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Separate from yesterday's issue. @lukas-w the new Navbar lib breaks the forums, likely because they're hard-coded to use the old navbar.php file. Here's the old instructions, note that the HTML comment is actually the include statement which is parsed by phpBB:

https://github.com/LMMS/lmms.io/wiki/Forums-:-Install-Theme-and-Navbar

If you don't mind, please update these instructions to accommodate the new fix you come up with.

Relevant bits in navbar.php:

function get_page_name() {
    $uri = trim($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], "/");

    switch($uri) {
        case '':
        case 'header.php':
        case 'index.php':
            return 'Home';
        case 'download/artwork':
        case 'download/samples':
        case 'download':
                    return 'Download';
        case 'lsp':
            return 'Share';
        default:
            return preg_replace('/\.[^.]*$/', '', ucfirst($uri));
    }
}

function menu_item($text, $url = NULL, $dropdown = NULL, $disabled = NULL, $class = NULL) {
    $class .= mini_me($text, $url, $dropdown, $disabled, $class);

    // Determine the "Active Tab
    if ($text == get_page_name()) {
        $active = 'active';
    } else {
        $active = '';
    }

    .
    .
    .
}

Default licence (what is selected if you don't change it) could be some other than Artistic Licence 2.0, cause that doesn't allow remixing(?) and is less free than others. LMMS aims to promote freedom? Artistc licence is chosen as default now cause it is in alphabetical order.

Also updating the licences (add more of them? like v2, v3) cause some of them is rarely used and perhaps not used at all for music projects?

Follow mediawiki migration steps. Theme as much as possible to maintain navbar.

http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/community-docs/Migrating%20MediaWiki%20from%20Hosted%20Apps/

The idea is to offer a simple graph displaying our download counts (by day, week, whatever).

Here's a library called "Sparkline" that will give us a graph very similar to what we had through sourceforge:

http://www.jamiebicknell.com/20-Jun-2014/Sparklines-via-PHP

What we would need is some way to cache the download count once a day/week/month so we could dynamically create this chart for our downloads page. We could probably hack this together by doing a quick command line grep / sed / awk on a daily wget of our downloads page and appending it to a plain text file:

I currently store the download count in the button in a data field:

The text file may look like this:

21758,24928,30293,40054,

Or we could make it a bit more robust and just read it back in with JSON:

{"download_count": {
  "version": "1.0.3",
  "total": "40054",
  "items": {
    "win32": "20145",
    "win64": "19909"
  }
}}

Since the graph itself is extra info that's not necessarily needed for the end-user, I would consider hiding it in the release notes div, or perhaps renaming "release notes" to "more information".

1. Navbar.php incorrectly links to "screens.php" on small screens (quick fix)
2. Small screens hide screenshots on screenshots page due to the visible-lg class stuff (quick fix)

Wanted to log these so they don't get forgotten since they affect small screens only.

Picture says more than a thousand words.

This plugin makes the registration hashes less predictable by spammers:

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/daropl_antispam/

It does not list our current version 3.0.12 as supported and may break upgrades so I'll leave this bug.

This was recommeded by @eagles051387.

The first time I read lmms.io I found the phrase "typing or midi keyboard" pretty confusing, both because of the formulation and because of the use of "typing keyboard". Does anyone else think it should be changed? I think "computer keyboard", or "regular keyboard" might make more sense.

Must be a quirk to TuxFamily or a typo in the code but it runs fine on my pc.

This works fine via shell (id intentionally masked):

wget wget https://api.soundcloud.com/groups/5532/tracks.json?client_id=1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF

https://github.com/Lukas-W/lmms.tuxfamily.org/blob/master/feed/soundcloud.php

Anyone interested in tackling this? @Umcaruje comes to mind.... :)

The idea is to have an HTML5 play button embedded into the soundcloud feed. I found a few libraries for this, all seems to leverage HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and sometimes have a flash-player fallback.

The HTML could be appended to the feed body on this line: soundcloud.php#L20

The stream is in the JSON data as stream_url, or more specifically $item->stream_url. Here's an example stream_url for reference:

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/164168248/stream?client_id=<BASE64_DECODE_SOUNDCLOUD_CLIENT_ID>

To grab this URL with the secret sanely from soundcloud.php, you can do:

PHP

// echo some html tags, etc
get_secrets('soundcloud', $item->stream_url);
// echo more html tags, etc

This will automatically append the decoded API client id to the end of the URL (The disadvantage of course is it exposes the secret to the clients loading that web page)

Mock-Up

So, I've been doing a lot of categorizing of the articles on the wiki. I categorized all the Pages that need work into 3 categories:

• Incomplete
• Out of Date
• Too Complex

So if you are planning to work on the wiki (hint hint: @Spekular) you should work on the articles from those categories.

