I want to set up the forums into different countries like this. www.itisagreyarea.com for USA www.itisagreyarea.com/au for Australia www.itisagreyarea.com/nz for New Zealand www.itisagreyarea.com/uk for Britain etc. This is for aiming banner ads to their respective countries. I do not know php or any other programming, however I can follow instructions. The ol' database worries me. Any help would be great. Thanks. PS. Vanilla Rocks!
Not that I don't love Vanilla's default icon. It looks great. I wish I could design mine that nicely. How do I change the favicon? Does it matter if I'm in default or using a theme?
I am working on a mobile style, and am going to completely redoing the menu, and I would like to pull the sign out button out of it, and put it in a different location. I have been able to do that with the sign in button, but not for the sign out. I am using iWebKit, and since I am not experienced with PHP I don't know what I am doing. I've managed to change the button from Sign In to Sign Out by checking the session. My problem is being able to produce a authenticated URL to sign out.
Here is the code for my sign button: <a class='SignInPopup' href='/index.php/entry/?Target=discussions'>Sign In</a></div> That was pretty easy, but how do I get the user to be able to sign out from my button? I think I have to use this: $Authenticator->SignOutUrl() Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Having just moved my forum and solved a few problems with some help I now find one with the extensions - the 'not checked' ones are a darker yellow that the others and when I try to enable them the check box changes to the tick mark (but there is none of the usual whirling green logo thing) and when I move away from that particular screen and return they are no longer checked? Nothing much in the docs about this...
EDIT: Oops no I have it - there entries in conf/settings.php were missing!
My hosting plan is about to expire and I'd like to use a different host. Is there any way for me to transfer the forum over to the new host without losing any data?
In the search box, press search without entering any data and you get this error...
http://vanillaforums.org/search?Search= Fatal error: Call to a member function NumRows() on a non-object in /srv/www/vanillaforumsorg/applications/garden/views/search/index.php on line 13
obviously most people will put data and search but people are unpredictable and do silly things so this would be a good thing to fix
Perhaps this is intentional but I found it kind of strange that I can score a post unlimited points (-5/+5)
Should it not allow only one choice then become disabled or is it supposed to allow unlimited scoring by each user? If it allows unlimited scoring then this has huge potential for abuse and becomes kind of irrelevant as a plugin.
So is this intentional or something that will be fixed or did I miss how to tune this plugin?
Hi guys, I just tried installing 2.0 and made sure the verbose error message was used.
When clicking the submit button on the install form I'm just sent back to the install form again (with no error message or any message at all). If I access the main page (/index.php) after this I see this message:
<br />The server's salt key has not been configured.<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\library\core\functions.error.php:132] PHP::include();<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\library\core\functions.error.php:132] PHP::ErrorHandler();<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\library\core\class.cookieidentity.php:91] PHP::trigger_error();<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\library\core\class.cookieidentity.php:71] Gdn_CookieIdentity->_Hash();<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\library\core\class.passwordauthenticator.php:176] Gdn_CookieIdentity->GetIdentity();<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\library\core\class.session.php:225] Gdn_PasswordAuthenticator->GetIdentity();<br /><br />[C:\dev\xampp\htdocs\vanilla\wwwdocs\index.php:30] Gdn_Session->Start();<br />
If I try a different browser I get "Page Not Found" (probably because I don't have a session there).
Wouldn't it be great to have open id supported on Vanilla. This would enable people to use their openid login information to be able to participate on Vanilla forum!
openid has PHP support libraries available, at this link :
I've noticed a few bugs that have yet to be reported on github - when I try to log the issue, it asks for a username and password, or I can go to the 'signup and pricing page' - can you not just leave a comment *without* creating your own space on there? Seems a bit of a waste to me.
I only want to leave some comments, not sign up for my own account with 300mb of allocated disk space etc!
Download the package from GitHub. Unzip the package to the desired folder on your server. Create a database for Garden (named whatever you like). Browse to the folder in your web browser, and follow the instructions on-screen. That's it!
Did that. and got a hopeless message saying Bonk, and no advice on what to do next.
I'm taking a crack at the foundation of a vBulletin to Vanilla importer this week. I'm going to use this discussion as a place to throw ideas and questions out as I move along.
About me: I'd call myself an advanced (not expert) PHP programmer, mostly because I've never had the opportunity to work closely with another PHP programmer. I only know as much as I've read (snore) and figured out as I've gone along my way the last few years. I understand and have written OOP and MVC-based code, but only have gotten that far in the past year or so. I'm operating at the boundaries of my comfort zone, which is a good place to be I suppose :)
I say this mostly as way of disclaimer up front that whatever I do is going to be going through progressive improvements and will be a learning experience for me. I'm not going to poop out a polished importer in 10 days or something.
I have Vanilla 2 running (finally) and have sorta gotten my head around the database schema. I know vBulletin's data structure pretty well as I've been hacking at it for over three years (including writing a custom vBulletin/Wordpress bridge). I'm at the base of a big learning curve on the Garden/Vanilla code with only a modest and incomplete amount of documentation available so far. On the other hand I've wrestled with PDFlib in PHP so I'm not a stranger to this situation, haha. Any suggestions and help will be much appreciated.
Hi, My discussion pages all of a sudden do not give you the ability to add your own comment.
Then I looked to the top right and saw that the forum doesn't think I've logged in - I keep trying to log in but keeps saying I haven't so I assume this is why I can't post a comment. Any tips on what I might have messed up? Thank you.
I would like to replace the Vanilla text in the header and the login-box. Is there a way to do that? And don't worry I'll give you credits for the forum so people know what I'm using ;-)
Anyone know a good way to extract emails from my Vanilla forum for the creation of a mailing list?
I'm currently using the Member List plugin, which lets me see a list of all my registered members and their email addresses, etc. but it doesn't have the functionality to export email addresses.
Any clues? I wouldn't mind if someone has a method of getting email addresses through phpmyadmin, as that would be good enough to get them into Excel.
This is a serious consideration. Each time you call DefineSchema, it taxes the database on each pageview for every model being used. In heavy production sites, the temp data available in MySQL is really time, and a simple query as "show columns from GDN_TableName" (specifically, User) throws me:
mysql> show columns from GDN_User; ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 28 from storage engine
This is personally out of my control, but it's crashing the forums whenever a handshake occurs for a logged in user, and has an ugly error message on the index page for guests. (On a sidenote, turning debug mode off does nothing. The error messages still show)
To me, this is unacceptable. Instead of querying and taxing the database for a schema that rarely ever changes, the schemas should be stored on flat-files in a directory; this surely leads to less connections, less intra-server traffic, less senseless queries, and faster loading time. The schema doesn't change, to my knowledge. And if it does, due to any plugin, then the flatfile should be changed. Please take this into account.
I'm going to be spending the next few weeks figuring out how to make the SQL models read a flatfile of schemas instead of taxing my database, and this is setting me back a ridiculous amount. I need to start working on other projects.