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Quote:TDeeming Nov 11th 6:44 am
:Question... do you think I can go ahead and install it on a live system... or should I wait?

If you where running a newer version of Mediawiki (above 1.12) i would say, yes, no problem, but with 1.10, i would do some more testing. Im sure if there is a bug with the forum and wiki 1.10 we can work it out, but like i said, i cant rember what version i tested the forum one.
Main things to check, PM's, subscribing to threads, making sure the email notification for both of them are working, admin options, skin and css edits.

As for an official release date, sorry but i have no idea.

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Quote:AWC Nov 11th 8:40 pm
Quote:TDeeming Nov 11th 6:44 am
:Question... do you think I can go ahead and install it on a live system... or should I wait?

If you where running a newer version of Mediawiki (above 1.12) i would say, yes, no problem, but with 1.10, i would do some more testing. Im sure if there is a bug with the forum and wiki 1.10 we can work it out, but like i said, i cant rember what version i tested the forum one.
Main things to check, PM's, subscribing to threads, making sure the email notification for both of them are working, admin options, skin and css edits.
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The system that I was testing on was 1.10, however our standard live system is MW 1.93. So I decided to take a trial look on the live system...
The following items happened.
  1. No email notification when subscribed to a thread... but also no warning about failure. The informaion is just entered into the email list.
  2. When I try to send a PM the following message is displayed.
    • Catchable fatal error: Object of class MailAddress could not be converted to string in C:\Programme\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\UserMailer.php on line 46
      • However information was entered into MemCP List as an Unread PM.
      • Please note that the live system is setup to inform users about changes to the wiki via email notification... and send emails to each other via SMTP.
  3. Forum Navigation bar does not appear... regardless of settings in the different setting in ...\awc\forums\config\config.php
  4. Whenever the sysop tries to open a new thread... or make an announcement... the screen goes blank... and when I recover... there are two identical announcements or threads listed.
    • This does not happen when a normal user creates a new thread... just a sysop which apparently inherits the admin capabilities.

At the moment I think the most important problem for me is the problem with the email notification... So if you have any suggestions... I'd appreciate it.

BTW: I installed the 2.4 version on my MW 1.93 version first... but I don't think I tested the email notification... so if you don't have any suggestions... I'll go back and try the older version.

Thanks again for your help.

Tim

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TDeeming, what operating system are you running on ?
And the following is correct for your live site
MW 1.9, PHP 5.253 and MYSQL 5.041

Tell me what wiki version you want me to trouble shoot for, so i know what to install.

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Quote:AWC Nov 14th 6:35 am
TDeeming, what operating system are you running on ?
And the following is correct for your live site
MW 1.9, PHP 5.253 and MYSQL 5.041

Tell me what wiki version you want me to trouble shoot for, so i know what to install.

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Hi and thanks for the help.

The OS is XP Professional SP3.
MW (1.93)
PHP 5.2.1 (apace2handler)
MySQL 5.0.33
Standard Mail and messaging uses $wgSMTP
$wgSMTP = array(
'host' => "mail.example.com", //could also be an IP address
'IDHost' => "example.com",
'port' => 25,
'auth' => true,
'username' => "my_user_name",
'password' => "my_password"
);

For a special extension called MassMailer I also have Mercury Mail running.

I am wary about upgrading the wiki to a newer version as I am using many extensions... and the functionality of them is not always guaranteed with newer versions. So if possible, please target for MW 1.93.

Thanks,
Tim

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Quote:TDeeming Nov 16th 5:24 am
The OS is XP Professional SP3.
That might be a problem with the forum. A while back someone posted a problem with blank pages and Windows XP (IIS 6). At the time i tried to trouble shoot it but could not find a solution.
Are you using IIS 6 or Apache as your http server ?

To be completely honest with you, and i do not mean to be rude with this, but XP-pro and IIS6 are not gonna be a top priority for the forum extension. Theres just too few people using that combo.

I'll look into $wgSMTP (thanks for the link) and see how it works and try and work something out for that.

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Quote:AWC Nov 16th 12:25 pm
Quote:TDeeming Nov 16th 5:24 am
Are you using IIS 6 or Apache as your http server ?
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Hi,
I am using Apache/2.2.4 for the http server.

