jamestl2

Now the instructions are asking if I have the "mySQLi" improved database. Are there any special changes required to the database? Is this form already enabled, I'm not quite sure what the difference is between mySQL and mySQLi.

Thanks MikeJ, It is also now asking for my username and password, I know what they are, but I dont know where to edit in the config.php file. Here is where I'm suppose to edit it in: $config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root'; $config['MasterServer']['password'] = ''; I'm pretty sure you just change "root" to my username, but I don't know where exactly to type the password, is it suppose to be in between the " and the ; EDIT = Nevermind, it looked like a quote mark at first but it was really two smaller apostrophes

I'm in the process of configuring vBulletin right now, and the config.php file is asking for a database name. Do I just create a regular database for it in mySQL, or are there special settings for it in particular? I may have more questions as I continue the process. Thanks

My first important problem I’ve been having is my inability to leave comments (on my own site). For some reason, ever since I changed my theme, it doesn’t seem to sense that a user is logged in or able to leave a comment. The “leave your name, email, website box” shows up, but nothing for registered users, even I as the admin can’t leave comments. So I thought it may have something to do with the comments.php code, and I compared it to my old theme’s code (which did recognize that I was logged in), but couldn’t correct any of it properly. Here’s the new theme’s comments.php code: ><?php // Do not delete these lines if ('comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])) die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!'); if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password if (is_user_logged_in()) if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_'.$cookiehash] != $post->post_password) { // and it doesn't match the cookie ?> <p class="nocomments"><?php _e("This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments."); ?><p> <?php return; } } /* This variable is for alternating comment background */ $oddcomment = "graybox"; ?> <?php if ($comments) : ?> <a name="comments"></a><h2><?php comments_number('No Responses','One Response','% Responses' );?></h2> <ol class="commentlist"> <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?> <li class="<?=$oddcomment;?>"> <a name="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></a><cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite> Says:<br /> <!--<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title="<?php comment_date('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?>"><?php /* $entry_datetime = abs(strtotime($post->post_date)); $comment_datetime = abs(strtotime($comment->comment_date)); echo time_since($entry_datetime, $comment_datetime) */ ?></a> after publication. <?php edit_comment_link('e','',''); ?></small>--> <small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php edit_comment_link('e','',''); ?></small> <?php comment_text() ?> </li> <?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */ if("graybox" == $oddcomment) {$oddcomment="";} else { $oddcomment="graybox"; } ?> <?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?> </ol> <?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?> <?php if ('open' == $post-> comment_status) : ?> <!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. --> <?php else : // comments are closed ?> <!-- If comments are closed. --> <p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p> <?php endif; ?> <?php endif; ?> <?php if ('open' == $post-> comment_status) : ?> <a name="respond"></a><h2>Leave a Comment</h2> <form action="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform" > <p><label for="author"><small>Name</small></label><input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="styled" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" /> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>" /></p> <p><label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published)</small></label> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" /></p> <p><label for="url"><small>Website</small></label><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" /> </p> <small>Your comment</small> <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p> <p><input name="submit" type="submit" class="submit1" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /></p> <p><small>You can use these tags: <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p> <?php if ('none' != get_settings("comment_moderation")) { ?> <p><small><strong>Please note:</strong> Comment moderation is enabled and may delay your comment. There is no need to resubmit your comment.</small></p> <?php } ?> </form> <?php // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head endif; ?> Another minor issue I was wondering about is importing a PowerPoint document into a post, I created a slideshow with it, but couldn’t upload it (on the “write post” page is where I tried it from). I also looked for a plugin to implement this sort of feature, but didn’t see anything like that either. Thanks for all the help

Alright, thanks for the clarification Bruce. (When I created this thread, I assumedthere may've been something simple I could have changed from my SMF database to give it those features, but doing it manually is probably easier)

Mine doesn't requre registering either, which is why I asked if this procedure may be a more "complicated" to just casual readers of my site. (I'm not entirely sure if I'll disable comment's afterwards, but for the one's that are getting tons of comments, I may want to send to the forums, as it is a better place to debate on what I wrote about) I figured I might as well add forums for all my posts in case they want to debate about it later. Another reason I'm adding boards is because I may want to add more than what I write about on my site (such as site technical questions, general & introduction topics, feedback about its design etc. (I would work on adding and expanding these features after I finished with the main topics).

Sort of, I would prefer having all my “user interaction” so to say, in my forums. It would give my site a more “clean feel” for me, and probably my guests. (Because I don’t technically consider it a blog, but I still use wordpress software.) So you are suggesting that I just do this all manually? I will probably have future posts (and all the ones I have now, over 40 of them) done the same way. Also, like I said earlier, I don’t want the “content” of the post in the forums, just have the first post (in the thread) saying something like “discuss this post in this thread here”. Maybe I could have some instructions underneath the post saying something such as: “You may discuss this post in the toptenlisted.com forums, click here to go there” Or would this still be to complicated for casual readers who want to comment? (Because they would probably have to register with the blog/forums to comment.)

I know wordpress allows comments, I'd rather have them discuss through the boards, its a better place for it IMO.

Actually, I don't want to duplicate what I said in WP, I just want to connect the two, for example, the thread title would be the same as the post title, but the first post would say something like "Discuss this post in this thread here" It would be like an alternative to comments.

