Joomla and Phorum integration

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:36:48 -0500

The facility for attachments can be configured in the settings for each forum. There you can allow for file types and file sizes. The user file upload does not have any real purpose in the core Phorum installation (besides the obvious function of storing files on the server) but modules could use this. For example, the avatar module uses the user file storage for storing the avatar image.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:25:11 -0500

Ok, i see it. I thought that this was a function to be able to add attachments to topics. I didn't realise it was just a facilty to store files.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:18:10 -0500

That feature would be in the user's control center. Did you look there?

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:27:26 -0500

thats great thanks.

One last question, i hope. I have got the setings to allow users to upload files including images, but there is no option on this on the forum front end. is there a reason for that.

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:55:08 -0500

I included two templates with the module. "embed_default" is a moderation of the standard default template. "embed_phorum" is one that I tailor made for fitting into small spaces (that one can be seen in action on chanh's [www.opensourcecms.com]). If you look at the settings.tpl file for that last template, you'll even find some options for tweaking what gets displayed, which can be used to make it fit even more.

So for space: go for embed_phorum and edit settings.tpl to your likings.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:08:21 -0500

just one last question.

do you knoo of any templates for the embedded version of the phorum ie for small spaces.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:06:50 -0500

great,

once again thanks for all your help, i really appreciate it. I think that the phorum is perfect for what i need and am really pleased that i got it working.

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:56:36 -0500

No, defenitely not worth it. I think that single line is the only change for the release. I mainly mentioned it to let you know that in the next version that you download, the fix will already be included.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:13:30 -0500

Hi Maurice

Is that the only change in the module, that line of code?

is it worth replacing the entire module for the new one?

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:12:34 -0500

No, a pretty new one actually ;-)

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:27:25 -0500

seems like i was using an old version of the module

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:15:53 -0500

It's also incorporated in the module. Download can be done at the embedding thread.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:27:21 -0500

Yes,

it worked. Thanks so much

good fix

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:17:58 -0500

oh and there are two lines with that in the function, only change the first one.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:14:28 -0500

as a quick fix for the output before content problem you can do this (I guess maurice will release an updated version of the embed_module later):

edit /mods/embed_phorum/run_phorum.php

find the line in the function phorum_process_page
while(ob_get_level() > 0) ob_end_clean();

change it to
if(ob_get_level() > 0) ob_end_clean();

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:11:13 -0500

Hi Maurice,

thanks for all your advice. yeah i installed the

phorum-dir>\mods\embed_phorum\connectors\mambo\com_phorum.src using the .zip file via the joomla component installer

i am running Joomla Version 1.0.12

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:38:10 -0500

Like I said in the previous post: no, this is just general documentation on how the module works. For the Joomla connection, the component is the glue script. There is no more documentation to follow currently to get things working than what has been discussed in these forums.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:37:04 -0500

did you install the phorum-component using the files in

\mods\embed_phorum\connectors\mambo\com_phorum.src

the glue-script is included there and doesn't need to be installed separately.
Also, which joomla-version are you installing it at?

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:09:31 -0500

Hi,

Thanks,

What is a single glue script? do i have to do anything with this:

Phorum now fully expects to be run from within a master application.
A single glue script is needed to run all Phorum code. A simple
example glue script can be found in:

connectors/stub_example/index.php

Important in the glue script is the creation of a PhorumConnector object,
which is put in $PHORUM_CONNECTOR. This is actually the most important
part for embedding Phorum into another application, because this class
describes how to fit Phorum in there. The connector for this example
glue script can be found in:

connectors/stub_example/connector.php

After that, the glue script will have to include the worker script:

run_phorum.php

Are these instructions that i have to follow? I'm totally confused.

Thanks

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 31 May 2007 09:58:58 -0500

It's all just information about the structure of the embedding module. The template instructions are there as a reminder how to convert a template into an embedded template. Only the very start describes what to do with Phorum. But any documentation about how to install Phorum in combination with a connector should go with the connector code, since there's no generic installation instruction that I could provide with the module.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Thu, 31 May 2007 09:22:32 -0500

Hi Maurice,

In the README file included in the embedded_phorum module, there's a whole bunch of info. Are these instructions? am i supposed to be making changes to files according to any instructions? There's stuff in there about the templates, am i supposed to do anything with the .tpl files. Or is all this just for information purposes.

I Posted the problem on the Joomla site but no responses as yet.

Cheers

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:15:55 -0500

I didn't do much with it. I just had to modify the Phorum path in the code, install the component and link it to a menu. That's what I needed to get it running.

Please do post to the joomla forum, because it probably is something obvious with the component not providing the data that should go in the body part correctly. Joomla component writers are welcome to join this thread and help figuring out what needs to be done to make this work.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:04:57 -0500

thanks for all your help guys however, i'm stuck now as im not a coder and have no idea how to do this. I'll try over at the Joomla forum to see if there is a solution. In the meantime if you come up with a solution, please let me know.

How did you guys get it to work with Joomla, was it a simple install or did you have to do a bit of playing around?

thanks again

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:21:58 -0500

It's not really the template. In the source code of the page, you can see that the connector's body output is really in front of everything. So it's Joomla, not capturing the printed body data from the connector, but showing it immediately. So the question is if there is a different way of providing the body data for a component. Please check for that with Joomla people / docs. If the data can be sent to Joomla through a function or variable, then it's easy to change the printing to doing the apparent right thing.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:40:32 -0500

hi, I tried it with a few different templates, even the default joomla template and it's still the same so i don't think it's a template problem.

I really want to get this working, but i'm completely lost now, i'm sure it's something really simple. HELP!!!

Cheers

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Chanh Ong — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:23:11 -0500

My site use mostly div in my template too and phorum work just fine in it.

There might be some missing tag that surface when you enable phorum to your site.

Try to run through the validation to see where is the possible problem with your template.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:01:47 -0500

Hi,

yeah it's a free tableless template from joomlie junkie, i really don't want to have to start messing about with the code for the template, especially to add tables to it, thanks for the suggestion.

Are there any Joomla people out there who can help with this.

cheers

Scott

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Chanh Ong — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:02:22 -0500

Look like you use mostly div in your template and the phorum stuff get flow to the top.

Try to use some table code to contain phorum stuff to see if that make any different.

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:00:52 -0500

That looks like Joomla does not catch the data that is printed from the connector as the body data. In my setup that did work, but maybe the Joomla people changed things a bit. At the conference they already warned us that the component mechanics could change.

So for your site, it looks like the connector needs a bit of work, to send the Phorum body to the Joomla framework correctly.

Joomla people, HELP!!! :-)

Re: Joomla and Phorum integration

scottmason — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:53:52 -0500

Hi Maurice,

I'll install it on the live server so you can see what i mean.

www.scottmason.co.uk/SEFG

click on the "phorum" link in the top menu on the right

Cheers

Scott