RavenNuke 2.40.01 With "near" Integrated phpBB3

New Member Joined: Apr 08, 2010 Posts: 18

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Please see the Outstanding Issues, They are beyond my skillset, I need help!
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My DEV site, see it in action! (I have WORKING forum blocks, and WORKING forum marquee scrolling blocks) [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I found an old package from nukekorea.net (phpBB3 v3.05), installed it, spent several weeks fixing and patching files to make it work properly, and now I want to share my package with the community.

Original Package from 4/23/2010 (Many bugs, see included readme) [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

With SKYPE integrated and subscription bug fixed + misc fixes 05/07/2010 [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

-UPDATED March 4, 2011-
This is my "modules/phpbb3" folder (you still need the package above) This is the most up to date files I have. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I am at a point now, that I dont think I can fix or track down the remaining issues. There aren't many, and I'm hoping that someone here can help get them resolved.

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OUTSTANDING ISSUES
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-3 pixel bar appears across the top of the CMS when you go to the forums. Its being generated by the phpbb3 theme CSS file, it assumes that the TOP calls also include the header for the cms, im still looking into a workaround but my knowledge of CSS is terrible.

-Inherit Rights of forum user is permanent, the "set back to admin" link is NOT functional. It is most likely due to the way the "correct rights" link is being called (as in it does not call it through the module path but directly). It was most likely an oversight, I just havent looked at it yet to see if its correctable. As such, I have REMOVED all of the places it allows you to take a users rights, both in the acp and the user profile view.

-The administration link right now goes to the phpbb3 toolkit, think of it as a backdoor admin for the boards in case s**t gets really screwed up, Its not working yet, it pulls up the toolkit index, but its not functional. There are a lot of DB calls that I need to modify before it will function. In order to make it pull up at all, I commented out the style check. Its on my "To-Do" list. To test, edit the admin file "links.phpbb3.php" and replace YOURSITEHERE with your sites url.

-The profile's extended information is not passed to the phpBB3 (such as ICQ AIM Etc.) I plan to update the fisubice theme to link to the user control panel in phpBB3 where those fields currently are, and remove the input of those fields during site registration, or just change the db mappings to pull from the phpBB3 tables, instead of the default CMS tables.

-If you are NOT using ravennuke, and using a standard nuke, the wysiwyg editor will always popup on forum posts, and replies. This causes BBCode to stop functioning, to correct this go into your config.php and modify this line

$nuke_editor

it will =1, set it to 0, or vice-versa.... and it will stop the editor from popping up and allow BBCode again.

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If you screw up and accidently inherit account rights, go to the SQL database, head to table
"nuke_bb3users" ~> "admin" ~> "user_permissions"
and replace the data with a zero. update the table
go back to the boards, logout, and log back in, that will reset you as the board admin.

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Enjoy, and please post here if you have any questions about the changes I made or if you come across an issue I haven't and need help fixing it. Ill do my best!

Wink

______________MAJOR BUGS RESOLVED______________

-The "Subscribe to forum" works, however the email that is sent out sends incorrect links, they do not link by module, it generates a link as if the board is installed stand-alone. This is controlled by the /includes/functions php files, but they are a little complicated. I need to find the specific function that writes to the email template files (located in /language/en/email/template) and figure out how to have the function file create a link that is called by module, and not as if the forum is installed as a stand-alone.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Great news and I'm sure that you will get the help you need. Thanks so much!

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:35 pm

I'll install it and take a look.

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:46 pm

FYI there is a folder called "stk" in the "phpBB3" folder that has SVN folders in it and all sub-folders. These can be removed.

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:47 pm

Palbin wrote:

FYI there is a folder called "stk" in the "phpBB3" folder that has SVN folders in it and all sub-folders. These can be removed.

Ah! I totally forgot to do that. When I downloaded the phpbb3 toolkit, I just extracted it there then spent all my time trying to figure out how to get the admin link to pull the page up I forgot the SVN files were in there lol.

Appreciate it, if nothing else it will cut down the size of the .rar file!

New Member Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 13

This is a awesome news for nuke cms projects i feel, well done an Thanks.

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:50 am

I checked your site , and i see you not use a phpbb3 based theme.
I wonder what will be find if you go use a phpbb3 based template style.

Worker Joined: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 236

Wonderful news! Much appreciated work. I thought it would be impossible to accomplish.

New Member Joined: Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Germany

I have been running well.

But even a problem that is not integrated into the module Youraccount.

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:44 am

Hi jbabey,

First of all, thanks for working on this integration. This package will need lots of tests but I am very sure if everybody help and pay attention to this new forum we can get rid of the old phpbb2. Keep in touch!

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:59 pm

Csekk wrote:

I have been running well.

But even a problem that is not integrated into the module Youraccount.

Yes I mentioned that in the first post, I need to either map the database calls from "your account" in the cms to point to the new phpbb3 ones, or point phpbb3 to the database tables for the cms. OR remove the fields, and make the customization link go to your profile in the phpbb3.

The link will most likely be the easiest, but of course, it wont then be integrated. Ill look at it next week, Im heading out of town for the rest of the weekend. I appreciate anyone who installs this, and helping out here. I think if we can "integrate" it enough, well really have something special here.

~J

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It looks like the function calls are located in /includes/ucp/
ucp_profile.php Im going to remap the calls, and search out the rest of the ucp and see what happens. Yay for breaking the dev site lol. Anyways ill report back if the modifications work and update the package.

