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Extended Application Form

Mark — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:38:38 +0000

Extended Application Form

Mark — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:38:38 +0000

Extended Application Form

Rewriting URLs to make them friendly

Seth — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:31:11 +0000

This is half-bug and half-feature, so let's start with the problem that prompted this topic:

Problem:
If I link to a file in a Folder A, then add a new folder that comes before Folder A alphabetically, the "directory ID" (did as FB calls it) increments to accommodate this new directory.

Solution:
Although it would be hard to keep a persistent state on the did's, it's necessary in one form or another. One way would be to use .htaccess RewriteRules to redirect, say, /index.php/foldername/photoname to the appropriate file.

Thoughts? Any way to do this easily that I'm not thinking of?

Sidebar Content

shughey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:13:58 +0000

What makes the sidebar show its contents? I have the sidebar but nothing in it except Start a New Discussion, even though I have several discussions already. How do I get the drop down menu and other items to show in the sidebar?

Thanks,

Additional fields in discussion

Danik — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:34:56 +0000

Hi a need to add 2 additional fields to Discussion. Iâ€™ve already added 2 fields in LUM_Discussion database table (they are varchar fields) Iâ€™ve edited form in themes/discussion_form.php and addedt two additional textareas And have added them in library/Vanilla/Vanilla.Class.Discussion.php But they are not stored in database anyway. Where else should I add them to work properly?

Clarifying How To Change To Auto Approval

camstudio — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:11:37 +0000

My forum is currently set so all applicants have to be approved by me, but I want to change this to auto approval. I read vanoob's comment here: http://lussumo.com/community/?CommentID=86744 but am still a little unclear. Do I change the New Member Role > Applicant so they have Membership Approval Role > Member ???

Basecamp Style

Jazzman — Mon, 07 May 2007 04:46:36 +0000

Basecamp Style

Jazzman — Mon, 07 May 2007 04:46:36 +0000

Basecamp Style

For all your needs...

fmimoso — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:48:55 +0000

Just noticed it around here and thought "how can I do something real lame at this hour"? Yes, it's a "I was first!" discussion. :D

Inline Images 1.2

[-Stash-] — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:12:55 +0000

I just updated from Inline Images 1.1 (which was working fine) to 1.2 and now all I get is the ALT attribute showing from the image tag. The HTML code is all there, the image is in the directory still, but for whatever reason the image won't show up on the page. I also updated to Attachments 2.1 at the same time, but this appears to be working correctly, as when I disable II1.2 the pictures show up as a list at the bottom as expected. Any ideas as to what I've got wrong on the upgrade? I just deactivated the extension, deleted the directory via FTP, uploaded the new one and then reactivated it.

Convert Invision to Vanilla

Mr K — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:32:09 +0000

Convert Invision to Vanilla

Mr K — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:32:09 +0000

Convert Invision to Vanilla

Can someone please install a theme for me?

theoriginalists — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:25:20 +0000

Hi there, I'm having trouble installing the Cloud 6 Theme onto my forum and it isn't working and is stressing me. Its difficult and wrecking my forum. Could someone please install it for me? OR give me really deatiled instructions to place it on. The instructions i've been gvien don't work!!!!

IE6 - wrong div"content" rendering (SOLVED)

Godfather — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:23:42 +0000

Can't find either problem or any information on this situation:
forum reflects in IE6 this way
i.e. a lot of space before discussions list

Does anyone know if there's an event calendar?

Shady — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:36:14 +0000

Maybe I'm not searching for the right thing... maybe it hasn't been made yet. I'm looking for a calendar that I can create events on and invite forum members to... then they would either accept or deny the event invitation and it would say so on the event. People attending would get a notification the day before reminding them or something... I really want it to schedule clanmatches and practices, but I feel like it could be used for more.

How to remove Lussumo product information?

fireurimagination — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:58:23 +0000

Hi, Guys I have installed vanilla forum and now i wanted to know how can I remove or shift to the footer the Lussumo product information thing on the left hand corner "Vanilla 1.1.4 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support. Installed Add-ons.", can anybody pls tell it step by step (which file to edit and how), I am completely layman & new bie??

Highlighting Admins' Comments

Budde — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:30:37 +0000

Here is what I'd like to do:

On comments.php

if AuthUserRole = ['Administrator'] comments.style.backgroundColor = "#1874CD";
if AuthUserRole = ['Guest'], ['Member'] comments.style.backgroundColor = "transparent"

This should highlight the Administrator comments as Blue, but doesn't! -- and leave the Guest and Member comments as White. If anyone could give me a hand.

Thanks!

Swearing

LukeW — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:47:15 +0000

Is there such addon where if someone tries to post a swear word, it'll reject their comment?
It's getting a little out of hand....

Recording a boolean preference from the Application Form

dan39 — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:50:38 +0000

It would be very helpful if someone could write an add-on that adds a checkbox for saving a Yes/No (or 0,1) boolean preference (such as a newsletter subscription, or a "do not send me offers via email" preference) into the application form. The user would also be able to update that preference from their account page.

The add-on wouldn't need to do anything more than that since anyone with admin access to the database can easily export the recorded data in nearly any format directly from their database manager (phpMyAdmin, etc.).

A more advanced version of this proposed add-on would let admins define multiple boolean preferences that can be placed in the database from the admin form (for example "please enter me in this month's sweepstakes")

I know that the "Predefined Attributes" can do this, but it's code is very outdated (it was written for Vanilla 0.9.2) and isn't being maintained anymore. Plus, it crams all of the labels and values into an array in the database, which is really not useful for simple boolean preferences that often need to be extracted and referenced easily. Additionally, it's companion add-on (User Export) to access that data no longer works in the latest release of Vanilla.

