Sunday 20 September, 2009
Dooodls for everyone!
A few days ago I presented the Dooodle application I built. You guys created some cool doodles and I totally love it!
But it’s still an independent application hacked into WordPress using basic widget. That means I can’t just share the code so you can use it too on your website (since you’ll have to set up a database, fill in config files, etc… Boring stuff). So yesterday I decided to compact this into a handy WordPress plugin.
And this is what I did: I give you Dooodl!
[UPDATE] Mark asked me to share the source of the Dooodl Creator App, so I did 
Feel free to send me links to your own creator. I might add different creators to the plugin, and let you choose in the WP-admin which one you’d like your visitors to use 
Plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dooodl
Direct download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dooodl.zip
Dooodl Creator source (Flash Builder Beta): Click
If you install it, feel free to drop me a line. Feel free to post the url to your blog as well. I’d be happy to see who’s using it and what people are drawing
(And yes: If you find any bugs, do post them as comment underneath )
Have fun!
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NICE! Great job! Is it possible to have the flash source of the doodle-creator too, to create my own doodle-app?
Sure! I should let you know the code’s a mess though :p
Will edit this post in a minute
Added the Dooodl Creator source
Happy coding!
Doodle is now LIVE on my site oorch.com
Cool shit
If I have time I’d like to create a mini generative art doodle app thing.
@Oorch: Cool! I sent you some happiness
@Mark: I was expecting that! Looking forward to seeing it in action!
this plugin is great!
but, on my page for some reason, after drawing, the doodle is not submitted to my webspace or to the database.
maybe you got a hint for me
thx in advance
Which version of the plugin is installed? Since when? Can you give me a link to the blog?
http://xiron.de/wordpress/
at the moment this is just a first test blog. thank you for your help ;D
I think I have the same problem. My doodle just never saves. I left it up there, made coffee, came back and it was still trying to save my doodle. I like this idea. Hope to get it working. I just uploaded version 8. See there is a 9 already. Will give it a try.
Hey Sane and Laura.
I just noticed there’s a Dooodl plugin topic on the wordpress site. That’s what reminded me you guys were reporting serious issues. I thought those were fixed with the 1.0.9 update, but apparently I’m confusing some people.
Let me ask you guys a few questions: Do you use the standard WP-folder-setup? Or did you move your wp-content folder? Or is the wp-admin folder not in the default place? (I haven’t taken those kinds of changes into account (yet) so do let me know if you changed something)
Did the plugin EVER work? yes? Which version was the last one you installed and worked?
Did you see any error messages? Which ones? Did you see any error_logs? Which ones?
How did you install the plugin? Did you upload the files to the server yourself? Or did you you the plugin manager to add a new plugin (so wordpress downloaded the zip, and installed the plugin)
This is really great ! I love it.. its fun. It works good here. I’m testing it on my new domain were I want to migrate to. Some possible feature options could be to delete some images manualy bij the admin maybe.. or some sort of admin management options for the images (email verification optional or admin aproval or something )… To manage obscene drawings or whatever. But hey.. its already good. Thanks!
It’s coming
Slow but surely 
Great
Hi! the widget is cool. I am having an issue though… Ive added the shadowbox js and when the images come up it goes to 404 error . Can you help with this. Site is searleart.com
Hi Erica, I just went to check out your site, and the plugin seems to be working pretty good. Let me know if you still experience problems
hello dooodl is so nice but it doesn’t work it on my website ! i don’t understand ! i can”t save my pictures !!!
Hi
I uploaded the plugin and got an error massage saying there is a missing header. Know something about it?
Hi Ronny,
I have a problem with the doodle archive, because it’s not showing the created doodle’s but just grey blocks. Any idea what could be wrong?
Hi Ronny, my doodle archive is showing grey blocks instead of the doodles my visitors created. How can I fix this?
@Omer: I haven’t heard of the problem yet. You uploaded the plugin using FTP, i guess? You didn’t install it using the WP plugin installer? You might wanna give that a try.
@Ina: I’ve found the error. I’m updating the plugin asap. No worries. Great site you’ve got there btw. I love Matthew Perry!
Works like magic.
Thanks!
Thx Omer!
@Ina: I updated the plugin. It should be reflected online sometime soon. (1.0.11)
WordPress 2.8.6 appears to have an issue with 1.0.12 – It throws a javascript error in IE, but doesn’t seen to cause any major problems…The error is “Object Expected”, referencing “jQuery(window).ready(testForAutoload);”..I know that is pretty generic though…
Hi Ronny,
Thanks for this great plugin!
One question: Is it possible to change the way the doodles are displayed? By clicking on the link I get a full-screen window, but I like it the way the doodles on your page show up.