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Quote:TDeeming Nov 13th 5:18 am

  1. No email notification when subscribed to a thread... but also no warning about failure. The informaion is just entered into the email list.
  2. When I try to send a PM the following message is displayed.
    • Catchable fatal error: Object of class MailAddress could not be converted to string in C:\Programme\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\UserMailer.php on line 46

Just tested that under linux, apache, wiki 1.9.6, forum 2.5.x and received the same error.
Try the following edits and post back the results if you have time.


Edit (make a back-up first ) the following file: /extensions/awc/forums/send_mail.php

Find
foreach($email_addresses as $email){
                $to_address[] = new MailAddress( $emai );
            }


and replace it with:
foreach($email_addresses as $email){
				$addr = $email->address;
				$name = $email->name;
                $to_address[] = new MailAddress( $addr, $name );
            }



Find and delete:
if ( is_array( $to ) ) {
           wfDebug( __METHOD__.': sending mail to ' . implode( ',', $to ) . "\n" );
        } else {
           wfDebug( __METHOD__.': sending mail to ' . implode( ',', array( $to->toString() ) ) . "\n" );
        }


Have not had time to look into the other bugs, will do soon.

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Made changes as you suggested
Hi,
I made the changes you posted above.
  • I no longer get an Error mesage when I send a PM...
    • Question: Are PM's sent to the Users email address?
      Maybe I misunderstood that part because of the error message. Anyway, no mail was recieved. So I just tried on this forum... to send myself a PM and I also didn't receive an email... but it is entered into the MemCP as an unread PM... so I am assuming that this is the proper operation... which is fine.

I still do not get an email when subscribed threads are changed... but then you may not have addressed that matter yet.

Anyways... thanks for your efforts
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pm email...
http://wiki.anotherwebcom.com/Special:AWCforum/st/id1224

Person needs to have a valid Wiki Email for this to work.

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Quote:TDeeming Nov 18th 7:23 am
: I still do not get an email when subscribed threads are changed... but then you may not have addressed that matter yet.

Replace that last edit with...


#
            foreach($email_addresses as $email){
				$addr = $email->address;
				$name = $email->name;
 
                if($addr == ''){
                     $addr =  $email;
                     $name = '';
                }
 
                $to_address[] = new MailAddress( $addr, $name );
            }

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No change!
I made the changes... but still no emails.

What do you mean by valid "Wiki Email"?

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Quote:TDeeming Nov 19th 4:13 am
What do you mean by valid "Wiki Email"?


The forum sends emails to people using the email address they have saved in there wiki-preferences.
So if a person does not have a working email address in their wiki-preferences, then the forum will not be able to send emails to them. The forum does a check, if the person does not have an email, the forum will ignore and move on.

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Quote:AWC Nov 22nd 6:59 am
The forum sends emails to people using the email address they have saved in there wiki-preferences.
So if a person does not have a working email address in their wiki-preferences, then the forum will not be able to send emails to them. The forum does a check, if the person does not have an email, the forum will ignore and move on.
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Okay, this being the case... all users have valid addresses... and they are being notified by email when watched wiki pages are changed. However it does not currently work with the AWC Forum software.
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Hi all,

I just upgraded from the latest stable to 2.5.7. This version is so muuuccchhhh better Thank you. Just 2 questions:

  1. Is it possible to download 2.5.8 somewhere? Or is it not released yet?
  2. How to display the unread threads in bold (like in phpBB2)? Is this possible? Any CSS style for this?

Thank you.

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Thanks glad you like it

  1. Theres not a 2.5.8 public release, still working on it and it wont be ready for a while.
  2. Nope, no setting like that (if you want, you can add it to the "todo list" and ill try and work it in), just the indicator at the begining of the thread title. You can change that in the AdminCP Lang section to something else or even an image you have stored on your wiki (you can use wiki syntax in the land section). If you fell like changing the forums code, look in the /forums/includes/thread_list_tools.php and find the function new_thread_check($tID, $t_lastdate){ function. Thats where the "check" is.



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Edited On 2:02:04 AM - Wednesday 02nd, December 2009 by AWC

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Thank you.

I can live with the AdminCP Lang solution Thanks again and keep up the good work


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