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• • Convert bbpress to vanilla

  Hello
  
  I want Convert bbpress to vanilla
  
  

  • 15 commentsMost recent by AnotherDan March 14General
• • Vanilla forum 1.x VS 2.x

  Hi Everyone, just wanted to get your feedback. We are keen to use Vanilla as our choice of forum, however we're confused which one! I've just actually setup Vanilla Ver 1.x and I enjoyed setting up a few add ons, and installing a cool theme.
  
  But.. should we reconsider and go for Ver 2.x ?
  
  I'd like to get some feedback from users who moved on from Ver 1.x to 2.x.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Mark

  • 2 commentsMost recent by [-Stash-] March 14General
• • Vanilla 2 Upgrade

  I just did a upgrade test from Vanilla 1 to 2 today while preparing our upgraded support center. I noticed just two little issues with the upgrade script:
  - There is a typo in the upgrade script that is causing Comments to be loaded into the ConversationMessage table.
  - Username from Vanilla 1 is being loaded into the Name field in Vanilla 2, since username isn't used anymore, shouldn't First Name and Last Name be loaded into Name field?
  
  Otherwise everything worked smoothly and with some cleanup to roles and permissions and the addition of url codes for the categories, everythign was ready to go.
  
  Mike

  • 2 commentsMost recent by bobtheman March 13Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Changing category view to traditonal forum type view

  This is probably heresy, but has anyone know of a mod for V1 that will show the category and discussion list views etc similar to traditional forums?
  
  Stone throwing may commence, but only after some sensible replies please.... :)

  • 3 commentsMost recent by halo_12 March 13Vanilla 1
• • How to move the Not Signed In/Signed In As

  I am working on building a community and I would like to move the Not Signed In/Signed In As area out of the top right hand corner (because it breaks my theme and you can't see it up there).
  
  How would I go about doing this? Mainly, I can't even find what file it is in.
  
  Thanks!

  • 2 commentsMost recent by Dinoboff March 13Vanilla 1
• • Minogi.com - a different kind of Vanilla Forum
  

  
  
  Hey out there Vanilla Community,
  
  I've been working on a website with a couple of my friends over the past couple months. We started development on this site right when Vanilla 2 was coming out and we were very excited about the prospects. Due to deadline in the project however we were unable to use Vanilla 2 and opted for Vanilla 1.1.8
  
  We've appropriated much of what is out of the box in Vanilla as something else (e.g. Groups are actually extended from Categories). You can easily see this based on URL configuration as we haven't hidden anything...yet. We think that this might be one of the more radical uses of a Vanilla Forum. We'd love for you the community to take a look and give us any kind of feedback — we know we've gotten both positive and negative feedback from our client and we know it has it's fair share of bugs :D
  
  Probably more of a reason to check out this site is that we've made some plugins that don't exist that people seem to be asking for on the forums. A few are:
  
  • Groups
  • Facebook Connect
  • Flickr Image Uploading
  • User Activity
  • Friends
  • et al
  
  Some of these are inherent in Vanilla 2, but for those Vanilla 1ers out there we're still itching to see some progress on that. Anyways, cheers and we look forward to a long-lasting engagement with this community.
  
  http://minogi.com/

  • 5 commentsMost recent by halo_12 March 13Vanilla 1
• • Has anybody made a jQuery UI theme for Vanilla 1 default style

  Vanilla 1.2 will come with jQuery 1.4.x and probably jQuery UI 1.8.x; however I still have to add the UI theme:
  
  http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/
  
  Do you know if someone made one already?

  • 6 commentsMost recent by halo_12 March 13Vanilla 1
• • extending profile pages

  on v2 how are extensions handled for the profile page, is the data stored in the database or is there a writable html file?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by s0mean March 13Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Handler and Hook?!

  I'm currently trying to make a plugin that work in the body of each post and comment but I don't seems to find the proper magic function to get this information and change it....
  
  Can please someone help me!? is there any list of all the possibility?

  • 4 commentsMost recent by ZeFish March 13Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Changing someone's username?

  Can you actually change a user's username? I realize they could just create a new account but then they would lose everything attached to their old account. Can you just hack the mysql database or is it more complicated than that?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by Dinoboff March 12Vanilla 1
• • Joomla! Users Sync. & Vanilla 2 Translation

  Well, I searched the forum and I didn't find anything interesting, because I Just want Vanilla sync the users data with Joomla!. I don't want any Joomla! component or anything else.
  
  And I want to know how is possible to translate Vanilla. I've looked at the source files and I didn't find anything interesting.
  
  Thanks,
  Scorch

  • 4 commentsMost recent by [-Stash-] March 12Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Translation

  Hi!
  I like Vanilla. But our users are estonians. I would like to translate entire Vanilla to look it estonian, but I can't find one or all the necessary language files. Could anyone please help me and list all the files i need to translate to make all the necessary forum functions understandable for estonian user?

