XenForo - Page 9

Chuck S · June 7th, 2011, 05:36 PM

I am not sure what you mean fully so you might need to explain. Your photos should already be in your gallery. If you switched to xenforo from vbulletin I assume you used any xenforo import scripts to import your vbulletin members and content. Then as far as photopost the steps to switch an integration are well documented in several threads basically you reinstall your gallery to integrate with the new forum.

The thing that stops most people from switching integrations and keeping old content are the inability of many forums to have import scripts from other forums. vbulletin does I know that.

Garamond · June 10th, 2011, 10:34 AM

Well, I've been searching a bit - and only found several threads where you only say "to switch an integration are well documented in several threads" which is very little helpful when we have to go looking for then and not finding anything.

Chuck S · June 10th, 2011, 11:03 AM

Well a search for switch integration returns 197 results. I have posted links in a number of those threads most point to this

http://www.photopost.com/forum/1222477-post2.html

Garamond · June 15th, 2011, 04:32 AM

Is such an integration possible to get your help to do?

Chuck S · June 15th, 2011, 07:52 AM

well I would need more info to do an exact quote. I can say off the top of my head the cost would involve a Photopost install service which is $59.00 and a forum install which is $70.00 and then we would do a custom charge to cover any time done with the other work like imports usual costs would vary depending on the size of the site as custom charges are done on a time basis. Most likely the charge there would range another 35-70 dollars. You can email us through the contact us link with more detailed site info if you want me to give you an exact quote on handling the switch.

Octavius · October 25th, 2011, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

I am not sure what you mean fully so you might need to explain. Your photos should already be in your gallery. If you switched to xenforo from vbulletin I assume you used any xenforo import scripts to import your vbulletin members and content. Then as far as photopost the steps to switch an integration are well documented in several threads basically you reinstall your gallery to integrate with the new forum.

The thing that stops most people from switching integrations and keeping old content are the inability of many forums to have import scripts from other forums. vbulletin does I know that.

I'll be switching my vbulletin forum over to xenforo in a couple of days. So basically all I have to do to integrate photopost with xenforo is to upgrade the forum to xenforo first then reinstall photopost?

Chuck S · October 25th, 2011, 04:05 PM

Yes the exact steps to switch an integration are listed many times on our site if you search for "switch integration"

Basically yes you switch your forum to xenforo. You clear the photopost usergroups table of any entries as those would be from vb. You of course upgrade your photopost files and reinstall to integrate with xenforo. You would need to upgrade your photopost through the upgrade as well if your photopost is older than the latest.

twitch · October 27th, 2011, 11:56 PM

I have xenforo and testing photopost pro with it but without header/footer integration, I see it difficult for me to implement on my live site. Is there no way to do that? If not, how would users get back to the main site? Is there a way to add a link back to the main forums?

Chuck S · October 28th, 2011, 06:51 AM

The integration is what we state it is user login and css color matching.

You would create static headers and footers over photopost with html to mimic the xenforo header thats all I did on my example site.

The only enhanced integration we support is vbulletin.

twitch · October 28th, 2011, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

The integration is what we state it is user login and css color matching.

You would create static headers and footers over photopost with html to mimic the xenforo header thats all I did on my example site.

The only enhanced integration we support is vbulletin.

Ok, thanks. I hope this changes in the near future. I'm not sure I can add the html header and footer but I will give it a try.

Chuck S · October 28th, 2011, 07:45 AM

All you do is view the source of your forum and grab the html for the header and the footer and place them in header footer html files you load around photopost.

Octavius · October 28th, 2011, 02:51 PM

Hey Chuck do private pics come up as thumbnails in the latest pics in photopost 8 beta or did you fix that bug that was in photopost 7?

Chuck S · October 28th, 2011, 03:16 PM

I am really not sure what your referring to private pics do not show in photopost 7.

Reeftanksonline · October 30th, 2011, 02:41 PM

Chuck, no disrespect but even this site never upgraded to the newest version of VB. Don't you think it would be a good move to try to get the newest and most up to date forum software to integrate with photopost as good as it can?

The header and footer integration should be easy if you were serious about the future with Xenforo.

Chuck S · October 30th, 2011, 05:57 PM

Michael and I as developers do not develop software on this site so the owner of the company can run whatever forum and version he chooses to provide support to the customers. We obtain the latest versions when we write integrations and use those on our own personal development sites. The support forums here are separate from any software we support.

