How do I get rid of PP profile spam?

Alfa1 · June 14th, 2011, 03:47 PM

I have not found an option to remove data from the PP user profile. Please advise.

Is there anyway to disable the PP profile? I already have vbulletin profiles so PP profiles are superfluous.

Chuck S · June 15th, 2011, 08:15 AM

There is no option to turn off the photopost profile sorry.

Alfa1 · June 15th, 2011, 08:18 AM

Too bad.

Could you tell me how to get rid of PP profile spam?

Alfa1 · August 1st, 2011, 02:00 PM

Chuck, could you tell me how to edit photopost profiles? What is the url for that?

Chuck S · August 1st, 2011, 02:22 PM

A user would edit there profile by the edit link in there profile when viewing it. I do not know what you mean by profile spam.

Alfa1 · August 1st, 2011, 04:50 PM

Where can the administrator edit a users profile? For example: if a member has a spam link in the 'Homepage' field, then where / how do I remove that?

Chuck S · August 1st, 2011, 05:28 PM

well in a standalone install an admin can edit users through the admin panel under edit users

If this is a forum integration you can not edit a users profile only the user can. You can try and hack your install to show you the edit profile link for users if your admin maybe edit your profile template and add this

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Alfa1 · August 2nd, 2011, 09:06 AM

Where should I add it?

I am getting this error:

Quote:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /public_html/photopost/templates/vb3enhanced/profile.tmpl on line 42

Alternatively, isn't it possible to just disable profiles completely or redirect to vb profiles?

Chuck S · August 2nd, 2011, 09:38 AM

Make sure you have not done anything other than what I suggested to add in bold there should be no parse error doing just what I am saying

|| $User['adminedit'] == 1

That is all your adding

You can not redirect to vb profiles without some type of mod although this feature is added in photopost 8 which should have a beta shortly.

Alfa1 · August 2nd, 2011, 09:54 AM

Ah, I see. I did not realize there was a part in bold. I just added the whole code.
Thanks. That works.

Now, another matter:
in the profile field 'homepage', the system somehow adds my sites url before the url in the page, leading to an erroneous url. For example: the link http://www.google.com leads to www.mysite.com/www.google.com

Do you have any idea how this is caused and how to fix?

Chuck S · August 2nd, 2011, 10:45 AM

I beleive the code by default allows a user to add a url. If they do not place a full url will be added as it assumes the user is using a relative url to look on the site your on.

Alfa1 · August 2nd, 2011, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

I beleive the code by default allows a user to add a url. If they do not place a full url will be added as it assumes the user is using a relative url to look on the site your on.

That explains it. Google Webmaster tools reports many of such instances, where the resulting url does not exist.
I think this function should be removed or improved. It results in bugs.

Chuck S · August 2nd, 2011, 01:25 PM

Well remember just cause google has an issue does not mean it is an issue with our code. I place a homepage url in my pp profile it appears fine. I really can not respond without full info

Alfa1 · December 7th, 2011, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

If this is a forum integration you can not edit a users profile only the user can. You can try and hack your install to show you the edit profile link for users if your admin maybe edit your profile template and add this

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

This does not seem to work in PP8 anymore.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can not redirect to vb profiles without some type of mod although this feature is added in photopost 8 which should have a beta shortly.

How can I redirect to vb profiles in PP8?

Chuck S · December 7th, 2011, 11:56 AM

Photopost 8 by default already does this if one has the included vb plugins installed. I am talking about vb4 here.

A community photo gallery - - ReefTalk Gallery

Alfa1 · December 7th, 2011, 11:57 AM

Is this possible for vb3.8.7 ?

Chuck S · December 7th, 2011, 12:07 PM

well you can try installing say this mod under your product manager

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

You of course will still have to follow the photo plugin mod editing the forumhome template to add $photopostfeature to add the block to print but this should add a product called PhotoPost Pro under your vb plugin product manager which is what the new versions checks for.

all my work has been done with going forward in vb4. There is virtually no development in the 3 series anymore. They are keeping it around but any releases are basically security maintenance.

Alfa1 · December 7th, 2011, 12:47 PM

Im getting this error on forum home:

Quote:

Warning: include(../gallery/inc_features.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/forum/index.php(596) : eval()'d code on line 188

Warning: include(../gallery/inc_features.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/forum/index.php(596) : eval()'d code on line 188

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../gallery/inc_features.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /public_html/forum/index.php(596) : eval()'d code on line 188

But I really do not want a photo block on my forum home. I just want the profiles to link directly to vbulletin profiles.

It would be really nice to be able to show the latest images in my vbadvanced sidebar and on my vba portal. But thats another topic.

There is virtually no development in vb3 or vb4 anymore. Most of what has been released for vb4 in the last 2 years is thousands of bug fixes.

Chuck S · December 7th, 2011, 01:20 PM

As noted you would have to follow whatever vb3 hacks or mod instructions there are. My code above was merely a replacement xml that will install a product named after our product. The vb3.5 to vb 3.8 featured photo block is what you want to view.

Based on the version 3 of that mod you would need to place the proper server path or directory name etc on that plugin code for the inc_features.php include.

Quote:

There is virtually no development in vb3 or vb4 anymore. Most of what has been released for vb4 in the last 2 years is thousands of bug fixes.

I hope that is not being posted about the vbulletin company not ours.

A community photo gallery - - ReefTalk Gallery

I spent alot of my time developing mods for vb3 and vb4. I spent alot of my time creating the support we have in vb4 on most all our products and for version 8 of PhotoPost Pro I sent countless hours redesigning the templating and style integration and it is more tightly integrated than ever before. I had to write complete new template sets for vb3, vb4 and xenforo for the new PP8.

Our company in general has done alot of work integrating with the new vb4 and improving things. I know because I have been that person. I have also made sure going forward with vbulletin 4 that alot of the the plugins I createdare included by default in PP8 to enhanced the look and feel.

Alfa1 · December 7th, 2011, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

I hope that is not being posted about the vbulletin company not ours.

That remark is about vbulletin, not photopost.