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• • Create a signout url?

  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.
  

  • 7 commentsMost recent by scorchpt February 5Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Extensions

  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!

  • 1 commentMost recent by Abacus February 5Vanilla 1
• • Moving Forum to New Server

  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?
  
  Thanks!

  • 16 commentsMost recent by Abacus February 5Vanilla 1
• • Fatal error: Call to a member function NumRows() on a non-object

  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

  • 1 commentMost recent by warren February 5Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • VanillaCommentScore bug?

  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?
  
  

  • 1 commentMost recent by warren February 5Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • After installing 2.0: Error - The server's salt key has not been configured.

  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).
  
  My PHP error log has nothing ..

  • 1 commentMost recent by bjorn February 5Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Vanilla 1.1.6 to Vanilla 2 - a couple of questions!

  Hi guys,
  
  Looking to upgrade from 1.1.6 to Vanilla two, but just a couple of things I'd like to ask ebfore doing so if that's okay...
  
  1. Is there much converting to do if I just want to exclusively keep the users, user groups and topics?
  
  2. In Vanilla 1 it was easy to make it so that non members and applicants can't see the forum, is that still the case?
  
  Cheers :)

  • 9 commentsMost recent by blizeH February 5General
• • Adding OpenID support

  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 :
  
  http://openid.net/developers/libraries/
  
  Experts, how does it sound ? Thanks

  • 3 commentsMost recent by scotty February 5Feedback & Feature Requests
• • Trying to submit a bug report on github

  Hi all,
  
  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!

  • 4 commentsMost recent by Lincoln February 4Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • New install: followed 4 steps, and BONK!!

  Hi there. The installation instructions here http://vanillaforums.org/page/InstallationInstructions state:
  
  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.
  
  So, "That's it!"?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by Lincoln February 4General
• • Building a vBulletin 3.x to Vanilla 2 importer

  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.
  
  [more in a minute - stupid max post size]

  • 77 commentsMost recent by Lincoln February 4Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Add comments problem / can't sign in:

  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.

  • 1 commentMost recent by dtp56 February 4Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Vanilla text in vanilla blue theme

  Hi people.
  
  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 ;-)
  
  Thanks

  • 1 commentMost recent by Alexander25 February 4Vanilla 1
• • Extract member emails for a eMail Marketing

  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.
  

  • 5 commentsMost recent by Raize February 4General
• • BlogThis develoment

  Anyone working on a port for BlogThis addon for V2?
  
  If not, any one willing to do it for a price?

  • 5 commentsMost recent by Raize February 4Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Suggestion for DefineSchema()

  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.

  • 6 commentsMost recent by Todd February 4Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Form width

  Where is the css item controlling the width of the 'Add your comments/Enter your comments' box in Vanilla?

  • 4 commentsMost recent by Abacus February 4Vanilla 1
• • Menu translation

  Hi all! Where i can find text of vanilla menu (Dashboard, Discussions, Activity, Inbox, Sign Out)? I want to translate it into Russian.

  • 1 commentMost recent by posha February 4Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Enabling SSL in Vanilla 2?

  Is there a setting for this? Had a quick look but I can't see one. What to secure the join and sign up process. Cheers.

  • 77 commentsMost recent by derekdon February 3Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Resolved/Unresolved Posts

  Can someone make a plugin to add a option to a post so that members+ can choose if their post is resolved or not?
  
  Other "minor" details:
  If post is resolved, the prefix Resolved will be added, but if it's unresolved no prefix is added.
  Controls which forums can mark posts as Resolved/Unresolved.
  The Resolved prefix is added in forum view and thread view (i.e. when you're in a forum with the list of topics available and when you view a specific thread).

  • 4 commentsMost recent by Lesly February 3Add-ons