Current Forum Beta Release

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Revision as of 00:41, February 23, 2009

Tested on

Forum does not work on any wiki version before 1.8
Tested and working on:

mediawiki-1.8.4
mediawiki-1.9.0
mediawiki-1.10.0
mediawiki-1.12.0
mediawiki-1.13.4

Important info:

Back-up ALL your current forum files.

When you upload the 2.5 files - your forum will no longer work in till you run the update script. From now on, when you upload your new updated files, the forum will re-direct you to the Update-script. If a member tries to view the forum, they will see a "Updating message".

Please note that this download is not fully working. All the user options are working but there are a few of options in the AdminCP which are not complete or are not working correctly.

Here is a list of known issues which should not be used right now.

AdminCP

Edit Category
Member Option's - Allow members to select there own css theme (keep OFF)

This 2.5 update is big and might take alittle while to complete, so you will have to wait for it to finish. Might take up to one or two minutes depending on your sever.

config file

There is a new important file, /extensions/awc/forums/config.php This file holds three settings which you will have to edit by hand (sorry, but its the best i can do right now)

define('awcs_forum_lang_default', 'en'); 
define('awcs_forum_convert_latin', false);
define('awcs_forum_nav_bar', true);
define('show_whos_here_in_WIKI', true);

define('awcs_forum_lang_default', 'en');

If the default language which you want the forum to display in, this is the same as the old lang.php setting.

define('awcs_forum_convert_latin', false);

If you have problems with thread titles being displayed incorrectly in different languages other then English, change the false value to true and it should correct every thing.

Please try this before you go and start to change things.

define('show_whos_here_in_WIKI', false);

This last option will display the "whos on line" on all wiki pages.

define('awcs_forum_nav_bar', true);

Display a forum-navigation menu in your Wiki Navigation Menu.

Current Functions

For the most part here are the current options...

version 2.5.x - EST Unknown In Public Beta Now

Planned

recycling bin - a place all deleted threads and posts will sit (admin option)

Whats Changed

Fixes

There have been many fixs which i have not noted or kept track of, sorry.
Fixed: Forum now displays time (to guests) based on what ever $wgLocaltimezone and $wgLocalTZoffset they might have set, logged in users time still reflect on their Wiki Preferences.

Changes

CSS file has been moved to the Database.
Through your AdminCP you can now edit your CSS (edit history also), export, import, search, save as file or have css code embedded in your pages.
Skin file has been moved to Database
Through your AdminCP you can now edit your skin display (edit history also), export, import and search.
The forums Permissions now works off wiki groups along with two pemissions settings
One for reading
A second for posting
url format: No longer use ?action= (kept old read system so its back-word compatible)
Removed 'Delete Thread' from second page of threads with multi-pages
How the forum tag creates URL's
Member search for Threads and Posts
When clicking the post count link the results will not retrieve threads started by the member. Before it would display all threads and posts which the member was active in, now it will only display posts and the Threads link will display only threads, like it has.
Large part of the code has been changed to run more efficient
Language text display, look-up.
Any and all text displayed in the forum can now use wiki-syntax. Change the text in the AdminCP >> Language file >> section.
Changed how the "recent post" indicators work (along with an Admin option to store info in dbase to make "recent posts" browser independent, Default is cookie)
Got rid of the /includes/SpecialAWCforum.php file.

Added

Spam-bot filter
One invisable text box has been added to all posting forms which humans can not see. If the text box is filled in, the forum will reject the post with a "spam" message. Since a human can not see the text box they can not fill them in (so the text box will remain blank), but since a spam-bot can see the text box the spam-bot will try and fill them in and cause the post to be rejected.
Forum Stats(Total threads, posts, forum members) displayed on the main forum page
Wikifying Words
Poll option along with a <forum_poll id=##></forum_poll> tag
Who's Here and Where (also in Wiki via the config.php file)
Added .html to the end of most links - trying to make links more search engine friendly (admincp option)
(2) Default Forum Avatars
Nicer pre-view display for Quoting, Editing and Posting
Redirect system.
Message screen with a 3 second pause (admincp option) after submitting (post, thread, edit, etc.)
New language definitions section for redirect system
Displaying wiki templates (or pages using {{template}} or {{:page}}) in the forums header (at the top of every forum page) and/or above each forum section (editable via AdminCP editing forum sections) and/or above the posting boxs (editable via AdminCP editing forum sections).
Moderation check boxs to the left of thread titles on the forums listing page for mass; Announcing, Move, Delete, Sticky, etc.
Splitting posts to new threads
Merge posts into other threads
History for post edits (admin, mods and user who created the post (if admin lets users to edit) can see this)
"Last Post" links. When clicked, links in the 'Last Action' columns (forum pages, search pages, forum tag) will lead to the last page and last post in a thread.
Announcement, Poll, Sticky, Locked indicators in forum tag.
Page jump blocks in forum tag
Option for users to "Auto Subscribe" to threads
Thread subscribing option on the thread posting screen
Forum Menu in Wikis Navigation Menu along with a <awc_forum_menu_tag> tag and MemCP option to control whats displayed.
Extra <forum_info>option, you can pull from different forum sections (<forum_info id=#,#,#>)
Adding thread and post text to your wikis database.
Added [admcp lang_news|five small language files]] that are used for the Poll tag, FOrum tag, Whoes Here and Forum Menu.
Added SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi Buttons
Added help links through out the AdminCP
add the following tags (pretty sure they have been working in the forum from early 2.4.x)
```
[search]test[/search] [google]test[/google] [yahoo]test[/yahoo]
```

