Shared Forum Mod -- latest version: 0.2.5.4

[Sarge]

I have a role playing forum where most of my member's characters are in membergroups for the game.  I was planning on creating a different banner and look for each game.

I see. That function would be nice to have and shouldn't be very hard to code. I am concentrating on porting the current code to the new version and won't add any more membergroup or permission options for now, but I will definitely work on them in the future.

So I added your request to the future to-do list:

In the future - to do (in no particular order):
- Add more options that can be set based on membergroup, subforum and/or permissions -- these may include theme display, banners, ads etc.

[Sarge]

Sarge, that's fine. But is it safe for me to install your mod without TP? I just don't want to kill anything...

You have to install a separate version that will install in SMF -- the current version needs TinyPortal to install.

I will post the SMF-only variant of SFMod version 0.2.3 later.

[Sarge]

Any Progress on showint the post for all forums at the same time?

Sorry, I'm not there yet. I'm currently working on converting the current code to the new version. I will implement what you asked after that.

[Sarge]

Try chmodding Themes/default/index.template.php to 777 (or maybe 755).

How do I chmod? / what is chmod?

the folders 'theme' and 'babylon' are set at 755...

index.template.php was at 644... i tried 755 first - no luck, then 777 - no luck...

same errors (lines 50 and 51)...

sarge, would you happen to have any more suggestions for what i can do to get the shared forum mod installed?

thanks again

Version 0.2.3 of the mod won't install on the Babylon and Classic themes, it does only on the default (SMF Default Theme - Core).

I will post a new maintenance version (0.2.4 or something) that will install on all three themes.

[Sarge]

I will post a new maintenance version (0.2.4 or something) that will install on all three themes.

Said and done. Shared Forum Mod 0.2.4 released.

[ogmios]

here's what i got trying to apply 0.2.4:

51.     Execute Modification     ./Themes/default/index.template.php      Test failed
52.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/index.template.php     Test failed

62.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php    Test failed
63.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php    Test failed

65.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php    Test failed

[Sarge]

here's what i got trying to apply 0.2.4:

51.     Execute Modification     ./Themes/default/index.template.php      Test failed
52.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/default/index.template.php     Test failed

62.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php    Test failed
63.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php    Test failed

65.    Execute Modification    ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php    Test failed

Your themes seem to be modified by some other mod. Post Themes/default/index.template.php and Themes/babylon/index.template.php -- either attach them to your reply or paste their contents for each of them between [code] and [/code].

Have you installed TinyPortal? If so, which version?

[ogmios]

--- i upgraded TP to 0.9.8

--- i was wondering about mods... some of the mods i installed, i haven't used (like the gallery2 bridge) or i don't use anymore (SMF gallerylite)... they, among others, have not been uninstalled... here's the list of mods:

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Enhanced Calendar  1.0
SMF Gallery Lite 1.6.4
BBC Permission Mod 1.0
TinyPortal 0.983
Board Default Sort 1.25
Gallery 2 Integration 1.0beta2
TinyPortal 0.97
Custom Profile Field Mod 3.16
SMF Gallery Lite 1.7.1
Picture forum view par MkC 4.0

--- i've also done my own manipulation to index.template.php to do some small tweaks here and there...

--- both index.template.php files are attached (filename prefixed with correct theme)...

*** note: not sure if it makes a difference or not but i use the babylon theme exclusively, by default, for everyone (users cannot change)...

[Sarge]

--- i've also done my own manipulation to index.template.php to do some small tweaks here and there...

--- both index.template.php files are attached (filename prefixed with correct theme)...

It was the tweaks you made to the forum logo and name etc. that caused the mod installation test to fail on those files.

Find attached your copy of Themes/babylon/index.template.php with newlines converted from CR/LF to LF (the UNIX-style used by SMF) and extra (double) newlines removed. I advise you to edit SMF template files using a better text editor, like ConTEXT or Notepad++, instead of Notepad or Windows Write which are known to mangle UNIX-style newlines when saving files under default options.

Also find attached a version of my mod specially patched for your forum.

Alternatively, use SMF Package Parser -- select "Only Theme edits (editing a theme to support a mod)" -- to find theme edits and then apply the changes yourself.

EDIT: fixed paths in the mod installation files for the Babylon and Classic themes.

[ogmios]

I advise you to edit SMF template files using a better text editor, like ConTEXT or Notepad++, instead of Notepad or Windows Write which are known to mangle UNIX-style newlines when saving files under default options.

---- i may have used wordpad a loooooooooong time ago, but i've been using dreamweaver for everything over the last year or so... still no good? regardless, i'll be checking out ConTEXT and Notepad++ fer sure...

SMF Package Parser

---- sweet - thank you!

Also find attached a version of my mod specially patched for your forum.

---- i will be getting to this sometime today... i very much appreciate all of the help... i'll report back shortly...

thanks again!

[Sarge]

... i've been using dreamweaver for everything over the last year or so...

There should be some configuration options in Dreamweaver to not convert LF to CR/LF.

Also find attached a version of my mod specially patched for your forum.

---- i will be getting to this sometime today... i very much appreciate all of the help... i'll report back shortly...

