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All modules known to work or written for 5.2.0 and up. Modules are small packages that increase or change the functionality of Phorum in some way, without changing any of the main Phorum code.
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Re: Localhost - 2 years ago
Thank you. Yes I know what localhost means. A server-side config file could be used to convert that string (localhost) to a real domain and then IP address--on the fly. Something like that must have been going on 3 years ago when this mysqldump was a live phorum--that worked then. Sans dead links. I think the answers above give mge what I need. Thank you all. Yes I vaguely remember instby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Localhost - 2 years ago
Maintaied a drift boat building phorum for close to a decade. The I got long COVID and shut it down for two years. I sell boat blueprint downloads, mostly as a hobby. The lack of s support forum dropped my grosd (hobby) sales from four thousand dollars a year to near zero. After two and a half years as a mysql dump I'm trying to bring it back. I have the nearly three year old phorumby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Localhost - 2 years ago
I Maintaied a drift boat building phorum for close to a decade. Then I got long COVID and shut it down for two years. I sell boat blueprint downloads, mostly as a hobby. The lack of a support forum dropped my gross (hobby) sales from four thousand dollars a year to near zero. After two and a half years as a mysqldump I'm trying to bring it back. I have the nearly three year old phorby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Was I hacked? - 3 years ago
I had a Boat Buildihg phorum forrum for many years, with something like 20,000 posts. At its high point I got as many as 10 posts a day. Traffic gradually plunged to near zero. Why is not clear. Perhaps it had something to do with similar groups on Facebook etc. I turned it off for about a year. Now I want to bring it back. I loaded a daatabase with a mysql dump. What I see is an empby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Missing list icons on phones - 5 years ago
fwiw: In the default templates/emerald/list.tpl list view icons are displayed as: <img src="{URL->TEMPLATE}/images/attach.png" where {URL->TEMPLATE} expands to something like https://mydomain.com/ ...which my android phone refuses to resolve, so the icons in list view end up missing when viewed on a phone. On my system the phorum forum resides in a directory namedby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: Merge two phorums as one - 7 years ago
Get a list of thread heads from both forums sorted by date select * from phorum_messages where parent_id = 0 and (forum_id = $x or forum_id = $y) order by datestamp; loop through with perl dbi or its equivalent in some other language make a hashed data structure of some kind that includes a new (blank for now) field called new_message_id; loop through the data structures and write them toby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: vps https - 7 years ago
Thank you. That was fast. That got everything working. And Chrome no longer says "not a trusted site"by salmobytes - Phorum Support
vps https - 7 years ago
I have a "virtual private server" I bought one of their ssl certificates and used a "cpanel" admin form to "install the certificate" Then in the DOCUMENT_ROOT of one domain I made a .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ At this point everything worked, without Google Chrome announcing "not a trusted site"by salmobytes - Phorum Support
Merge two phorums as one - 8 years ago
I want to combine two historically separate forums as one. I think I know how to slog through this with a perl DBI script and command line sql. Select several columns from phorum_messages, from both databases, as needed. First one then the other. Store each message in a file whose name is the original datestamp post date. First line author_id. Second line data. Third line etc whatever eby salmobytes - Phorum Support
bash/mysql/command line -- extract image blobs to file system - 8 years ago
I have zillions of images essentially hidden in a decade-long collection, inside phorum_files. I'd like to extract them all onto the local file system. I've managed to get large files that aren't images, that cannot be viewed. 99% of all such images are jpegs. I've tried to do this with bash/mysql only. Perl and Imagemagick would be fine too. I want a script-basedby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: *.ru email addresses - 8 years ago
Was I using string or prce? Ouch. I was using string so my regular expression was useless. Thank you. I also took the backslashing out of the rule. We'll see. Stop forum spam module? I'm using "Spam Hurdles." I'll look into that. Perhaps report results in a week or two.by salmobytes - Phorum Support
*.ru email addresses - 8 years ago
I have a DIY boat building site with roughly 20,000 phorum posts over the years. I have never yet, never once had a Russian user interested in boat building but I get perhaps 20 registrations per week with *.ru email addresses. A few from China too. I delete them manually every few days. I suppose I could make it a cron job. If real new users aren't yet confirmed by 3am my local time thby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: resize (imagemagick) images while embed_images uploads - 8 years ago
Thank you. include\posting\action_attachments.phpby salmobytes - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons
resize (imagemagick) images while embed_images uploads - 8 years ago
embed_images has "maximum width and height for showing" settings. Does this mean a large images is uploaded as is but shown at a smaller size? Wouldn't it be handy to use imagemagick at upload time, in order to knock the image down to a reasonable size before attempting to show it? Where in embed_images.php would be the right place to intervene, and scale down the just nowby salmobytes - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons
Re: template responsive - 9 years ago
