| 1 : What is the T3-Faq plugin ? | |
| T3-Faq plugin is a new faq-knowledgebase plugin with easy configuration and smart structure to support unlimited levels of categories and subcategories. Features : 1 : Unlimited levels of categories and subcategories. 2 : Easy and smart edit of categories and Q:A 3 : Protection from deleting by accident a category that contains Q:A 4 : Smart category navigator. 5 : All phrases are in the language file. 6 : Easy skinning. 7 : BBcode and Html parsing. 8 : Let your members ask questions. 9 : Comments and rattings for every Q:A 10 : Powerfull configuration 11 : Header Notices *Q:A = Question:Answer |
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| Updated: 2006-09-09 05:19 | [Back To Top] |
| 2 : What's new ? | |
| Version 2.1 ------------ - Cleaned up the admin section. - Cleaned up the textboxer extension of the plug. - Added functionality for the more bbcode. - Recent q:a in the main page. - Counter of the q:a next to the categories. - Added "updated flag" and "reset update flag". - Added header notices for q:a that need validation. - Added many new settings to customize the look and the feel. Version 2.0 ------------ - Adopted the seditio category system to reduce queries (respect to Olivier). - Added BBcode and smiles parsing. - Textboxer 2.0 intergration (respect to Arkkimaagi). -- Added option to select between html and bbcode parsing just like in sed pages. - The front-end is rewritten from scratch. -- Better navigation easier skinning. - Removed all my style craps from admin section. - Added option to allow members submit questions. - Comments and Ratting for Q:A's - Many small improvements here and there. Version 1.01 ------------ - Fixed two hardcoded phrases - Added the master category icon tag in skin file - Added russian lang file (thanks Centuriones) Version 1.00 ------------ First stable release |
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| Updated: 2006-09-09 05:33 | [Back To Top] |
| 3 : How to install ? | |
| The main instructions are always the same. - Always backup your database. - Uninstall older version. - Delete all old files just in case i have made a major change. - Upload again the folder faq to the plugins/ path except the folder install inside the faq folder. - Run the updrade if you are updating from a previous version or the latest create new sql script if you use this plugin for the first time from the install folder through phpmyadmin. - Reintall the plugin. To access the plugin use this: http://yourdomain/plug.php?e=faq The plugin back-end is in the tools section in your admin-cp Update from v2.0 ------------------ 1. Run the update v2.0 to v2.1.sql to your phpmyadmin Do all the above instructions Update from v1.01 ------------------ Do all the above Run the sql scripts from phpmyadmin with this order. 3. update 1.01 to 2.0.sql Update from the first beta releases ---------------------------------- Do all the above Run the sql scripts from phpmyadmin with this order. 2. update beta to 1.01.sql 1. update 1.01 to 2.0.sql |
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| Updated: 2006-09-09 05:30 | [Back To Top] |
| 4 : Categories System | |
| Since version 1.01 T3-Faq plugin adopted the categories system with cashe that seditio uses. With this feature the extra queries to get categories information have been reduced a lot. The new system made the construction of categories and unlimited level subcategories very easy with the paths. If you know how to make categories in seditio then you won't have a problem in this step. If you need more help on building the categories structure i suggest reading the "Structure in SED". In the T3-Faq plugin the categories must have title and path, you can optionally add description and category icon. The plugin is protecting your categories from some stupid delete since it checks before if the category has any Q:A. If you just updated from v1.01 you have set the paths to build again the categories levels. |
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| Created: 2006-07-24 04:49 | [Back To Top] |
| 5 : BBcode and Smiles Parsing | |
| Since the v2.0 the answers can be parsed with two modes. BBcodes and html. You can alter this by selecting Parsing method during adding or editing a Q:A. To make the writing of bbcode easier we intergrated the textboxer 2 as the default (and only!) editor. Since the 2.1 version the more bbcode functionality is added. In the config of the plugin there are options to select if you want or not to parse bbcodes and smilies and new lines in Faq. |
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| Updated: 2006-09-09 05:32 | [Back To Top] |
| 6 : Members can submit questions | |
| In T3-Faq v2.0 there is an option to let your members ask questions. By default the plugin set the members group able to add questions. You will have to edit the plugin rights manually if you want to change that. When a simple member submits a question it won't appear in the faq until you answer the question and validate the new Q:A. User have the option to select the most appropriate category but for some reason people always love to post things in wrong section so check carefully that part before you validate the Q:A. If you have question waiting for validation you will see something like that [8 Faq(s) in validation queues] in both the admin and the front-end. When you submit a Q:A through from the admin tools section you won't need to validate anything. Moreover when a member ask a question his identity will be saved as the person who asked the question. The main two reasons for that is to give credit to good members or ban some people who like to abuse this feature. Once again when you submit a Q:A through admin cp no identity will be saved as the person who asked the question because you are the admin you don't make question. :-) |
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| Created: 2006-07-24 04:50 | [Back To Top] |
| 7 : Comments and Rattings | |
| This is another new feature of t3-faq v2.0. By enabling the rattings and comments in faq through plugin configuration you and your members will have the option to vote how usefull was the Q:A and make comments if they don't understand something. This is a big feature if you ask me because this is what turns a simple faq into a knowledge base. There is only one negative thing in enabling the comments and rattings in Faq, the extra queries. You should estimate 2 extra queries for each Q:A, this is how comments and rattings work in seditio. You should also estimate that in the v2.0 of this plugin we have no extra queries to get the categories info, thanks to olivier and his brilliant system of categories with the internal cache. |
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| Created: 2006-07-24 04:50 | [Back To Top] |
| 8 : Navigation | |
| Navigation is one of our biggest concerns. We want to make your life and your members life as easy as it can be. You can almost go anywhere from everywhere (it sounds silly). All the titles are also links to categories or Q:A's. From the main page of the front-end you can navigate to all the categories and subcategories. As you move inside a category you will also see the first level of subcategories. There are menus everywhere in both the admin-end and the front-end. Links to the admin-end, to add Q:A's as admin, submit a question as a member, edit, delete and validate a Q:A. |
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| Created: 2006-07-24 04:51 | [Back To Top] |
| 9 : Header Notices | |
| This was a good suggestion that it's finally added in the version 2.1. The best thing about this is that it doesn't require to add new tags in the header it cooperates with the classic header notices of the seditio. You can configure to enable them or disable them through the plug config. Nobody wants extra queries when there is no need of them. |
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| Updated: 2006-09-09 05:38 | [Back To Top] |