XenForo - Page 10

Chuck S · November 6th, 2011, 07:15 AM

There are alot of threads here on switching integrations. The steps are kind of what you say but a little more detailed

1. install xenforo
2. use any xenforo import script to import your forum content
3. delete any entries under your photopost usergroups table
4. reinstall Photopost into its same database tables etc so nothing is deleted and install to integrate with xenforo correctly answering all info.
5. in the photopost imports forum here you will see a userfix script that is used to realign userids when switching to vb or any forum you need to download and run that to fix the userids which will change from your forum import.

Peter · November 6th, 2011, 09:08 AM

Thanks Chuck.

I see no script for that, can you please point me to the correct script ?

I have VB and I will have XF. I see no script for that or other when moving away from VB.

Thanks.

Peter · November 6th, 2011, 11:34 AM

Another thing.

Is this updated ?

Because going there there is nothing about the gallery, can you please share the info of what xenforo with pp does and support ?

I am used to VB + PP and I have a gallery button in the menu, latest images or random, etc...

What does xenforo + PP looks like ?

Any other examples ?

Thanks.

Chuck S · November 6th, 2011, 02:00 PM

You will have to ask xenforo about whatever importers they have to move forum content I have no knowledge of there stuff just telling you the steps needed which are pretty generic for any forum switch we support and reintegrating the gallery. The gallery script to realign the forum userid is the last step after everything I noted has been done and that is here

Reassign userid's when switching integrations to VBulletin

Minus any header footer I put up a stock xenforo integrated gallery is this

A community photo gallery - My Photo Gallery

twitch · November 13th, 2011, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

You will have to ask xenforo about whatever importers they have to move forum content I have no knowledge of there stuff just telling you the steps needed which are pretty generic for any forum switch we support and reintegrating the gallery. The gallery script to realign the forum userid is the last step after everything I noted has been done and that is here

Reassign userid's when switching integrations to VBulletin

Minus any header footer I put up a stock xenforo integrated gallery is this

A community photo gallery - My Photo Gallery

Wow, how did you get the header and footer for xenforo in there? Looks great! Please share.

Chuck S · November 13th, 2011, 10:56 AM

As I have posted several times here that is merely an html mockup of the forum header footer using the header.htm and footer.htm files in the gallery directory

http://omegatron.net/photos/header.htm
http://omegatron.net/photos/footer.htm

Nothing magical for sure.

jdougher · November 18th, 2011, 03:47 PM

I'm thinking of implementing photopost on a recent xenforo experiment (love xenforo, btw! what a huge breath of fresh air that is!). Can I see some sample forums that use photopost on a xenforo board? Also, is there a "featured photos" block plugin or addon for xenforo?

Finally, would it be better to use the 7.1 version of photopost pro or the 8 beta?

Chuck S · November 18th, 2011, 04:57 PM

You can use whatever version you want really. My test setup is already linked here.

There are no mods for xenforo that I am aware of.

jdougher · November 18th, 2011, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can use whatever version you want really. My test setup is already linked here.

There are no mods for xenforo that I am aware of.

Linked where? Somewhere deep within this 10-page thread? I can't find it easily.

Chuck S · November 18th, 2011, 07:09 PM

Yes its linked many times throughout this thread and even a few posts up just take the filenames off that url like 2 posts up

jdougher · November 20th, 2011, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Yes its linked many times throughout this thread and even a few posts up just take the filenames off that url like 2 posts up

Omegatron.net? I logged in there and see nothing.

Do you guys really want to sell your product to xenforo forum owners? If so, make a thread with samples. Sell it!

Edit: Oh, I see it now. http://omegatron.net/photos/

Not too impressive, though! If you click on the Forums tab, there's no indication that a gallery exists anywhere. How are members supposed to know there's a gallery--and get to it?

Also, the formatting of that gallery is kinda messed up. Reduce the width of the browser window, and the gallery remains wide, while the forum shrinks. That doesn't look good.

