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[vaalfco Friend vaalfcoJoin date: May 2011Posts: 47Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#173695

Hello,

Does any one know how we should interpret Joomlart instruction on JA Content Slider module page. It says:

“Check in your configuration in your site if there isn’t this line “var $absolute_path by ‘your absulute path’;” you have to add its there to run.”

I have properly configured the module for my website but it doesn’t slide the content in case of articles and no images are displayed at all in case I choose to display images from a folder under Joomla images folder!

I have doubled checked every thing and it seems it is either a bug or relates to the instruction above:confused:.

Adding this that I’m using Joomla 1.7.3 and have checked it with either Firefox, IE and Chrome but the result is same.

Thanks,
Vaalf

P.S. I also suggest joomlart developer(s) to seat for an English language improvement course because almost most of their English comments, help tool tips and field labels lack correct English grammar and structure. Hence they doesn’t convey intended semantic meaning!:-[

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1. Arvind Chauhan

[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#437626

The only letter I really see out of place in the instructions is an extra “s”.
Please interpret thius way:
<blockquote>Check in your configuration in your site. If there isn’t this line:
“var $absolute_path by ‘your absulute path’;” then you have to add it there to run.</blockquote>
Let me know if this helps you.
Thanks!

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#437633

<em>@vaalfco 299598 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello,

Does any one know how we should interpret Joomlart instruction on JA Content Slider module page. </blockquote>

Can you give the URL of the same please. I shall check and update.

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1. Blaine

[vaalfco Friend vaalfcoJoin date: May 2011Posts: 47Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#437658

Here are my questions about the instruction:

Which configuration file it is pointing to? Does it mean configuration.php file in the root of my Joomla installation?

If yes, then:

My answer is that using a text search not only I have found such phrase as “var $absolute_path” within this file neither within other files of my Joomla.:confused:

And while I do confirm that I know what an absolute – and not absulute – path mean yet I’m not sure what should I actually add to this file!

The fact is that the given instruction is ambiguous from various aspects. It is not only a matter of spelling errors or that extra “s”!:)

Thanks,
Vaalf

[ronny_vdb Friend ronny_vdbJoin date: January 2012Posts: 9Downloads:35Uploads:4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#442285

I also have this problem where there are no thumbnail images in my slider.
I’m also confused about the instructions given.
Can anybody please explain clearly this thing about ‘var $absolute_path’ ?

If you search this forum for ‘absolute_path’ you will notice that a lot of people are having this issue and do not understand what the developer means with this instruction.

[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#442332

Please provide me an example of who does not understand ‘var $absolute_path’ so I can help them to inderstand.
All this is, is a line of code to look for.
The instructions given above are to look for the line of code:

'var $absolute_path'
If you do not see this, then it must be added in order for the content slider to run.
I would recommend checking in the file referenced for that line of code.

[ronny_vdb Friend ronny_vdbJoin date: January 2012Posts: 9Downloads:35Uploads:4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#442357

People who do not understand:

http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/no-images-in-ja-contentslide-module/
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/thumbnails-not-showing-in-ja-content-slider/
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/contentslider-images-disappear/

Still your answer is not clear: where should we look for this line of code ?
If we do not see it: where should we add it ?
What file is referenced for this line of code ?

[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#443082

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I will now ask and administrator to step in and help resolve this.

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#444666

hey blaine, any news on that? thnx

[ronny_vdb Friend ronny_vdbJoin date: January 2012Posts: 9Downloads:35Uploads:4 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#444684

I guess the administrator is on holiday ?

Anyway…i spend all night yesterday trying to resolve this issue. This is what i found out:

You should simply ignore ‘Check in your configuration in your site if there isn’t this line “var $absolute_path by ‘your absulute path’;” you have to add its there to run.’
I assume this is a) bad translation, b) obsolete code after porting tot Joomla 1.7/2.5+, c) bad documentation
To be totally clear on this: you do not need to add this line of you are running 1.7/2.5+

I found out that is you are using K2 with JA Content slider, JA Content Slider does NOT use the K2 image tab but it pulls the image from the intro-text. That is just the way it is. If Joomlart would have stated this clearly in the documentation, it would have saved a lot af users a lot of time.

If you need to modify JA Content Slider to pull the images from the K2 image tab you can do this by changing yourwebsite/modules/mod_jacontentslider/helper.php with the one attached to this reply.

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1. Blaine

[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#444830

Thanks for your time on this ronny_vdb!
I don’t use K2 and would not have even thought to check that!

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