Phorum Support Forums - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Module request - Is there any way for users to block PM's from other individual users?

Scott Finegan — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:59:43 -0400

I haven't looked at those modules, however...

You were looking for a starting point, so based on what they are supposed to do I thought one or both might be modifiable, or combining parts of both may get you somewhere.

Re: Module request - Is there any way for users to block PM's from other individual users?

stargazer77 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:47:27 -0400

I had already looked on that page and didn't find anything meeting my needs. That's why I came here to initiate a request to see if we can do anything to make this happen.

The ignore user module is the closest thing I could find, but it doesn't apply to PMs.

https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,128240,128240#msg-128240

I'm not sure how the buddies or friends systems work. I've never used those. Is there a way to accomplish blocking PM's from specific individuals using those? If so, can you give me a brief explanation as to how it works to do this? I've read the descriptions of those modules and it doesn't sound like they would accomplish what we're looking for. But it could be that I'm missing functionality that is present that would do this.

What we'd want is for the default to be to allow all PM's through as usual, but to give users the option to "block this sender" from within a PM as they read it, which will then apply this block permanently to all future PM's sent by that sender. There would need to be a setting somewhere to allow for users to see a list of senders they have blocked that allows them to unblock people they previously blocked too to allow for cases where heated situations get resolved later.

And then to put a cherry on top, additional functionality that would not be necessary, but would be sweet is to allow users to craft individual block messages that get sent back to each user that tries to send PM's to them after being blocked. Blocked user #1 sends a PM, gets blocked and gets the auto-response individually written by the user to target that specific blocked user - for example "Your message to User has been blocked. User has designated you as a doody-head, so nyah!". But then another auto-response message for another blocked user could read "Your message to User has been blocked. User will unblock you if you apologize on the board for _____" Again, only the blocking itself with a simple auto-response would be necessary. I'm just giving an idea for a cool more advanced feature that could be added if anyone is inclined to code a module to accomplish this.

Re: Module request - Is there any way for users to block PM's from other individual users?

Scott Finegan — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:47:39 -0400

go here, [www.phorum.org]

search the page for buddies [www.phorum.org]
search the page for friends [www.phorum.org]

Module request - Is there any way for users to block PM's from other individual users?

stargazer77 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:13:11 -0400

We're seeing a situation where users are taking heated discussions to PM's and harassing others. We don't want to have to ban users over this. It would be better to have a feature where individual users can block incoming PM's from other specific individual users.

I'd be willing to assist in the development of this with testing and functionality suggestions, but I wouldn't be able to fully code this as I don't have that level of coding skills. I can often tweak existing code, but I wouldn't be able to develop this from scratch.

Re: Trace IP of poster

Thomas Seifert — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:34:10 -0500

MAC is not possible, you only get that in the direct LAN area, not other the internet.

Re: Trace IP of poster

Quick_Question — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:26:41 -0500

Yes, I figured it would be the assigned IP of the Router's WAN. Interesting. A VPN of course would throw that off as well.

Thank you for the reply.

Re: Trace IP of poster

Scott Finegan — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:34:41 -0500

Phorum logs the IP that comes in with the post in the database. In most cases this is the assigned IP from the internet provider. If they go through an anonymizer, the logged IP is that of the anonymizing company.

In the admin, you can change whether the IP is shown to regular users, admins always see it.
Event logging captures the IP address and logs it if enabled.

Don't know how or if you can get a mac address.

If you are attempting to block spam, there are other tools/modules to assist.

Trace IP of poster

Quick_Question — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:50:30 -0500

IS there anyway with Phorum for me to trace the IP address of a poster. I get that it will come back to their router, but that is fine. Additionally, how about MAC addresses? Thanks

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

Oliver Riesen-Mallmann — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:53:15 -0400

@Scott: I prefer your solution!

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

btcbtc — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:57:24 -0400

THANK YOU BOTH! This seems like a great community. I hope I learn and use enough to be able to participate!!!