The second thing I wanted to talk about is that we should probably remove most of the old articles. They are full of non-working pictures and weird structure that does not fit in the current wiki structure. Since we are having a new site, I think that the wiki should start with a clean slate (only 1.0+ articles).

I'd love to hear your guys's opinion on this. 🍺

@lukas-w is there a reason the /vendor directory is not included in the github repo? Not having it breaks the community page on local instances.

@HDDigitizerMusic proposed a dedicated YouTube channel. I think we need a good primer video. Something quick and dirty which showcases the software at a glance. This would be a nice addition to the front page, as the current link points to a rather boring unfa spoken screen grab.

The collapse code used for hiding the LSP login area on smaller displays triggers the in/out collapse code for the navbar and vice versa.

Code can be found here:
https://github.com/tresf/lmms.io/tree/master/public/lsp

Steps to migrate the LSP (from sourceforge to our new lmms.io site hosted at networkredux)

1. Backup sourcecode/uploads/database, import to local php/mysql instance (done)
2. Theme LSP with new navbar, bootstrap theme, etc (done)
3. Convert LSP from mysql_connect to DBO (50% complete)
4. Protect LSP against XSS (started)
5. Import DB to network redux (NOT started)
6. Push php changes to network redux, true-up DB/uploads, redirect old LSP (NOT started)

Optional:

1. Create shim to allow forum authentication into LSP (NOT started)

Updated 2014-09-08

Some log:

(1) PHP Notice:  Undefined property: stdClass::$items in public/feed/json_common.php on line 193
    PHP Stack trace:
    PHP   1. {main}() public/community/index.php:0
    PHP   2. include() public/community/index.php:81
    PHP   3. get_json_data() public/feed/youtube.php:12
    PHP   4. has_children() public/feed/json_common.php:167
(2) PHP Warning: file_get_contents(public/../tmp/.json_youtube_UCzGxut7RTCfln1ym1Q-sXkQ_playlistItems): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in public/feed/json_common.php on line 173
    PHP Stack trace:
    PHP   1. {main}() public/community/index.php:0
    PHP   2. include() public/community/index.php:81
    PHP   3. get_json_data() public/feed/youtube.php:12
    PHP   4. file_get_contents() public/feed/json_common.php:173
(3) PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in public/feed/youtube.php on line 15
    PHP Stack trace:
    PHP   1. {main}() public/community/index.php:0
    PHP   2. include() public/community/index.php:81

With all the new instruments and new versions it would be good to see if a project on the lsp require a higher LMMS version than the one you perhaps have. I don't know exactly how it could be implemented. The "best" way would perhaps be to look for presence of one of the new plugins, as you could have made songs in newer versions of LMMS without using any of the new features. This would mean you had to update every time there was a new version though.
The easiest way is probably to save the LMMS version together with the project file, and instead show "created with LMMS version X.X.X" on lsp. I don't know if I should file an enhancement on this on the LMMS repo.

Edited 11/19/2014 @tresf, added link, php code
http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com/is-it-possible-to-decompress-an-mmpz-file-without-lmms-dump-td3491.html

Just in case someone is interested down the road, reading .mmpz files is possible via php via:

$x = fopen($file);
fseek($x, 4);
zlib_decode(fread($x, filesize($file)-4));

d9b53d4

-Tres

As you may have noticed, the website is now running on our new hoster as well, as you can see at http://lmms.io/ or http://198.72.81.22/. Because of some changes I wanted to make (using Composer for handling external dependencies) that for some reason wouldn't work on tuxfamily, I created a separate branch for doing this, called redux. I set up automatic deployment from that branch.

In order to concentrate development, I'd like to merge the branch redux into master again, which would imply dropping tuxfamily. The new hoster may still be "unstable" though, as I'm planning to adjust and improve the way the automatic deployment works. So we have three options here:

1. We drop tuxfamily, focus on our new hoster, as described above. Things may not always work as expected, that's why I'm asking you to agree on this.
2. I give making the redux branch work on tuxfamily a second try. If it works, we merge the branches so that both hosters are running the same branch, and can then slowly migrate to networkredux.
3. We keep both branches and drop tuxfamily as soon as networkredux is fully ready. This is the least favorable option, as I think development should mainly take place on the master branch, and I don't want to spend half of my time on merging the branches.

Let me know what you think ;)

Seeing as we are migrating everything to our new hosting provider. I would like to start the discussion about backup strategy.

