XenForo - Page 5

sagar · November 21st, 2010, 07:21 PM

Free type folks would not buy xenforo in first place they would be happy with phpbb and other forums. There are threads on XF where people are waiting for Gallery add on either to start real community. even if you get 10% people buying/renewing their PP licenses it would be much better than 0%

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Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

I'm not sure how many would jump in.
There are those who cry at the thought of spending a dime.
Everything should be free.
Where PP will be important are those who already have PP installed.

puertoblack2003 · November 30th, 2010, 07:48 PM

I'm looking forward to this.I have a forum up and running using xenforo

sagar · December 1st, 2010, 10:06 PM

I too just logged in to see if Chuck has posted any new update

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Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

I'm looking forward to this.I have a forum up and running using xenforo

Chuck S · December 2nd, 2010, 08:08 AM

Nope nothing new need to get hold of the guy I got a copy from and get updated code still playing with the login stuff

As stated this will be awhile because it is not top of the list. These things I do in free time. Product support installs upgrades the normal stuff I do in everyday life takes precedence.

mgsteve · December 3rd, 2010, 06:51 PM

The problem is Chuck, we're (as I'm sure many others are) waiting for the gallery integration before we move to XenForo. If another gallery package releases a XF integration and there's no sign of one from yourself, you risk loosing people to the competition.

It may not be important to you, but moving away from VB is important to a hell of a lot of people at the moment and quite a few are only being held back by the fact their galleries link into XF.

tbh, I wouldn't care if it was a basic tie in on the user level and that was it. Visual Integration into the forum itself can come afterwards, I just want to be able to link the gallery to the forum so that a member logged into the forum is also logged in on the gallery & any usergroup permissions that are set are applied.

Anything extra is bonus, but not ultimately required now.

XF is going to be the next big thing in Forum software, if I was you, I'd be rushing to get the Integration done and be the first to do so. You'd get people like me paying for the upgrade to the latest version and you may even tempt people away from the competition because you've got the tie-in to XF first.

Your call, but I think I've made my point clear.

Videx · December 3rd, 2010, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mgsteve

... XF is going to be the next big thing in Forum software...

Clearly in your own mind, anyway. You may be right, but let's revisit the question in ten years when they have an actual track record and some sales.

Chuck S · December 3rd, 2010, 07:48 PM

mgsteve integrations take time. Thats just how it is. Xenforo is not even a gold release software and some time away from that. We hope to integrate with it when it does go gold but that all depends on many factors.

The simple point is we as a company are not going to slack on our responsibilities to our current customers running supported integrations. That is our priority taking care of our supported software. I do side stuff like looking into possible integrations etc in free time. PhotoPost is not a large company by any means we are small.

mgsteve · December 3rd, 2010, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Videx

Clearly in your own mind, anyway. You may be right, but let's revisit the question in ten years when they have an actual track record and some sales.

Well, at risk of turning this into an XF debate, in 10 years time, I can quite easily see XF as the most popular forum software bar non. vB will still be going, but unless something drastic happens, its on its way down. Hell, in 3 years time I could see XF having more installed forums than vB. Its one reason why IB are trying their best to sue XF into bankruptcy, they know what's at stake.

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

mgsteve integrations take time. Thats just how it is. Xenforo is not even a gold release software and some time away from that. We hope to integrate with it when it does go gold but that all depends on many factors.

The simple point is we as a company are not going to slack on our responsibilities to our current customers running supported integrations. That is our priority taking care of our supported software. I do side stuff like looking into possible integrations etc in free time. PhotoPost is not a large company by any means we are small.

I appreciate they take time and I wasn't suggesting you slack on any responsibilities. All I was suggesting that its potentially a key integration that you'd do well to get at the very least, a basic integration out ASAP. Even if its not officially supported yet - as long as it did as I said above, enabled basic forum & gallery user account integration, that would be enough.

The first gallery software to tie into XF is going to have a big advantage over any other....

Chuck S · December 3rd, 2010, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mgsteve

I appreciate they take time and I wasn't suggesting you slack on any responsibilities. All I was suggesting that its potentially a key integration that you'd do well to get at the very least, a basic integration out ASAP. Even if its not officially supported yet - as long as it did as I said above, enabled basic forum & gallery user account integration, that would be enough.

The first gallery software to tie into XF is going to have a big advantage over any other....

As I have said I will let people know once we have a supported integration with Xenforo. Much like any software company tells people since timelines are meaningless in software development it is done when its done.

I am about 50% of the way there but alot of the time is going to be spent as Xenforo matures. The code in its present stage is very hard coded and is going to change alot. You really cant support an integration until things stabalize.

Right now I am waiting on word trying to get the latest beta thats out. I still am working on beta one which was really alpha software.

The point being I am not going to announce we support Xenforo and then be committed to providing support for something that potentially could blow up our support channels. Thats why really no official integration would be released close to a gold release of Xenforo. No decisions will be made until I am near 100% done with whatever integration level we will support. I may bring in a few people most likely when I am close to 100% to test things out.

FASherman · December 5th, 2010, 04:47 PM

Are you still in need of a license to develop against?

Chuck S · December 5th, 2010, 06:27 PM

I do need someone to send me the latest they have. I am trying to find the original email I had where someone sent me a beta 1.

Chuck S · December 17th, 2010, 04:09 PM

I have had no luck finding out who gave me the source code. I can not continue on this till I have get updated code.

bipolar · December 17th, 2010, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

I have had no luck finding out who gave me the source code. I can not continue on this till I have get updated code.

Email on the way Chuck

Chuck S · December 17th, 2010, 04:55 PM

Okay so it was you

Yeah I have been doing a search in our helpdesk on wording xenforo but for some reason no results are coming up.

Chuck S · December 18th, 2010, 01:03 PM

A community photo gallery - My Photo Gallery

Well good news. I was able to work out the integration from an authentication level. It reads the xenforo cookie and now you can login with your xenforo login from photopost and creates the cookie etc. Right now it works with the remember me box.

I have yet to work on the session cookie authentication routines. I have yet to decide what level of integration we will have. Right now I am able to follow the basic color scheme but thats it.

I have no idea also at this point if we are able to have the same level of integration we have with vbulletin as I have not looked into how headers footers are done or even if its possible to wrap all that around our application.

chrisstinson · December 18th, 2010, 01:45 PM

Great news. I am also looking forward to Xenforo integration.

Chuck S · December 18th, 2010, 02:31 PM

Yes have the basics worked out its even working with sessions now. As seen on my site its fully functional now

1996 328ti · December 18th, 2010, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Yes have the basics worked out its even working with sessions now. As seen on my site its fully functional now

*LIKE*
Would classifieds be far behind?

Chuck S · December 18th, 2010, 08:16 PM

oh they are easy. I can write up classifieds and reviewpost in minutes thats not an issue once i have one integration done porting them to the other apps is easy.

Right now Xenforo is on a beta 5. They still have alot of hard coded variables etc in their code. I have no idea why they hard code the globalsalt variable. Seems to be that should be a config file variable if you ask me. My access is very limited on the xenforo site so I do not have access to get alot of info. Things I need to figure out is more about the style integration. Whether or not its possible to wrap the xenforo header and footer around our application. Those I think are things that might come along as the application matures. I do not see alot of info about that yet.

All thats immaterial really because at this point we can soon as I finish up a few things support the level of integration over 50% or more of our integrations use.

boatswife · December 19th, 2010, 07:17 AM

Thanks for working on this Chuck! It's very much appreciated.