Extension talk:EmailPage/Archive

fatal error getID
I installed the extension but when I use it I get
 * Fatal error: Call to a member function getID on a non-object in /home/kickmysi/public_html/techwiki/includes/SkinTemplate.php on line 408


 * To be able to give any advice I need more info such as your EmailArticle configuration settings and MediaWiki version. --Nad 21:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I have installed it successfully on MW 1.10.0 without problems. My file structure was:


 * --Zven 21:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Media Wiki Version MediaWiki: 1.10.0 include ("$IP/extensions/EmailArticle/EmailArticle.php"); $wgEmailArticleGroup = "**"; $wgEmailArticleContactsCat = ""; $wgEmailArticleCss = "EmailArticle.css"; $wgEmailArticleAllowRemoteAddr = ""; $wgEmailArticleAllowAllUsers = "false"; $wgEmailArticleToolboxLink = "Send to email"; $wgEmailArticleActionLink = "email"; $wgPhpMailerClass = "";

blank page, no email
I installed extension as well according to all of the instructions outlined and the extension will not send email. It goes to a blank page when I hit submit. Any suggestions email me at drclinks@gmail.com. -Mike


 * Is the normal mediawiki mail functionality is working such as password confirmation or watchlist changes? --Nad 00:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * peblusto says: this would be a perfect extension ... if i could get it working!  but we also get a blank page when clicking send, and there's no outgoing email, yet other email works from the wiki, including "e-mail user". i also note that this extension only permits building a page send form for users who have confirmed their email address (doh!) otherwise it displays "...permission denied" at the bottom of the form. here's my localsettings.php lines:


 * any clues? has anyone else seen this "blank page, no email send" problem, and resolved it? thanx peblusto 20:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


 * There seems to be a bug preventing the pseudo-groups ("*" and "user") from working. I'll try and fix that soon, but in the mean time, you can set the group to "" to allow anyone, or a real group. --Nad 22:13, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


 * peblusto says: thanks, but i'm still getting a blank page and no email, even with "$wgEmailArticleGroup = "";" instead of "*".


 * also, not having had success yet, i'm not absolutely sure how to use the form (see, for example, Special:EmailArticle/Main_Page), under "select recipients" do i have to select a "...group" or can i just type in email addresses under "additional..."?
 * Let me look at my apache server error.log:


 * what are you doing here in emailarticle.php?:


 * That line specifies the default location it expects to find the class.phpmailer.php which it can't find as shown in the following error message --Nad 12:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * should i have a file "phpmailer.php" in any particular directory?

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 * Yes you need to have it (in this particular case) at c:\www\apache2\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\EmailArticle\phpmailer\class.phpmailer.php (in other words, under ...\extensions\EmailArticle\phpmailer\...)  --Nad 12:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC) (edited peblusto 12:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC))

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 * also, i'd love some examples of the effect of the variables, for instance, what does


 * mean? thanx peblusto 13:19, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * I think it best to get it working before changing any of these other things --Nad 12:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * peblusto says: Sure, but regardless, support documentation is absolutely critical (and sorely missing throughout mediawiki), and example is the best way i have learned to learn, and seeing examples helps confirm what the tool can do, and help us decide if we want the tool or not at all! thanx.  peblusto 12:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * ps - i can mess it up and get a screen full of this as the send results instead of a blank screen - i guess i'll re-download the extension and try again!

and on and on ...


 * This looks like the class.phpmailer.php script is being sent to output instead of being executed. --Nad 12:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * peblusto says: ... so ...? i fix this by using the "official' version of phpmailer dropped into the ...\extensions\EmailArticle\phpmailer\... directory, but it still doesn't work.  I'm only moving the error messages around and never actually sending out the page over email.  does anyone have a checklist on how to confirm that proper email function support tools are installed and configured properly?  thanx peblusto 12:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

ea_autherror
I installed according to instructions, including the phpmailer class. I get an  when trying to send an email with empty string as $wgEmailArticleGroup. Also, how can I add aditional groups to the system to send email only to those people? Manually added groups work for the permissions but not as recipient. Also, the Article title is empty in the form and email ("" article sent from Elixir Wiki) - Oliver


 * I found some minor bugs which should fix those problems, try the new version at OrganicDesign:Extension:EmailArticle.php --Nad 07:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC) (version 1.0.6 (2007-09-22) peblusto 12:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC))

User and * Groups
Hi - this extension doesn't work for me unless I set $wgEmailArticleGroup to ' ' ; - when I try 'user' or even '*' it says permission denied, though I am logged in as a bureaucrat and sysop. Gary Kirk 14:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The "user" and "*" groups are virtual groups and aren't allowed as special-page permissions. The "user" group is allowed to be used for selecting recipients though and will send the article to all registered users. --Nad 11:58, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

MySQL errors in 1.11
Having upgraded to MW 1.11 I tried this extension (which worked fine in 1.10).

