Also is this theme carried over to the plug-ins or apps, so if I make static/active pages will I still be able to carry over the background easily?

This is quite a unique look, it has many potentials.

Thanks again!

1) How to make the URLs to end with slash and not without 2) What pages should I use robot.txt to block ad not index (ie. activity, bookmarked sub folder, etc.)

Thanks

1) I have mod_rewrite installed and working (checked the phpinfo();) 2) I've changed the following lines: file: conf/config-defaults.php change: RewriteUrls to TRUE instead of FALSE 3) HTACCESS is in place and has the default data 4) installed under subdomain and I can access the homepage (but not the other pages)

What else should I do to make the forum work?

Thanks in advance.

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

Well the problem is that i get the following error when i try to enable it:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class MediaModel in /xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/plugins/FileUploadDetect/class.mediamodel.php on line 252

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.

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.

Most users do seem to get correct notifications, however. Just some aren't. Any others experiencing this problem?

It was a great springboard for me and really got me into that software, even though all I knew about php before then was the syntax and the basics, what attracted me was the layman like examples of code that enabled me to build more than a hello world plugin and I got brave enough to actually write a cross site authentication plugin that allowed users to all be registered in one database and authenticate everywhere or for each site to replicate signups across the network of sites (and a few bits besides) but I could not have done it without the examples that made me brave.

Lots of people have good Ideas that never get programmed simply because as soon as they start looking at how a particular system works it gets confusing without good sign posts and they run.

What I am looking for is support for this idea as we all know the Vanilla crew are busy people, are there any app or plugin programmers out there willing to contribute to this site if i create it ?

Are there any people out there willing to help maintain it ?

What do you think of the idea ?

IMHO I think it could be a really good thing for vanilla in helping people build the confidence to give it a go.

What do you think ?

Not here the problem starts. My users think they have successfullly signed up but then see there is no option to add new posts or comment. So they leave the forum and half of them never returns.

One of my member had previously asked me how he can contribute coz he couldn't find the option to start new threads. At that point this issue didn't come into my mind and now I know what's causing the confusion?

Please suggest some solution to add a notice after the users are signed up to confirm email before continuing.

The forum is here environmentabout.com/forum

Would search engines will be able to index somedomain.com/forums#/categories/general ??

thanx a lot buzz

• 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.

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

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.