You’re completely right! I should really take the time to add options where you’re allowed to choose different kinds of settings for the different aspects of the plugin. This is another great suggestion! Will take this with me for future development
Hi
I installed your great fun tool
little question: is there a way to delete an unwanted dooodl? if yes, can someone tell me how? thanks for answering to my mail.
thanks
martin
Hi,
I can’t seem to get Dooodl to work on miy site. It shows with an error in the image part and it takes up tons of space in the sidebar below it. Can you help me?
Hi AB,
Could you check (using an ftp client) if the following file is where this URL states it should be?
http://billedguiden.dk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/doodls/1.jpg
Is it possible that you haven’t got an ‘uploads’ folder in that place?
The other thing I noticed is that your site/server doesn’t recognize ‘index.php’, ‘index.html’ as default pages in a folder.
For example:
http://billedguiden.dk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/dooodl/creator/
should be
http://billedguiden.dk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/dooodl/creator/index.php
and
http://billedguiden.dk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/dooodl/s/
should be
http://billedguiden.dk/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/dooodl/s/index.php
I think the error you’re getting is due to the above.
Hi! Is there a way to let people VOTE / RATE doodles?
I’m actively planning on implementing that feature
If you have other requests/suggestions, feel free to post them! I’m more than happy with any kind of feedback I can get
Hi Ronny!
Thanks for this awesome plugin.
It takes some time to get it running, but I solved the problem.
If you have “wp-touch” running as a plugin in wordpress, it won’t work.
I deactivated the wp-touch plugin and cleaned my .htaccess file & bammmm its working.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Thanks again.
Björn
Hm, I’d say it’s because of your .htaccess… Did you have some special rules?
)
(The reason I’m suggesting this is because I have WP-touch running myself
I’ll show you, what I’ve deleted in the .htaccess file:
php_value include_path ‘xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx.xx/xxxx/wp-content/plugins/wptouch’ — NOW THE .htaccess looks like the one wordpress created.
That’s all I did! I hope it helped.
Björn
Weird. I just checked my .htaccess file, and there’s no such line in it. Would you know why that line is in there? (Maybe your WP-touch version?)
Hi Ronny,
Is it possible to have two doodle plugins on different parts of one site? Or is there too much code involved to accomplish that?
Thanks
Ina
Good evening! For the website http://www.radio-exstream.nl I’m using your Doodle plugin. But when I insert the widget the whole layout is f*cked up (sorry for the bad word
) Under the widget the page splits so that the rest of the sidebar is on the left side and its a big mess 
How can I get it right? ‘Cause I like the Doodle-i-doo a lot!
Greetings from Holland
Hi
Love the plugin and looking forward to future updates – so many things one can do!
How can i delete certain doodles / images which i feel is not appropriate?
many thanks
I looked in the plugin folder, and there is no jpgs saved besides the default one.
Also I’d like to change the text in my widget, to tell people what type of doodle they should try to draw.
many thanks
Hi Schalk!
You’ll know where to look from there 
The saved doodles are in the wp-content/uploads/ folder
I really should find some time to implement some features.
I’ve got a serious line up of features planned. I just need to find some time to implement them.
I’m glad you like it so far!
My doodles dissappeared all of a sudden. None in gallery view and none in doodle folder. What can I do and how can I prevent in the future?
Have the same problem as Sane and Laura.
My doodle just never saves.
Do you use the standard WP-folder-setup? YES
Did the plugin EVER work? NO
Did you see any error messages? NO?
How did you install the plugin? Did you upload the files to the server yourself? Or did you you the plugin manager to add a new plugin (so wordpress downloaded the zip, and installed the plugin) BOTH
Did you ever come up with a solution to this problem?
Hi, really nice application you have there, i was wondering when there would be another version come out. please email me
Hi Ronny
Thanks for the feedback. It’s been a whil but now I was interested in getting the Dooodl to work again after leaving it be.
I checked the folders you mentioned in the last reply to me, and it seems like I have the all and that I have an uploads folder in the place you menion.
I still can’t get it to work?
Can you help me?
What error are you getting?
Ik vind het een geweldige plugin Ronny. Ik kan alleen nog steeds de doodles niet bewaren. Ik gebruik de laatste versie van wordpress.
Enig idee??
Hey Wim,
Ik wou net even de plugin op je site debuggen (deze die je hier opgegeven hebt als homepage) maar die lijkt niet meer geinstalleerd te zijn?
(je moet de widget niet in de sidebar zetten. Gewoon plugin installeren en activeren in wp-admin)
Ik zou je graag helpen, maar zonder de plugin installatie kan ik niet zien wat er misloopt
Laat weten als ik nog eens moet kijken
Hi Ronny,
Can’t get the widget to save the doodles even though I’ve tried changing the permissions of the dooodls folder in the uploads folder.