I went to: http://mywiki.local/index.php?title=Special:EmailArticle&ea_title=Main%20Page (and other articles as well) and each time was greated with these two error messages:

Warning: mysql_fetch_row: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /var/www/mywiki/extensions/EmailArticle/EmailArticle.php on line 120 Warning: mysql_fetch_row: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /var/www/mywiki/extensions/EmailArticle/EmailArticle.php on line 159

I echo'd out the select statements that were being sent and saw that it was as follows:

SELECT cl_from FROM `categorylinks` WHERE cl_to = 'Contacts' ORDER BY cl_sortkey SELECT page_id FROM `page` WHERE page_title REGEXP('\.css$') ORDER BY page_title

My PHP version hasn't changed (5.2.0-8), neither has MySQL (5.0.41).

Email sending still works, however.


 * I'm about to do the upgrade to 1.11 on mine too so I'll be able to look in to that soon. --Nad 21:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Working fine in MW1.11 now ;-) --Nad 12:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Suggestions
Can this extension be given the option of stripping out the [edit] links that appear in the emails? Unfortunately this makes the extension a little useless for our environment.


 * You can add to the text message part of the form, or you could remove them from the CSS you use --Nad 21:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Error sending (page name): Language string failed to load: instantiate
peblusto says: huh? i'm having fun crashing this and should be a master at it by the time i get it working. i just downloaded the entire big phpmailer suite from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ and replaced the version from http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/Class.phpmailer.php in my C:\www\apache2\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\EmailArticle\*.* directory (by the way, where should it go and how would i know?).

my apache error.log now says:

so i open EmailArticle.php in free http://www.htmlkit.com/ and read down to the numbered line 256 which says:

i've tried adding these lines into my php.ini:

but now i see there are two php.ini files, one in C:\www\apache2\ and one in C:\www\php5\ ... which one matters? how should i coordinate them to best support mediawiki and this extension, if it matters? I added the "include_path..." and "$mail..." lines the end of both php.ini files, reloaded to send a new page and still get "Language string failed to load: instantiate". here are the two lines in apache error.log when trying to send a page:

maybe i need remedial details on exactly what resources need to be where in the system. thanx peblusto 17:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * Sorry, the instructions regarding the phpmailer file were incorrect and have been updated, I've added the specific info about this in the following section as well --Nad 04:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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peblusto says: so, is this what we should have in our localsetting.php:

if so, maybe we should put that twin line entry on the front article / extension page.

please help me audit - here's my inventory:


 * files:
 * c:\www\apache2\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\emailarticle\emailarticle.php
 * c:\www\apache2\htdocs\mediawiki\extensions\emailarticle\phpmailer\class.phpmailer.php
 * This is correct and matches the default setting for $wgPhpMailerClass
 * localsetting.php (in C:\www\apache2\htdocs\mediawiki\localsetting.php) contains:
 * include ("$IP/extensions/emailarticle/emailarticle.php");
 * $wgEmailArticleGroup = "";
 * $wgEmailArticleAllowAllUsers = true;
 * $wgEmailArticleToolboxLink = "Email current page";
 * $wgPhpMailerClass = "$IP/extensions/emailarticle/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php";
 * You don't need to set this since the default should be fine, but if you were to set it you should use $IP not $wgScriptPath
 * special:version says:
 * Version
 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt
 * Special pages
 * Special:EmailArticle (version 1.0.6, 2007-09-22)	Send rendered article to an email address or list of addresses	User:Nad
 * Extension functions
 * ... wfSetupEmailArticle ...
 * Hook name -- Subscribed by
 * MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd -- wfEmailArticleToolboxLink
 * SkinTemplateTabs -- wfEmailArticleActionLink
 * MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd -- wfEmailArticleToolboxLink
 * SkinTemplateTabs -- wfEmailArticleActionLink
 * SkinTemplateTabs -- wfEmailArticleActionLink

however, i have the same problems.

with your version of class.phpmailer.php (30 kb) from http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/Class.phpmailer.php I get a page full of code gibberish as in Extension_talk:EmailArticle above.

with class.phpmailer.php (46 kb) from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ I still get Error sending (page name): Language string failed to load: instantiate.