As far as xenforo I spent alot of my time writing an integration which about 10 users out of 50000 customers use. I can definately tell you calling a header or footer is not that easy from what I see. I would have included that type of integration if I could have.

We are an extremely small company and our resources and time are limited by income versus expenses. Standalone and vBulletin integrations represent 90% of our customer base so developmentally this is where you see alot of our time go.

Reeftanksonline · October 30th, 2011, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

As far as xenforo I spent alot of my time writing an integration which about 10 users out of 50000 customers use. I can definately tell you calling a header or footer is not that easy from what I see. I would have included that type of integration if I could have.

We are an extremely small company and our resources and time are limited by income versus expenses. Standalone and vBulletin integrations represent 90% of our customer base so developmentally this is where you see alot of our time go.

I bet more than 10 users would use it if it worked as well as the other integrations you have. I have been a long time user and would love to keep using your product. I fully understand your point. Mine point is that the times are changing.if you look at the numbers you would agree. 50000 customers this year is great wouldn't it be better to get more for next?

Thx for always being a gentlemen Im bringing this up in a sincere way i hope its taken that way.

Chuck S · October 30th, 2011, 07:03 PM

Xenforo works just like we state and is supported the same was as well over half the integrations we have. 13 our of 21 of the integrations we have support login and css integrations with xenforo being one of those.

What Integrations we support!!

We offer enhanced integration with only one forum and that is vbulletin simply because it is possible to call headers and footers around other applications. or php pages. No other forum has that ability from what I have seen. I wrote well over half the integrations we use so I do know what can or can not be done with the current coding of certain applications. Alot of applications are not compatible to call there headers footers or css around outside applications.

I always support the highest level of integration I see that we can when writing an integration. Like take phpbb2 for example. We support css integration with that forum yet in phpbb3 we had to drop css integration and only support user login because simply put the new forum has no uniform css style for us to map to thus the integration is lowered for their newer product. It is always about what can be done based on the product coding. If xenforo forum ever makes it possible to include there header and footer around a stock blank page I will gladly look at the possibility to include it but currently there is no way that I see to do that.

Now you can easily add your xenforo header and footer to photopost real easy html wise.

There is a header.htm and footer.htm in the photopost directory. In global options in admin of photopost fill out the full server path to those files and save. You can then edit your photopost header and footer through the edit header edit footer links in admin provided you have set those files to 666 permissions on the server.

You can view your xenforo forum page source in your browser and you will find header and footer tags in the source like this

<header>
header html is here
</header>

<footer>
footer code is here
</footer>

Now do not copy those header or footer lines but you can in your xenforo page source copy any html between those respective into headers and footers you can get things to display

http://www.omegatron.net/photos/index.php

Try playing around with it its easy just grab my header footer htm files use those just replace my forum url etc with yours

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

twitch · November 1st, 2011, 05:21 PM

Some xenforo Photopost Pro feedback at the xenforo site
Photopost Pro Gallery Integration | Page 3 | XenForo Community
Photopost Pro Gallery Integration | Page 2 | XenForo Community

Chuck S · November 1st, 2011, 05:38 PM

That has no bearing though on what I have already stated as it does not change the facts here.

There is no way I see to automatically pull a xenforo header and footer around our application. We integrate at the maximum level one can with what we see. We support the css style colors and user login which is how we do the majority of our integrations.

vbulletin is the only forum where there is a way to pull a header and footer because it is possible to do that with that forum. Its pretty simply with that forum to be honest.

Like I said in the future if that forum allows its users a way to place the forum header footer around a basic php page and shows there users how it can be done we will gladly work on updating the integration.

To date the facts on this matter have not changed. Remember I am not a xenforo customer. I have said any customer who finds out that a header footer from the forum can be pulled around a basic php page can give us that information to look at. I have not had any such replies.

Peter · November 6th, 2011, 07:01 AM

Hi there, I am jumping in the bouat of Xenforo.

I have VB 4.1.7 and PP 7.1 working fine.

My final setup I am looking for is WordPress for News, Xenforo for forum and PP for gallery.

It seems everything can work fine and with integrated users.

Whats the move I have to do with VB and PP to make this work ?

1- Install Xenforo
2- Import VB there
3- Upgrade PP config ?

Thats it ?

Please let me know what are the steps necesarry for this.

Is there any known issues with Xenforo as a VB user I should be aware ?

Thanks.