Hello everyone, My SMF forums are running great (no logging in, admin problems, etc.) and was wondering if it was possible to somehow structure it after my wordpress website? For example on my site, I have wp-categories such as politics and advice, and posts within them. What I would like to have in my forums is a similar hierarchy, with a “website” over-board, my wordpress categories being different sub-boards, and my wordpress posts being threads. I wasn’t sure if I should manually create each sub-board, or, since I want to automate my posts, if there were some features that would automatically create the board *with* the appropriate category (Say in case I create a new category, then this way the new sub-board would be made along with a new post, or something). I also downloaded the WP & SMF plugin, and it’s “sister” plugin, “SMF_Wordpress” but they didn’t seem to offer those features, just user integration. Hope this is clear (as most of you probably know, I’m a php, mySQL noob, etc.). Thanks

This may sound completely stupid, but I think that plugin I mentioned, was the cause of not being able to login, and I didn't think of it as a problem, and I was using the wrong username (as the plugin integrated all wordpress users with the forums). And I was able to get in fine using my wp login info. So, I'll delete that custom user made for me (and I don't think there will be any more login problems). Sorry for the trouble

Alright, thanks for the info Bruce, Actually, all my blog members are already a part of my forum through the WP & SMF plugin I found here which makes it easier to integrate between the two: http://www.earthorbit.com/opensource/

Everything's working great so far, but had a few more regular questions, I'm integrating my forum with my wordpress blog, and I'm giving every blog account a forum account. So now I have my forum administrator account, jamestl2 (the account Jesse created for my forum), and I have my wordpress administrator account, and I was wondering if I could somehow combine the two, or give the privileges to the wp-admin user? (Don't want to risk messing with my admin settings after all that happened earlier) And, if there is some sort of email option (with wordpress or SMF) so I can let all my members know about the changes I'm making, giving them display options, etc. Also, I'm creating database backups, and I wanted to make sure I'm doing it correctly, I went to "backups" in cpanel, clicked on the different databases (under the "Download a MySQL Database Backup" section), and downloaded them to my computer as gz files (which only took like two seconds to download). Thanks again

It's working now, although I don't know what the error was (they said it was something with my user account), the ticket staff just recreated my profile with admin capabilities.

No problems or errors when deleting the forums, I'm also working on the ticket right now

@Thomas = I'll give that a try to see if they can find the problem @Don = Yes, I have been deleting them through fantastico

No I don't have access, those are the ones I've been trying to access with admin info.

Alright here are the details of what happened: Last night I decided to try some forums out to see if I liked them or not, so I downloaded them to my "dummy site" (test.toptenlisted.com/forums), and everything here was working fine, including login info. Then I uninstalled these forums because I decided I wanted to put them onto my main site (www.toptenlisted.com/forums), which I then did. Next, I began to receive all the admin logging in error problems as I mentioned earlier. I didn't mess with any of the databases or other installations (until much later (this afternoon) when pendragon recommended I try deleting them, here I deleted the {username}_smf1 database I had installed) Just recently now, I also deleted my test subdomain and test wordpress I had on it, and also deleted and reinstalled the forums I wanted to get on my main site a few times, which didn't seem to make much difference.

I did drop the test forum, it doesn't exist anymore (like I said, I deleted it before trying to download a new one)

Yes, I noticed the "email field" on the third page, and requested a copy I also received an email from "nobody" concerning SMF: There has been a problem with the database! MySQL reported: Access denied for user '{username}_smf1'@'localhost' to database '{username}_smf1' This is a notice email to let you know that SMF could not connect to the database, contact your host if this continues. I don't know why my access has been denied.

I never received any email, when I created my subdomain "dummy forums", I wasn't concerned about my email address (It was my original one I never use ({username}@toptenlisted.com). But for my "primary forums" I entered the email address I use the most, and never received anything. Also, when I downloaded a new forum, fantastico never asked me for an option of receiving email, it just asked me for my "admin email", to use for the account.

Yes, it was through fantastico. I have also tried to retrieve a password through email, but whenever I click "send" (secret password or not), I get a new error "An Error Has Occurred!: Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again." PS: I noticed that at the bottom of my forum page (Where the stats are), it says the one registered member is “admin”, but I never created a user with that name, I just used my regular forum username (jamestl2), when creating the database. PPS: I do have 3 databases (One is my primary site db, two more are called {username}_wrdp1 and {username}_wrdp2). I'm unsure what those are related to, as I created them awhile back.

Delete ALL the databases? Wouldn't that mess up all my other info, like for my main site? (Because my forum is an extension of my main site) Also, I deleted the db the forum was using, but then it just gives server errors whenever I try to connect to it, and with no option to have the forum "rebuild the database".

Thanks for info Now I'm having login problems, here's what happened: I downloaded SMF forum on my "dummy site" and everything was working fine. Then I deleted those forums and downloaded a new one for my main site. However, now it will not let me log in to my admin panel (when fantastico asked me for my login info, I typed in the same info into SMF login panel, which worked fine for my dummy site.) I get the error: "You should fill in a username." But it doesn't work

Are the forum options TCH offers free? (Do I need to add anything to my hosting account bandwidth, additional payments, etc.) What are the best (preferably free) options? (I noticed cpanel’s fantastico offers SMF; I also read a thread about Invision Power Board.) And can you switch between versions? (I may want to start with SMF, but then upgrade to vBulletin later, and still retain all information, like registered members, post counts, etc.) Can you “test” forums? (Similar to my “Theme Testing” Wordpress Thread, I may want to play around with the design, features, available, etc.) How do you choose moderators? (Do they usually have: previous moderating experience, good internet reputation, etc.?) And how can you put trust them, if you choose them over the net? (Do you ask for some proof of who they are, or interview them somehow, similar to job applicants?) Thanks, and if think of anything else, I might add some more questions later.