All Discussions http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussions/9 Sun, 14 Mar 10 23:07:36 -0600 All Discussions en-CA Vanilla 2 Upgrade http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10808/vanilla-2-upgrade Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:18:23 -0600 mcard 10808@/discussions I just did a upgrade test from Vanilla 1 to 2 today while preparing our upgraded support center. I noticed just two little issues with the upgrade script:
- There is a typo in the upgrade script that is causing Comments to be loaded into the ConversationMessage table.
- Username from Vanilla 1 is being loaded into the Name field in Vanilla 2, since username isn't used anymore, shouldn't First Name and Last Name be loaded into Name field?

Otherwise everything worked smoothly and with some cleanup to roles and permissions and the addition of url codes for the categories, everythign was ready to go.

Mike

]]> Subcategories... Well, sorta... http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/9834/subcategories-well-sorta Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:49:47 -0600 Mike.XIII 9834@/discussions 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.

]]> Changing category view to traditonal forum type view http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10819/changing-category-view-to-traditonal-forum-type-view Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:01:21 -0600 halo_12 10819@/discussions This is probably heresy, but has anyone know of a mod for V1 that will show the category and discussion list views etc similar to traditional forums?

Stone throwing may commence, but only after some sensible replies please.... :)

]]> Unable to get Vanilla 2 in a subdirectory (eg /forum) http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10809/unable-to-get-vanilla-2-in-a-subdirectory-eg-forum Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:23:33 -0600 houseofmore 10809@/discussions Hello,

Vanilla 2 is looking nice. We'd like to give it a spin, but can't seem to get it installed outside of the server root. We are attaching it to an existing site, so would like to place it in forums.

Looking at the debug log, it is looking for libraries in the root, even though the path is set to forum.

Does anyone have it working in a subdirectory?

We are able to get the same install working if placed in the webserver root.

Any pointers, or is this still too early?

]]> How to move the Not Signed In/Signed In As http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10818/how-to-move-the-not-signed-insigned-in-as Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:55:31 -0600 amberleighturner2006 10818@/discussions I am working on building a community and I would like to move the Not Signed In/Signed In As area out of the top right hand corner (because it breaks my theme and you can't see it up there).

How would I go about doing this? Mainly, I can't even find what file it is in.

Thanks!

]]> Minogi.com - a different kind of Vanilla Forum http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10625/minogicom-a-different-kind-of-vanilla-forum Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:36:44 -0600 jonobr1 10625@/discussions Minogi.com



Hey out there Vanilla Community,

I've been working on a website with a couple of my friends over the past couple months. We started development on this site right when Vanilla 2 was coming out and we were very excited about the prospects. Due to deadline in the project however we were unable to use Vanilla 2 and opted for Vanilla 1.1.8

We've appropriated much of what is out of the box in Vanilla as something else (e.g. Groups are actually extended from Categories). You can easily see this based on URL configuration as we haven't hidden anything...yet. We think that this might be one of the more radical uses of a Vanilla Forum. We'd love for you the community to take a look and give us any kind of feedback — we know we've gotten both positive and negative feedback from our client and we know it has it's fair share of bugs :D

Probably more of a reason to check out this site is that we've made some plugins that don't exist that people seem to be asking for on the forums. A few are:

• Groups
• Facebook Connect
• Flickr Image Uploading
• User Activity
• Friends
• et al

Some of these are inherent in Vanilla 2, but for those Vanilla 1ers out there we're still itching to see some progress on that. Anyways, cheers and we look forward to a long-lasting engagement with this community.

http://minogi.com/

]]> Has anybody made a jQuery UI theme for Vanilla 1 default style http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10804/has-anybody-made-a-jquery-ui-theme-for-vanilla-1-default-style Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:43:28 -0600 Dinoboff 10804@/discussions Vanilla 1.2 will come with jQuery 1.4.x and probably jQuery UI 1.8.x; however I still have to add the UI theme:

http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/

Do you know if someone made one already?

]]> extending profile pages http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10817/extending-profile-pages Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:24:41 -0600 bobtheman 10817@/discussions on v2 how are extensions handled for the profile page, is the data stored in the database or is there a writable html file?

]]> Handler and Hook?! http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10815/handler-and-hook Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:04:20 -0600 ZeFish 10815@/discussions I'm currently trying to make a plugin that work in the body of each post and comment but I don't seems to find the proper magic function to get this information and change it....

