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GL Forum Project RC1 Release
- Sunday, December 08 2002 @ 12:27 PM EST
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Hey guys,
The long awaited time has come! After many hours spent by Blaine and I, we have finally gotten the forum together for a release.
This release (RC1) includes many features found in the most popular forums today. Such as:
- Unlimited categories, forums, and topics
- Broad range of moderator functions (move, ban, edit, delete.. etc)
- Private forums controlled by Geeklog groups
- Sticky topics
- Post notification and management
- Search and other statistics
- Many options in creating a message
- Users can edit their own message
- Broad range of admin functions
- And of course.. fully integrated into Geeklog :)
Plus many more which are described in the install document once downloaded.
You can get the forum at the Geeklog Plugins page. Install is very simple. All you need to do is make a couple directories, copy some files, and run the install script. Support can be found both at Country Web and Blaine’s Site, or by emailing either of us through the email addresses found in the install document.
I also want to thank Blaine who has helped me day in and day out with this forum. Without him, this would not be near available today, and I know how much you guys are itchin for it :)
So, without further adue.. go download it and have fun!
Matthew
The long awaited time has come! After many hours spent by Blaine and I, we have finally gotten the forum together for a release.
This release (RC1) includes many features found in the most popular forums today. Such as:
- Unlimited categories, forums, and topics
- Broad range of moderator functions (move, ban, edit, delete.. etc)
- Private forums controlled by Geeklog groups
- Sticky topics
- Post notification and management
- Search and other statistics
- Many options in creating a message
- Users can edit their own message
- Broad range of admin functions
- And of course.. fully integrated into Geeklog :)
Plus many more which are described in the install document once downloaded.
You can get the forum at the Geeklog Plugins page. Install is very simple. All you need to do is make a couple directories, copy some files, and run the install script. Support can be found both at Country Web and Blaine’s Site, or by emailing either of us through the email addresses found in the install document.
I also want to thank Blaine who has helped me day in and day out with this forum. Without him, this would not be near available today, and I know how much you guys are itchin for it :)
So, without further adue.. go download it and have fun!
Matthew
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You can see it at either http://www.cweb.ws/forum or http://www.langfamily.ca/forum.
Matthew
First thing I did was get rid of the full cell mouseover effect.
I like it :)
You went to admin/plugins/forum/install.php and clicked on the install button, right? When you did that, did a message come up saying install successful and give you further instructions? Or did you get an error message saying the install was unsuccessful? Either way, something doesnt seem right.
Please let me know what you did.
Matthew
Thanks,
Matthew
By the way, could you add a tar.gz version too (made one if you can\'t)? Some systems can\'t deal with a .zip
Euan.
http://euans.net/blog/
General Server Information
OS: Linux
Kernel version: 2.4.18-grsec-1.9.4
Apache version: 1.3.27 (Unix)
PERL version: 5.006001
MySQL version: 3.23.53a
Uptime: 39days, 16:34min
Good th hear the install was so easy - 3 min. Thats about right ;)
Blaine
Euan.
The actual file name is Install_doc.htm
That capital I makes a difference, at least on my server.
No other problems to report.
Install doc was quite clear. One minor edit to it , where it says:
o Did you get a successful completion message that your
database tables have been created
o There should now be a forum link in your top header.
o As admin, you should see the \"forum\" menu item in the
\"Admin Block\"
You should add that you might not see the \"forum\" link in the
header or admin menu until after you reload the page. That was
my experience. (However, the nice instructions about creating a
new forum, etc., which appear when you have a successful install,
DISAPPEAR after you reload. It would be nice to somehow have
them around after you reload the install page. Perhaps it could
say: \"If you haven\'t done these steps already, please do them now\"
The only odd thing I\'ve notices is that my one forum category name
does not appear, it seems blank. I\'m assuming this will be \"fixed\"
when I actually finish the install by updating the CSS for my
themes.
Thanks again guys. A forum is a crucial part of GL, IMHO.
Euan.
xlordt
Blaine
That was the easiest part ;)
http://www.net-fool.com/forum/index.php for an example - note the white to blue mouseovers etc.
Any idea how this can be changed?
It looks like that wasnt made to be controlled by css. Thus, if you would like to change it (for the time being) you will have to go into public_html/forum/include/gf_format.php and change the colors under the forum header function.
