Include mainfile in outside sript

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:08 pm

Good point! I think forum code at least for RNYA was kept in seperate files and I'm pretty sure Members_List module has logic to detect if forums are installed and/or enabled, likewise for Journal. Not sure what else has a dependency on forums apart from Private Messages but that particular module actually comprised mostly of code/functionality extracted from core PHPBB 2.x (template engine, global $vars and forum tables) so strictly speaking, they should be thought of as one and the same (module) even though they appear seperately.
I did start a module a while back as a replacement for PM module that utilised only nuke_user table plus a seperate supporting table for the messages which I can dig out if anyone wants to play with it.

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:53 am

Sorry for delay in replying.

Raven wrote:

But, I thought we had resolved the Forum dependency. What have I missed?

I believe there are still many hard-coded dependencies. For instance, in saveactivate.php in /modules/Your_Account/public, we see code such as this. It's going to bomb if there is no /modules/Forums directory. Forums dependencies are built in throughout Your Account I think -- this just happens to be one I was looking at.

Code:

   define('IN_PHPBB', TRUE);


   include_once('./modules/' . $module_name . '/includes/phpbb_bbstuff.php');


   include_once('./modules/Forums/includes/bbcode.php');


   include_once('./modules/Forums/includes/functions_post.php');

I haven't tried it recently but I'm pretty sure you can't even run setup in the installation directory without having Forums present and the Forums tables all get loaded in rn_core.sql no?

I'm not saying we should try to remove all dependencies for 2.5 but we should acknowledge that they are there and plan our approaches to removing them for 3.0.