VAForum 2

[dimitris]

Hey Tom!

Almost a week since your post maybe a release? (if you have time)

[Tom]

Indeed it is. I'm away from home working at the moment and don't feel I can properly complete it here, however I may be able to package something up for release on Friday.

There is going to be a little difficulty converting from the current VAForum sue to a drastic database change - this will take some time to work out. Obviously I don't want you to just be installing as if nobody has ever said anything

[dimitris]

Okay Take all the time you need about it I m pretty sure it will be amazing!

Regards,

[dimitris]

* bump *

[dimitris]

Hi Tom!

Until the release could you post hare a code so we can use to get the last post per forum ? I mean as you have topics/posts on forum_index.tpl to have a column for Last Post

Like:

+=====Latest Post=====+

| By pilotname at Date |

| topic name |

+===================+

[Tom]

Uh, I don't think that's particularly easy on the current release. I rewrote the entire forum, one of the reasons being to be able to do this properly. It would be more work to figure out how to do it on the current version than it would to finish the new one...

[dimitris]

Ouch! Okay Will wait

[Jakes]

It's horribly messy, but for now this should work:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"><thead><th>Topic</th><th>Updated</th><th>Posted by</th></thead><tbody>
<?php $topics = ForumData::get_new_topics(5);
$row = 1;
foreach($topics as $topic){
$forum = ForumData::get_forum_name($topic->topic_forumid);
$forumcat = ForumData::get_cat_name($forum->forum_cat);
if($forumcat->cat_ispublic == 0){
echo ' ';
}
elseif($forumcat->cat_ispublic != 0){
echo '<tr class="row'.$row.'">';
echo '<td><a href="'.url('Forum/get_topic_posts?id='.$topic->id).'&forum_id='.$topic->topic_forumid.'">'.$topic->topic_title.'</a></td>';
echo '<td>'.date('d/m/Y - g:i a', strtotime($topic->topic_dateupdated)).'</td>';
$updatedby=PilotData::GetPilotData($topic->topic_updatedby);
echo '<td>'.PilotData::GetPilotCode($updatedby->code, $topic->topic_updatedby).'</td>';
echo '</tr>';
$row = 1 - $row;
}else{
echo '<tr><td colspan="3">No topics!</td></tr>';
}
}
?>
</tbody></table>

(Cut straight from the code on my own website so if the code is really bad feel free to tidy it up )

Hi there,

I have spend an hour searching for the file to edit to add this snippet on to my web page. If it is not too much of an effort, can you please indicate which file to edit?

[Tom]

It goes wherever you want it to... frontpage_mail.tpl for example would be on the home page.

[Jakes]

Thank you for the quick response. I am learning still

[flyalaska]

Any future plans to add the option to insert images?

[Tom]

I'm planning on completely rewriting this, releasing it along with a number of other modules... after writing a forum from scratch for my own site I realised it can be done so much nicer

[flyalaska]

BTW, love this MOD.

[flyalaska]

I have one post that comes up with an error.

[b]Warning[/b][color=#666666][font=Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif][size=3]: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [/size][/font][/color][b]/home/flyakaco/public_html/flynpa.com/core/templates/forum_post_list.tpl[/b][color=#666666][font=Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif][size=3] on line [/size][/font][/color][b]9[/b]

Every other post comes up fine.

** Found out this happened after a admin tried to delete the post.

[servetas]

Hello Tom,

Due to Summer's low traffic etc i am thinking on changing my forum from SMF to VAForum 2 . Are you going to release the new version of this forum?

servetas

[Tom]

Hi flyalaska - sorry I missed your post. I'll have to take a look at what's going on, though I'll probably only provide a temp fix (see below).

Hi servetas - yes I do plan to release a new forum module, I can't give an estimate of when for the moment though as I have little time to fit it in with work and my own site atm.

[Fireball]

For my link I have to type in "www,mysite/forum" If I use "/Forum" I get an cant find error. So when I go to make a post or a change when I press a button it wants to go to "Forum" instead of "forum".

Any one else had this issue? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[flyalaska]

For my link I have to type in "www,mysite/forum" If I use "/Forum" I get an cant find error. So when I go to make a post or a change when I press a button it wants to go to "Forum" instead of "forum".

Any one else had this issue? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

It needs to be http://www.mysite.com/index.php/Forum

You forgot the index.php

[Fireball]

Index is there. Sorry I did not show it. The problem is the upper and lower case "F" in forum. If I use lower case it will show the forum. If I use uppercase "Forum" I get page not found. when I want to make a change and Click on a button it will go to Forum and not work.

[Tom]

As far as I'm aware only Forum should work - as that's how it's named in the class. If it's just not working open up ForumData.class.php, Forum.php and the associated templates and replace /Forum with /forum

[Fireball]

Tried it still did not work.

[Tom]

You're telling me that /forum worked previously, and when you changed all references of the URL to /forum instead of /Forum it still doesn't work?

I think you should get new hosting.

[Fireball]

Tom.. I have every Mod working but this one. I do not think that it is my host. It most likely me... but I cannot figure it out. It is not the end of the world as I have other boards that I can use. I was just hoping to keep all in PHPVMS.

I tried to copy everything over again but it still did not work.

[flyalaska]

Whats your url?

[Fireball]

I fixed it. What is was I I loaded a BB forum that I was not using and I called the folder Forum. It was not in the VA site but was in the root. That caused the issue. As soon as I deleted it I could type Forum forum FoRuM and they all worked lol

[TAV1702]

Hello Tom. Long time no chit chat about this here forum. Were you ever able to get a handle on the new one? I am officially done with school as of today and hopefully graduating.... I have one class in question. So it's time to pick back up on the old airline stuff and get going again.

On a personal note, I hope all is well on your end. I know you got real busy too there for a while.

[Tom]

Glad you got it fixed Fireball

Hello Tom. Long time no chit chat about this here forum. Were you ever able to get a handle on the new one? I am officially done with school as of today and hopefully graduating.... I have one class in question. So it's time to pick back up on the old airline stuff and get going again.

On a personal note, I hope all is well on your end. I know you got real busy too there for a while.

Hey, thanks Long time indeed, hope everything is good with you too.

I do plan on releasing a completely rewritten forum - based on the forum I've written for my site. Unfortunately with work and said site I haven't as much time as I'd like for other development.

[Fireball]

Thanks for this Mod. I have turned into a Maintenance log for the pilots to fill in.

[TAV1702]

Glad you got it fixed Fireball

Hey, thanks Long time indeed, hope everything is good with you too.

I do plan on releasing a completely rewritten forum - based on the forum I've written for my site. Unfortunately with work and said site I haven't as much time as I'd like for other development.

I know how real life goes chief. I feel ya. I been in and out of the hospital more this year than ever before in my life and time on pc is real limited. Life always has to stick it's ugly face in place of our fun eh?

I'll keep my eyes open for updates in the future. Take care and keep cool. It is hot as hell out man! :-)

[TAV1702]

Just brushing the dust off of this one. Keeping it fresh.