I hope that makes sense.
Matthew
I am just starting out in coding so any help would be appreciated.
Ex: onMouseOver=\"this.style.backgroundColor=\\\'#E7EFFA\\\'
Try that :)
Matthew
Great work guys!
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Kevin
Error Message: 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ') AND perm_group >= 2) OR (perm_members >= 2) OR (perm_anon >= 2))' at line 1
Try going into your database, and into the table gl_groups and see if there is a group called forum admin or something like that. If so, remove it. Then, go to the gl_plugins table and look for a row about the forum, if it\'s there, delete it also.
Then try loggin on.
Let me know how it goes.
Matthew
Blaine
12/09/2002 11:30:11 AM - 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near \') AND perm_group >= 2) OR (perm_members >= 2) OR (perm_anon >= 2))\' at line 1 SQL in question: SELECT count(*) AS count FROM gl_stories WHERE (date >= (NOW() - INTERVAL 86400 SECOND)) AND (date <= NOW()) AND (draft_flag = 0) AND ((owner_id = 11 AND perm_owner >= 2) OR (group_id IN () AND perm_group >= 2) OR (perm_members >= 2) OR (perm_anon >= 2))
Blaine
1) it looks great!
2) there\'s a spare \";\" at the end of line 161 of usersettings.php that needs to go.
3) Forum names have slashes showing when any of the slashed characters are used. You know the culprits.
Thanks a ton for all of your hard work and the base that Mr GxBlock built for you!
Also, I had mentioned this before, but the style sheets are not MSIE 5.0 friendly. Not major...I don\'t know how many people are still using that one...except me heheh.
Scott
Sorry to say but I dont have IE 5 anymore.
We will need someone down the road with IE 5 to help us cross browser check it. ;) wink wink
Thanks for the other good news though.
Matthew
By the way Matthew, with the exception of #2 above I had no problems with the install!
After this comes off RC and is stable, we may want to add an API call to COM_emailUserTopics() so that plugins (i.e. forums) can gather any of their specific data and send them with the stories.
Just a thought.
--Tony
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Where should the install.php resides? It didn't say, from the code: require_once('../../../lib-common.php');
It should reside in /path-to-GL/public_html/admin/plugins/forum/
right? The documentation's a little confusing.
The one install note that I saw - was that I noted only 3 files - that\'s an edit error. It should be all the files in that folder.
Blaine
1-I\'ve changed the top forum nav bar \"Home - Search...\" to a greyish color to work with the Classic layout. However, After a \"mouse over\" the color goes back to the default Blueish color. I did set the TD.row1mouse and TD.row1mouseout to the same color so that the color would return to the proper color when done, but it doesn\'t work.
The color basically works like this now:
Dark Grey (on page load) ->Very light Blue (the default mouse over color was kept) -> Dark Blue (on mouse out)
The mouse over effect works just fine with the new colors for Forums Listing bits in the middle of the page, only the top Nav bar returns to the default blue after a mouse over.
2-Quotes in the forum show up in a black box with almost black text. How can I change this to a different color?
Thanks for the help guys!
About the top navigation, the colors are not controlled by css.. sorry. We forgot about them. So, you have to go into gf_format near the top to change the colors if you want (onMouseOver and onMouseOut). (It will be fixed in RC2).
And about the quotes, the inside color of the quote table is controlled by commentbar2 in the css. If you change its value, it should change the color of the quote.
Matthew
I\'m still having issues with the first problem however. You say I need to change the colors in gf_forum near the TOP. The top of what & where? I thought maybe you were talking about the /forum index.php page, but I didn\'t see anything there.
Hope i\'m not being a pain. I\'m not a coder, so some times I have a hard time telling just what i\'m looking for.
You would need to open gf_format.php in the public_html/forum/includes folder. Near the top, there is a bunch of code really close together. Look for the onMouseOver and onMouseOut. Those values are what you would need to change.
Make sense?
Matthew
I found a bug in the Display Block that appears on the front page. It displays 6 posts and not 5 like it says it should. I haven\'t dug thru this thread again to see if someone mentioned this, or to see if anyone else is having the problem, but if so just ignore me ^_^.