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Re: Private messages on Phorum.org - 13 years ago

This screenshot might help...

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Facebook doesn't display thread images - 13 years ago

By "attachment" do you mean an image that has been attached as a file using this Phorum tool? If so, Facebook's parser won't find it, it is looking for either <img> tags, or it is looking for an image identified by the meta property og:image.

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Mobile Suite for Phorum? - 13 years ago

Quotekorsakov"getting a reward for hard work" I think I tried that exact phrase once a long time ago when I was attempting to justify a raise during a performance review. My manager responded by drawing a smiley face and the words "Good Job!!" on the evaluation form.

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Development

Re: What do YOU expect from the next major phorum release? - 13 years ago

OK, totally random free-form thoughts from a developer perspective: Although I am not huge fan of MVC, a platform like Phorum would actually greatly benefit from it. I would agree with your other post that Phorum could go in that direction (maybe I would elevate "could" to "should"). With more investment in MVC, I would do away with the silly template language and just

by Phil Connolly - Announcements

Re: post URL links in facebook - 13 years ago

What's happening is that the extra arguments Facebook is adding (in your attachment, the stuff in the URL starting at the &fb_action_ids=10151337719510579.....) is not being handled by Phorum's core. There is logic in the core that looks for an ampersand, and if it is found, then Phorum switches to use that to delimit query string arguments instead of commas. The Facebook construc

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: I NEED HELP ON CUSTOM PROFILE AND TEMPLATES - 14 years ago

Please don't shout. Step 1: Edit your post and change the all caps to the proper usage of case. Use my post here as an example, if you need one :).

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 14 years ago

Facebook started requiring OAuth 2.0 at some point for authentication and authorization. I never got around to migrating my module SSO code to implement OAuth 2. It actually is not too difficult for me to change this, and I am looking at it now. I have it running on my test site, I'll update the zip archive soon. I don't really offer support for this module, so my "support"

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Phorum 5.3 - What do we have to look forward to? - 14 years ago

QuotekorsakovIf the lack of these popular features is merely caused by a lack of resources why not charging people for PP (Phorum Premium)? QuotekorsakovThomas, an iron rule says that nothing in life comes for free, not even the cookies from your grandmother's cookie jar. I feel that Phorum will loose in significance when it should continue neglecting rather basic features. I believe in ha

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Development

Re: Hooks in templates - 14 years ago

Quotegresakg However, there's still one question: how to access the return of the hook function? Do I understand well, that it is not accessible inside the template scope? If my return was an array that I would like to pass through with LOOP, I guess I'd had to proceed as Phil explained in 2) ? Whatever you decide to do, if you are going to do something with data on your template (suc

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Hooks in templates - 14 years ago

I thought I would jump in and answer this one, as I once had a very similar question back when I first started using Phorum. I got a great answer back, but didn't really fully understand until I had written a few modules and then some things clicked. Here is what I learned that should help you: Phorum's hook system doesn't work this way, where your hook function returns a valu

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Leaving Groups? - 14 years ago

QuotekorsakovLeaving a group ought to become a constitutional right within Phorum. I searched this entire site to see if I could find a Constitutional "Bill of Rights". The closest I could find to one is a statement I copied from the home page: To satisfy the web master that needs every bell and whistle, or those that want to make their web site unique, the Phorum team creat

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Phorum page weight and PHP's memory_get_peak_usage() - 14 years ago

I know this isn't about your specific questions, but I was wondering: What is your php's memory_limit? It would seem that you are getting OOM's when you have a script exceeding this. IMO, this is not related to what you have observed from calling memory_get_peak_usage() and from using unset() all over the place in your code. Rather, my guess is that when your server is getting

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Flickr photos to a Phorum forum - 14 years ago

@rosemanmudgee: When you see the prompt: "Step 1: Authorize Phorum 5 Flickr Tools." click on it. It is a hyperlink to begin the process of linking your Flickr account to your own forum user profile. Once you click that link you will be taken to the Flickr website and they will present you with instructions to follow if you choose to allow your Flickr account to be linked. Flickr w

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Parse BBCode in Profiles - 15 years ago

In addition to what Maurice says, my hack really is specific to signatures. It depends on the existing Phorum signature processing that results in the signature being appended to the message body prior to Phorum's format hook. That is why there is no code in the hack to format BBcode, yet your signature gets formatted. As far is displaying the BBcode editor tools: I don't think my

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Parse BBCode in Profiles - 15 years ago

I don't know if a module was ever created for this. But here is a hack that will do the trick for signatures:

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Module: Facebook URL Fixer - 15 years ago