Code:




            $data = array(


               'icq'         => request_var('icq', $phpBB3user->data['user_icq']),


               'aim'         => request_var('aim', $phpBB3user->data['user_aim']),


               'msn'         => request_var('msn', $phpBB3user->data['user_msnm']),


               'yim'         => request_var('yim', $phpBB3user->data['user_yim']),


               'jabber'      => utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('jabber', $phpBB3user->data['user_jabber'], true)),


               'website'      => request_var('website', $phpBB3user->data['user_website']),


               'location'      => utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('location', $phpBB3user->data['user_from'], true)),


               'occupation'   => utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('occupation', $phpBB3user->data['user_occ'], true)),


               'interests'      => utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('interests', $phpBB3user->data['user_interests'], true)),


            );

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I think the reformatting issues lay in the css file. Validation has a TON of errors, that will need to get looked into, im not good w/ css files but ill take a crack, if anyone else wants to look also, check the url for your installation here

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 11:15 am

a friend of mine "adsy - Karakas" was able to correct the email issue, Ill post change files here, and update the main post with a new installer in a few minutes. I am building the install.

Wave

Here are just the changed files to fix the subscribe to topic/forum issue [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 8:05 am

Seems to run very fast on your site! Very exciting can't wait to see the final results!

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 4:09 am

Keep up the good work made here.

Thanks for posting this, sorry I can not help with the remaining issues though

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 4:12 am

i would realy like to see a current phpbb3 style intregrated.

What happens if you load the phpbb3 prosilver theme , and remove the forums style folder from the ravennuke theme you using?

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:55 pm

Any new updates? I'd like to see this Smile

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:43 am

This is very good news, any updates since you're last posting ?

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:33 pm

thebishop wrote:

This is very good news, any updates since you're last posting ?

unfortunately no. The person I was working with lost interest, so it kind of stalemated from there. I will upload what I have later this week, and hopefully we can get some movement.

Thanks!

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:44 am

Can you upload the whole package you have? I will test it to see if I can find any problem. Let me know.

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:41 am

unicornio wrote:

Can you upload the whole package you have? I will test it to see if I can find any problem. Let me know.

The last Mediafire link appears to still be active. I can also just zip up what I have on my site, it will have my graphics and such, but it may have some more changes I have made since I posted that up there.

Let me know which you prefer and Ill hop on it!

Thanks for your interest

*EDIT*

Ill post hard links in a second, and up packing up my current files. Ill have links in a few minutes.

**EDIT**

Updated post 1 with download links, and my updated modules/phpbb3 folder. I also dumped the links on my own site so they wont go down and you dont have to bother with mediafire.

ANY & ALL Help you guys can give is greatly appreciated as I dont have the skills to progress this project any further alone.

Thanks again!!!

Cool

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:40 am

Updated links in first post.

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:53 am

Thank you very much. Is it possible to change the name of phpbb3 into forums to get rid of the original forums? I do not remember if that is possible.

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 12:14 pm

I want to give this a whirl, but I don`t suppose someone could tell a dumb arse like me what I am doing wrong as to the reason why it won`t install.

I have uploaded the contents of the phpbb3 folder to the site but when I navigate over to the install page I get an error

Code:

Unable to locate the RavenNuke™ configuration file - rnconfig.php





It could be missing or not readable. Please verify that the file exists and is readable in the root folder.





This may also be caused by a third party module/script which attempts to include config.php directly rather than including mainfile.php and letting it load config.php, or otherwise does not follow RavenNuke(tm) standards on how the constant INCLUDE_PATH is defined (this is done in mainfile.php, and is dependent upon other constants). [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 440: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)


[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 441: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)


[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 442: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)


[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 443: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)

There is also no install button that it refers to. Has anyone else installed this ?

Anyone know what I am doing wrong here ?

Thanks Mark

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:55 pm

kenno wrote:

I want to give this a whirl, but I don`t suppose someone could tell a dumb arse like me what I am doing wrong as to the reason why it won`t install.

I have uploaded the contents of the phpbb3 folder to the site but when I navigate over to the install page I get an error

Code:

Unable to locate the RavenNuke(tm) configuration file - rnconfig.php





It could be missing or not readable. Please verify that the file exists and is readable in the root folder.





This may also be caused by a third party module/script which attempts to include config.php directly rather than including mainfile.php and letting it load config.php, or otherwise does not follow RavenNuke(tm) standards on how the constant INCLUDE_PATH is defined (this is done in mainfile.php, and is dependent upon other constants). [phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 440: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)


[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 441: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)


[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 442: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)


[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 443: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/carstest/public_html/config.php:107)

There is also no install button that it refers to. Has anyone else installed this ?

Anyone know what I am doing wrong here ?

Thanks Mark

I never came across the issue, I have reinstalled it using the downloads above on my dev server just to ensure the instructions work, and i did not have any issues getting it re-installed.

Anyone else have some ideas?

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:18 am

As for the data calls, I would leave them alone and change the global variable of $phpBB3user. This way, wherever those variables are (and whatever the field names are), you won't have to hunt them down and change them everywhere in phpbb3. As long as those fields exist in the nuke users tables (again, regardless of what they are), they will work properly.

Next, if you are using GoogleTap functionality, yes, there will be some necessary modifications to support the new destinations! One example is instead of changing the profile to point to phpbb3 pages (in the 100 places it shows that option), I instead made Googletap handle it and changed the destination THERE to point to Your_Account. Thus, keeping the methodology for viewing and updating user data centralized and standardized. Meaning, there are things in Nuke that are not in phpbb3 and I wanted ALL of that data (and the table updates) to be consistent.

I remember hardcoding my menus (I can't remember why, but I did) to point to Nuke's "Your Account" .html page but keep in mind, I had that integrated phpbb3 with 1CMS 3 or 4 years ago and so you'll have to forgive me for not remembering why I did that.

I do remember that I set all of the globals (for example $phpbbuser) in one place so I didn't need to change them in the phpbb3 code.

If I get time today, I'll look at your site for corrections to the templates to fix compliance errors.

Hope this helps!
Steph