My idea is that since we are on a VPS, I have a script that would compress particular directories and put them in a tmp location if i remember correctly. What I can add is the ability to send an email to certain individuals alerting them that the backup is ready for download. All archives would be deleted after 7 days or how ever many days we decide. What do you guys think?

Right now there is no easy way to find the search function in the forums, but it exists. If you click one of the four buttons at the top, you come to a site where you can click on a button saying "return to advanced search", and thus finding the search function.

However it is widely known that the search function in phpbb, quote: "sucks dead bears".

So what about adding a google search instead? Here is a post on how. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1344605#p12679825

Per 8413c93#diff-c74fb9f5847116a260beb4109475e583R44 the facebook feed seems to be broken from a formatting perspective.

I chose SimpleHtmlDom to format some of the text to clean it up for the community page however in recent versions of the community page it seems to be broken.

I'm not sure what caused this (composer, underlying data changes from facebook or some other changes to the json_common.php in general, but I want a placeholder for it to be fixed. :)

http://lmms.io/lsp/?action=register

Users are presented with invalid security code error on new LSP regardless if the code was typed properly or not.

As title states, on tuxfamily, php can't read from any of the secrets files located in /home/lmms likely due to file permissions. This has likely been happening right along possibly related to #4 and #6.

As a temporary workaround they've been moved to htdocs/../tmp.

So I got it working from my PC by whitelisting my ip address here:
https://console.developers.google.com/project/apps~lmms-api/apiui/credential

I added the subnet in the recommended CIDR notion I believe tuxfamily is using: 212.85.158.0/21
... which should cover what they have registered here:
http://myip.ms/info/whois/212.85.158.2/k/938534357/website/tuxfamily.org

212.85.152.0 - 212.85.159.255

But the page won't load, i get 403 forbidden

I'm disabling the Google+ feed until I can sort this out. @lukas-w Please let me know if you are able to figure it out before me.

-Tres

I recommend renaming "Native Instruments" as it may lead to confusion (or even worse, trademark problems) with http://www.native-instruments.com/en/

I propose using a radio button style that illustrates which page you are on (i.e. Debian vs. Fedora).

I also propose we consume the hashtag i.e. #linux-debian and switch accordingly.

Doesn't it look better with navbar-default?

Google+ feed is broken on network redux hosting. Likely due to the need to whitelist the IP range for networkredux so that it can access the Google+ JSON API.

-Tres

Like said in 74cdca5 it would be good to be able to order the screenshots. A simple numbering in the filenames should do the trick:
01_ss_automation.png
02_ss_plugins.png
etc.

Hi, I am making this issue so I don't spam issue #29 . Here I will share my progress in making the Video for the LMMS Youtube channel.

First, let me share a Raw test shot I did. Thats about how the shots will look in the commercial.

If you have any suggestions and ideas, feel free to leave comments

P.S. If you know a better place to put this rather than here, please state it. I am open to ideas.

Andrewblek
http://lmms.io/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1307
spams forum with viagra crap
Could subforum '0' beused to 'collect' spambot-attacs, and then let the real forum start ved sub '1'
Then our real users should just be told never to post in sub'0' and a script could traverse sub0 and delete all accounts on a daily cleanup
(This method was succesfull on flashPunk)

As suggested in #5.

┐
├── cron # private cron scripts that are regularly run by the server
│   ├── minutely # Community feed would go in this directory for example
│   ├── hourly
│   └── daily

Just having this issue as a reminder until I set up everything on the server.

Currently when the feeds are outdated they make a syncronous request on page load.

PHP likes synchronous activity and it is the default behavior, but I think this extra 500ms makes it appear the site is running slow, when it's actually waiting on a new JSON feed.

I think the feeds should instead read the JSON data from the local file system only, and then later, set some trigger/flag to grab a new version in the background.

A standard approach for something like this is crontab, where we do a wget every 20 minutes or so, but I don't see it available on tuxfamily.

Open for ideas.

As reported by @musikBear, intermittently the "Reply" button displays a blank white page.
This may be:

• Caused by a change to the theme files when I was fixing the navbar
• It may be something specific to a user status
• It could be something broken in the database.

Unfortunately the phpBB logs don't show any errors.