I get an error 404, when I make a doodle and when looking in the folder afterwards nothing is saved. Also I have installed Shadowbox, but still I get the big dooodl window opening in a new tag.
It has never worked on my site, as you can see I have asked you before. I would really like it to work, since it’s a great widget, that compliments my sites content great.
I have the latest version of WP installed.
/AB
Ronny,
I have investigated the ‘not saving’ (cycling icon near the Save button) issue some more, and I may have found a solution, at least it works for me. There was a pointer on this page:
http://drupal.org/node/773934
The solution seems to be to change a setting in a specific gateway.php file, I quote:
in my case, the Gateway.php file in
/siteroot/wp-content/plugins/dooodl/amfphp/core/amf/app
in Doodle 1.1.1, the above function was on line 354.
When I changed this, the doodle would save and give the end message of ‘Thank you – that’s a pretty cool doodle!’, and the doodle appeared in the uploads folder as well as in the database.
Hope this helps; I will copy this message into the wordpress.org/plugins/dooodl forum as well.
Now to solve a conflict with another plugin, WordPress Access Control.. oh well
Mark.
allright, the quote didn’t come through. Here it is (from http://drupal.org/node/773934)
quote:
I detected that you also have to change in:
…/sites/all/modules/services/servers/amfphp/amfphp/core/amf/app/Gateway.php
This:
//function disableStandalonePlayer($value = true) {
In:
function disableStandalonePlayer($value = false) {
It was my experience that you have to change it here and nowhere else!!
Hi Mark,
Wow, good catch! I’l refer to this if anybody else ever comes by with this problem again!
I’m mighty excited to see if this is going to fix the problem for everyone else
About the other problem: Are you having a conflict with Dooodl and another plugin?
If so: let me know. I should be able to fix this asap
And the problem of the widget not showing up in the frontend may be due to the fact that in ‘Dooodl settings’ the template is empty by default – if you don’t enter text here you don’t see the widget in the frontend. I just click ‘Restore Default’ and hey presto!
Hi AB!
I just checked out your site and noticed the folder for the doodls doesn’t exist:
http://billedguiden.dk/wp-content/uploads/doodls/
Create it via FTP and try saving a dooodl again. It should be ok then.
Good luck!
Hey Ronny,
thanks for the quick response! I’m having trouble with the combination Dooodl and WordPress Access Control
(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-access-control)
If I have that plugin activated, Dooodl does not save at all, not in the uploads folder and not in the database. Without that plugin it saves (even before I solved the ‘hang on save’ problem).
The plugin appears on a page that is access controlled so that it is for members only. I’m putting up a testsite in a few days, please email me if you would like to test on that, I’ll send you account details.
Thanks,
Mark.
Hi Ronny,
Thanks! But that’s my point. There is a folder by that name, and It is placed i the Uploads folder. And it’s permissions are open. But some how I can’t save my doodles anyway.
@Mark: Ah, I see… That problem is probably caused by the ACL plugin (due to it’s nature of controlling access of users… Dooodls are saved by the ‘guest’ of a blog… The plugin probably doesn’t allow this kind of behavior…)
I have a busy schedule for the months to come (i’m currently in the middle of moving) so I won’t be able to explore and try to fix the conflict. Maybe during the summer (july/august)
Maybe try another ACL plugin? I know there’s a few out there… Maybe they work as good but don’t stop dooodl from working… (just a guess)
@AB: I just sent you an email
Now it’s working. I checked it again. Created a new folder with the same name. Deleted the old. and BAM…working! Thanks Ronny!
@AB: That’s great news!
Enjoy! Hope you have lots of cool doodls soon!
Didn’t get the email though!?
Ronny,
thanks for the info concerning my ACL problem. If I would want to experiment with the plugin to change its credentials to something other than ‘guest’, do you have any pointers where to start?
Another approach would be for me to fiddle with the access rights on the database table and uploads folder, any quick thoughts on that?
I’ll keep you informed, good luck with the moving and all..
Mark.
Hi Ronny,
you were right – the wordpress plugin doesn’t play nicely together with the plugin WordPress Access Control, but it works perfectly together with the plugin Simple Access Control.
Cheers,
Mark.
Hi Mark,
That’s good news… I think. Does this new access control plugin do what you want? Or did you have to make compromises?
Good to hear you were able to find a substitute though!
Enjoy!
Yeah, it’s sufficient for now. WordPress Access Control allows very fine grained control over pages and posts – but I just needed to hide pages for non-logged in users, which Simple Access Control does just fine.
Also, I use the plugin Widget Logic to hide widgets for non-logged in users – works perfectly with Dooold too.
Cheers,
Mark.