last_dtg=”now” (please?)

Hi Peter,
I know previous you could set last_dtg to now. I have to dig in and see how it works. This man page for League Manager might help.
https://shoalsummitsolutions.com/lm-shortcodes/
The S&S man pages need updating. ??

As far as SSL, I could not find the post you referenced, but anyway, you are going to have to help me here. I don’t understand the plugin’s role in how your site communicates with the rest of the world. I hope I am staying out of that. But if you let me know what I’m doing wrong, I will try to fix it.

-Mark

Thanks for the reply, Mark.

I tried setting last_dtg to “now” in a Schedules and Scoreboards table shortcode, but it resulted in a “break the page completely and don’t display anything” issue. The current page editor in WP dashboard also broke (white page) after setting last_dtg=now in the shortcode (thankfully I was able to log in again and deactivate the plugin, so I could return and remove =now before re-activating the plugin. Are you able to replicate the issue?

As for SSL, here’s a link to the request by @gusc: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/mstw-doesnt-support-ssl/

I can’t verify if this is true or not, since my website will not be SSL until this athletics portion is ready to go, but according to him, the fix would be a simple find-replace of all https:// -> // . I’m not sure what the correct syntax would be in the plugin, but as long as http requests are replaced with root-relative ones, it should work fine.

The issue is that a site configured for https must only contain and operate with links that are also either https or root-relative. A resource loaded from an http link on an https site won’t work. Images, files, stylesheets, db queries, etc.

I’m a front-end guy with zero plugin experience (yet), so I don’t know PHP/MySQL enough to pinpoint a plan of action. Thanks for such a great plugin!

Hey Peter,
1. last_dtg = now. You have found a bug. Thanks. Don’t know if you looked in your debug.log file, but this is undoubtedly a PHP error. That should never happen. Unfortunately, I am in the middle of an inter-state move, so I won’t get back to it for at least a couple of weeks.

2. SSL. Ah, yes. We received guidance on this from the WordPress plugin gurus a while back. Makes complete sense now. Not a hard fix, I’ve just been lazy. I’d rather add cool new features to League Manager for paying customers than do maintenance. Thanks for reminding me.

Regards,
Mark

Mark,

I totally understand – I’m still unpacking after a cross-country move in early August (AL to CA). I searched around in the plugin files and found where dtg_first and dtg_last are converted from “now” to timestamps: mstw-schedules-scoreboards/includes/mstw-ss-schedule-table.php, starting on line 98.

I noticed that dtg_first is evaluated like this:

if ( $atts['first_dtg'] == 'now' ) {
	$first_dtg = current_time( 'timestamp' );
}

and dtg_last is missing the ‘timestamp’ string (on line 109), so I added it in the corresponding place, and now dtg_last="now" works (but only if dtg_first is also set, to a time in the past). This will work for me, but if you don’t mind checking this for yourself and including this in any updates, then I won’t have to worry about any future version issues. Thanks!

Hi Peter,
Regarding the SSL fix. You might take a look at this post. You might be able to fix it in your theme for all your plugins. I will be implementing “relative protocols” in upcoming releases of all plugins. Thanks for pointing this out.

-Mark