The subcategory ID's for some items i.e. Presets\Basses vs. Samples\Basses are swapped in the mysql database causing incorrect counts for certain files. Example:

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&category=Presets&subcategory=Basses

Corrective action needs to be taken in MySQL to properly map the Subcategories to their appropriate Category parent as illustrated by the files which represent them. (Edit: Done. SQL commands are below)

Edit: Oct 27 Code has been fixed moving forward per commit c219d05

Will complete this once the conversion to our new hosting is complete as we'll just have to clean it up again after new files are uploaded.

update files set subcategory = 13 where category = 3 and subcategory = 9;
update files set subcategory = 44 where category = 3 and subcategory = 36;
update files set subcategory = 14 where category = 3 and subcategory = 10;
update files set subcategory = 16 where category = 3 and subcategory = 12;
update files set subcategory = 46 where category = 3 and subcategory = 19;
update files set subcategory = 45 where category = 3 and subcategory = 35;

update files set subcategory = 24 where category = 4 and (subcategory = 15 or subcategory = 57 or subcategory = 58 or subcategory = 11 or subcategory = 5);
update files set subcategory = 15 where category = 3 and (subcategory = 24 or subcategory = 57 or subcategory = 58 or subcategory = 11 or subcategory = 5);
update files set subcategory = 57 where category = 5 and (subcategory = 15 or subcategory = 24 or subcategory = 58 or subcategory = 11 or subcategory = 5);
update files set subcategory = 58 where category = 6 and (subcategory = 15 or subcategory = 24 or subcategory = 57 or subcategory = 11 or subcategory = 5);
update files set subcategory = 11 where category = 2 and (subcategory = 15 or subcategory = 24 or subcategory = 57 or subcategory = 58 or subcategory = 5);
update files set subcategory = 5 where category = 1 and (subcategory = 15 or subcategory = 24 or subcategory = 57 or subcategory = 58 or subcategory = 11);

Edit: Sept 23 I'd assume this is caused by a bug with the upload screen, so that needs fixing as well to prevent further problems down the road.

@lukas-w, do you think you could fix this on sourceforge mysql so that it makes it downstream when the LSP is complete?

Since the RC was published the stable builds fell off the DL page. Need to put a filter in the GitHub API URL to only fetch stable. (This bug is aplaceholder until I can get to it).

@lukas-w, this one is yours.

Looks like Chrome is finally blocking the fonts (which it has been warning about for a while) due a blocked cross-domain origin request.

I assume we can migrate them to the lmms.io repository so they deploy directly to our server.

http://lmms.io/lsp/

As the title describes, logins are working, but the login sessions are immediately clearing preventing file uploads, ratings, comments from working. Users are presented with a login form even after a successful login ad depicted below:

Think the forum logs out too soon
In our previous forum, an option existed, that would let a user stay logged in over the day. (24 h)
This is a minor annoyment, but if its simple to alter, i would recommend it.

I think we should agree on what character to use for indentation? I suggest just using tabs. (Let the holy war begin!)

Similar to SoundCloud, it would be nice to offer the ability to play YouTube videos directly through the YouTube feed on our community page.

Fortunately for us, YouTube has a very nice embed object that we can leverage... probably by injecting the iframe code directly using JavaScript.

<iframe width="640" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NloB3v__Ebw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I went through the verification process to allow our YouTube channel to be verified against lmms.io using a DNS TXT record, now there is a nice (non-youtube) control panel Google Offers for managing page hits and search ranking, etc.

One of the tabs they offer mentions that our site doesn't have a robots.txt, so I figured I'd pose the question. 🍺

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots-testing-tool?hl=en&siteUrl=http://lmms.io/&authuser=0

It would look a lot nicer if Lightbox was used to show full scale images when clicked on thumbnail.

Opinions wanted for follow buttons on the home page.

I personally hate them because they just put a bunch of buttons people rarely click on right in the middle of our home page (or in the case of the Digg example below, at the bottom of the page) however some services such as Google+ will only allow the pages to have a verified URL if we link them on our home page (they then crawl our home page for a link).

My proposal is to put one in the footer that's style="display:none;" so we can get the verification without the interface bloat but maybe people actually use them and I'm a bit old school?

Please share your opinion. 😈

Makes more sense imo.

Per #37, put the screenshots back into order by numbering them.

I assume the community page would be a place for this but I'd like to have a clear and concise place for the mailing list. I'm actually wondering how much of the feed stuff should actually take up the community page as it's sort of an experimental design and I want to make it intuitive to the user.

One option would be to add an envelope icon to the toolbar for a link to sign up for the mailing list? ... although I can't find an easy way to feed the "mailman" content in a similar fashion so people can quickly preview the convos before signing up. (mailman is the mail service that sourceforge uses)

Another option is to instead keep the community page simple like the old community page and just have links to the appropriate services with perhaps an accordion style preview activated on click so that we can keep the feed functionality?

... and another unrelated topic is the whole idea of leaving sourceforge for their mailing list and using another provider since we're ditching them anyway... Thoughts?

The theme proBoot was switched off to troubleshoot #48 now they're stuck off.

The theme may need to be installed manually to correct this. The steps are in the wiki:

https://github.com/LMMS/lmms.io/wiki