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Topic: A Couple of MODs Added

Based on past suggestions, I finally set down tonight to install a few modifications to the forum...  I had marginal success at best.

1) Forum/Gallery Integration -- Once working, this should "link" users between the forum and gallery, so members of the forum will automatically be given permissions to upload pictures, etc.  Way back when, this used to be working and I've been waiting a LONG time for the script to be updated for use in the new forum.  Unfortunately, it seems there are plenty of glitches left to work out.  (Things look pretty awful, for example, if you view the memberlist.)  I have submitted some bugs to the author; hopefully I will have some fixes to apply soon.

2) RSS Feeds -- Seems to be working OK...though I might try something a little more configurable in the future.  Check the homepage or feeds page to see it in action.

3) Chat -- Be careful what you ask for!  Live chatting is now available.  Fieldherpers.com has been running a chat program for a couple of weeks now and I have to be honest that I haven't been too crazy about it.  I don't know that this one is much better, but it was easy to install (and to uninstall).   tongue  I'm not going to bother with styling it to match the SOA theme just yet.  I guess people can tell me what they think about it and go from there.

4) Hide Bot -- It's been requested to hide the online status for those search engine bots that frequent the forum...like GoogleBot, etc.  I tried a MOD that...well...didn't work.  Maybe it will be updated to work soon in the future?

5) Mass Email -- The mass emailing function of the forum has been a real failure!  I think there may be a couple of "Newsletter" type MODs that will allow something more useful in the future, but nothing really seems very robust yet.

** I also adjusted the forum cookie settings with all of this.  You may have to clear your browser cookies for logging in and such to work properly again.

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

Everything looks pretty cool...but i do have one problem.

Te chat wont let me log in. My screenname is to long for the 7 of 24/7 to fit...eh.

-Ryan

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

photographer_24/7 wrote:

Everything looks pretty cool...but i do have one problem.

Te chat wont let me log in. My screenname is to long for the 7 of 24/7 to fit...eh.

You shouldn't have to log in directly to the chat.  Log into the forum and then click the chat link.  What happens then?

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

got it fixed. It was a cookie problem.

-Ryan

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

I think the chat will be more likely to be used if you embed it into the forum page like on FH. What don't you like about FH's chat? The only problem with it is the lack of members online to use it.

Also, check out this thread about hiding the bots.....

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=547939

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

OkieHerper wrote:

What don't you like about FH's chat?

I dunno.  It might be that I'm lukewarm about this whole chat idea anyway...and that's my problem.  I'll still try to fit something in that people are happy with.  One thing I remember on FH was that I tried to log in with "hide online status" and I still showed up in the chat list.  Seems like there were a couple of other glitches along the way, too...  But this Mod had just recently been developed so it will probably get better.

OkieHerper wrote:

Also, check out this thread about hiding the bots.....

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=547939

This was the Mod that didn't work.  It hasn't been updated since Jul 12, 2007 and doesn't seem to work correctly with the gold release.

Also, people may have noticed some error lines when accessing PMs...  Sorry.  This will hopefully be corrected soon.

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

No issues here, just trying to help.

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

The forum/gallery MOD should be working now.  (crosses-fingers)  All forum members should now automatically have permission to upload pictures to the gallery.  Please let me know if you run into glitches.

There are a couple of add-ons with this MOD as well that may be worth installing, too, but for now I'm running just the bare basics.

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

It's not letting me login to the gallery sad

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

bobbyneal wrote:

It's not letting me login to the gallery sad

After you log into the forum, try clicking this link:

<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.herpsofarkansas.com/forum/gallery2initiate.php">gallery2initiate.php</a><!-- l -->

You should only have to do this once and afterwards be able to access the gallery normally.  Please let me know what happens.

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

Negative, still a no go  yikes

[code:2ra5tyde]phpBB Debug&#93; PHP Notice&#58; in file /g2helper.php on line 802&#58; Undefined index&#58; G2_LOADENTITYBYEXTID_FAILED
Return to the index page
General Error
Here is the error message from G2&#58;
Error (ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT) &#58; Missing object for 5066

    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage/GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 2075 (gallerycoreapi&#58;&#58;error)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage/GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 98 (gallerystorageextras&#58;&#58;_identifyentities)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage.class at line 298 (gallerystorageextras&#58;&#58;loadentities)
    * in modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryEntityHelper_simple.class at line 71 (mysqlstorage&#58;&#58;loadentities)
    * in modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryEntityHelper_simple.class at line 127 (galleryentityhelper_simple&#58;&#58;loadentitiesbyid)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class at line 2298 (galleryentityhelper_simple&#58;&#58;loadentitybyexternalid)
    * in /home/snakesof/public_html/forum/g2helper.php at line 799 (gallerycoreapi&#58;&#58;loadentitybyexternalid) [/code:2ra5tyde]

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Re: A Couple of MODs Added

bobbyneal wrote:

Negative, still a no go  yikes

[code:udnw6sgb]phpBB Debug&#93; PHP Notice&#58; in file /g2helper.php on line 802&#58; Undefined index&#58; G2_LOADENTITYBYEXTID_FAILED
Return to the index page
General Error
Here is the error message from G2&#58;
Error (ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT) &#58; Missing object for 5066

    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage/GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 2075 (gallerycoreapi&#58;&#58;error)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage/GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 98 (gallerystorageextras&#58;&#58;_identifyentities)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage.class at line 298 (gallerystorageextras&#58;&#58;loadentities)
    * in modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryEntityHelper_simple.class at line 71 (mysqlstorage&#58;&#58;loadentities)
    * in modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryEntityHelper_simple.class at line 127 (galleryentityhelper_simple&#58;&#58;loadentitiesbyid)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class at line 2298 (galleryentityhelper_simple&#58;&#58;loadentitybyexternalid)
    * in /home/snakesof/public_html/forum/g2helper.php at line 799 (gallerycoreapi&#58;&#58;loadentitybyexternalid) [/code:udnw6sgb]

I can't exactly figure out what's going on, but check your PM as I've added you manually.  It appears that NEW users are getting synched, so I'm not going to sweat over it.  If any other current users are still having problems, I'll just add you manually, too.

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