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Dave
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Sep 5, 2002, 5:45 PM
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Discuss this Article Add-On - 3 new forums supported!
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Ok, I've finished goforum v1.01. This add-on adds "Discuss this article" functionality to Article Manager by making use of your existing forum (if you have one). See this thread for more info. In this version the following forums are supported:
- vbulletin
- ubbthreads
- gossamer forum
- ikonboard
New features include:
- no login setting for forums that don't require user login to post
- 'remove html' setting to remove tags from article summaries before posting to forum
- 'debug' flag to show what forum is returning when things aren't working properly.
If you already have this add-on installed and it's working well, there's no need to upgrade. If you have one of these other forums and you've be waiting to give it a try, please feel free.
Bug reports, suggestions and comments welcome!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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InSite
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Sep 5, 2002, 6:27 PM
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Re: [Dave] Discuss this Article Add-On - 3 new forums supported!
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Hi there :)
Cant remember if I or anyone else suggested this before, but would it be possible to have the script post the new thread in different forums according to category?
For example,
If article manager category = SPORTS, post new topic in forumID 1
If article manager category = MUSIC, post new topic in forumID 2
etc.
Also, can we have an option to post either the summary, or the entire article? Some of our summaries are a bit vague, so they dont make a lot of sense to forum users who havent navigated to the thread from the news article...
Quality work - if you had a members area for Article Manager upgrades such as this on a yearly subscription, I'd certainly sign up! I'm not saying I have loads of money to flash around, but I dont expect this kind of stuff for free 
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InSite
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Sep 5, 2002, 8:00 PM
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Re: [Dave] Discuss this Article Add-On - 3 new forums supported!
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Works like a charm! The full news article is now being posted in the relevant forum!
Thanks SOOO much! This will really improve discussions on my forums, and get our regular forum members reading the news too - makes it even more fun for our news reporters who volunteer their time.
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MalaK_3araby
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Sep 6, 2002, 1:07 AM
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Excellent work indeed Dave.
You guys are going gret distance to please us and its surely appreciated.
/me off testing
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MalaK_3araby
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Sep 6, 2002, 2:28 AM
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Hiya Dave ...
weired ... when i turn debugging ON it works .. turn it off and it returns line 174 error.
i am posting where login not required
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taylor
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Sep 6, 2002, 5:55 AM
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Dave-
Could you release a version that doesn't have Findbin language in it? For some reason, goforum is choking on my server (apparently this finbin module hasn't been installed correctly). Dave Lo has spent a lot of time hard-coding the version 1 script for me to get it to work on my server.
Everytime I ask my admin to install it, he says he did--but dlo says it still isn't there.
I'm running 30+ other scripts on that server and have never run into this problem--before goforum.cgi.
Help? And no, I'm not a programmer so please don't ask me to add lines to the script. I will only get confused. :)
Taylor
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WebGuys
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Sep 6, 2002, 8:04 AM
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Just a note 2 Taylor.
First Taylor, If you know your path to cgi-bin i can help you fix the script to work without the $bin. Just let me know
WebGuys
Just a thought for the gang,
NASA used the equivelant of a commodore-64 to put men on the moon, but Windows requires a Pentium to run, Hmmmmm.
(This post was edited by WebGuys on Sep 6, 2002, 8:11 AM)
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Dave
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Sep 6, 2002, 9:31 AM
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Re: [WebGuys] Discuss this Article Add-On - 3 new forums supported!
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Webguys asked "is their a way to have the script add a reference link to the article that is being discussed? "
Look for the line that starts with "my $forum_body =" and add the link at the end. Assuming you're using the default naming it would look something like this:
Read the full article at http://yoursite/publish/article_$rec{'num'}.shtml
$rec{'num'} would insert the number of the article.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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WebGuys
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Sep 6, 2002, 10:16 AM
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If you hit the discuss story button and use IkonBoard, it will do everything correctly, but if you go in and delete the topic and hit the button again, it says
Sorry, some required files are missing, if you intended to view a topic, it's possible that it's been moved or deleted. Please go back and try again
any ideas?
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Dave
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Sep 6, 2002, 10:23 AM
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Yea, that's going to happen. The way the program works is it creates a thread in the forum for each article when the user clicks on "discuss article", then remembers the link for future users who might click the link. So it's important that you don't erase the threads it creates or users will be redirected to erased threads.
An alternative approach, if someone was inclined to do some additional programming, would be to have the script try to access the page first and make sure it was there and then redirect the user. That would be a lot slower though then simply redirecting the user.
The simple solution would be "don't do that". ;)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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WebGuys
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Sep 6, 2002, 10:29 AM
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oops, you know me, I screw up by example :)
lesson learned today: Don't do what the webguys do
Webdork
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Teambldr
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Sep 6, 2002, 10:58 AM
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When I republish will it look for threads and if not there create threads for each news story republished? The reason I ask is when I republish it will be creating 1600 new threads all at once.
Brian
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Dave
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Sep 6, 2002, 11:03 AM
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It doesn't create a thread until the first time someone clicks on the "Discuss this article" link. At that point it creates a thread and then redirects the user. It remembers the link and just redirects future people automatically.
Note: With vbulletin there's a slim chance the user will get a "Unable to create thread, try again in a couple minutes" error if they click "discuss" on too many articles all at the same time that have never been clicked on before. This is because vbulletin has a 45 second minimum delay between postings.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Teambldr
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Sep 6, 2002, 11:24 AM
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Would it be a good idea to create a seperate account for posting to the forum?
Thanks!
Brian
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Dave
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Sep 6, 2002, 11:30 AM
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Probably, just to keep things clean and simple. The most secure setup would be to have a separate user with as little access as possible but the ability to post new threads. Login as that user yourself first to make sure you can post new threads before doing it with the script.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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WebGuys
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Sep 6, 2002, 11:36 AM
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Ok now that i have deleated it and screwed it up, i looked thru Mysql and deleated every reference to the calls in the forum database, deleated the forum, remade it, gave it a new number, reflected that in goforum.cgi and it still wont work, did the data get put into AM's database? i gotta fix this
****** UPDATE ***** I deleated the goforum.DAT and all is good, sorry for the panic mode.... should just looked t\at the script first
WebDork
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taylor
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Sep 6, 2002, 11:51 AM
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 Thanks Webguys for the offer. I'll be brave and attempt Dave's suggestion...
Meantime, Dave:
What if I am not using the default naming method--I'm naming each article a unique name?
Taylor
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Dave
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Sep 6, 2002, 11:59 AM
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If you erase a thread by accident, the easiest thing to do (if you have a text editor) is open up goforum.cgi, look for the article number and erase that line. The next time someone clicks on "discuss" for that article it will just create a new thread since it won't have a link in the data file. Be sure to make a backup copy before you do that though.
If it becomes as ongoing issue for anyone we could look at whipping up a little script to assist in that process.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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WebGuys
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Sep 6, 2002, 12:11 PM
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Its ok Taylor, was gonna tell you to do that, just wanted to make sure you knew the path. But again Dave strikes the iron when the fire was hot and took care of the problem, i am gonna be out of a job before i know it, wait, i dont work there, so why am i worried....
BTW, Will be away next 10 days, goin on a cruise to Mexico, so I will miss you all, Naw I will be PARTYING!!!!!!
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MalaK_3araby
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Sep 6, 2002, 12:33 PM
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Hi Dave ... i also commented out line 174 and it works now.
Yes, the board is translated.
Thanks.
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