Geeklog Forum plugin - version 2.8.0

Current Maintainers: Geeklog Community Members

Original Author: Blaine Lang < blaine@portalparts.com >

Release Date: 1 August 2011

Requires minimum Geeklog version 1.6.0 (version 1.8.0+ recommended) and MySQL 4.1+

Summary of features

This plugin provides a full featured discussion forum with integrated Geeklog features for your community website. The initial version of this plugin was released in 2002.

If you've enjoyed this plugin, please consider supporting Geeklog and the Geeklog Forum plugin. These projects require considerable time and effort to create and any help we get is appreciated. You do not have to be a programmer to help out either, we can always use help in testing, graphics, themes and writing documentation. If you are interested in helping out, please drop by our Google Group and post a message letting us know what you want to do.

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Changelog

The changelog for this version is available here.

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How to Install

Geeklog 1.6.0+ supports plugin autoinstall, so the installation is now really simple

Step 0 - Backup your Database

Step 1 - Navigate to the plugin administration page in Geeklog

Step 2 - Upload the archive

Step 3 - Setup your forums and review Admin Settings

If you are new to installing a geeklog plugin and the automatic install is not working for you, we recommend that you review the background documentation on how to manually install a plugin here

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Upgrading

  1. Upgrading from 2.7.x
  2. Upgrading from 2.6
  3. Upgrading from 2.5RC3
  4. Upgrading from 2.3.x
  5. Plugin Installation Overview Reference
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How to update from version 2.7.x

The update process will update your forum to version 2.8.0 in one step if version 2.7 is detected. One database table is altered plus the version number stored is changed.

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Note: Make a copy of your plugins config.php and compare to the new one if you have made changes. Additionally, do the same for your forum theme files if you have made changes that you don't want to loose.

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congratulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.8.0

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How to update from version 2.6

The update process will update your forum to version 2.8.0 in one step if version 2.6 detected. No database updates are made other then changing the version displayed.

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Note: Make a copy of your plugins config.php and compare to the new one if you have made changes. Additionally, do the same for your forum theme files if you have made changes that you don't want to loose.

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congratulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.8.0

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How to update from version 2.5RC3

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Note: If the forum was still enabled, the centerblock and sideblock will be disabled once you copy over the new code until you complete the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme and theme css - style.css file

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congratulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.8.0

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How to update from version 2.3.x

The update process will update your forum to version 2.8.0 in one step if version 2.3.x detected

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Note: If the forum was still enabled, the centerblock and sideblock will be disabled once you copy over the new code until you complete the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme files and theme css - style.css file

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congratulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.8.0

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Configuration

Please read the forum documentation accessible online from your site at http://www.yoursite.com/forum/docs/english/forum.html

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Profile Integration

The forum plugin is capable of integrating some additional profile fields with Geeklog, but due to a bug in Geeklog core this is not automatic and you must add these fields manually to some template files in Geeklog.

There is a sample implementation available in ./example/layout/professional/preferences/profile.thtml and ./example/layout/professional/users/profile.thtml.

In the example files linked above, the parts that must be added to the templates of your theme are enclosed by the following HTML comments:
<!-- Forum ****************************************** --> and <!-- ****************************************** -->

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