This is emerald munged to bootstrap. No tables no tr th td. It's all divs, which does make it easier to hack. This is ugly list.tpl with hard-coded css styling. That will gradually migrate into settings.tpl and css.tpl. Now that I'm more familiar with the *.tpl templates I think I've figured out how to make forum appear as the contents of a div, in a surrounding cms conby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: broken emerald template from phorum-5.2.23.tar.gz - 9 years ago
Ah. Also my old coffeeshop template caused all kinds of trouble after the upgrade so I reverted to emerald, which did work, not counting the bell icon showing up next to sticky topics. The coffeeshop template turned out to be riddled with HTML errors, so I was glad to get rid of it. None of those errors was bad enough to trigger quirks mode. But still </div class="something"by salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: Export database - 9 years ago
If you do a mysqldump and want to install it on another server you will probably have to update phorum_settings update phorum_settings set data = '/newdomain/newpath1/newpath2' where name = 'http_path' or name = 'login_redir_urls'; ...else the new code will try to import CSS from the old urlby salmobytes - Phorum Support
broken emerald template from phorum-5.2.23.tar.gz - 9 years ago
emerald/list.tpl shows a bell icon to the left of sticky topics, as it installs I found a pushpin.png icon that was 16x16 and put it in emerald/images and then (inside list.tpl) changed "bell" below to "pushpin" and all was well. {IF MESSAGES->sort PHORUM_SORT_STICKY} {IF MESSAGES->new} {VAR icon "flag_red"}by salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: embed_images breaks bbcode - 9 years ago
Good tips. Don't know why I didn't think of the apache log. It was a file permissions issue. 775 on the Upload directory fixed it. However, it is interesting to note this ONLY became an issue when Embed_Images was On (that BBCode links to existing, manually uploaded images broke). With 555 file permissions BBCode worked when Embed_Images was off, broke when it was on. Witby salmobytes - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons
embed_images breaks bbcode - 9 years ago
Core-phorum_5_2_23 BBcode (version 2.0.12) Embed Images (version 1.1.5) VD server Linux s104-238-102-125.secureserver.net 2.6.32-042stab093.4 #1 SMP Mon Aug 11 18:47:39 MSK 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux BBcode works fine by itself. I can make posts pointing to images manually uploaded to my own server. Presumably to external servers as well. But when I turn on Embed_Imaby salmobytes - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons
Re: template responsive - 9 years ago
.............. I tried mod_responsive by Brian Moon I think, and wasn't entirely pleased. Phorum on a phone from a server running mod_responsive shows a forum I can make bigger or smaller by spreading or contracting two fingers on the phone screen but it doesn't re-flow the text, so most of the page is off screen. I'm 69 years old with bad eyes after three eye surgeries. Soby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: What do YOU expect from the next major phorum release? - 11 years ago
This is a follow-up to my last suggestion about an "embeddable" version of phorum. I have a buddy who works in E-commerce. He makes good money (big money) setting up interactive shopping carts, often for interactions between retailers and distributors, rather than for the retail public at large. He reports to me that interactive "product reviews" on shopping cart sitesby salmobytes - Announcements
Re: What do YOU expect from the next major phorum release? - 11 years ago
I'd like an embeddable forum--so I can put the display pages and post editing displays inside a DIV inside my CMS. Admin pages can be their own thing. I don't want an Iframe. I don't understand how exactly but it seems this is sometimes done with complex Javascript. Can't there be a simpler way? If all incoming post and get parameters (to phorum) had a well-recognized pby salmobytes - Announcements
Re: Retrieve file_data as an image on the file system - 12 years ago
OK. php base64_decode on file_data followed by an fwrite seems to work just fine. Bash and raw sql would be more convenient. But php does it well enough.by salmobytes - Phorum Support
Retrieve file_data as an image on the file system - 12 years ago
I need to extract images from phorum_files. select file_id, filename from phorum_files reveals I have approximately 1000 uploaded images, mostly jpg but a few png and gif too. for phorum_files.fiename = 'Hermit_rapids.jpg' I want ./Hermit_rapids.jpg on the file system. How would I do that? I'm happy to use comand line mysql, but could write a small PHP utility too. Do I nby salmobytes - Phorum Support
Re: Integration in the general case - 12 years ago
On the flip side of this issue, another problem with nearly all open source content generators is their pervasive reliance on codes who make use of embedded templating systems. *.tpl templates are easy to manipulate if and only if you merely want to tweak the appearance of that particular template include. But what if you want to move block elements around like musical chairs? And how do you chby salmobytes - Phorum Integration
Integration in the general case - 12 years ago
Users (including me) have, in the past, wondered why it is so difficult to integrate blogs forums and shopping carts that normally want to be autonomous pages. In other words, why can't Phorum appear as the contents of a DIV inside some other layout context? Why can't I put phorum inside my header-navigation-and-main-display pages, without using an IFRAME? The answer is complex, butby salmobytes - Phorum Integration
Re: Place Phorum inside existing site body? - 13 years ago
Ah. Cookies. Damn. I suppose that could be handled too. But it's starting to get ugly again. I will look at the github codes. Thank you.by salmobytes - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests
Re: Place Phorum inside existing site body? - 13 years ago
I'm looking at the phorum codes, trying to figure out where all the URLs are generated. If ALL forum links are generated as a link to my surrounding CMS, with an added _GET section that includes what ever is needed to call phorum inside my plugin: $phorumUrl = "; . $_GET['phorumParms']; // this is too simple. I might need an &Phorum_Request_Method=POST etc Bby salmobytes - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests