Phorum Support Forums - 5.1 Phorum Hacks

Re: 5.1 Archive or Download

Thomas Seifert — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:40:12 -0500

no, there is no functionality built in for that.
you may use some "website copier" or "website archiving" tools to do that.

5.1 Archive or Download

jschoenly — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:44:48 -0500

Hello,

I'm new to the Phorums but I am a member of a 5.1 phorum with much information I wish to save. As a member, is there a way I can "download" or archive the phorum to save the threads and attachments? Unfortunately, the forum administrator has passed away and there does not seem to be anyone that will carry it on. I'm trying to save the information and keep it alive. I'm trying to contact the family to see if there is any way to take over, but it may be hard. Thanks for any help!

Jared

Creating mod/hack for PM system.

PRICECHR — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:12:16 -0400

I have created a new form that loads from a button I've added to the read.tpl file. This works great. Now that form posts data into the pm.php file. The the new variables load, but I get the "Possible Hack attempted detected". Is there some place to declare these new variables that will stop this? Thank you!

Re: Chat sidebar (get me out of frames!!)

Maurice Makaay — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:47:52 -0400

No idea how useful these are exactly, but maybe it can get you started:

[codingforums.com]
[www.irt.org]
[programming.top54u.com]

Re: Chat sidebar (get me out of frames!!)

b00radley — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:14:38 -0400

Thank you for the replies!

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What I probably would do, is add some javascript code to footer.tpl, which updates the document.location of the top frame to #. So on each click, the frame location is also visible in the browser's location bar. Now if the user bookmarks the page, he will come back with the #url part in the location. That's where the outer frame has to do its work. On loading, the outer frame has to pickup the url (either from onload javascript code or from a php script that generates the frame page) and redirect the forum frame to that URL.

I get what you are saying Maurice, but am having a hard time looking up how to do this. i have a feeling im searching for the wrong thing on google. Do you know of an example of this somewhere? Just a small push in the right direction is all im looking for. Thanks!

Re: Chat sidebar (get me out of frames!!)

Thomas Seifert — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:24:17 -0400

you could load the applet directly in the template but that would close/open the applet with every page change.
but the phorum won't be able to change the url of the frameset without being loaded directly.
so if you want that chat in there you'll have to live with it - or open the chat in a separate window or popup.

Edit: or use maurice's ideas to implement a solution - obviously ;-).

Re: Chat sidebar (get me out of frames!!)

Maurice Makaay — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:24:12 -0400

Putting the chat inside a Phorum template would of course make it reload the chat on every click, so that is not what you want.

What I probably would do, is add some javascript code to footer.tpl, which updates the document.location of the top frame to #. So on each click, the frame location is also visible in the browser's location bar. Now if the user bookmarks the page, he will come back with the #url part in the location. That's where the outer frame has to do its work. On loading, the outer frame has to pickup the url (either from onload javascript code or from a php script that generates the frame page) and redirect the forum frame to that URL.

For frame break out, there are plenty of examples on the net. I don't think however, that this would make things really better for the user.

When hiding the chat, you might consider not loading the forum in the top frame, but instead resizing the frame sets where the chat gets a size of 0. That way, you could even have a link that would bring back the chat by resizing the frames back to their original sizes.

The implementation of all this is up to you, but I hope my ideas can give you a push in the right direction.

Chat sidebar (get me out of frames!!)

b00radley — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:29:58 -0400

Currently I have the forum and a chat window in separate vertical frames (see attached picture). Although I dont enjoy using frames, it allows a user to browse the forums while chatting in the same window quite easily. However, the URL never changes due to the frameset. With a forum having the current page link at hand is a requirement.

My question is, is there a way to integrate the chat into the page so that the URL in the top bar is always correct? would it make the applet reload each page load? I suppose I could even settle for a text box with the current forum URL in it or a 'breakout' link in my template that would remove the chat frame. Currently the "I dont like chatz' link above the chat box accomplishes this, but it only redirects to the root folder of the forum.

Any idea's that would make this page run smoother would be greatly appreciated!

Re: phorum_get_url and most read threads

Artaud — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:12:22 -0400

thx to ur reply maurice,

that helps a lot. i'm just working for 2 days on the phorum code after porting an old wwwboard with 260000 messages to phorum 5.2. and its running smooth and fast.

Re: phorum_get_url and most read threads

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:47:06 -0400

For building the URL, you need the forum, thread and message ids. Then you can use the PHORUM_FOREIGN_READ_URL to build the read URL for the message:

Language: PHP
phorum_get_url(PHORUM_FOREIGN_READ_URL, $forum_id, $thread_id, $message_id);

For the second question, you will need to write some custom code. There's nothing like that built-in in the Phorum queries. You have to ask yourself what you want to show exactly. You probably want some date limited query in there, to prevent that you always show those few very often viewed long threads in there.

I have something like a "hot topics" system on my own phorum site, where I use some algorithm based on a selection of the last [x] posts in the forums. I select the last [x] messages and create cumulative counters for each thread. That way, I finally create a list of [y] threads that can be considered "hot". In this system, [x] is chosen to normally have at least up to [y] threads in the selection. That is based on trial and error. The views are also included in the computation, to combine the number of posts and the number of views in a final weight for the hotness of a thread. This is quite an arbitrary system in the end, but it works pretty well.

