Geeklog Forums

Portalparts.com is pleased to announce the native forum plugin version 2.6 is almost ready for release. I've held off making any earlier announcements but have been working on this new version for a couple months. Before making the new plugin version available for general release, I'd like to get a few users that will help with testing. I've tested the new version on large ver 2.3.2 site and I've run the built-in in update on my site that was running version 2.5. So far it looks good - but there are a lot of features to be tested and verify the formatting of existing forum content is retained given the new code to handle the formatting of quotes, code, bbcode, smilies and HTML tags.

If you have a test site and can commit time over the next 2 weeks to complete some effective testing - please contact me. I'd like to get some users that are using the forum 2.3.2 version and 2.5.

More information can be found in the full story posted on my site and you can preview the new version as well.

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Geeklog components by PortalParts -- www.portalparts.com

I surely like Blaine his plugins, the guy is on to something, the only problem is that he thinks we all source hackers and talk about calls without saying in which files. Like I know the source of all his code, or Geeklog in general.

The problem I had with Blaine is that I installed his Plugin on 5 Geeklog websites on several servers with different domain names I run. The problem was that on one day all forums went down, I had no idea what happened, looked in all error logs try to trace what happened.

In the end I contacted Blaine trough his website, after the standard check this check that, I said “the forum worked well, without any problem for more then 5 months and now I have to check my settings”

After that I never get any answer, this attitude was for our organization not to buy his commercial Event Manager plug-in.

We are now testing the forum plug-in from LWC which is a modified Blaine plug-in, the multi language/character encoding support is way better.

Blaine, great new version. I installed it w/o any flaws. The unicode implementation works great, Japanese charchters display 100%. I am looking forward to the final, so I can upgrade our company's intranet's forum. We are having 800 users now using it and growing fast, it has been working perfectly for us so far.

This site has now been updated with a pre-release of the forum plugin ver2.6 as part of our final testing before a general release. Please report any issues found or feedback in this topic.

The logic for handling the posting format and bbcode use has been re-written with much help from Mark Evans - thanks :shakehands:

The default mode (site setup option) is now 'text' mode on this site, which is a safer alternative and yet still supports all the bbcode and autotag options as well as code and quote formatting. Sites can even disable the html option all together. The bbcode toolbar when posting includes a help now.

There have been a lot of changes with this version and extensive testing has flushed out a lot a bugs that have now been fixed.

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Geeklog components by PortalParts -- www.portalparts.com

Looks good Blaine. Just notice that the New Topic button here at geeklog is the old style probably just missed it in the update. Also the New Files, Comments and Older Stories blocks point margins are off. I don't know if this issue is a CSS conflict with the forum or not since it was displaying correctly before the update.

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

Thanks for the comment. You may want to clear your cache - as the image has been changed.

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Geeklog components by PortalParts -- www.portalparts.com

Forum IDs are still used (unlike what the changes' list says).

The selection box may be controlled via CSS, but the bottom line is it's cut.
Had its size not been defined, it would have been stretched automatically.

The value of the Author hidden input field is their name and not their UID. Works, but it's not proper.

All 3 can be seen in this screenshot.

Also, after I edit it takes me to this topic's page 1 instead of to the latest post's page (at least in Blain's forums, impossible to test in this topic as it's still just in 1 page, although it does say page=0 after I edit so I think it's safe to say that's page 1).