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Re: Profile 1.78 - Tom Foley's Social Networks Edition

2012/6/19 21:26
tomfoley
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I will Mamba. Watch me! As a recent convert to Xoops many things are clear in my mind as to how I had to make things work, as opposed to how developers told me they work, which is in fact an entirely different beast in the wilds.

But like all decent people, as someone who benefits, am happy to give back.

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Re: Profile 1.78 - Tom Foley's Social Networks Edition

2012/6/19 20:11
tomfoley
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I intend to document these features. They are also useful to me. They are almost there thanks to Simon. I'm no coder but I can offer to document. Wasted years working Tech Support! So if I can pick Simon's brain I hope I can capture the knowledge and ensure lots of people can benefit.

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Re: And likely Ender's Corner

2012/6/14 2:52
tomfoley
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Yes. I will volunteer to maintain. The top source. And those who stray will be shown to stray. Simple really.

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And likely Ender's Corner

2012/6/14 2:44
tomfoley
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First of all you can't see the topic you wish to post in. A piece of Ajax prevents that.

Then you are presented with inane topics, I mean really sofas and corners? I want to find out about my site not your sofas and corners.

2.point.this 2.point.that.

Have you actually ever used Xoops. Do you think users go 2.this and that?

This was fixed here. Here is a hack. Go there. No that post is old.

Sad, but real.

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Re: Profile 1.78 - Tom Foley's Social Networks Edition

2012/6/11 21:34
tomfoley
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Quote:

wishcraft wrote:

Just googling the name 'tom foley' there is a few of you, so when you work out between you which one has the rights to the name get back to me, but I could probably offer you a cup of tea and a chat... It was after someone on the XOOPS Group requested social network capabilities.

It was meant with tongue firmly in cheek, I'm just happy you're devoting time to adding new and useful features.

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Re: Profile 1.78 - Tom Foley's Social Networks Edition

2012/6/11 3:48
tomfoley
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Thank you so much for adding a social layer to Profile. It will be very popular I expect. I note your need for a new video card, but being unemployed I'm living on fumes these days so can't monetarily contribute. However, I do have an ASUS EAH5450 1GB DDR3 PCIe card I'm not using which I could ship to you if you wish. A perfectly good, modern card, DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.2, HDMI etc.

P.S. I'll have my people contact your people over the royalty payments for rights to my name

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Re: CBB/NEWBB - File Structure Question

2012/6/2 5:52
tomfoley
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Sorry for going off topic, but it seems this thread has some good eyeballs on it who'll know the answer.

Where is the correct place to report a bug in NewBB 4.3?

Just FYI if you select a topic and have the topic display "from the beginning" it's fine for Page 1. Proceeding to Page 2 or above results in the time period resetting to it's default value of 100 days. So you never get to see anything older!

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Re: CBB/NEWBB - File Structure Question

2012/5/30 10:04
tomfoley
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Just in case a casual reader of this thread might be under the impression that the story ended there and I was left hanging you'd be wrong. Way wrong!

Mamba contacted me off-forum and offered to take a look at my setup. I was only too-happy to send him login credentials, after all it was surely just a minor trivial issue that needed fixing.

You know how "taking a look" can end up being a task that can age you prematurely and take on a life of it's own. Well such was the case here. Three hours later however I had a fully-functioning forum that exceeded my expectations!

So, I'd like to publicly acknowledge his generosity and expertise, and express my gratitude. Community spirit is wonderful but this was way above the call.

Hopefully in turn I'll be able to do similar for others at some point, and yes, a donation to Xoops is in order and I would encourage others to do similar.

Many thanks,

- Tom

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Re: CBB/NEWBB - File Structure Question

2012/5/29 6:00
tomfoley
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I'm afraid that didn't work out too-well on first attempt at least :(

Replacing NewBB 4.0 with 4.3 prompted me to update the module which I did. I also updated the system module, cleared the smarty caches and deleted browser cookies for good measure. Navigating to the forum I got the main menu, and saw a much-improved layout. Very pleased.

But once I selected a topic to view I got a system 500 error. I was still able to get to the module preferences from control panel, made sure they were ok, did a sync but to no avail. It may well be something trivial but not having scheduled any downtime I went back to 4.0 which still has some sort of permissions problem. At least users can add and reply to topics, they just can't edit them.

Ideally of course I'd like to have the latest and greatest version of NewBB and am willing to try and debug it further, but where do I start with a 500 error? As I say the forum main menu appears, selecting a topic (viewtopic.php) is where the error occurs. Where might I find an error log to assist me? Of course I'm on a shared hosting plan and don't have root.

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Re: CBB/NEWBB - File Structure Question

2012/5/29 3:38
tomfoley
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Thanks Mamba,

I wasn't aware of 4.3 and will be happy to install and report back.

- Tom

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