Phorum Support Forums - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Module request - Is there any way for users to block PM's from other individual users? (3 replies)

stargazer77 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:59:43 -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.

Trace IP of poster (3 replies)

Quick_Question — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:34:10 -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

Add a background to the Phorum (7 replies)

btcbtc — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:53:15 -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.

BBCode Request (2 replies)

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

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

HTTPS on load balancer (4 replies)

Schurki — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:54:18 -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 (no replies)

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?

how to show 10 newest post outside forums directory (1 reply)

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

Hi,

How to show 10 newest post outside forums directory ?

Thanks.

English Language Development Help? (no replies)

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 (no replies)

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.

Majordomo Mailing Lists subscribe/unsubscribe/etc (no replies)

Beery — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:26:27 -0400

I found a fairly easy way to implement mailing list subscription on a forum. I pasted the following code into the Forum Description box for a forum.

[I have edited this message. Please note I have removed the

embed_images file size conundrum (3 replies)

spittendrigh — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:20:29 -0400

With embed_images on my installation (most) image uploads result in an error message saying no image can be larger than 614.4kb. General case uploads for my apache web server can be much larger (upload_max_filesize in php.ini)

admin.php => mods => embed_images => settings has a setting for "maximum width for showing" that seems to have no effect, regardless set to 0 or some large pixel number.

find ./phorum -name "*php" | xargs -i grep -H 614 {} ... finds no sources with 614 in the php file

find ./phorum -type f | xargs -i grep -H 614 {} 2>/dev/null turned up no regular file of any kind containing 614 either

If the 614.4kb upload size limit isn't set by the web server where and how is it being enforced? How do I allow uploading larger image files? 614.4 is not a reasonable file size limit anymore.

BBCode [pdf]: embedded PDF viewer (no replies)

Mac — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:20:31 -0400

Request for a mod that would add a BBCode for embedded viewing of pdf files.

The syntax could be:
[pdf]{url-of-pdf-file}[/pdf]

That would be translated to:

(See [docs.google.com] for more info about the Google document viewer.
If there is an other/better pdf viewer that could be used in stead of Google's that would be fine by me too.)

It would be especially nice if it would also work with attachments, like:
[pdf][attachment 999 some.pdf][/pdf]

MAC Address (3 replies)

NancyKP — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:04:44 -0500

It would be nice if I could block a user by computer or router MAC Address. Currently if booted, they just create more user IDs and start up again. Even moderated I don't want some of these users on the site. I can't block them by IP address as their IPs are not static.

Resizing of attachments (1 reply)

haz23 — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:03:43 -0500

Hello all,

I searched throughout all mods and threads here, but was not able to find some mod that could automatically do resizing of uploaded images? The idea is that usually people upload images directly from their smartphone, and nobody needs 5MB of JPEG file when it can be resized to a predefined maximum height and width to either save space and bandwidth.

Any idea if there is some mod that can do that for me?

Thanks in advance!

Soundcloud embedding (1 reply)

kswift — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:15:42 -0400

Has anyone recently been able to get Soundcloud embedding working on a Phorum?
I realize there's been a thread about this but the last post is from 2011, maybe there has been a breakthrough :)

Then again Phorum itself is also almost an adult right? Our site has been running Phorum since 2000 or so if I remember well and it's still being used today.

Static Pages: Reporting outside database data? (no replies)

Grayson — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:09:37 -0500

Teetering on my inexpereince with template files, PHP, and MySql, can outside database data be reported within the static pages? Possible? Difficult?

help request for coloured usernames (5 replies)

gelbeseiten — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:22:41 -0400

Hello,

I hope I am posting in the correct forum.
The situation:
I got hands on a little mod which allows the users to set a custom colour for their usernames at login. This mode is working with Phorum 5.1 branch. Unfortunately the author is not known to me.

The users would like to have this feature in the upgraded version of 5.2.19 as well. I am a bit at a loss here, as I have VERY little php knowlegde. I have managed to get the search function for 5.2 working but I am not able to get the statements following the search working.

If there is someone willing and interested to help me, how would we go from here ?

Help would be very appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Flat or Hybrid with Tree? (1 reply)

medialogix — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:56:23 -0400

Hi @ll,

since this is my first posting in this forum, i'd like to express my respect and thanx to the dev-team and all (mod) contributors!

I've been running forums since middle of the Nineties, and it was always the "fully threaded view" that made the difference. My oldest forum needs a facelifting and after intense comparison, i choose Phorum as a starting base because of the three viewing styles offered.
What i need now, is a hint into what direction to look, to have a tree - as in Threaded View - also on the Flat or Hybrid style Views. I'd like to display the first posting, then the tree-structure, and then all follow-up postings on the read page.

I guess, this could be accomplished by calling the LOOP MESSAGES loop twice ...?