  • 4 commentsMost recent by Silencer March 12Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Plugin Ideas for Vanilla 2

  Vanilla 2 is looking sweeeet. It has such a modern feel, and some very high tech features (while I was typing this a little tab just notified me that a draft of my post has been saved). Wow, all I can say is FINALLY the forum software I've been searching for...so excited for the final product.
  
  My plugin idea for anyone who is thinking ahead, is one that Autoposts to Twitter anytime a new thread is created. It's simple and it's perfect both as a service to current members, and as a way to attract new ones. This would go hand in hand with future social networking opportunities that Vanilla 2 is already poised to take advantage of.
  
  Hope others have some good ideas as well! Cheers

  • 11 commentsMost recent by Raize March 11Feedback & Feature Requests
• • Custom Field

  How could I add a custom field to the topic starter form. In other words, right now you can type in a title, choose the category and type your message. But, I want to add one additional text field. Would anyone be willing to tell me how this would be done?

  • 6 commentsMost recent by Dinoboff March 11Add-ons
• • Vanilla on Nginx

  I'm trying to install Vanilla 2 on Nginx but am facing 404 Page not found error. After some searching I figured it is url rewrite error. So, tried to translate Apache's rewrite rule:
  
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
  
  as:
  if (!-e $request_filename
  {
  rewrite ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 last;
  }
  
  But obviously I'm doing something wrong.
  
  Can you help me, please.
  

  • 6 commentsMost recent by houseofmore March 11Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Internal server error trying to install Vanilla 2

  Hi All,
  
  I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this error trying to install Vanilla 2. When I hit Continue on the initial install screen I get a 500 internal server error and my PHP error logs show this message:
  
  "Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error."
  
  I think this suggests that the installer is trying to execute an infinite redirect loop. Changing the permissions on my folders as the install.txt file suggests has no effect.
  
  Any ideas?
  
  Thanks!

  • 4 commentsMost recent by houseofmore March 11Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Email notification

  Was wondering if there's any way I can turn off email notification for this site (vanillaforums.org/dicussion). I receive over 300 emails a day as it is, and now there's more whenever someone replies to a thread. I might be wrong with this: does it only send off notifications when I bookmark a topic?
  
  Also, an idea: Maybe there should be only one email for a topic, even if there are 30 replies. The email would say something like, "There are updates to a discussion you are involved in. Click here to see the latest update, or click here to unsubscribe from this thread."

  • 10 commentsMost recent by iamkeir March 11General
• • PHP Parse error installing V2

  Hello,
  
  I followed the steps as seen in the annoucements section
  
  At the step 6, I can see this :
  "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /homez.338/website/www/forum2/index.php on line 30"
  
  The 30th line is
  Gdn::Session()->Start(Gdn::Authenticator());
  and I didn't altered it.
  
  If you can help, thank you.

  • 1 commentMost recent by david_andorra March 11Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Custom Domains for hosted forums?

  Is it possible to get a hosted Vanilla forum at vanillaforums.com and then change the A record so that you can use your own custom domain to access it? Exactly like Tumblr or Google Apps/AppEngine/Labs offers.
  
  http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains
  http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=91080
  
  I'd much rather use a hosted solution so I can concentrate on forum cultivation rather than server admin.
  
  Any help appreciated.
  
  Thanks,
  matt

  • 3 commentsMost recent by matt March 11Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Very alpha: CKEditor in Vanilla 2

  So I've uploaded my very alpha CKEditor plugin. Not as much work as I'd feared, it only required two modifications to Vanilla 2 proper:
  
  

  • The nl2br regex in the Html() formatter should have a config option
  • There should be a RemoveJsFile method to complement the AddJsFile method.

  
  
  Now, the RemoveJsFile method could return a bool of whether or not the file existed, but as it could be found multiple times I suppose maybe the number of times found would be a good return value. (E.g. the count of $keys)
  
  Anyway, the changes can be seen in this commit here: http://github.com/LouisStAmour/Garden/commit/c1ba39dbb3ee53671f4bb229de6799fc901dd092
  
  As coded, this plugin might or might not be compatible with Vanilla Replies or VanillaCommentScore as I encountered an error at one point and disabled both of them, though it might be the JS' fault.
  
  Also, @Mark, is it possible to override JS or CSS from within a plugin, avoiding the need to remove 'discussion.js' just to add it again with a slightly different name? Or should we work on making the JS more extensible? The main incompatibility lies within jQuery's serialize() of the form, which doesn't seem to call the textarea's overridden val() to get the CKEditor's changes and so instead saves the original unmodified textarea that was hidden. One alternative could be a trigger for such changes before serializing the form.
  
  Oh and another change I've forgotten to make is to ensure all IDs are unique for textareas. (Right now they totally aren't, so my start.js overcomes that as necessary.) And to swap to using Google for hosting jQuery, though that could be part of future performance optimizations like 1.2 has received, I guess.

  • 7 commentsMost recent by [-Stash-] March 11Vanilla 2 & Garden