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Recent Changes

Heres a list of changes and fixs in the 2.5.1 download.

links on main page (question mark in title messed things up)
jump pages (question mark in title messed things up)
url problem
whoes here link
css not displaying off new system
dead "Last Post" column on main page, now border will out-line
moved forum_tag code to new file
fixed edit links when view mem-profile
fixed member ids
add the following tags (pretty sure they have been working in the forum from early 2.4.x)
```
[search]test[/search] [google]test[/google] [yahoo]test[/yahoo]
```
moved the search form to the new template system (the members_skin.php file is the only skin file left on the old systme)
after posting a new replay, redirect to that post
when clicking a thread title in the 'Last Post' column, link leads to the last post in that thread
added pages jumps blocks to the forum tag
added "Locked, Stick and Announcement" indicators to the forum tag
Changed I.P.s to the word 'Guests' in the Whoe's Here page
fixed blank thread title after posting... some times the thread title would go blank in the forums thread listing page.
Changed how the update-script compairs forum version numbers for smoother updates from older (2.4.1, 2.4.2, etc) forum versions
Fixed, missing user name in the "Last Action" column
pre tags where not displaying correctly
Whoe's here page - now has links, title and breadcrumbs
Check on the words "Admin Control Panel" - if blank (because of language problem) will display text so link is clickable
Notice: Undefined index: edit_count (should be fixed, cant test it because i could not reproduce the problem)
Added search box back to main forum page (still needs work)
Screwy pages jumps, both in thread and forum page which lists the thread titles
Made SQL calls more efficient
Added option to fill wiki-dbase with forum thread into (off by Default)
Added Forum Menu to wiki-navigation
Changed how the "recent post" indicators work (along with an Admin option to store info in dbase to make "recent posts" browser independent, Default is cookie)
Fixed the update-language problem (we hope)
Change the Thread subscriptions alittle
The posting_box problem Dinth and Tester have should be fixed.
Made it so the <forum_info> can pull from different forum sections (<forum_info id=#,#,#>)
Added two language files, /languages/menu.i18n.php and whos_here.i18n.php

- They control any text displayed in your wiki that the forum send (the forums new menu and the "Whoe's Here") which display on wiki pages. Being that there was little text displayed, this seams like the best method. The forum tags text will also be moved here soon.

Fixed 'Last Post' click, was not displaing the correct number of threads.
Fixed SQL call in sessions
Another attempt to fix the lang update problem

Got rid of the /includes/SpecialAWCforum.php file. Re-named and re-structured all the forum files.

You don't have to, but it will make things cleaner if you where to delete all you current forum files [u]KEEP[/u] the /extensions/awc/forums/images/ folder /extensions/awc/forums/skins/css/ folder /extensions/awc/forums/languages/ folder but everything else can be deleted (the new file structured is alittle more cleaner).

If you update and loose your text (no matter what language) download this language file goto the following url

http://www.your_address.com/Special:AWCforum/admin/awc_lang/display_lang_options

Then "Update language pack" (second from the bottom).

You can not use Google Chrome to update.

A full forum-installer is included:
Upload the the /extensions/ folder included in the download to your wikis root (main) folder<br /

Edit your Wiki's LocalSettings.php file, add the following:

require_once( "$IP/extensions/awc/forums/awc_forum.php" );

just under

require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

so it will look like this

require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/awc/forums/awc_forum.php" );

Go to your "Special pages" and you will now see a link to your forum.

After that you will see the forums navigation menu above your wikis current navigation menu.
You can also go to your Special and you will see a Forum link in there.

You can not use Google Chrome to update. http://downloads.anotherwebcom.com/wiki/updates/awc_forum_beta_2.5.rar

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