[pmwiki-users] FoxForum problems after upgrading to Pmwiki 2.2.0beta45 and upgrading FoxCommentBoxPlus

Hans design5 at softflow.co.uk
Mon May 7 11:57:20 CDT 2007


Monday, May 7, 2007, 5:09:46 PM, f.r.salomons wrote:

> Yesterday I upgraded to Pmwiki2.2.0-beta45 and also upgraded 
> FoxCommentBoxPlus. Since then, my FoxForum doesn't work correctly 
> anymore. As I suspected I also had to upgrade Foxforum and Fox itself, I
> did so, but this did not make any difference.

Frits,
the latest foxforum.zip contains a completely new type of
forum, which will be incompatible with any previous one. Please read
the cookbook page. This new forum uses different template pages.
It is at the moment also just including a forum for holding all posts
for a topic on the same page, the ForumX type forum which has separate
post pages is not yet ready for this new display-template based forum.

So if you run ForumX I expect you have a few problems.

> Symptoms:
> 1. the FoxForum homepage is no longer correctly displayed. The items are
> correctly displayed, but a last line is added:
> "{=Full Name}  ?        {=$FoxPostCount}        {=$LastModified} 
> {=$LastModifiedBy}" The general layout of the page is scrambled.

Not sure what happened there. If you can give me a url I will have
a look at it. It seems the pagelist format is not picked up correctly.

> 2. I cannot add any new posts. When clicking on "add a new topic", the
> input screen for a new post displays without input area. Instead, just
> below the guibuttons the following words are printed:

> "(:textarea id=text name=text cols=60 rows=6 
> class=inputtext:)(:textareaend:)".

Previously foxforum.php included the markup code for the
(:textarea..:) markup. This is no longer needed from beta 45 onwards,
as you can use now (:input textarea...:) in the same way.

I did update the pages using this, but you may do this in your forum
group by editing the pages  CreateNewTopic  and  CommentForm
and replace
     (:textarea
with
     (:input textarea

and delete (:textareaend:)

This should give you the improved (:input textare ..:) box.

Please note also that this Fox forum development is by no means in
a stable state and will undergo some more changes. There are still
important changes added to PmWiki right now, and some of those will
make there way into the way Fox will work and forum posts are handled.


  ~Hans




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