Update release today: fixed the problem where the module was decoding URLs that are wrapped by Phorum's redirect.php script. Thanks to Robert Angle for discovering this one.

by Phil Connolly - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons

Re: Module: Facebook URL Fixer - 15 years ago

Wierd... so I traced through Phorum code, and also hooked up fiddler and watched what was happening between my browser and the server. When redirect_after_post = 'read', I can see Phorum is trying to do what you want, jump to the last message of the thread, and its full URL contains an anchor (#). Phorum has some twiddling it does in the case it must redirect to an anchor from a P

by Phil Connolly - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons

Re: post URL links in facebook - 15 years ago

Well, your test post just confirms that Facebook is not reaching the post properly via its URL. Their URL Linter reports a title "Cats lost in South Australia" instead of "This is just a test", meaning Facebook is parsing your forum list page (http://perfectpetfinder.com.au/lostandfound/list.php?5) because, no surprise if you followed this whole thread, Facebook can't ha

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: post URL links in facebook - 15 years ago

I've had success using the OG properties, as well as having Facebook just read the content in my pages (which it does in the absence of relevant OG properties). But in all cases within Phorum, for me it requires the Facebook URL Fixer module, and public permissions for the message read page. That second requirement has got me a few times... a page that is behind any security will not work

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: post URL links in facebook - 15 years ago

Hi Aaron, If you have confirmed that the generated HTML returned by Phorum contains what you are expecting, i.e., you can see it, then the problem is on the Facebook side. They are not reading the same page as the one with your like button. There is discussion about this at the beginning of this thread where people report Facebook is mangling Phorum URLs, which based on your description of t

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: post URL links in facebook - 15 years ago

What exactly isn't working? The og:description property is parsed by facebook, so if you have it populated, it should work. The og:image question is kinda outside of the scope of this thread, so maybe it would be better to start another one where you ask how to get a reference to a user's uploaded images into Phorum variables that you can use in your header templates.

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Support

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

Thanks for the reports. I can't say when exactly I'll be able to address them, but I will when I can. Like I said at the beginning of this thread, these modules are not supported releases, which is why they are not deployed to Phorum's Modules forum. So technically they are here "as is". But I am interested in them working out for you and whoever else uses them. In t

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

Quotemamun965 @Phil Connolly: Dont know how to thank you! You did a job that is more than WOW, more than awesome.. I even got more than what I wanted in my post.. . :) Well the thanks is enough for me. So you're welcome. If you are inclined to do more feel free to make a donation to the phorum team. Their fantastic work on the core makes it possible to throw modules like this into the

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

Well, as for SSO, Maurice tackled that in a module for Phorum 5.3, and his is not limited to facebook. So I think the future looks good as far as that goes, and I am not sure I will need to be supporting mine once 5.3 is released. I had already done most of the development last year on it prior to his work being announced so it is not like I am trying to one up one of the phorum developers, I j

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

BTW, posting to the facebook wall requires the facebook user to give permissions. The facebook module could very easily just assume the right and do it by default. By I personally find that very intrusive so instead I made it an optional right. Go to your phorum control center and under Options check out the "Facebook Profile" panel. Under the "Expanded Data Permissions (optiona

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

I modified the core facebook module to support a new hook (mod_facebook_sso_username) which allows for overriding the default email address as username. Then I added a new extension module (just a simple single file module facebook_sso_display_name.php) to the archive. Try it out, re-download the zip file, update the facebook module, and add the new facebook_sso_display_name.php to your mods fo

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

Thanks for the nice feedback. It would not be terribly difficult to change what the module is doing when it chooses a phorum username. The rationale for it to use an email address was mostly laziness... an email address returned from facebook's API is likely a valid one and I didn't have to code too defensively while relying on it. Also, as an email address is a pretty good global id

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Sharing (in facebook etc) option, and 'like' option - 15 years ago

I am not one of the "experts", just one of the civilians around here. Last year I started working on a facebook module, and got a bunch of stuff done before I had to stop and switch to some work that would pay the bills. Never did get back to finishing the thing... Anyway, your request reminded me that I have something. I am not ready to release this as a module here, because it i

by Phil Connolly - Phorum Hack/Mod Requests

Re: Module: Flickr - 15 years ago

Great news. I hope it works well for you. If not, let me know and I'll try and help. -phil.

by Phil Connolly - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons

Re: Module: Flickr - 15 years ago

I just uploaded version 1.1.6 which apparently has the fix for your specific error. Hopefully. Try it out and we if not we can go from there. I actually recall fixing this same error back in November, but then never got around to uploading it here.

by Phil Connolly - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons