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Help me decide to migrate

iain sherriff — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:35:46 -0600

time for a change from my phpbb3 [www.lowriderforums.com]

I want a fast board, a Gallery, Portal would be nice but not essential and migration from phpbb3.
Can Vanilla give me this?

thanks

Iain

Convert bbpress to vanilla

1onely — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:29:47 -0600

Hello

I want Convert bbpress to vanilla

Error on starting new discussion and on deleting comments

basb — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:49:29 -0600

I get an error message every time I try to start a new discussion:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

And: Every time I delete a comment, an error message appears in a popup:

A fatal error occurred while processing the request.
The server returned the following response: parsererror

But the comment is gone after refreshing the page!

Help!

Adding OpenID support

scotty — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:27:58 -0600

Wouldn't it be great to have open id supported on Vanilla. This would enable people to use their openid login information to be able to participate on Vanilla forum!

openid has PHP support libraries available, at this link :

http://openid.net/developers/libraries/

Experts, how does it sound ? Thanks

how can i edit discussin title more than 100

unine31 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:24 -0600

in my language 100 is not enough how can i put more than 100

thank you people.

Invite and base URL 404s

formloves — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:01:37 -0600

I'm getting a 404 on invite links. This one for example: http://www.formlovesfunction.com/forum/entry/register/5VUQROG4

Not sure if this is related, but the following URLs also 404:
http://www.formlovesfunction.com/forum
http://www.formlovesfunction.com/forum/
http://www.formlovesfunction.com/forum/index.php

Adding a trailing slash works:
http://www.formlovesfunction.com/forum/index.php/

I'd like all of these URLs to work. Is there something I need to tweak within Vanilla? Something on the server configuration?

Livequery

garymardell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:52:23 -0600

I noticed the live query plugin being used, but have yet to see the point in it.
What does it do that http://api.jquery.com/live/ does not?

Vanilla to BBpress

GMonkey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:41:46 -0600

Is there a way to export our vanilla database into bbpress? We creating a community site, using buddypres and bbpress and have extensive postings inside our vanilla forum. Has anyone done this?

Can not install Vainlla 1.1.10!!!! Please help me out!

Moderns — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:12:42 -0600

Dear All,

I am unable to install vainlla 1.1.10, I got this error:
"We came across some problems while checking your permissions...
Vanilla seems to have been installed already. You will need to remove the conf/settings.php, conf/database.php files, and all database tables in order to run the installer utility again."

I removed the settings.php and database.php from conf, also I removed all tables!!! But still face same issue!!! Please help me out.... Also I removed the whole database, with NO result.... Please can you tell me what to do from A-Z??? I tried long hours but really feel so upset!!!!

Hope to hear from you SooN.

Thanks!

Stuck at step 2 of 3 of the instalation process

Monty — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:22:39 -0600

I receive messages stating that access to my server was achieved but an error occured while trying to access the database I created on my server.
The required fields are not meant for lamen folk like myself I presume as I cannot understand what you are requesting, so here are my inputs for your possible andsoonest reply and assistance where possible:
MySQL Server
MySQL Database Name XXXXXXX
MySQL User XXXXXX
MySQL Password XXXXX
MySQL Table Prefix LUM_ (what is this and must I add something to it?)

phpbb to Vanilla conversion tool

bobtheman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:58:06 -0600

has anyone made a working phpbb to vanilla conversion tool yet? im running 3.0.7 pl1 and want to attempt to move over all my members.

I like what I see but still wish I could see another working sample of this Forum

Monty — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:58:39 -0600

Please could someone list sites that have adopted this forum for use in their website? Much appreciated

Show off your forums

snytkine — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:59:25 -0600

Please, I want to see real live forums powered by vanilla, something that people customized, styled, made look cool.
I can't find any 'showcase' link, so please post your links here.

Addons area won't filter results (fixed)

TheGief — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:55:25 -0600

Is anyone else having issues with http://vanillaforums.org/addons ?

I want to see 'themes' for 'vanilla1' but it isn't filtering them...

update - must have been my browser, sorry for the post.

check the vanilla blog from admin dashboard

bobtheman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:31:39 -0600

It would be nice to have the vanilla blog and/or forum announcements in the admin dashboard.

List of Features

wilcosky — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:29:04 -0600

I looked in the documentation section but I didn't see a simple list of features that this forum software has...

Does anyone know if there is an add-on that would allow additional fields? For example, there is the Title, Category and box where you type your message, but if I wanted to add another another field, like, URL, how difficult would that be?

Also, I'd want to allow users to attach a file to their post. I saw an attachment plug in, but looking at the comments, it seems like it doesn't work very well... is there one that works?

Thanks for the help!

Cross Sub-Domain Login

adrianwills — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:11:35 -0600

Vanilla 1.1.10 setup, runs great, love the forum tool! However run into a minor problem that I can't quite find a solution for:

The Vanilla forum is setup on a sub-domain to the main site eg: mywebsite.com & forum.mywebsite.com. I've got a few minor administration tools for the main site which I've setup authentication for using the forum logins ie: if they want to visit and edit mywebsite.com/admin/subscribers then they will be redirected to the login page for the forum (forum.mywebsite.com/people.php?ReturnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fqbt.development%2Fadmin%2Fsubscribers), and should they login correctly, they are now also logged in as an administrator for mywebsite.com. I'm adding the ReturnUrl which is added in EXACTLY the same way that it is if it was on the forum domain, however it seems that because the domain is different - even though it is a sub-domain - the ReturnUrl is ignored and the user is first returned to the login page again, then redirected to the forum's home page.

I've toyed around with a few things in the SignInForm function unsuccessfully and can't QUITE crack this problem. Any suggestions?

Issues with Capistrano Deployment and or SymLinks

kylemacdonald — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:46:41 -0600

I have found that I get errors when deploying my Vanilla 2 set-up and theme to my webserver using capistrano. Capistrano ( http://capify.org ) uses a symlink called "current" to point to a release folder which is timestamped and might look something like "20100308042106". After I have more then 5 release folders, I have capistrano clean out the oldest one as to not keep too many versions on my server.

What I am finding is that somewhere along the way Garden/Vanilla stores the absolute url of my release folder as a point of reference and not the symlink "current" folder. This causes me to get failed to open stream errors, because it is looking in a release folder that no longer exists. An example of this is this error:

include_once(/home/deploy/public_html/EXAMPLE.com/releases/20100308042106/public/forums/library/core/class.controller.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory

I can't really tell where this release folder is being stored within the application, as I would like it to point to the "current/" folder rather then the actual release - or I can move it to a "shared" folder potentially to avoid this issue. Subsequently, I also get this error, from what I can only assume is an instantiated class from a previous release version...

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Gdn_Controller in /home/deploy/public_html/mclafan.com/releases/20100308042106/public/forums/library/core/class.controller.php on line 1127

PAID JOB: Onsite AJAX Chat Add-on

Tex — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:56:02 -0600

I am looking for someone who could help me get the following thing done.

A chat, which docks at the bottom of my Vanilla Forum. Logged in members should be able to activate the chat and talk to each other. As simple as possible, no other options than activate and deactivate.

I would be willing to pay for the development, depending on how much is needed. Maybe there are some others too.

What version is this forum using?

snytkine — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:02:24 -0600

Is this forum powered by version 2 or 1?
You should really include the version number next to 'powered by Vanilla' link