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Forum

Goal

Provide a simple forum to allow visitors to start a new topic and subsequent visitors to reply to a topic.

Solution

Notes and Comments

• Download and put forum.php in the cookbook folder.
• Add include_once('cookbook/forum.php'); in your local/config.php file;
• Make a home page for the forum (e.g., Forum.HomePage) and include the directive (:$Forum:) someplace on the forum home page.
• A different solution: SimpleForum
• The principal limitation of this recipe, tweaking and installation-specific bugs aside, is that there is no way to become aware of any replies to existing threads, other than by visual inspection; i.e. replies do not increment any RecentChanges.

Contributors

This was originally written by Zet (http://www.cube3d.de) for PmWiki v1 and kindly updated for PmWiki 2.x beta by Patrick Ogay at my request. I take zero credit for this addon and am only posting it here at Radu's request because Patrick seems to be busy.

The version posted above has been slightly modified from Patrick's version by:

• Changing the first line to <?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit(); (per the recommendation in the Module Guidelines).
• Commenting out the calls to TestLog (which caused errors).
• Certain minor stylistic changes.

It works fine for me, except the topic title and link to the topic page get messed up if a period is used in the topic title field when a new topic is posted. Perhaps someone with the know-how could address that?

Also, I would prefer that the list of links to topic pages use the topic title as their link text, instead of having a topic page link followed by the topic title in plain text. Perhaps someone with the know-how could also address that? :)

Oneida
(03/18/2005)

Comment

• Hello, I managed to get the correct markup and to be able to create a comment, but the summaries show up in the middle of my Main.HomePage. I was wondering if there was some variable that controls where the summary lines are placed. -JonS
• I am seeing the same problem as described above, any fix for it? Thx.
• What's about problem above? Anybody solve this? Many Tnx XoXa
• What about having the "Name" automatically filled with the value from the wiki author cookie? -Uli
  • Done that. The modified file is forum2.phpΔ -RobertHoehndorf?
• Entering something like "123" in title results in Warning: unlink(wiki.d/.): Is a directory in ~/pmwiki.php on line 538 PmWiki can't process your request Cannot write page to 1423e9f30.1423e9f30 (wiki.d/.)...changes not saved error message -Uli
• I have this script installed on my site... it seems to be working fine for me. I have also address the concern Oneida had above about the topic page link and the topic link. I changed:
  ||[[".substr($newpage,strpos($newpage,'.')+1)."]] $topictitle &nbsp;|| to:
  ||[[".substr($newpage,strpos($newpage,'.')+1)." | $topictitle]] &nbsp;||
  ... that makes the topic title display as the link to the forum topic instead of the page name. I also added a (:title common forum title:) to the Group Header for my forum group so that the page name doesn't display at the top - just a short name for the forum (each page displays the topic title anyway!).
  JasonCounsel
• Looks like it doesn't work with CleanUrls. Maybe it's something like a problem with a guestbook? XoXa 30-MAR-2005 Ver. pmwiki-2.0.beta26
• I'm having the same problem as someone above. Unless I actually put the (:$Forum:) markup on my home page all the posts get put in amongst the text of the first paragraph on my home page. Any ideas?
• I would like to have the last three topics of the forum in a short form in the sidebar (only the topics). Is there an easy way to do this? -RobertHoehndorf?
  • Ok, I solved that. It is quite dirty and probably works for me only, but if anyone is interested, I will upload the new php-file. -RobertHoehndorf?
• ouch! The topic replies do not show in the recent changes !!! Is it possible to allow this ? jmi
• No one has a solution for the problem where posts end up on the Main.HomePage instead of Forum.HomePage? It would be greatly appreciated.
• Ok, I've hacked a bit the module so that the location where the posts end up now is correct.. at least fo me :-) Link: forum3.phpΔ Profiles/LucaMariano
• ^ Awesome Luca, many thanks - is there a quick way to make the "Post a Message to this Forum" chunk appear below posts instead of above them?
• Is Luca's solution already represented in the latest forum.phpΔ? (I have deleted a few of the solved issues from this discussion, too, in order to avoid the impression that they are still unresolved.) --Henning June 30, 2005, at 07:25 AM
• Great script, I use it on all my sites, but is there any way to have a counter of replies? Or at least some way to indicate that there has been a reply to a post? As replies do not show up in AllRecentChanges, knowing when there is activity on the forum is hard. Thanks! Gazunta? August 12, 2005
• Does it make sense to implement another php forum? phpBB seems to offer all you want from a forum. Hitcher 10/10/2005
• I am using pmwikidraw and I like it a lot, except I cant figure out how to get new raster images into it. It comes with six or so images and I need to add a lot more but I dont see any documentation on how to do this. whiskerville@gmail.com