Warble (Twitter/Facebook site with FBSS) 6.x-1.0-RC2

Submitted by IceCreamYou on November 8, 2009 - 18:24

DISCLAIMER: This feature is being offered for your convenience, but I do not intend to support it. If something isn't working, read the documentation for the relevant project and figure it out yourself. You can do it -- I believe in you.

If that doesn't cut it for you, please read the Help & Support page for the Facebook-style Statuses project.

Along similar lines, I will not accept feature requests for this release.

What this release provides

This release sets your site up almost exactly like the Facebook-style Statuses demo site. In addition to all the features that FBSS offers, this module will set up your homepage to show a stream of statuses, set up a dual search page for users and statuses, and configure user profiles to show streams of statuses, friends' statuses, and references of the relevant user.

You may not see these pages immediately, because they are not automatically placed in any menu. You should go to the Panels/Page Manager setup pages as well as the administrative list of Views in order to see what this feature has set up for you. There is one exception: your homepage will be automatically set to the stream of statuses.

Since it is not possible to set up an input filter in a module, you will have to do that part on your own if you want any special formatting to be allowed in the statuses on your site. I recommend that you enable the HTML filter and the URL filter, but not the Line Break filter or the filters provided by the Twitter module. I also recommend the Wordfilter module if you want to restrict certain words from appearing on your site.

Some problems

Submitted by Anonymous on November 13, 2009 - 01:35.

Here are some problems which I encountered while enabling this feature. I just want to mention them, some of them might be related to Features module.

I didn't have facebook_status nor flag module installed before. I copied them to modules/contrib and tried to let the feature enable them. Something went wrong with the installation of those modules, because they didn't create any tables to database. When I enabled the module after installing these two modules separately, there were no errors.

Now if I try to view another user's profile, I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function is_flagged() on a non-object in web_root/sites/all/modules/contrib/flag_friend/flag_friend.module on line 282
But it seems to come from Flag module, because the friend-flag wasn't enabled. Once I "update code" I can see the profiles.

Another error when I try to see Liked status updates:
Fatal error: Call to a member function get_views_info() on a non-object in /home/merilai2/public_html/communityclick/sites/all/modules/contrib/flag/includes/flag_handler_field_ops.inc on line 66
I assume this happens because the like-flag isn't active. But this flag won't change from "update code" to "enable" when I copy the code to flag_friend-module.

I cannot set any content type for the flag, so I guess it is not supposed to work with profile nodes? This makes this feature useless for me, because I have profiles as nodes and users cannot access the basic profile page of another user.

The home page in Panels pages doesn't have any content.

Otherwise the feature seems to enable lots of settings.

Some answers

Submitted by Anonymous on November 15, 2009 - 13:58.

You have to enable all of the dependencies before enabling the feature (also be sure you're using the latest versions, whether stable or development). Your problems are likely related to this.

The "like" flag is for statuses -- it should be enabled on some of the Views the feature provides. It doesn't make any sense to copy the code for the flag to another module, and it's not related to flagging users themselves.

I'm not sure about the Panels thing.