m2f module for PHP-Nuke

New Member Joined: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 14

Hello Good Folks,

I have been experimenting with Raven's 7.1 distro(2.0.8 bb patch etc)..so far I like it..
thanx for the good work..

recently I came across m2f (mail to forum) mod for PHBB and started playing with it..after some hickups, I was able to get it working with some quirks for PHPNuke..
please note, m2f is still in beta..

I was wondering if any of the security gurus here can take a look at that mod and see what
could be hardened or improved for PHPNuke??

please visit this thread, my efforts to get the
m2f mod working for PHPNuke.. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
It seems to be working, but I am a bit worried about any glaring security issues..I feel this is another killer app/mod for PHPNuke/phbb..

TIA

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:24 am

I registered at that site but used a email address that is down at the moment by mistake, anyway can you provide a link to the mod in its current state?

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:51 am

chatserv wrote:

I registered at that site but used a email address that is down at the moment by mistake, anyway can you provide a link to the mod in its current state?

are you looking for the current version developed by m2f folks? if so CVS is [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

reading the forums on m2f, use CVS version and not beta1..

am excited, that I could interest one of "the gurus" to review the security of this mod..thanx

HTH

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:17 pm

Ok, question though, i take it you are porting this for Nuke, is the one at the link already ported? else i prefer to view the ported one.

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:26 pm

I tared/gz my working files..am not sure where to upload or send this to..
will be glad to email or upload somewhere..(file size 250k)
please note, I am not a PHP programmer:-)
I did try to comment where ever possible but not my finest work:(

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:45 pm

scratch the above mesg..

I uploaded the working files on m2f forums..follow the link
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Worker Joined: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 193

Any chance chatserv has finished reviewing the modded files?

Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 6:53 pm

I was away from home for a few days, i will try to finish checking the files as soon as possible, so far i have edited a few mistakes.

Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 10:46 pm

thanx for taking a look, a quick note Chatserv,

if u haven't already could u check and see these 2 files
m2f_import_msgs.sh and m2f_import_msgs.php under modules/Forums/m2f/
they(m2f_import_msgs.php) run properly when called from the
phpbb admin menu/interface but doesn't get executed or gives errors
when tried via cron or standalone (to automate the mail import instead of
manual import)

TIA

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:16 pm

chatserv wrote:

I was away from home for a few days, i will try to finish checking the files as soon as possible, so far i have edited a few mistakes.

hello chatserv,
any updates on your review of this mod??
TIA

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:21 pm

I will compress and post a link to what i have later today.

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:35 pm

Ok, here it is, no major changes were required, i do have my doubts with the files outside of the root dir so i will wait for your feedback.

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:39 pm

chatserv wrote:

Ok, here it is, no major changes were required, i do have my doubts with the files outside of the root dir so i will wait for your feedback.

can't download the ZIP from above link..
am not sure if it's on my end or nukeresources.com is unreachable?? please advise..thanx..

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:47 pm

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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:26 am

Hey Chat you ever get this to work? I'd really like to be able to do this. And I'll pay for the script!!!

New Member Joined: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 16

HauntedWebby wrote:

Hey Chat you ever get this to work? I'd really like to be able to do this. And I'll pay for the script!!!

If someone can package m2f beta 3 for phpNuke Ill donate $20.00 immediately.

Thanks!

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:20 pm

chatserv wrote:

http://66.186.76.252:81/%7Edante/files/m2f-phpnuke.zip

Howdy!

In the gzip the README-FOR-PHPNuke.txt says:
1. These contain modified files for m2f to work with
PHPNuke 7.1/phbb2.0.8 patched version(Raven's Distro)
2. follow instructions under docs/install.txt and docs/m2f_phpbb20x.txt

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The install.txt starts by saying:

Code:




HOW TO INSTALL


--------------





* Copy the whole M2F directory to the root of your phpBB installation. For example, if your phpBB


 is installed in a directory named phpBB2/, copy the M2F directory to phpBB2/m2f.





* Copy the files in the m2f/root/ directory to the corresponding places in your phpBB directory.


For example, if phpBB is installed in phpBB2/, copy the file phpBB2/m2f/root/admin/admin_m2f.php


to phpBB2/admin/admin_m2f.php, and so on.





