Posted on: 06/26/04 08:46pm
By: Blaine
This is more a maintenance release but I am also introducing my new portalparts NAVBar that is used for the Forum Admin and Forum User Functions pages.
I am using this interface now in a number of my plugin projects and have createed a lib-portalparts.php file that needs to be placed in the
geeklog_dir/system folder. This is an extra step but will allow me to not have to include these functions in other plugins and easier for user to maintain.
The install_doc has been updated and I've included a list of the changed files - but it will be easier to replace them all.
This version includes fixes for all known and reported problems since the 2.3 final release. The fixes are noted in the install_doc as well.
You can get the file in my downloads area
here. Be sure to report any feedback or issues in my support forum.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/26/04 09:30pm
By: trenchteam
anyone planning on implementing a rating system in the forums? Im just curious.....
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 12:06am
By: GeeklogWorks
Thanks for installing the mod by the way. If I'm not out of town I'll work on getting it to work with forums soon.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 12:22am
By: Anonymous (Rav)
Found something weird.
Today I setup a site, and had used 2.3. No problems, everything was working fine. I have NO posts in this forum, just 4 empty boards.
I installed 2.3.1 per the instructions, and the icons on the forum index for each board appear to be broke (lil red X). I thought I had done something wrong, so I re-installed. No change.
I posted a message in the forum, went back to the index, and the problem went away. Deleted the post I just created, and the problem reappeared.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 03:08am
By: trenchteam
My install went smoothly. the New Menu system is sweet. Thanks Blaine.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 05:38am
By: geKow
I bet, it's my fault (in advance) but upgrading to 2.3.1 from 2.3.0 brings me no navigation bar, instead I have an empty blue field. The page source reads:
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="http://gekow.net/admin/plugins/forum/ips.php" id="current"></a></li>
</ul>
could you point me to my error?
geKow
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 11:07am
By: Blaine
I would suspect you have not updated your language file. The Navbar labels are defined there as in example:
/* Admin Navbar */
$LANG_GF06 = array (
1 => 'Statistics',
2 => 'Settings',
3 => 'Forums',
4 => 'Moderator',
5 => 'Convert',
6 => 'Messages',
7 => 'IP Mgmt'
);
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 11:34am
By: geKow
you where right (not suprising). I had a german language file, based on the older english version.
geKow
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 06:38pm
By: Blaine
One new issues has creaped in that is the result of a modification I was doing for another project. You will notice the Name of that last poster is not showing on the main forum index page. I'll add this and any other issues that are found to a 2.3.2 release - I just want to give it some more time for feedback.
In the meantime, you can fix this by adding the code noted below to the public/forum/index.php at approx line 475
Just above the line: if ($_USER['uid'] > 0) {
Missing code:
if($lastpost['uid'] > 0) {
$by = '<A HREF="' .$_CONF['site_url'] .'/users.php?mode=profile&uid=' .$lastpost['uid']. '">' .$lastpost['name']. '</A>';
} else {
$by = $lastpost['name'];
}
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/27/04 07:25pm
By: trenchteam
^^ I was wondering about that! thanks blaine.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/28/04 02:21am
By: Anonymous (geeklog-fan)
thanks for the update blaine!
I found this in the admin options:
Enable optional extra user settings
What extra settings are these?
edit: hmm.. seems there is something wrong with the quotes here?
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/28/04 08:08am
By: magomarcelo
Is there a changelog available? I would like to know if the search has been improved so to reach the exact page where the match is, instead of the first one in the topic.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/28/04 08:23am
By: Blaine
[QUOTE BY= geeklog-fan] Enable optional extra user settings. What extra settings are these?
[/QUOTE]
Have a read of section 5 in the install_doc
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/28/04 08:26am
By: Blaine
[QUOTE BY= magomarcelo] Is there a changelog available?[/QUOTE]
Yes - in the install_doc. Changes have been documented since version 1. But no .. the search has not been changed. The search "matched word" should be higlighed in default yellow color but I don't go to the each post if there was only one post that matched. That would take more logic to figure out if more then 1 post has a match and what this user settings are for posts per page.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 06/28/04 11:56am
By: knoptop
[QUOTE BY= Rav] Found something weird.
Today I setup a site, and had used 2.3. No problems, everything was working fine. I have NO posts in this forum, just 4 empty boards.
I installed 2.3.1 per the instructions, and the icons on the forum index for each board appear to be broke (lil red X). I thought I had done something wrong, so I re-installed. No change.
I posted a message in the forum, went back to the index, and the problem went away. Deleted the post I just created, and the problem reappeared.