And now for the bad news: the system is not really usable for distribution yet, because it's based largely on my own site code and not too much on Phorum. Rewriting this code as a Phorum based system is on my big list of things to do, but for now you'd have to implement something yourself if you want this feature.

phorum_get_url and most read threads

Artaud — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:38:15 -0400

hi there,

i've set up a custom phorums start page, showing some news an all forums an their last 5 recent messages.
how do i get a clean PHORUM_READ_URL on a single message_id?

my 2nd question is , how to get a list of the 10 or n most viewed threads or posts?

thx very much

sorry, wrong board, i'm running 5.2

Re: How to edit register form

yuri80 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:34:34 -0400

Thank you very much ;-)

Re: How to edit register form

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:27:11 -0400

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yuri80
The input field was created but i can't see its label in the register form!

Did you use something like {LANG->labelname} for that? You should simply put the string in the register form that you need. If you use {LANG->labelname}, then you need to add "labelname" to the language file that you are using.

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yuri80
Is it necessary to edit a database table?

No.

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I've added the input field from the admin interface but the "phorum_users" and "phorum_user_custom_fields" database tables were not modified.

That's correct. The phorum_user_custom_fields table will retrieve data when custom fields are filled. You'll see no changes on beforehhand.

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A last question: is it possible to add also a radio button group, checkboxes, drop-down menu (select) etc?

It's possible to use any kind of HTML form field in there. Only checkboxes are special, because for checkboxes there will be no form field posted at all when the checkbox is unchecked at post. There are several options for working around that, but some coding skills are needed. You could:

add a hidden field with the real field name to the form. Then add a checkbox, which changes the value of the hidden field based on its check status.
Write a module that hooks into the before_register hook to fill the user data field based on the checkbox status.

Re: How to edit register form

yuri80 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:18 -0400

I've created a new input field from the Users/Groups -> Custom profile panel in the admin interface then i edited the register.tpl adding the new input field in the HTML code.

The input field was created but i can't see its label in the register form!

Is it necessary to edit a database table?

I've added the input field from the admin interface but the "phorum_users" and "phorum_user_custom_fields" database tables were not modified.

A last question: is it possible to add also a radio button group, checkboxes, drop-down menu (select) etc?

Thanks again.

Re: How to edit register form

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:17:48 -0400

First create some custom profile fields in the admin interface for storing the data. Then edit register.tpl to add the fields to the input form. That is what is needed to store this data with the user. Additionally, you'll need to edit profile.tpl to display the fields in the profile page.

How to edit register form

yuri80 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:08:19 -0400

Hi guys, for first sorry for my english.

I've got a simple question for you: is it possible to edit the register form adding some input fields like:

- date of birth
- job
- city/town
- etc.

How can i do this?

Thanks.

Re: Mod_Rewrite Hack

pierre_ — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:54:26 -0500

Hi,

Thanks for your message.
I ll try to post a how-to on this thread by monday.

Pierre

Re: Mod_Rewrite Hack

chester_84 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:24:01 -0500

your url are great! could you creat module or hach ? or sam einstructons how to do this

Re: Using Phorum logins

Steve H — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:35:40 -0500

Ahh. Yes, indeed. I am using the Automatic HTTP Path module.

I tried turning it off and the behavior changed slightly, but still broken. Now I get redirected to the correct login page, but when I have logged in it tries to return me to the page I came from within the forum directory, rather than the originating directory. Thus:

http://www.my_domain.com/forum/login.php?0,redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.my_domain.com%2Fforum%2Finclude.php%3F

What I need is this:

http://www.my_domain.com/forum/login.php?0,redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.my_domain.com%2Fother%2Finclude.php%3F

Re: Using Phorum logins

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:01:45 -0500

Are you using something like the automatic http_path module or the virtual hosting module? Those will dynamically try to find out the Phorum http path based on the currently requested URL. It seems like your setup is doing something like this.

Re: Using Phorum logins

Steve H — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:02:43 -0500

Here is the (failing) redirect URL I get:

http://www.my_domain.com/other/login.php?0,redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.my_domain.com%2Fother%2Finclude.php%3F

If I simply change the first occurrence of "other" to "forum" in the URL, everything works nicely.

Re: Using Phorum logins

Steve H — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:54:32 -0500

path in general settings:

http://www.my_domain.com/forum

files with includes are in another folder like:

http://www.my_domain.com/other/include.php

Re: Using Phorum logins

Brian Moon — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:32:24 -0500

what is your HTTP Path set to in the General Settings?

Using Phorum logins

Steve H — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:58:27 -0500

I use the following method of requiring phorum logins on my site in several places:

$pwd = getcwd();
chdir("../forum");
define('phorum_page', 'my_page');
include_once("./common.php"); 
phorum_require_login();
chdir($pwd);
unset($pwd);
echo "hi ",$PHORUM["user"]["username"];

It works as long as the person is already logged into the forum. I have problems though when they access a page in another directory without being logged in:

It tries to redirect them to login.php in the wrong directory. (thus giving a 404 error)

Any advice?

Re: Converters

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:42:23 -0500

Well, if you're simply interested in reading code, you could check out this one. This is an upgrade script that I recently wrote for converting a web site's forum system (in house development, so this example is not fit for other conversions really) to the Phorum 5.2 system.

Next to that, there is of course the Phorum 3 to Phorum 5 conversion script that you can find in the scripts directory of the Phorum 5 releases. This is not an upgrade script, but it's really a conversion from one type of system to another.

Re: Converters

Panu — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:29:57 -0500

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shadow82x
Forum software converters to play around with.

Not that many, even less perfectly working ones. There's one for phpBB at least.

Maybe if you tell for what forums you would like to have converters for?

Re: Converters

shadow82x — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:48:26 -0500

Forum software converters to play around with.

Re: Converters

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:39:09 -0500

Currency converters, power converters, ... what kind of converters are you looking for?

Converters

shadow82x — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:29:08 -0500

Are there any converters around? :)

Re: User-Tracking on whole site

Sunbringer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:39:03 -0500

alright, thank you for your help and patience ;)