where to insert: hotels and travel?

[asmecher]

Hi Trudy,

The version you're using, OCS 2.0, is the current release. The accommodations changes will be available in OCS 2.1, which is due within a few months (we hope), but it's currently not stable and I wouldn't recommend using it. In the meantime, if you're handy with PHP, you should be able to back-port that patch into version 2.0. (The incompatibilities mostly relate to multilingual metadata; OCS 2.1 will allow fully multilingual data to be entered in setup forms etc., whereas OCS 2.0 does not.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[ale]

Hi all,

FYI, accommodation information has been added to the CVS version; the patch will not quite be compatible with OJS 2.1.1 [note -- that's a typo and should read OCS 2.0; see below] but could be adapted if you're handy with PHP. See http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2920 for more information.

Hi Alec

Does this message mean you incorporated my changes?!

Just checking! I didn't think my changes would work for anyone else so if it has been added I'm delighted,

Ale

[asmecher]

Hi Ale,

Actually, the patch I committed is something I was working on in parallel; it doesn't include your changes. In general, though, we're extremely happy to accept contributed code and appreciate all community contributions!

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[tshore]

I think of myself as being pretty "handy with PHP", but I haven't yet been able to "back-port" the accommodations patch to work with OCS 2.0. Right now, the Accommodations page shows up fine, but, when I try to enter something to appear on there (using the conference manager), it just displays "Array".

http://imrf.mcmaster.ca/IMRF/ocs/index. ... ommodation

Perhaps you can pass along a suggestion to get through the last step(s).

[asmecher]

Hi tshore,

The incompatibilities between the patch and OCS 2.0 will mostly relate to multilingual data. Whereas OCS 2.0 only supported conference settings, paper metadata, etc. in a single language, the next release will support an arbitrary number of languages. To support this, settings on the settings form are POSTed to the form handler class as an array (e.g. the form element name will be settingName[locale]). Making the patch compatible with OCS 2.0 will involve changing this to simply settingName.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[tshore]

That did it, thank you Alec.

For anyone else trying to do this last step, the file in question is:

templates/manager/accommodationSettings.tpl

replace this:

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<textarea name="accommodationDescription[{$formLocale|escape}]" id="accommodationDescription" rows="5" cols="60" class="textArea">{$accommodationDescription[$formLocale]|escape}</textarea>

with this:

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<textarea name="accommodationDescription" id="accommodationDescription" rows="5" cols="60" class="textArea">{$accommodationDescription|escape}</textarea>

[oyeindia]

That did it, thank you Alec.

For anyone else trying to do this last step, the file in question is:

tshore:

For the benefit of non-PHP coders like me, could you explain how you managed the entire process, if you don't mind?

I started implementing ale's changes in Accommodation Hack 99% complete before realising it didn't seem to work for him, and rolling back.

Regards,

O.

[tshore]

Oye: I can't help you right now. I didn't document each change that was required and it would take me a while to backtrack and figure it out. What I did was "apply" Alec's patch (I made the changes manually) and then I tried to load the new Accommodations page. I think I got an error, so I tracked it down and fixed it. Then I tried to load the new admin page for the Accommodations page and got an error, so I tracked it down and fixed it. And, so on. I'm sorry that I can't be more specific, but I'm totally swamped right now.

Good luck.

[asmecher]

Hi oyeindia,

I'd suggest beginning with the patch at http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2920. As discussed in this forum, it won't apply cleanly to an OCS 2.0 install because the CVS version has diverged considerably from the last release's code, but follow Trudie's hint above and you should be OK with a little bit of fine-tuning.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[oyeindia]

Trudy, Alec:

Thanks for your replies. I shall attempt patch 2920 and fine-tuning.

Regards,

Oye

[spatialguru]

Will the pending accommodations patch and more flexible metadata handling in the next release also help me to add arbitrary menu items and pages? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it right now, so point me in the right direction... I want an item in the menu that, for one example, points to more information about a social event. Can I do this in 2.0 right now without having to hack templates or the db?

[spatialguru]

FYI - as a training exercise I took the Accommodation features (from CVS version) and cloned it to make a Transportation settings page. In case you are interested in hacking away or just want to see how I did it...

• Code: http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2781
• Background: http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2762&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[shannah]

I am also attempting a back-port of the accommodations feature into 2.0. One problem I am having is with the file uploads. The upload seems to place the locale info in the setting. The fix that was described for the accommodations description doesn't seem similar enough to generalize to use on the file upload form.

In fact I can't seem to find how the files are uploaded. I put some debug code into the execute() method of the AccommodationSettingsForm class but it doesn't seem to execute when I press the "Upload" button. Where do I look to strip out this locale information when the files are being uploaded.

Thanks

Steve Hannah