere a line:

$form->data['language'] = '*';

because if the joomla installation had a language filter active, new submitted articles is not show.

[DEFAULT_CREATOR]
Than I applied another feature that permit to choice a user for publish articles from guest users:
I Add this lines at submit_article.ctp at line 15:

         <input type="hidden" name="chronoaction[{n}][action_submit_article_{n}_default_created_by]" id="action_submit_article_{n}_default_created_by" value="<?php echo $action_params['default_created_by']; ?>" />

at line 45:

	<?php
			$database =& JFactory::getDBO();
			$query = "SELECT * FROM `#__users`";
			$database->setQuery($query);
			$options = array();
			$users = $database->loadObjectList();
			foreach($users as $user){
				$options[$user->id] = $user->name;
			}
		?>
		<?php echo $HtmlHelper->input('action_submit_article_{n}_default_created_by_config', array('type' => 'select', 'label' => 'Default Author (if none logged in)', 'options' => $options, 'empty' => " - ", 'class' => 'medium_input', 'smalldesc' => "Select the article's default author in users.")); ?>

and to submit_article.php at line 30: (after other patch for correct timing of article)

         $form->data['created_by'] = ($user->guest)?$params->get('default_created_by', ''):$user->id;

Unique article alias
I discover that on sending an article with the action can be create more than one article with same alias, this condition can be a disaster for SEF of a website, this few lines solve the problem.

         $database =& JFactory::getDBO(); 
		$alias = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($form->data['title']);
		$n=2;
		do {
			$query = "SELECT * FROM `#__content` WHERE alias = '{$form->data['alias']}'";
			$database->setQuery($query);
			$articles = $database->loadObjectList();
			if (!empty($articles)) {
				$form->data['alias']=$alias.'-'.$n;
				$n++;
			}
		} while (!empty($articles));

I place on my webserver patched files (zip form) at this url: http://www.sfs.it/downloads/submit_article.zip

Zipped files can be used to update standard action present into Chronoforms installation.
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Agostino Zanutto
SFS.it

HI Agostino,

Thank you very much, I've added these to the current RC3.5 bugs list. Max should pick them up for the next release.

Bob

I made another little fix adding a Alias field to submitting articles.
(I need to use it on a q&a section for a website)

It's made with this little fixes on my old code:
on submit_article.ctp at line 11 add:

	<input type="hidden" name="chronoaction[{n}][action_submit_article_{n}_alias]" id="action_submit_article_{n}_alias" value="<?php echo $action_params['alias']; ?>" />

and at line 29

		<?php echo $HtmlHelper->input('action_submit_article_{n}_alias_config', array('type' => 'text', 'label' => "Article Alias Field", 'class' => 'medium_input', 'smalldesc' => "The field name which will hold the article's alias, if empty it's automatically generated escaping title.")); ?>

than on submit_article.ptp I:
change lines 34-36 from:

		$form->data['title'] = $form->data[$params->get('title', '');
		$form->data['fulltext'] = $form->data[$params->get('fulltext', '');
		$form->data['introtext'] = $form->data[$params->get('introtext', '')];

to

		$form->data['title'] = isset($form->data[$params->get('title', '')]) ? $form->data[$params->get('title', '')] : '';
		$form->data['fulltext'] = isset($form->data[$params->get('fulltext', '')]) ?$form->data[$params->get('fulltext', '')] : '';
		$form->data['introtext'] = isset($form->data[$params->get('introtext', '')]) ? $form->data[$params->get('introtext', '')] : '';

to fix an possible error on access to form array, and I add line 37:

		$form->data['alias'] = isset($form->data[$params->get('alias', '')]) ? $form->data[$params->get('alias', '')] : '';

and change line 42 to:

		$alias = empty($form->data['alias'])?JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($form->data['title']):JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($form->data['alias']);

action zip can be download from my website at url http://www.sfs.it/downloads/submit_article.zip

Hi agostino,

Thank you,

I made some changes to the FAQs code here a day or two ago to allow the use of the 'read-more' divider. This doesn't use the Submit Article action but the Custom Code in the form is similar and could be added to the Submit Article action. When I find time I'll try to consolidate all the changes.

Bob