Is anyone aware of a more recent add-on that does something similar to this that can achieve this with some modifications?

Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. I would think that many people could find an add-on like this useful.

MySQL Server (???)

shughey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:05:07 +0000

OK, dumb question for you guys but, what is meant by MySQL Server on the installation page. I know what the database name, user and password are and I'm assuming the Lussumo database prefix remains as is, but I don't understand what is being requested by MySQL Server.

Newbie error

Abacus — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:08:09 +0000

Just installed VF and when I attempt to open it I get the following error... Error Message An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the requested user. Affected Elements UserManager.GetSessionDataById(); The error occurred on or near: Table 'jedelgg.LUM_Role' doesn't exist

Member privacy issue

cafeavec — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:17:30 +0000

Our forum is in a "private beta", as in only a few of us use it and try it out, and we haven't distributed the address.
Only the Blog-page and an info-page is currently available to others than signed-in members. This is important to us as our group is very sensitive.

We have decided to go for the BlogThis ext to provide our news/updates feature.

The less-than-optimal result we just noticed is that in the blog-view, clicking the user name of the author bring you directly to this persons forum profile - even if this page is defined (using Page Management) to be visible to members/admins only.

To us, this is a very serious matter, and I am interested to know how I can counter this problem? Am I right to consider it a bug?

migration problems

XK — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:57:44 +0000

Hi folks,

We migrated a Vanilla forum from one server to another. I ran into a weird problem (both sites were/are hosted) where the transplanted site wouldn't run. Nothing. Nada. Nothing in logs just sat there.

So I did a fresh install and made sure Vanilla was happy with the new ISP and it was. Then I loaded in the DB and copied over the extensions/themes and besides a bit of DNS misery and some extension hackery (turning them off in extensions.php then back on)everything was ok.

During testing I have now discovered the Discussion Prefs for Sticky/Unsticky and so on do not work. Trying to make a discussion unsticky (as a user with confirmed ability to do so) resulted in being logged out. I then used the 'remember me' function but I can't seem to get any of those bits to work.

It was logging to the error file originally but I echoed a newline in for the sake of debug and now it isn't writing to the file anymore.

Vanilla-1.1.4

Helps?

Attachments won't upload after switching servers

davestewart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:40:06 +0000

HI there,

I've just swapped servers, and ported my old vanilla install to the new server.
However, I can't seem to upload attachments, even though I've changed the permissions on the uploads folder to 777 (should it be 666?), and I've changed the uploads path.

I get the error:

Some problems were encountered
Failed to upload the file: youngPeople.jpg

Can anyone help with this simple problem?
Thanks,
Dave

RSS/Atom To Thread Creation Extension -- Fundraising Campaign Started

orty — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:42:06 +0000

Update on 8/23: The programmer has agreed to decrease his rates on this, still providing bug fixes and all the features listed below, but not necessarily add new features (he will fix existing features). Basically, he'll still be doing EVERYTHING on the list below, just might not be able to add new functionality in the future.

I've got an email into fundable.org to see if we can lower the pledge goal down $300 to $1000. Price has been lowered down to $1000 in the pledge drive.

Update: Since there appears to be several people interested in this, I've gone ahead and gotten a quote from a programmer I've dealt with many times, and created a fundable.org campaign. Read below for details or contribute here. It ends in 25 days, and no money is collected unless goal is met. I've put in some money, and would love it if you could, too :-)
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Here's what I'm looking to do for my new forum I'm creating at bendforum.com . I'm looking to take an RSS feed and create/start threads based on entries of that feed. Basically, I want to create discussions for local news based on the local news site's RSS feed. Ideally, the article's headline would be the title/subject of the thread, the excerpt listed in the RSS feed would be quoted in a blockquote in the entry, with a link to the full story below the blockquote. I could setup a cron job that would pull the RSS feed entries every xx minutes.

I'm already pulling RSS data from another site (on the same server) using the FeedManager plugin, so possibly that could be expanded upon to include these features? For the right price, I might even pay for this functionality, though I think it would be useful for a lot of people looking to foster discussion on specialized topics.

Thanks!
-Jake

How to change 'Apply For Membership' Page (Solved)

LukeW — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:27:04 +0000

I know this is probably some simple file I've missed, but I can't find how to change the default apply for membership left-hand side text:
'This membership application form does not grant immediate access to the site. All membership applications are'....ect
What have I missed? lol

How do I change the banner window display?

Oreganoflow — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:34:32 +0000

See up there where it says Lussumo Community? I want to change the blue wave to a photo. how do i do that?

Need Your Suggestion

Bentot — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:10:20 +0000

I want to create a new Tab that only selected members can see. I need to be able to put html tables and text in this new page. Can someone show me the steps pls. I appreciate it. Thanks

warning message

JakeP — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:44:47 +0000

here are the first couple lines of the page source. i dont know whats wrong... br /> Warning: include(/home/content/c/a/m/camprules/html/Vanilla/extensions/./default.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/c/a/m/camprules/html/Vanilla/conf/extensions.php on line 5

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/content/c/a/m/camprules/html/Vanilla/extensions/./default.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/c/a/m/camprules/html/Vanilla/conf/extensions.php on line 5
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-ca">

Account Icon on sign up page

Gozlingo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:09:38 +0000

Hi, I'd like to include the Account Icon field on the sign-up page. Does anyone know how I can do this? If I simply include the form input field (as copied from the Account Identity Form) it doesn't work - the icon value isn't saved. Any ideas? Oli