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Enabling SSL in Vanilla 2?

derekdon — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:44:07 -0600

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.

Plugin Ideas for Vanilla 2

Raize — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:03:12 -0600

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

wilcosky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:36:42 -0600

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?

Remote server moved hardware - now no one can login at the forum

Sicko — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:45:59 -0600

Greetings,

I had my site moved to another hardware at my remote VPS, while maintaining the same domain and remote paths.

Now the forum is displaying some strange warning messages and can't login. Some has any idea what could it be?

Here's the address: http://lolhehehe.com/forum/

14 HTTP requests

ChrisGwynne — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:00:44 -0600

Pretty sure I brought this up with version 1 of Vanilla too..

Is there really a need to make 14 http requests for each page before it's even rendered? There's so many calls for separate JQuery files its unbelievable.

Installing Vanilla 2 on Rackspace

MacTyler — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:16:47 -0600

I have downloaded the latest vanilla/garden from git and uploaded everything to my test page iphonedevforums.com/new/ I tried to install and it gave me this error http://drp.ly/xMO9k now anytime I go anywhere like iphonedevforums.com/new/ it gives me this http://drp.ly/xMP3y . I am on rackspace and my .htaccess looks like this

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

Internal server error trying to install Vanilla 2

pierrem — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:12:24 -0600

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!

Very alpha: CKEditor in Vanilla 2

Louis — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:49:29 -0600

So I've uploaded my very alpha CKEditor plugin. Not as much work as I'd feared, it only required two modifications to Vanilla 2 proper:

The nl2br regex in the Html() formatter should have a config option
There should be a RemoveJsFile method to complement the AddJsFile method.

Now, the RemoveJsFile method could return a bool of whether or not the file existed, but as it could be found multiple times I suppose maybe the number of times found would be a good return value. (E.g. the count of $keys)

Anyway, the changes can be seen in this commit here: http://github.com/LouisStAmour/Garden/commit/c1ba39dbb3ee53671f4bb229de6799fc901dd092

As coded, this plugin might or might not be compatible with Vanilla Replies or VanillaCommentScore as I encountered an error at one point and disabled both of them, though it might be the JS' fault.

Also, @Mark, is it possible to override JS or CSS from within a plugin, avoiding the need to remove 'discussion.js' just to add it again with a slightly different name? Or should we work on making the JS more extensible? The main incompatibility lies within jQuery's serialize() of the form, which doesn't seem to call the textarea's overridden val() to get the CKEditor's changes and so instead saves the original unmodified textarea that was hidden. One alternative could be a trigger for such changes before serializing the form.

Oh and another change I've forgotten to make is to ensure all IDs are unique for textareas. (Right now they totally aren't, so my start.js overcomes that as necessary.) And to swap to using Google for hosting jQuery, though that could be part of future performance optimizations like 1.2 has received, I guess.

JQuery plugin updated to v19-1.4.2, gets CKEditor 3.1

[-Stash-] — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:34:53 -0600

Read about the v19-1.4.2 update

Hey everyone, long time no see. I've just updated my JQuery extension for Vanilla 1 to jQuery 1.4.1 and added CKEditor to it. Please everyone have a go and break it, I'm sure it's a little rough around the edges, but it worked for me on Vanilla 1.1.10 so have at it!

CKEditor require HTML Formatter to be installed and enabled, you should also save your sanity and formatting by turning the HTML_CONVERT_NEWLINES option to "0" (zero).

Please let me know what you guys think.

Locale & translations

Spone — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:40:33 -0600

Hello there!

I'm starting an early French (fr-FR) translation of Garden and Vanilla 2. I've understood that all the translations have to be in the proper application/plugin locale/ folder.

I need a list of all the strings I have to translate. Does such a list exist or do I need to create it myself by searching all the calls to Gdn::Translate() method?

Thanks in advance.

SingleSignOn - How to?

FCN — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:38:10 -0600

Hello,

I'm coding a website and I included Vanilla 2 in it.
Now I want to start the login system of the site.
but is it possible to login from the normal site into the Vanilla system?
I mean that I'm logged in in the site and the forum with one login with the use of the Vanilla system?!
Is that possible with SingleSignOn and if yes; how could I use that "bridge"?
I didn't understand this article really: http://vanillaforums.org/page/SingleSignOn

Problems installing plugins

LOVEolution — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:17:01 -0600

I've just installed Vanilla 2 and I'm trying to add some plugins. I was under the impression that I just had to upload the new plugins into the plugins folder (just like how wordpress plugins work), but I've done that and none of the new plugins are showing up. Am I doing something wrong?

Status of Email notifications

FoxyFred — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:28:27 -0600

Hello, developers!

First off, let me say that I am impressed with the quality of the Vanilla 2 and Garden codebase! So far, I haven't found any of the heinous crimes that PHP allows one to commit, and it seems like you have a sensible OO design and plugin architecture.

I work for FoxyCart, and we have a pretty large Vanilla 1 board that we'd like to move to Vanilla 2; there are many new features that we would really enjoy. One old feature, though, that we use a lot is the email notification feature. I see that it's planned in your roadmap, and I'm wondering how much of that is completed right now.

I like what I see so far with regard to notifications, and I'm wondering if email support is just around the corner, or if I should dive in and write a notification plugin myself. The main things we like about the current notifications are:
- Per-category new conversation notifications. (we want to know when people ask new questions)
- Conversation updates that notice when we visit the forum. (we want to know when someone updates a conversation, but email's not important if we're currently working on the board)

The most important feature of a new notification system for us is that it imports the old notification settings, so that people who are currently subscribed continue to receive updates.

Anyway, it'd be great if someone could tell me the status of all of this before I go even deeper into the Garden / Vanilla 2 code. Thanks in advance! :-)

Vanilla 2 Stability

Simba Cub — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:53:11 -0600

Hi guys!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't dig up a recent thread on the topic so I thought I'd ask here.

Is Vanilla 2 at the stage whereby it can be hosted live without fear of major updates that will render it dead come future updates? I know I shouldn't use it live yet, I'm just curious to see if it's possible safely.

Thanks!

Rich::

What is the time line for Vanilla 2.0

Horton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:13:33 -0600

When do we expect the offical 2.0 Release?
Is there a FAQ about 2.0 yet.
What I have seen may change my plans for this winter.

Horton

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