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goforum 1.08 release

 

 


Benjamin
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May 26, 2003, 1:03 PM

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Hi guys,

Here's the latest version of goforum. For those of your who aren't familiar with this little addon, it allows you to incorporate "Discuss this article" functionality to Article Manager by making use of your existing forum (if you have one).

You may well wonder what happened to version 1.07.... Well, while Ken's 1.07 version (which handle the new filelocking improvements added to Article Manager 1.28) was in QA, I was working on getting it to support Invision Board. So we figured we'd just release it in version 1.08 to combine them both.

Here's the changelog:

Version 1.08
- updated to account for filelocking improvements added in Article Manager 1.28. New global variable for specifying Article Manager version.
- added support for Invision Board

goforum now supports:

DCForum
Discus
Gossamer forum
Ikonboard
Invision board
Ubbclassic
Ubbthreads
vbulletin
Ben
interactivetools.com 

(This post was edited by Benjamin on Jun 22, 2003, 12:01 AM)
Attachments: goforum_v1_08.zip (24.8 KB)


tmaffin
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Jun 19, 2003, 4:46 PM

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Re: [Benjamin] goforum 1.08 release [In reply to] Can't Post

Would LOVE this to support phpbb...


Benjamin
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Jun 20, 2003, 11:37 AM

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Re: [tmaffin] goforum 1.08 release [In reply to] Can't Post

I know, I know... I really want to work on this, too, but there are only so many hours in the day.

This weekend I've got a little free time. Once I get a finished draft of a 'rate this article' add-on I've been working on, I'll take a look at phpBB. But no promises on the timeline... :-)
Ben
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Benjamin
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Jun 21, 2003, 6:56 PM

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Re: [tmaffin] goforum 1.08 release [In reply to] Can't Post

Tod -

Are you using MySQL with your phpBB installation or something else? (PostGreSQL? MS-SQL?) I was tinkering around with phpBB today, and it appears that this may make a difference in the way the forum handles the login / posting page headers. So I'll need to know to correctly edit the script.
Ben
interactivetools.com 

(This post was edited by Benjamin on Jun 21, 2003, 6:57 PM)


tmaffin
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Jun 22, 2003, 9:46 AM

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Are you using MySQL with your phpBB installation or something else?


Yup, I use MySQL. Except not right now because ^%!$#(*&$ NetNation's brought down their MySQL server without notice. <sigh>


JonBolton
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Jun 22, 2003, 4:59 PM

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Re: [Benjamin] goforum 1.08 release [In reply to] Can't Post

Unsure Hi, I'm having a bit of difficulty getting this script to work on Invision. Can someone help me out? See www.baillie.org.uk if you need the URL. I've chmod the 3 cgi files to 755. I've edited the goforum.cgi script as follows ...

# if FindBin doesn't work uncomment this line and set it to the full filepath to your script directory

#$Bin = "/www/hosts/www.yoursite.com/htdocs/cgi-bin/";

$g{'forum_type'} = 'invision'; # forum type: vbulletin, gforum, ubbthreads, ikonboard, ubbclassic5, discus, dcforum, invision

$g{'forum_url'} = 'http://www.baillie.org.uk/forum'; # forum script directory

$g{'forum_messages_url'} = 'http://YOURHOST/discus/messages'; # forum messages directory url, Discus only

$g{'forum_num'} = 1; # forum number to create thread in

$g{'forum_board'} = ''; # board name, ubbthreads and UBB only

$g{'forum_cat'} = ''; # category, ubbthreads only

$g{'forum_login'} = 1; # login required? 1 = yes, 0 = no NOTE: not all forums tested with this

$g{'forum_user'} = 'ArticleManager'; # forum user with post access

$g{'forum_pass'} = 'publish'; # password for user

$g{'artman_128'} = 1; # set to 1 for Article Manager versions 1.28 and above, otherwise set to 0

$g{'configured'} = 1; # set this to 1 to make the program work

$g{'remove_html'} = 1; # set this to 1 to remove HTML tags from article content

$g{'debug'} = 0; # set this to 1 for debug info

$g{'maxage'} = 90; # don't allow comments on articles older than N days



Benjamin
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Jun 22, 2003, 8:18 PM

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Re: [JonBolton] goforum 1.08 release [In reply to] Can't Post

Hey Jon,

I did a quick test with a typical URL, and it appears to be working fine:
http://www.baillie.org.uk/cgi-bin/artman/exec/goforum.cgi?id=15

Is the problem with the templates? Post me back :-)
Ben
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JonBolton
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Jun 23, 2003, 10:13 AM

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Smile Thanks for looking at this Ben. The problem was indeed with the template! This is a good add-on! One more question: I've now deleted some of the topics from the Forum to tidy up the tests, and I've noticed that when I now click on a link in Article Manager that had been 'discussed', it brings up the forum error for topic/forum moved. Is there a way of getting the forum to ignore/reset the topic id's?


(This post was edited by JonBolton on Jun 23, 2003, 11:20 AM)


noza
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Jun 23, 2003, 9:17 PM

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The download shows 1.06 ?!? where's 1.08? Oooopppss.. just noticed you have the ZIP attached, I was looking at the version in your products>articlemaanger addons


(This post was edited by noza on Jun 23, 2003, 9:19 PM)


noza
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Jun 23, 2003, 11:36 PM

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What does this mean:

Error creating thread in forum! at goforum.cgi line 360.


All variables and template seem Ok? I have UBBClassic 6.3


(This post was edited by noza on Jun 23, 2003, 11:38 PM)


Benjamin
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Jun 24, 2003, 9:14 AM

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Re: [noza] goforum 1.08 release [In reply to] Can't Post

Hi Noza,

That means that when the script compiles the forum post it unsuccessfully attempts to create a new forum post. To be honest, it could be due to a number of reasons, but probably the most likely is that goforum was only written to support UBBClassic version 5, not any later - it's perfectly possible that the designers of the forum changed something around that makes their forums no longer compatible with goforum.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.
Ben
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