[/QUOTE]
I have the exact same problem? (i upgraded) what fixes this? the 'broken' image is a 'normal forum' board.gif image. it seems the list doesn't have the full extension of this image, and stops at " image_set/ "
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 07/03/04 11:37am
By: befloibent
[QUOTE BY= knoptop]
I have the exact same problem? (i upgraded) what fixes this? the 'broken' image is a 'normal forum' board.gif image. it seems the list doesn't have the full extension of this image, and stops at " image_set/ "[/QUOTE]
I set up a new board and had the same problem. I don't know if this will fix yours, but looking at the index.php code, it looks like the $folder variable only gets set if there are posts ('if' statement around line 443), in other words, in a new forum with no topics, the folder icon is blank, thus the stop at image_set/. My quick fix was to set $folder in the else block near line 513:
} else {
$forumlisting->set_var ('lastpostmsgDate', $LANG_GF01['nolastpostmsg']);
$forumlisting->set_var ('lastpostmsgTopic', '');
$forumlisting->set_var ('lastpostmsgBy', '');
$folder="board.gif";
}
I have another problem, however: my forum pages take a long time to load and sometimes they simply don't. I had set up a Geeklog site last year and didn't have this problem (sorry, I don't recall which versions of GL and Forum they were). My new site is GL1.3.9/Forum2.3.1. Seems kind of weird that this should happen as the rest of my site runs smoothly. Might just be a PHP or MySQL problem on my end, but just curious if anyone has any ideas.
Other than that, things are excellent as always.
Thanks
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 08/25/04 07:04am
By: Robin
Have I missed something but using the 'Convert' functionality I'm not able to transfer images with stories to forum posts. The images are somehow stripped out and only text is transferred.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/08/04 01:06am
By: Robin
[QUOTE BY= Robin] Have I missed something but using the 'Convert' functionality I'm not able to transfer images with stories to forum posts. The images are somehow stripped out and only text is transferred.[/QUOTE]
Anybody?
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/13/04 06:42am
By: magomarcelo
I've found a security problem, looks like it's possible to access the admin pages of the forum plugin without any access control.
From a diff with the 2.3 version it seems that there is a missing call to the function adminheader which performs the required security checks.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/13/04 08:20am
By: Robin
[QUOTE BY= magomarcelo]looks like it's possible to access the admin pages of the forum plugin without any access control.[/QUOTE]
Darn, I wish you were wrong.
You can actually do anything. Add forums stuff like that.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/13/04 09:06am
By: Blaine
Ouch! - that was never noticed but yes this is true. It was a result of re-organizing the code for the new navbar.
I have an easy fix and what should have been done. All the admin scripts include gf_functions.php in the admin/plugins/forum folder.
Add this code just below the include of lib-common
if (!SEC_hasRights('forum.edit')) {
echo COM_siteHeader();
echo COM_startBlock($LANG_GF00['access_denied']);
echo $LANG_GF00['admin_only'];
echo COM_endBlock();
echo adminfooter();
echo COM_siteFooter(true);
exit();
}
Thanks for finding this
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/13/04 10:04am
By: Blaine
As a follow-up: I have removed the file from my downloads on portalparts. This was the only site I released this version. The download area on this site was never updated - ver 2.3 was the latest version here.
I usually always release on my site for early testing but this was certainly not what I would have wanted. I apologize that this occured and will have a 2.3.2 release out shortly that includes the noted fix above and a few other items that have been noticed.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/13/04 07:29pm
By: magomarcelo
thanks Blaine for your fast answer. I am sorry, maybe this was not the best way for me to report the bug, but I posted it here because I already had a workaround to suggest.
I've also posted for review an italian language file for the download section, or is it best on your site, or both?
thanks again,
m
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/22/04 10:08pm
By: Blaine
Magomarcelo,
Can you download and test the version 2.3.2 that I made available a few days ago on
my site[*1] . If you then send me an updated language file for 2.3.2 I will include it in my distribtution.
Thanks.
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 09/23/04 01:21am
By: Anonymous (Anonnomous(colin@crazykid.us))
Would this be a good forum mod/plug-in for a clean install of GeekLog v1.3.9sr1?
I need feedback!!
Thank you muchies!!
Colin
Forum Plugin Version 2.3.1 Released
Posted on: 10/19/04 06:42pm
By: Anonymous (Eddy)
Hi there!
I'm trying to move the SEARCH box and FORUM menu from the top of the page to just above the LEGEND and below the CHECK BOXES.
I've looked and looked and looked and can't find where to move the code. I know when I find it, it's easy peasy!