thanx a lot buzz

When I quick edit in topic I got something like this, and this does not redirect me to discussions page.

Any suggestions ?

• If using a zipped .txt.gz file (as generated by the exporter), the import page keeps the email and password information but presents the error "ImportFile is required".
• If using an unzipped .txt file, the import page forgets all previous input and presents three errors; "You must select a file to import.", "Email is required." and "Password is required."

My current installation is a fresh 2.0.18.2 with no changes what so ever. I've tried all different combinations of "Use my Current Password" and "Generate import SQL only", but I never got past the import input page.

As I'm unable to see any sort of error message, I have no idea where to go from here. Please advice! I even tried adding;

$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['LogEnabled'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['LogFile'] = 'logs/error-log';
$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

but no logs/ directory is created, so I'm assuming no errors there. (I've restarted apache).

Also tried clearing the cache directory and verified directory permissions to uploads/conf/cache directories.

I started a discussion over at the Simple Machines developer forum (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=466125.0) that talks about a way I started using to track down user viewing history on a forum I developed. It involves storing "boundaries," where an algorithm manages sets of records for a user that represents a lower message ID and an upper message ID, such that all IDs within that boundary are considered read.

As far as I can tell, Vanilla offers similar functionality to SMF, such that a user's tally of unread posts is determined by either how far the user has read into a topic, or by when they last replied. Either way, the method (in my opinion) is a little unsound, given that it has the potential to mark posts or pages of topics as "read" when really you've simply clicked past a certain point. The boundary solution I proposed efficiently stores the records (or as close as one can get and maintain accuracy on a per-post basis).

If you read the topic that I linked to, you'll see the first question I'm asked is why I did things this way. My answer is that I wanted accuracy in what a forum told me what was read or not, and to be able to do so while displaying my forum in a threaded fashion, it became a necessity. The other question I got immediately was about performance, which sort of went into the weeds about building thread trees, etc. Being that I don't have a large user base for my implementation forum, the best I can say is that performance isn't a problem yet, however, I'll admit that larger scale testing of my boundary method is certainly warranted before it's granted much credence.

I wanted to get opinions on this. Or, I would love to be shown whether Vanilla addresses the unread posts feature in a different way than SMF, phpBB, myBB, vBulletin, etc. I haven't seen much mention of this feature, nor anything past a "mark as unread" add-on.

But really, if indeed Vanilla uses a similar or equivalent method for unread posts, I'd like to get a decent answer on whether Vanilla's decision to do things this way came as a result of specific testing. And for the tests, were there alternative methods of implementing this feature? How did they work? And what ultimately made you folks choose your current method? And have users ever expressed concern about how posts are marked as read or unread?

Thanks in advance.

Edit the .css file to change what items are removed.

Am I just too tired and am missing it?

I was scared to ask a question but after using the search function here for an hour I gave in.

I've got a bit of a weird problem here.

When a user goes to http://ripwire.netscapist.com the page shows no discussions, but when they login, all the discussions are there.

Can someone help me so the discussions show without having to login!. Thanks

I've checked and the gdn.inform function in global.js is not being fired, so there's no message appearing.

The forum us set up so new users move to the Confirm Email role until they confirm.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

I checked permissions of posting members and they are OK.

settings > categories "Do not display the categories in the side panel." is unchecked

So our question is, whether it is feasible to implement a comment on questions/answers solution.

thanks a lot.

I've modified the .htaccess and added the following rules:

 RewriteRule ^post/discussion(.*)$ /post/sound$1 [R,L]
 RewriteRule ^sound(.*) index.php\?p=post/discussion$1 [PT,L]

The problem is that the tagging box doesnt apear when someone tryes to create a discussion because it is not the normal URL I think the problem may be here, but I don't know how to fix it:

/**
    * Add the tag input to the discussion form.
    * @param Gdn_Controller $Sender
    */
   public function PostController_BeforeFormButtons_Handler($Sender) {
      if (C('Plugins.Tagging.Enabled') && in_array($Sender->RequestMethod, array('discussion', 'editdiscussion'))) {
         $Discussion = GetValue('Discussion', $Sender->EventArguments);
         if ($Discussion && !$Sender->Form->IsPostBack()) {
            // Load the existing tags.
            $Tags = Gdn::SQL()
               ->Select('t.*')
               ->From('TagDiscussion td')
               ->Join('Tag t', 'td.TagID = t.TagID')
               ->Where('td.DiscussionID', GetValue('DiscussionID', $Discussion))
               ->Where("coalesce(t.Type, '')", '')
               ->Get()->ResultArray();

            $Tags = ConsolidateArrayValuesByKey($Tags, 'Name');
            $Sender->Form->SetValue('Tags', implode(' ', $Tags));
         }

         echo $Sender->Form->Label('Tags', 'Tags');
         echo $Sender->Form->TextBox('Tags', array('maxlength' => 255));
      }
   }

I'e fixed the problem with the voting pluggin just changing this:

$VoteUpUrl = '/sound/'.$VoteType.'/'.$ID.'/voteup/'.$Session->TransientKey().'/';
$VoteDownUrl = '/sound/'.$VoteType.'/'.$ID.'/votedown/'.$Session->TransientKey().'/';

But is not the same with this one

Is there a way to remove the HourOffset update? The data stored upon registration is correct, so this can be used to calculate the time.

Firstly, thank you for all the help I've had recently. It's appreciated! :)

I'm using Vanilla 2.0.18.2 on default theme and looking at the text input box for both new discussions and new comments. It auto-scrolls when people are typing, which is great, but many of our targetted users are elderly and frankly get confused when they can't see all their text at once. Using the scroll bar for them can be fiddly.

I like what we have here, with the auto-resizing of the text input box so it gets bigger, rather than scrolling. I'd also like the ability to manually resize it, just like here.

I've searched the forums and it seems this question pops up ocassionally, but is either not answered or relates to a addon issue. Also, nothing pops up when I do an addon search.

How can I achieve the same effect on my forum?

Thanks :)

(NB: I'm still a beginner remember, though learning fast thanks to you guys!)

I am using the latest version of Vanilla. Site: www.nigerianz.com

Any form of help will be appreciated on this. Thank you.

I want to know if any default caching is done in vanilla because many times when I try to log out from vanilla forums, it doesn't log me out and keep me signed in. I try to clear script cache but to no difference.

I have to close the browser and delete browser cache to log out.

Secondly when I try to change the theme, the page only reloads but doesn't change the theme. It only happens some times.

can someone tell me how I can figure out to setup a number of categories per discussion I use on my startpage because I use: index.php?p=categories/discussions.

Thanks, Sash