Irritating - Feature?

sting · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:23 pm

Is there something special that one must do to make sure a home grown admin module is populated the first time you upload it and subsequent times after that?

Strange question? Read on.

I have been working on a few versions of a utility I am about to release - from deleting to updating to installing, each time I would install it, it would not show up in the Administration panel until I had hit "Modules" and let the entire module list re-populate.

Any ideas as to why?

-sting

montego · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:39 pm

sting, hhhmmmm, now this is becomming a common theme. I am seeing this in other forum posts and was always pointing to the module not being inserted into nuke_modules because of the extra NSN Groups field "views". But, I thought this was related to folks doing upgrades and / or installing NSN Groups and not getting admin/modules/modules.php down right.

I think we may have a bigger issue to look into...

Guardian2003 · Site Admin Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 5830

sting - For clarification as I'm now confused (easily done) you are saying that once upon a time, in a galaxy far away.......
When you installed a new module and went to the main nuke admin, you normally saw the new module listed in the core nuke main menu block (usually under 'inactive modules') but now they do not appear until you have selected 'Modules' from the admin menu?

I couldnt swear an oath to it but I'm fairly positive, you are right - something has changed! I'm fairly positive that new modules appeared in the main menu block (blocks-modules.php) almost immediately without having to actually forcing a re-population of the list by firing the admin/modules/modules.php by accessing /admin.php?op=modules

This also works with un-installing modules - seems you have to force a re-population of the list before the menu clears.

montego · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:44 pm

Actually, not quite right Guardian. I believe sting is not seeing the Admin icon show up in the ACP until after he goes into the Modules admin and then back out. Others have been complaining about that here as well. We've got some digging to do...

Guardian2003 · Site Admin Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 5830

Apologies, I must be over worked or didnt read his post correctly.
By default, I have the 'show admin icons' option turned off on all my sites which might explain why I hadnt noticed this before - time for some more experimenting I think.

sting · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:15 pm

Sigh. I usually prefer to have an answer when I post a bug... grrr.

-sting

montego · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:47 pm

sting, sorry. This has only recently surfaced and have not had time to look into it...

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 3221

This isn't a bug. Code was removed from the Patched files for the modules block to speed things up

sting · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:52 am

Code:

This isn't a bug. Code was removed from the Patched files for the modules block to speed things up

Okay - but the idea behind the modular capability of nuke was to install the thing into the directory and have it work...

As long as the final install step in all of the readme's now becomes "go to admin, modules, then refresh", I suppose that works for me. . .

-sting

montego · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:17 pm

evaders99, ughhh. That is disappointing to hear, but thanks for letting us know.

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 3221

Well I didn't make that decision. I didn't handle the optimizations in the Patched files, just the bug fixes. Smile

(Personally I don't care so much, a few more queries on my site aren't going to hurt anyway)