RC9 : 1 warning 1 annoyement

Hello,

I'm testing the RC9 1514, but this appears in 1517 as well (J!2.5)

- I have a "Warning: Creating default object from empty value" in my views (frontend). All I did is install Joomla + Flexicontent, add an item uncategorized with default template, and change the home page menu item to Flexi Category or Item.

- I don't really understand the new design of filter bar in admin item view (Normal, trashed, archived...).
It's right in the middle of the list, distract the eyes, and it's kind of weird looking. You should consider repositioning it in the position Joomla (and Flexi) filters have always been, at the top and smaller, with standard drop down filters (furthermore it doesn't play well with some other admin templates). I also don't really understand why the "erase" button has disappear, as changing an item state to "trashed" can be a confusing concept to non-techy people.

By the way, is there a way to support Flexi developpement, like a paypal button somewhere?

Thanks for your time.

1. About the placement of the normal/trashed/archive selector in items manager tab,

it was placed there so that people will not miss it, plus it it is a kind of important filtering,

i think it is a good place, but you are right that it might distracts eyes a little you think to change the "red" color and make it green for normal and red when trashed is selected?

2. about the DELETE thing you are right, i think we should add a distinct button "Trash" Button instead of relying to "Change state" button and a popup message to it "Move item(s) to trash, when you decide to delete items permanently click selector to displayed trashed items"

about warning, what is the line number and filename of the warning?

Thanks for replying,

1) Sorry about forgetting this, the warning is on /components/com_flexicontent/classes/flexicontent.fields.php on line 470 (5 warnings for category view, 8 warnings for item view, all the same)

2) You're right it's a important thing to notice, but point is it's not the place where users expect to find it. To me it's confusing, saying to a client "so every filters you ever gonna need are here, but except for items, you can find it there". I think it's counter productive in the end.

2 bis) You're right about the erase button, it would be defintly a good thing to put it back.

I have just seen that PHP 5.4.x adds one more warning:

Warning: Creating default object from empty value


when assigning values to an object that was not created before value was assigned

e.g.

$obj->prop_a = 'val';

must become

$obj = new stdClass();
$obj->prop_a = 'val';

ok, we fixed PHP 5.4 warnings in r1581

All right, no more warning, thanks a lot !