Best regards from Hamburg, Germany,
Thomas

How to go to the requested page after authorization? (1 reply)

userball — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:07:02 -0400

The truoble:
Loading '/' page after loggin to phorum.

Wanna:
Loading the page to what was the authorization request.

How to make that changes? Or there is a hack to do like that?

Looking for a most recent posts plug-in/script for main index page... (no replies)

Flannel — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:07:37 -0400

Hello! I have been using Phorum software for about a month. . . and... I LOVE IT.

However I am trying to create on the main index page of my site a listing of all posts. Regardless of where, when or who posted them.

Basically a long list of posts made by users in one long up to date list. Easy to scroll, and simultaneously updated.

I am using mysql as a database system. And the latest version of phorum software.

Any pointers in the right direction would be really helpful.
Open source means a lot to me, and continues to inspire me, and it truly is the way of the future.

Thank you so much in advance...

=Flannel

Security - strong passwords (1 reply)

Steve H — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:16:50 -0400

I was looking for a mod to increase security for phorum.

Specifically, something to:
- require stronger passwords.
(options for minimum password length, require numbers and symbols, exclude dictionary words, etc)
- set expirations on passwords to force periodic password change
(needed to force existing users to update to a new strong password)

I searched and didn't find any prior discussion of this?

Was wondering if there was a a log in box like this? (1 reply)

White_Rabbit — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:50:57 -0400

[postimg.org]

I would like it to be in the header to the right.

Mod: Notifications (no replies)

Robert Angle — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:17:52 -0400

The idea for this is a simple mod that adds a "New post count" for followed topics. If there is a new post in a followed topic, the numeric counter would increase by 1.

Essentailly, when you click on "Followed Topics" you are presented with a list of followed topics. Some of these have new-flags. This mod would display numerically how many new-flags there are, being the equivalent of fresh replies to topics your following.

This would automatically work with my other idea for mentioning and tagging that I posted here...
[www.phorum.org]

MOD: Mention Alerts - @mention username in posts (no replies)

Robert Angle — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:14:35 -0400

I am interested in a module that will allow a person to be "mentioned" or "tagged" by another user in their post or reply, and upon submitting the post the user that got tagged will get an email notification. The tag or mention displays the username as a clickable link to their profile.

Integration with "My Followed Topics" would be nice as well, that is, the user who got tagged will be automatically following that topic.

Of course, Control Center options to not receive emails when tagged and to not automatically follow the topic should exist so that each user can opt out of such emails.

Any thoughts?

Do we need you guys to write code to allow us to embed other video services besides Youtube? (1 reply)

Guvner — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:20:22 -0400

If so what is involved and if not where do you make the changes?

I want to be able to embed videos from Wistia as Youtube floods my site with Google ads I don't want. I also have Clipbucket on our own server. One of our advertisers wants us to be able to embed the Wistia.

Thanks... Gary

No mark forum read and no new count (4 replies)

houndchaser — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:52:45 -0500

I would like to remove or hide two things:

1. Remove or hide the "Mark Forum Read"

2. Remove or hide (3 new), (1 new) etc in both posts and topic count-

And add:

1. Instead of saying how many unread posts or topics there are, if the topic is unread; id like the topic title to become bold and the font color slightly changed.

2. Show a distinct icon next to any topic title if you have posted any posts in that topic or created it. (To quickly see in which topics you have participated)

3. Mark all topics that are older than 1 month as read

If there is already any modules that i have missed that do any of these things, please let me know.

Mass delete messages. (2 replies)

Fenix — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:01:18 -0500

Spammers are fast nowadays and there could be hudreds of spam messages to deltete on just one forum. Deleteing spam one by one is really frustrating. So... if there was a checkbox for every message and button that deletes all marked messages the work would be much much easier.

login problem (2 replies)

rebelpirate — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:09:58 -0500

hello im a new user. i need help about template customize

i customize my template. i added the code below in my "template/header.tpl" when i wanna login so i enter my username and password to log in then i submit button but i cant login. why was that ?

Language: PHP
<form action="{URL->ACTION}" method="post">
                    {POST_VARS}
                    {LANG->Username}:
                    <input type="text" id="username" name="username" size="15" value="{LOGIN->username}" /><br />
                    <br />
                    {LANG->Password}:
                    <input type="password" id="password" name="password" size="15" value="" />
                    <br />
                    <input type="submit" value="{LANG->Submit}" />
                form>

How to create message in mysql (1 reply)

tabby2 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:20:30 -0500

Hi all, how do I create message in mysql ?, I want to automatically create message for my phorum, from a sistersite I have.

Hot Topics (11 replies)

Toni — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:17:08 -0500

Hi,

Is there any mod or any edit files to show the hot topics with a small icon if the topic has more than 10 Replies.