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

Scott Finegan — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:09:46 -0400

I would go to the admin
General Settings page, scroll to HTML Settings - "Show and allow feed links" and set it to "No", then test that it behaves as expected. Clear the cache.

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

Oliver Riesen-Mallmann — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:22:52 -0400

Hi Bruce,

look for FEED in

\templates\emerald\read.tp
\templates\emerald\read_hybrid.tpl
\templates\emerald\read_threads.tpl

and remove the following lines:

Language: PHP
    {IF URL->FEED}
        <a class="icon icon-feed" href="{URL->FEED}">{FEED}a>
    {/IF}

Regards
Oliver

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

btcbtc — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:13:12 -0400

Oliver, I saw you answered my last post about this time in the day. I had one more question. There is an RSS link on the bottom of each posting. That is just going to confuse our users. Is there a way to remove it? I am not trying to rebrand or do anything that would change the working structure of the Phorum . . . I just don't want anyone to press that for fun. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. Of course, the more I use this I may have other questions but I won't ask you to answer them for free in the future!

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

btcbtc — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:52:44 -0400

THANK YOU very much!!!

Re: Add a background to the Phorum

Oliver Riesen-Mallmann — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:59:22 -0400

Hi btcbtc,

if you use the emerald template you can make your changes in \templates\emerald\css.tpl and define the background effects for your desired elements. It's just CSS, nothing special to Phorum.

Take care to "purge cache" in the admin panel after changes to the template.

Take care to clear also your browser cache when your browser doesn't show your changes.

Regards
Oliver

Add a background to the Phorum

btcbtc — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:04:56 -0400

I am sorry that I am so dumb. I promise to learn quickly. Can someone please tell me how I can add a background image to the Phorum pages?

Thank you.

Re: BBCode Request

Thomas Seifert — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:59:13 -0500

I guess he wants it to be implemented ... ;)

Re: BBCode Request

Oliver Riesen-Mallmann — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:01:05 -0500

Hi,

see BBCode help: [www.phorum.org]

No support for tables.

Regards
Oliver

BBCode Request

destinystwilight — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:02:27 -0500

Hello There
I'd like to request the bbcode for columns and font size in numeral values from 1 to 200.

Re: HTTPS on load balancer

Schurki — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:54:18 -0500

If you read my first posting, you should notice that this is a request that somebody implements it correctly. I just put my changes there as hints how it could be done.

Re: HTTPS on load balancer

Oliver Riesen-Mallmann — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 07:17:59 -0500

Hi Schurki,

Quote
Schurki
I've tried that module first, it's not working.

Nevertheless you should implement your needs as a new module (perhaps based on the Automatic HTTP Path Module) instead of patching the Phorum core...

Regards
Oliver

Re: HTTPS on load balancer

Schurki — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:32:08 -0500

I've tried that module first, it's not working. In my setup, the user@browser kann choose if he wants to use HTTPS or HTTP, but the LB forwards all incoming requests, even HTTPS, as HTTP to the web servers. Additionally, Phorum ist accessed through 2 different domains, one accessible only internally for admin tasks, and one external, where admin stuff is blocked by server config. The configured http_path points to the external domain.

Re: HTTPS on load balancer

Scott Finegan — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:55:16 -0500

I am not sure exactly what you want between LB and Phorum, but this works for most who want https between the browser and Phorum, or http between the browser and Phorum. It should work with any passed URL regardless of source.

Automatic HTTP Path (version 1.0.9)
This module automatically sets the HTTP Path configuration option, based on the active
URL. This can be useful if for some reason you run one Phorum install under various host
names and/or directories (e.g. a Phorum on a private space intranet server that is also
accessible through a public URL or a server that has to be accessible on both an http://
and https:// URL).

Automatic HTTP Path

In the Admin under General Settings, File/Path Settings... you may need to change this, not sure...