 * error.log from C:\www\apache2\logs, final lines:
 * [Fri Sep 21 15:50:37 2007] [error] [client 10.112.102.9]
 * (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
 * /mediawiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=special%3Aversion&go=Go
 * HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
 * http://...ourwikiserver.../mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:EmailArticle&action=submit
 * [Fri Sep 21 15:50:37 2007] [error] [client 10.112.102.9]
 * (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
 * /mediawiki/index.php/Special:Version HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
 * http://...ourwikiserver.../mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:EmailArticle&action=submit

so i ask myself, i say, "self, where the heck is language instantiate coming from?" (and i ask myself who uses words like "instantiate" in the first place, anyway? see below *)
 * class.phpmailer.php line 445 (of 1499):
 * $this->SetError($this->Lang("instantiate"));

i also notice many directory references inside class.phpmailer.php that do not match the directory structure of my system - does that matter? here's the language line:
 * class.phpmailer.php line 596 (of 1499):
 * function SetLanguage($lang_type, $lang_path = "language/")...

is it me? (i look at http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/wiki/index.php/Special:Version and i'm jealous - can i hire you!?!) peblusto 20:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * * ps: from http://www.onelook.com/?w=instantiate&ls=a
 * instantiate quick definitions
 * verb:  find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) (Example: "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect")
 * verb:  represent by an instance (Example: "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect")

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peblusto says: same problem Tuesday, September 25, 2007  7:14:07 am trying on another wiki (built off same database and php installation) - either i get a screen page full of gibberish using your version of phpmailer or i get "Error sending Main Page: Language string failed to load: instantiate" when using the "class.phpmailer.php" from sorceforge.

apache error.log last line:


 * [Tue Sep 25 07:12:31 2007] [error] [client 10.112.102.9]
 * PHP Fatal error: Class 'PHPMailer' not found in
 * C:\\www\\apache2\\htdocs\\...ourwiki2...\\extensions\\EmailArticle\\EmailArticle.php
 * on line 257, referer:
 * http://...ourwikihost.../...outwiki2.../index.php?title=Special:EmailArticle&action=submit

thanks for exploring this. peblusto 11:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * peblusto says: my mwdiawiki does email the registration confirmation, so email settings appear to work elsewhere. any clues as to the cause and resolution of


 * Error sending Special:Version: Language string failed to load: instantiate


 * error when clicking [Send!]? thanx peblusto peblusto 10:30, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * That looks like you're trying to send a special page - you can only send normal articles not special pages. --Nad 11:08, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

PHP Mailer class
The only file this extension needs from phpmailer is the one named class.phpmailer.php, by default this extension expects it to be found in a directory called phpmailer which should be located in the same directory as the EmailArticle.php script is located. If you want to put it in some other location, then specify its full path name in the $wgPhpMailerClass variable in your localsettings after the EmailArticle include statement. There's no need to adjust anything to do with PHP or Apache. --Nad 04:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

How does the contact list work?
How exactly does $wgEmailArticleContactsCat work? It looks to me like if I create an article "Foo" with contents:

foo@foo.com

... then I should be given a list where I can select foo@foo.com as a recipient. Am I understanding that correctly? I don't think I am, because that doesn't seem to work for me. --64.236.208.27 14:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops, I'd forgotten that I hadn't written the explanation for any of the recipient-selection methods! I've added those to the docs now, so hopefully that will make a bit more sense now ;-) --Nad 20:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. I still had some problems... I think there are bugs:
 * The category names used won't work if they have spaces in them. You need to convert those spaces to underscores before you use them in your DB queries.
 * There's a bug in the addRecipient function. E-mails from categories don't currently get added to the $recipients[] array because they never hit the part of the function that tests for validity.  Here's what I did to fix that:


 * Thanks again for a great extension. Hope this comment makes it even better. --64.236.208.28 14:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've updated it to 1.0.7 with that patch --Nad 20:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

A little tweak for setting the From: name more nicely
Sorry, not a proper patch. But you can see where this goes. There's probably a better way to extract the real name, too... I'm not really a programmer. :)

--Oeuftete88 17:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * thanks, that looks better, I've added that patch as 1.0.8 --Nad 20:53, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Error sending Help:Contents: Could not instantiate mail function.
I tried to send various pages on my wiki and I get the following error message: Error sending Help:Contents: Could not instantiate mail function. Any clue on how to fix that? --PurplePopple 22:43, 28 December 2007 (UTC)