Pay2publish is a great concept and I fully understand its uses. I am wondering why you used the category module rather than core Drupal taxonomy, since only a very basic taxonomy is required and category is very complex. You mention making it integrate with Drupal taxonomy. Would this then eliminate the need for the category module?

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marcoBauli commented
Title: Why category module » core Taxonomy now supported
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

howdy, i'm glad to announce that now P2P should work both with Category or core Taxonomy

please try it out and report back here ;)

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NewZeal commented

That's great news, Marco.

The problem I was having was that the site already uses core taxonomy and when I installed pay2publish it hid core taxonomy and made it no longer accessible.

This is a great concept for a module and one that should attract some more sponsorship in its time.

I assume it is the dev version I should be looking at, am I correct? I'll try that first.

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NewZeal commented

Hi Marco,

I'm having some luck so far, however in order to get control of the core taxonomy back I had to re-upload the taxonomy module since the wrapper rewrites it. Also, new instructions are in order. After I get the module working I can write them up here for the benefit of the next person.

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NewZeal commented

After I get the module working...?

But I didn't!!

I set up actions and price and everything, selected a content type, and it turned the node into a product that other people could buy which was not the intention, and after creating the node I wasn't directed to pay for it. Once I selected the 'Paid Advertising' radio, it went gray and I could no longer untick it whatever I did (turn product off or on), nor select a period.

While the intentions of this module are good and lots of work has been done on it, there appear to be a lot of unresolved issues and unfinished work.

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keyo commented

The same thing happened to me. I made some priced packages for listing content of certain category and node type. Then when creating the content I was never asked the fee.

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marcoBauli commented

probably this is not documented well enough:

. every node actually becomes a product, because the advertiser can opt to pay to 'upgrade' it at any time.
. this can be done from the node's creator profile page: under the 'payments' block the advertiser can decide to pay or upgrade a single node (product) to a higher level, and thus publish more content and get more visibility for that specific node.

this probably could go in a support issue apart to better explain the functioning of the module. I'm sorry but in this period i'm so very busy in changing home / office, and in opening my own drupal business, so i cannot assist much with Pay2Publish. In case anyone is willing to maintain the module is very welcome to contact me. Thx!

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keyo commented

Is there a site site I can see with this module working?