NB: If you use PNphpBB2, you have to copy the template files to:  m2f/root/templates/PNTheme/





* Copy the file <phpBB_root_dir>/m2f/m2f_config.php.dist to <phpBB_root_dir>/m2f/m2f_config.php,


and optionally edit it to your liking. The default configuration should work OK.





* Follow the relevant installation instructions for your forum software version:


   - For phpBB version 2.0.x, follow instructions in the file m2f_phpbb20x.txt

1) I am assuming we extract it to /docroot/modules/Forums/m2f
2) Do we put m2f/root in /doroot or in /docroot/modules/Forums?
3) I believe we have to copy the templates also to /docroot/themes/(themename)/ as well as to /docroot/modules/Forums/templates ??
4) I Followed the steps in m2f_phpbb20x.txt (I still think I also need to make the overall_header.tpl changes in themes/TEMPLATE/forums/overall_header.tpl too (which I have - if I don't Forrum Subscriptions doesn't appear)

Then I go back to the install.txt

Code:




* Go to your phpBB administration panel.


* Click the 'Mailing Lists' tab. Create a new list, with a name of your choice and the list's main email address.

Done

Code:




* At this stage, you can subscribe any number of email addresses to the list. Users can also subscribe and unsubscribe individually at a later date by clickingthe "forum subscriptions" link at the top of the forum pages. (NB: m2f does notyet fully support the use of an external mailing list server. Only the internalmailing list via the subscription page is currently supported.)

this confuses me. The only thing you can subscribe through this panel is valid user ids. I created a new phpNuke account with an email address which I have added as a member to an external mailman mailing list.

Code:




* Click the 'Distribution Lists' tab. Create a new distribution list, binding on


e forum with your newly created mailing list. (NB: At present, m2f can't bind the same channel to more than one distribution list.)

Done

Code:




* Configure the distribution list. Here you can set up the mail transport to beused for incoming mail (i.e. how M2F will access the emails which are sent to the list) and outgoing mail (see below). There are also a number of other configuration options.

I selected Pop. I created a local userid on the server which matches the userid I created in phpNuke. I configured that userid and password in the m2f GUI.

I go to Tools / and click Force Import - it completes without error

I then go to Tools/View Complete Log

Code:




02:43:28 PM 01/03/2005 [M2F] [warning] [/www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/m2f/m2f_common.php : 194] M2F config table not found (first run?), attempting to build M2F tables


02:43:28 PM 01/03/2005 [M2F] [notice] [/www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/m2f/m2f_common.php : 199] M2F tables created


03:01:30 PM 01/03/2005 [M2F] [notice] [/www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/m2f/m2f_handler.php : 1051] Imported 0 messages


04:13:56 PM 01/03/2005 [M2F] [notice] [/www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/m2f/m2f_handler.php : 1051] Imported 0 messages


04:22:25 PM 01/03/2005 [M2F] [notice] [/www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/m2f/m2f_handler.php : 1051] Imported 0 messages

I then go to a shell as root and try to manually execute the command defined for the cron job:

Code:




[root@webalias m2f]# pwd


/www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/m2f


[root@webalias m2f]# ls


db              m2f_config.php       m2f_import_msgs.php  m2f_phpbb20x.txt


docs            m2f_config.php.dist  m2f_import_msgs.sh   root


includes        m2f_forum.php        m2f_mailinglist.php


m2f_common.php  m2f_handler.php      m2f_phpbb204.php


[root@webalias m2f]# ./m2f_import_msgs.sh


PHP Warning:  main(includes/constants.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 222


PHP Warning:  main(): Failed opening 'includes/constants.php' for inclusion (include_path='../m2f/includes/pear/:.:/php/includes:/www/kimminau/html/includes:/www/oakhurstmi/html/includes:') in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 222


PHP Warning:  main(includes/template.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 223


PHP Warning:  main(): Failed opening 'includes/template.php' for inclusion (include_path='../m2f/includes/pear/:.:/php/includes:/www/kimminau/html/includes:/www/oakhurstmi/html/includes:') in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 223


PHP Warning:  main(includes/sessions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 224


PHP Warning:  main(): Failed opening 'includes/sessions.php' for inclusion (include_path='../m2f/includes/pear/:.:/php/includes:/www/kimminau/html/includes:/www/oakhurstmi/html/includes:') in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 224


PHP Warning:  main(includes/auth.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 225


