Well this was something I did not check before deciding to use Vanilla as my forum software. You can't delete members? Holy crap, that has to be one of the most important admin functions in any membership environment. I really liked this forums layout but not being able to delete members changes my entire opinion on Vanilla. I will keep it as a testing web site instead of using it for my real web sites forum.
Hi! I installed/upgraded as recommended, set up the database and an admin-account. But when I enter xxx/index.php/import I get the following:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at xxx/forum/applications/garden/controllers/import.php:37) in xxx/forum/library/core/functions.error.php on line 29
Fatal Error in PHP.ErrorHandler();
gzopen(xxx/forum/uploads/export 2010-02-08 152725.txt.gz) [function.gzopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
The error occurred on or near: xxx/forum/applications/garden/models/class.importmodel.php
I'm using Expression Engine CMS with the Forum Module. It is a very good CMS but it is getting a bit complicated.
So, I'm thinking of changing the concept and moving to a WP + Wishlist Members Plugin + Vanilla combination, since I read there is a plugin which shares WP user database with Vanilla.
My main concern is Privacy and Groups-User management in Vanilla. We are a school and for everyclass we need to set up a private forum. Some students need to access to more than one Private Forum.
In Expressin Engine due to the fact than a user is not able to belong to more than one group. I had to create a group for everyuser. That was quite a lot of work, but it is ok, it made the job.
¿Can I create private forums within Vanilla?
¿Can a user belong to more than one group?
¿Can I quote a user comment when I replay? since I see here, there is no WYSIWYG o bbCode editor, which is actually strange.
We need to add to the addons page a spot to list the license type. Rather its open source friendly or not, and possibly allowing someone to register a addon they created through the creative commons website under whatever license they prefer would be interesting. On the addon upload page it should ask what license they want to give the addon.
also, any requirements should be linked on the addon upload page if any are to exist.
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?
Almost every bulletin board software I know of has "subforums" in one way or another, the exception is Vanilla ;) Yes, I know Vanilla1 has an addon available, but let me continue a little more.
The purpose of a subforum is to further narrow down your list, to make it easier to categorize and in theory, easier to find things as well. Now that has one important drawback, it usually forces the user to click more, and waste more time getting to what they want.
That right there is the main reason Vanilla intrigued me so much when I first discovered it; On the first page of the forum everything I want is right there in front of me, all the recent discussions without needing to click anything. Other forums have their "portals" or their "active topics" and so on, but a lot of the time users don't even know those extra pages exist.
So why am I requesting subcategories for Vanilla when I just described them as "bad" from my view? Well because I think other forums are just going about the implementation the wrong way, and I also think Vanilla can do better ;p
Vanilla reminds me a lot like deviantART, because as I said, everything recent is right there on the first page. Now if you go to http://www.deviantart.com/ and click on any of the categories you'll see how it works wonderfully.
The "All Categories" root shows everything, and with each (sub)Category it narrows down your search. This is very important, because it doesn't just divide the content like folders on your operating system for example, it shows all the content inside that category and recursively shows the content of the subcategories below. I propose Vanilla2 do the same with discussions.
Hi, I'm on a Rackspace Cloud Site. I've created a database and accessed it with phpMyAdmin so all seems ok there. I fill in all the fields on the initial install page and get the error when I submit.
One trick with Cloud sites is the db host has a unique name e.g. mysql40-12.wc2.dfw1.name.com and must be used rather than localhost. I discovered this when installing Vanilla 1.1.10 yesterday, which by the way is working perfectly on another cloud site.
I've tried deleting .htaccess as suggested in some other posts, but this results in a 404: Not Found. Oddly, nothing is being written to the log. I've confirmed that errors are being written to it.
Any suggestions for where to start looking would be much appreciated.
i am testing the latest github of v2 "03/02/2010" and i was able to install into a subdomain "still cant install on a subdirectory" and when i enable VanillaCommentScore the errors begin.
Fatal Error in PHP.ErrorHandler(); /plugins/VanillaCommentScore/class.commentscore.plugin.php
Hi, Im New here. I need make unregistered user permissions to start new discussions for donated site for help chilean people find him family. Most of them arent usualy users of internet, so they havent e-mail account. The idea is that Disscussions will be names of peoples. You can see the site in http://www.congechilemendoza.com.ar/buscarpersonas Im not write fine in english, sory. Im from Mendoza - Argentina. Thanks.
Does Vanilla support having the 'New' and 'Unread' message highlighting displayed even when a user is not logged on? So that users can see the New and Unread highlighting without having to logon.
In my forum, the vast majority of accesses are users just visiting to read the latest messages, not posting. So, they want to see what new/unread messages since their last access, but to do that they need to logon (which is a bit of a pain). It would be good if they only needed to logon when actually doing something that needs to access the user permission capabilities (like posting, viewing their accounts details etc).
Something like having a permanent cookie that is used for the New/Unread highlighting separate from the user-session cookie that they get when they logon. Obviously such a cookie would be shared by all users using the same browser instance, but in the case of my forum that's not a problem.
Or maybe it could be done in a slightly different way by some kind of optional expanded auto-logon URL that users could bookmark (not sure exactly what I mean by that in Vanilla terms!)?
While taking a glance at the Vanilla Forums Contributor Agreement http://vanillaforums.org/contributors , I wanted to open it up for discussion to the community for comments and ideas on improvement. Some of the agreement seems counter productive and degrading
for example "you hereby assign to us joint ownership" and it goes on to state, "you agree that each of us can do all things in relation to your contribution as if each of us were the sole owners"
and "With respect to any patents you own, or that you can license without payment to any third party, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free license to:
* make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer your contribution in whole or in part, alone or in combination with or included in any product, work or materials arising out of the project to which your contribution was submitted, and" .. " you agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and exercise all ownership rights associated with it"
so even if my contribution is meant to be free and public, lets say gpl, im granting ownership to vanilla and they have the right to re-license the product under a proprietary license because they now have joint ownership??
thats not fair at all. Surely the proprietary portion, the taking ownership to re licensing cant be popular. even with the promise to provide a osi fsf version.
"Enable the fast and easy creation of very simple web applications, and enable those applications to be extended and customized with plugins."
maybe to incorporate its stance on open source, its core values, and its dedication and continued effort to improve the project as we work toward the future.
has anyone started creating or working on a facebook connect add-on for vanilla 2. im working on this now, it would be very good for vanilla because phpbb and other community open source softwares have nearly implemented this important add-on. thanks
On my local machine, everything is fine. But when I installed Vanilla on my web server, I can't activate "Use Garden's .htaccess file to rewrite urls". What does this error message mean? "The server configuration for this setting could not be found. If you enable this setting your site may become unavailable."