Also, look at the text wrapping of the "Member Galleries" description. It looks horrible. The Last Comment column seems to be fixed width, or the text doesn't wrap, while the text in the Category column does.

Michael P · November 20th, 2011, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by jdougher

If you click on the Forums tab, there's no indication that a gallery exists anywhere. How are members supposed to know there's a gallery--and get to it?

Chuck has a demo installed for development purposes only; he isn't using that as a gallery for his forum to post photos into.

Chuck S · November 20th, 2011, 09:55 AM

As Michael said that is merely a demo for testing purposes. It only supports user login and basic css style colors which is what we post on our site that we support. There are no advanced features like vbulletin.

jdougher · November 20th, 2011, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

As Michael said that is merely a demo for testing purposes. It only supports user login and basic css style colors which is what we post on our site that we support. There are no advanced features like vbulletin.

Okay, well, let us know in a significant way when you feel this is ready for xenforo. IMO, xenforo blows vBulletin 4.X out of the water in so many ways it's not funny.

So I'll be waiting for a usable version.

jdougher · November 20th, 2011, 10:05 AM

Just to add, ever since I saw vbulletin 4.X, and struggled with it, I went looking for other solutions. Xenforo is it. (No, I am not affiliated with them in any way.) I added links in my signature to two of my forums for comparison. Yes, photocamel is bigger, much bigger, but KMC (on Xenforo) is slicker. That's just a fact. It's more facebook-like, more modern. I'd like to get PhotoPost on KMC, but it's not ready. Please make it ready.

Chuck S · November 20th, 2011, 10:18 AM

This thread covers any points I have brought up about xenforo. All we can support with that product is user login and basic css integration.

There is no way to support the automatic displaying of the xenforo header footer like we do in vbulletin and I have brought up why many times here. In fact most of the integrations we do are user login and basic css integration to mock up a look. It would be up the the end user to create an html header footer to represent there forum. I simply did a quick mock up and that is all it is.

If the xenforo product matures and there are mods that show how to pull the xenforo header footer around a basic php page we will gladly update our product to support that.

jdougher · November 25th, 2011, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

This thread covers any points I have brought up about xenforo. All we can support with that product is user login and basic css integration.

There is no way to support the automatic displaying of the xenforo header footer like we do in vbulletin and I have brought up why many times here. In fact most of the integrations we do are user login and basic css integration to mock up a look. It would be up the the end user to create an html header footer to represent there forum. I simply did a quick mock up and that is all it is.

If the xenforo product matures and there are mods that show how to pull the xenforo header footer around a basic php page we will gladly update our product to support that.

If they haven't been forthcoming, maybe it's because they are planning to implement their own gallery system. Would be a pity, as yours is already there. Nevertheless, the xenforo software is awesome, and the users on the forum on which i've implemented it have said so repeatedly.

Chuck S · November 25th, 2011, 07:47 PM

Like I have said multiple times in this thread if the ability to load the xenforo header footer around external applications becomes available we have no problem looking into it

matusman · February 8th, 2012, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Like I have said multiple times in this thread if the ability to load the xenforo header footer around external applications becomes available we have no problem looking into it

Chuck, have a look at Kotomi - Generic script bridge | XenForo Community

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Kotomi - Generic script bridge

This is mainly intended for developer use. It lets you embed a non-XenForo/non-MVC script (just about any PHP script should work) into the XenForo page and use XenForo functions such as permissions while still accessing the script from a standard URL (the XenForo route system is pretty much disregarded).

So using this addon you can do a very basic integration of pretty much anything into XenForo - be it a blog, gallery, store, standalone script, etc. Probably even vBulletin if you wanted.

Chuck S · February 8th, 2012, 07:50 PM

Well we definately would not use someone else script but it could be used for ideas on how we could support using the xenforo header footer. However It is not available for download. Says download not available.