PHP Warning:  main(): Failed opening 'includes/auth.php' for inclusion (include_path='../m2f/includes/pear/:.:/php/includes:/www/kimminau/html/includes:/www/oakhurstmi/html/includes:') in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 225


PHP Warning:  main(includes/functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 226


PHP Warning:  main(): Failed opening 'includes/functions.php' for inclusion (include_path='../m2f/includes/pear/:.:/php/includes:/www/kimminau/html/includes:/www/oakhurstmi/html/includes:') in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 226


PHP Warning:  main(db/db.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 227


PHP Warning:  main(): Failed opening 'db/db.php' for inclusion (include_path='../m2f/includes/pear/:.:/php/includes:/www/kimminau/html/includes:/www/oakhurstmi/html/includes:') in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 227


PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function:  encode_ip() in /www/kimminau/html/modules/Forums/common.php on line 239


Content-type: text/html


X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10

I "think" this is because of something incorrectly defined in common.php:

Code:




// Begin M2F ----------------------------------------------


if(isset($ModName))


{


  $phpbb_root_path = './modules/' . $ModName . '/';


}


$m2f_root_path = $phpbb_root_path.'m2f/';


require_once($m2f_root_path. 'm2f_phpbb204.php');


// End M2F ----------------------------------------------

I saw a post somewhere that said to make the line for phpbb_root_path read:

Code:




 $phpbb_root_path = '../../../modules/' . $ModName . '/';

but this didn't affect operational status.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:24 am

I'm clueless when it comes to to making this work.

But who ever get's it to work I'll throw in $50 for the final product!

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:16 pm

Progress with m2f beta3
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if would be nice if more folks try with nuke and report issues/fixes..

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:51 pm

Is your copy saving and reading from the db tables? i was sent a copy (not sure which version) and have had to edit most all files just to get it to display in the subscription page and the admin section but settings and such are still not saved to the db.

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:44 am

I have the 'other' version (cm2f) fully working on my test site now with nuke 7.5 without any known execution errors.
Their homepage is at [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I'm just going through the code again to rectify some urls to graphics which are not displaying but this will be later on in the week due to other work pressures then I can repackage everything with a new installer (just for nuke to alleviate misconfiguration of the install script).

I'm not sure how long this will take me to complete being a relative php virgin but I'm going to try my best to get it out within the next 10 days.

Thanks to digitalgraal for installing and configuring his software on the test site.

New Member Joined: Feb 11, 2005 Posts: 14

Hello,

if you are going to use CM2F, then maybe the topic title should be changed to CM2F phpnuke no? Wink

At least it would give credit to the application used and that Danyblue installed and configured on your website Guardian2003.

Salut,

Maurice

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:45 am

The original topic title was M2F, I was merely posting this information as there are two very similar pieces of software and thought it might be beneficial information for those have yet to get either working on the ported phpBB for nuke.

I have edited my post to clarify which piece of software I was reffering to and provided a link to the site.
The installation site is a test site and not a live site which I provided at the request of the software author so he could install and test his software on an independant server environment in order to enable collaboration of those interested parties who were trying to get this working with phpnuke.

I hope this clarifies the situation and offers due credit to digitalgraal

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:47 am

Yes it does:)

From what i have been reading, you are trying to build a new PHPNUKE distribution with a lot of functionalities already built-in, isn't it?
If you need help just tell me. I have been envolved with Danyblue for the last year, so i have some understanding of the code and how it is built.

Salut,
Maurice

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:11 am

Hi Maurice, no my intention was nothing like at all.
My personal objective is to try to get this software 100% working with phpnuke and as there seems to be some problem with the install script (at the moment), I was thinking that rather than the user editing certain files to prepare the install for phpnuke rather than the other available options (phpBB stand alone, Xoops, PNnuke etc) it might make the installation process easier, at least for those that want to try this software on their nuke site and provide feedback.

From my limited knowledge of php it seems logical to me that if the installation process errors can be eliminated by having a pre-configured install script dedicated for nuke, we could concentrate more on the core functionality/compatibilty of the software and then perhaps revisit the install process at a later date.
As always, I appreciate your feedback, guidance and willingness to help in this area.

I have asked Raven for a dedicated forum to allow those who want to contribute to share their knowledge and idea's as I think this software has huge potential for a lot of people.