HTTPS on load balancer

Schurki — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:28:00 -0500

We're terminating SSL encryption on the load balancer, communication between the LB and the web servers is unencrypted. The LB adds a HTTP header "isSSL: true" on imcoming HTTPS requests. To make Phorum work in this setup, I added a file include/phorum_get_protocol.php and made a few changes to common.php and include/phorum_get_url.php.

I'ld like to append the files here, but this doesn't seem to be possible, so I put it this way:

get_protocol. php:

Language: PHP

 
$allheaders= getallheaders();
if (isset($allheaders{';isSSL';}) and $allheaders{';isSSL';} == ';true';) {
   $protocol = ';https';;
}
else {
 $protocol = ';http';;
}
?>

In common.php, I added

Language: PHP
require_once("include/phorum_get_protocol.php");

after the other includes and

Language: PHP
$PHORUM[';http_path';] = preg_replace ("!^https?!" , $protocol , $PHORUM[';http_path';]);

after

Language: PHP
phorum_db_load_settings();

and in phorum_get_url.php I put

Language: PHP
global $protocol;
 $url= preg_replace ("!^https?!" , $protocol , $url);

just before

Language: PHP
return $url;

in each of the functions phorum_get_url, phorum_get_url_no_uri_auth and phorum_get_current_url.

This refers to version 5.2.20.

Would somebody integrate that in proper form in Phorum, perhaps as a module? The name and value of the header sent by the LB should probably be configurable.

Facebook or socialmedias

sif4ever — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:57:46 -0400

Is there a hack where Phorum supports socialmedia as login? So a user can login with there social profile as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or somethink like that?

Re: how to show 10 newest post outside forums directory

slashbin — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:51:58 -0500

You can parse the RSS data provided by calling the code feed.php at the root of your phorum installation. The simplest ways to access the RSS is to enter
yourdomain/feed.php?0,type=rss

There exist many RSS parsers that you can use.

how to show 10 newest post outside forums directory

rian — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 07:50:41 -0500

Hi,

How to show 10 newest post outside forums directory ?

Thanks.

English Language Development Help?

wishadoo — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 09:18:31 -0500

Hi :)

I am not a developer and barely understand much of what is written in the docs here. I do know what I want in a forum and searched a long time to find Phorum.

It is installed but as far as customization, I'm wondering if there is any fee-based support for English-language customization of the site.

Thanks in advance!

Modify Ignore Mod

ToddUGA — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:22:43 -0500

Love the ignore mod but would like to see it modified so that it hid the subject line as well as the body of the post. And since my forum is a thread view forum, a lot of folks just put their post in the subject line and not the body. I've taken a crack at it and have modified my read_threads.tpl file to get it to work. Can't figure out how to modify my list_threads,tpl file to get it to hide the subject line however. Anybody want to take a crack at it? Thanks.

Re: Resizing of attachments

pulloff — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:03:43 -0500

This would be a mod I'd love to have as well.

While resizing photos may only take me a few seconds, it's a huge stumbling block for the average internet user. Most users want to take photos directly from their phones or camera and simply attach them directly to a post. It's probably one of the most common complaints from users on my site. I get multiple emails every week from users asking me why their photos won't attach to their messages. I cut and paste the same response from my FAQ page with simple direction on resizing their photos but plenty of users just can't figure it out.

I found this old link but I'm no programmer (I'm just a hack who can butcher code enough to occasionally make it work):
[www.codeforest.net]

It seems like a mod could be written to check files types on upload/attachment and if they are '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.gif', '.png' etc… then resize them to a specific height or width. In the second tutorial it even has instructions on resizing photo on the client side to speed upload time:
[www.codeforest.net]

Honestly it seems like it's a pretty do-able Phorum mod in principle for someone with coding knowledge. I'd love to tackle it but I don't have the first idea where to start when it comes to writing a mod. I'm just dangerous enough to make small modification to some of the great mods already written (and I hardly ever know why my hack worked or didn't). I don't know how many active Phorum coders/users there are, but I think this could be an extremely useful mod in today's cell phone camera crazy society.