Can please someone help me!? is there any list of all the possibility?

]]> Changing someone's username? http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10816/changing-someones-username Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:54:30 -0600 rhino777 10816@/discussions Can you actually change a user's username? I realize they could just create a new account but then they would lose everything attached to their old account. Can you just hack the mysql database or is it more complicated than that?

]]> Joomla! Users Sync. & Vanilla 2 Translation http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10639/joomla-users-sync-vanilla-2-translation Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:44:41 -0600 scorchpt 10639@/discussions Well, I searched the forum and I didn't find anything interesting, because I Just want Vanilla sync the users data with Joomla!. I don't want any Joomla! component or anything else.

And I want to know how is possible to translate Vanilla. I've looked at the source files and I didn't find anything interesting.

Thanks,
Scorch

]]> Need to be signed in to post in Vanilla 2? http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10812/need-to-be-signed-in-to-post-in-vanilla-2 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:13:29 -0600 antonio23 10812@/discussions Just wondering if in Vanilla 2 you still need to be signed in to comment. Or will there be any guest post facility built in? I hope so as the guest post plugins for Vanilla 1 took quite long to come and were less than ideal in my opinion....but I always used it on my forum as it was extremely important to have.

]]> Translation http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10732/translation Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:51:10 -0600 weissenstein 10732@/discussions 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?

]]> Plugin Ideas for Vanilla 2 http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10751/plugin-ideas-for-vanilla-2 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:03:12 -0600 Raize 10751@/discussions Vanilla 2 is looking sweeeet. It has such a modern feel, and some very high tech features (while I was typing this a little tab just notified me that a draft of my post has been saved). Wow, all I can say is FINALLY the forum software I've been searching for...so excited for the final product.

My plugin idea for anyone who is thinking ahead, is one that Autoposts to Twitter anytime a new thread is created. It's simple and it's perfect both as a service to current members, and as a way to attract new ones. This would go hand in hand with future social networking opportunities that Vanilla 2 is already poised to take advantage of.

Hope others have some good ideas as well! Cheers

]]> Custom Field http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10803/custom-field Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:36:42 -0600 wilcosky 10803@/discussions How could I add a custom field to the topic starter form. In other words, right now you can type in a title, choose the category and type your message. But, I want to add one additional text field. Would anyone be willing to tell me how this would be done?

]]> Vanilla on Nginx http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/9915/vanilla-on-nginx Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:32:36 -0600 kamraan 9915@/discussions I'm trying to install Vanilla 2 on Nginx but am facing 404 Page not found error. After some searching I figured it is url rewrite error. So, tried to translate Apache's rewrite rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

as:
if (!-e $request_filename
{
rewrite ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 last;
}

But obviously I'm doing something wrong.

Can you help me, please.

]]> Internal server error trying to install Vanilla 2 http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10789/internal-server-error-trying-to-install-vanilla-2 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:12:24 -0600 pierrem 10789@/discussions Hi All,

I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this error trying to install Vanilla 2. When I hit Continue on the initial install screen I get a 500 internal server error and my PHP error logs show this message:

"Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error."

I think this suggests that the installer is trying to execute an infinite redirect loop. Changing the permissions on my folders as the install.txt file suggests has no effect.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

]]> Email notification http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10500/email-notification Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:54:13 -0600 MichaelAnthony 10500@/discussions Was wondering if there's any way I can turn off email notification for this site (vanillaforums.org/dicussion). I receive over 300 emails a day as it is, and now there's more whenever someone replies to a thread. I might be wrong with this: does it only send off notifications when I bookmark a topic?

Also, an idea: Maybe there should be only one email for a topic, even if there are 30 replies. The email would say something like, "There are updates to a discussion you are involved in. Click here to see the latest update, or click here to unsubscribe from this thread."

]]> Large Vanilla Sites http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10807/large-vanilla-sites Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:40 -0600 cspielman2 10807@/discussions As a part of my considering adopting Vanilla, can anybody give sample URL's of Vanilla sites that are "large", meaning lots of content, lots of users, high traffic, etc.

Thanks in advance.

]]> Enabling SSL in Vanilla 2? http://www.vanillaforums.org/discussion/10572/enabling-ssl-in-vanilla-2 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:44:07 -0600 derekdon 10572@/discussions Is there a setting for this? Had a quick look but I can't see one. What to secure the join and sign up process. Cheers.

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