Please redownload the mod package file (I reuploaded it). I fixed some installation paths for the Babylon and Classic themes so that there won't be any errors in SMF Admin > Forum Error Log.

[ogmios]

Please redownload the mod package file (I reuploaded it). I fixed some installation paths for the Babylon and Classic themes so that there won't be any errors in SMF Admin > Forum Error Log.

got it 

[ogmios]

well sarge, things have changed...

while the wonderful package you put together for me worked splendidly, the group of us had further discussions and have changed up our plan for the website...

we decided that we didn't want to have a different forum for each branch of our community because anyone may be interested in anything... this makes the idea of having just one forum for everything work better than having it split up and spread out...

now, what we talked about having, is the ability to have different branches of our community, but each branch would have a different TP front page... each front page, in turn, would be loaded with blocks containing info for that branches' area of interest (either pulled from a certain forum category, or a rss feed, etc.)...

but only have one forum that is the 'root' of the whole thing...


i don't know if this is possible, but regardless - THANK YOU for all of the help...

[PoLlama]

Is there support for the sub-forum 'watchers', 'owners' or whatever they're called to setup their own categories and boards?

[Sarge]

now, what we talked about having, is the ability to have different branches of our community, but each branch would have a different TP front page... each front page, in turn, would be loaded with blocks containing info for that branches' area of interest (either pulled from a certain forum category, or a rss feed, etc.)...

How are the "branches" defined? Do they consist of either specific categories for each "branch" or RSS feeds, or are they defined in some other way?

Regardless of whether SFMod is installed or not, you can modify TP blocks to display information based on variables: current category or board, action etc. This is how SFMod works, actually.

[Sarge]

Is there support for the sub-forum 'watchers', 'owners' or whatever they're called to setup their own categories and boards?

Not in the current version. Basically, all SFMod does is display only some categories at any one time, instead of all of them. However, your request for subforum admins and/or moderators has been asked before and I will consider adding this kind of feature in future versions of the mod.

[ogmios]

How are the "branches" defined? Do they consist of either specific categories for each "branch" or RSS feeds, or are they defined in some other way?

the working idea now is to have an html page load first that would present the visitor with the choice of going into any one of our three areas of interest...

for example, one area of interest (or 'branch') would be for entertainment (games, books, tv, music, etc.) and would be associated with the weekly radio program we do in town, the second area would be for environmental/global/government concerns and would be associated with the group of us that are promoting those things... the third area would be dedicated to the local talk in town and list events for the area, etc. etc. etc....

we were going to have a separate forum for each, but it was decided one forum would be better (as anyone can be interested in anything)...

so a visitor would (at the beginning) click on the area of interest that they want to visit, and it would take them to a TP front-page for that area... for example, if they visited the entertainment area, the front-page would be designed for that area (with different blocks of html, php, script - whatever) with modules of all sorts of fun things (and would also have an area for pulling posts from one of the forum board categories)...

so our idea would have three front-pages, each designed for the area of interest, but with one forum board at the root of it all...

[ogmios]

sarge,
there have been new developments with our team and we are now looking forward to using the shared forum mod...

but i'm having a few problems:

1. i have my main forum running and i installed the package (with no errors), but i can only make active, the new forums i add - and once added, i can't get the main forum to appear...

2. i'm hoping that once i get the site functioning properly with the new additional forums, i can have each individual forum show it's own set of TP blocks... is that possible?

3. wanting to upgrade to SMF 2.0, i figured i may have to uninstall the shared forum mod package... when trying to uninstall, i get this error:

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62.  Execute Modification  ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php  Test failed

(i assume it's from modifying index.template.php between when i installed the mod until now, but not sure what part...) please advise...

4. finally, after installing the mod successfully, i am getting these errors consistently:

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75.45.72.184    Guest
8: Undefined index: current_forum
File: /home/rootcoll/public_html/Themes/babylon/BoardIndex.template.php (eval?)
Line: 103
Today at 11:40:08 AM

75.45.72.184 Guest
8: Undefined index: current_forum
File: /home/rootcoll/public_html/Sources/BoardIndex.php
Line: 440
Today at 11:40:08 AM

75.45.72.184 Guest
8: Undefined index: current_forum
File: /home/rootcoll/public_html/Sources/TPortal.php
Line: 1403
Today at 11:40:08 AM

75.45.72.184 kathy
8: Undefined index: current_forum
File: /home/rootcoll/public_html/Themes/default/languages/Who.english.php (eval?)
Line: 103
?action=who
Today at 11:40:02 AM


thanks for your time... look forward to hearing from you... glad our team 'came around' and saw the benefits your mod has for us...

[GC]

How bout an option so that a user can have a different signature on each forum. So say we have SMF1 and SMF2, I have to set 2 different signatures, one on SMF1 and set another signature or maybe the same thing on SMF2.

This would be VERY VERY VERY handy for my site!

Maybe even a way to have myfirstsite.com/index.php and mysecondsite.com/index.php without the whole /stuff/in/here/site1.html or however it works in gooses.

[ogmios]

sarge,
when trying to uninstall the shared forum mod, i get this:

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62.  Execute Modification  ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php  Test failed




thanks for any help...