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[Matthias Reuter]

Dear Community,

to give your feature requests a place to submit and make me the review easier, you'll have this topic to post your requests. So just submit your requests here. There is no guarantee that they will be implemented, but this will increase the chance for this. If you want a feature immediately and are willing to pay for it, just check the Sponsor's Page.

Kind regards,
Matthias

[Psy]

Hey Matthias. In the BB Code class, is it possible to make the the html2bbcode function convert emoticons from

CODE

[img]emo_url[/img]

to the regular emoticon code such as

CODE

:D

?

Thanks.

[Matthias Reuter]

Hi Psy,

this is a bug in IPBWI, please make this, to fix it instantly: Open ipbwi.inc.php in your editor, search for

CODE

'/ emoid=\"(.*)\"/U',

and replace with

CODE

//'/ emoid=\"(.*)\"/U',

[Psy]

Hi Psy,

this is a bug in IPBWI, please make this, to fix it instantly: Open ipbwi.inc.php in your editor, search for

CODE

'/ emoid=\"(.*)\"/U',

and replace with

CODE

//'/ emoid=\"(.*)\"/U',

Thanks Matthias, that solved the problem.

[Pete]

Calendar functions - I see they were on the roadmap for 1.7.4 but haven't yet made it into a release yet as far as I can see?

Coupled with the blog and gallery functions, you could then easily give social groups (running clubs etc) their own events/blog/photos section on a website.

[brainforge]

Great stuff, however, we have implemented our own class which extends the IPWI class so we have somewhere to put our own additional functionality without changing your code.

This means that we have to comment out the last few lines in ipbwi.inc.php as they interfer with what we are doing. I.E.
/*
// start class
if(empty($ipbwi)){
$ipbwi = new ipbwi();
}else{
die('<p>Error: You have to include and load IPBWI once only.</p>');
}
*/

This is rather annoying as it partly defeats the object of not having to change your code.

Would be nice to have a value in defined in config.inc.php to control this:
define('ipbwi_AUTO_NEW','Y');

Then instead of having to comment out the code in ipbwi.inc.php we would have (i.e. the only file we would have to change is config.inc.php which we have to change anyway):
if(defined('ipbwi_AUTO_NEW)){
// start class
if(empty($ipbwi)){
$ipbwi = new ipbwi();
}else{
die('<p>Error: You have to include and load IPBWI once only.</p>');
}
}

[Jan Ecker]

Hi brainforge,

I think we will find a way to make this easier for you!

[britt]

I have a site using OScommerce 2.2 and need it integrated with our forum that uses IP.Board. What I am looking for is when a user is logged into one, he is logged into the other. This way he doesn't have to login multiple times.

Can IPBWI do this, or is this something that will be added later?

[Dejin]

britt, this is about single sign on technology. You can read about Single Sign on by clicking here

[Matthias Reuter]

Hi Dejin,

IP.Board's built in single sign on methods are a bit...simple. You are able to unleash the full power of single sign on using IPBWI. I am offering full customized integration and single sign on development as service and the wordpress SSO plugin as product. If you're a PHP expert, IPBWI would also would help you saving much time getting this developed by your own

Kind regards,
Matthias

[Hunterok]

Hi!
It will be very useful if you will add following stuff:
1) Add to "create new entry" page "Forum for Comments" dropdown menu like in "Topics" settings. So you can select the Forum in which the comment-topic will be created while adding entry. It's very useful for software digest, you can auto add news and topics in the same category, not only in 1 chosen.
2) Create checkbox called "Create topic with full story first post". Current topic autocreation is not flexible, it creates only 1 or 2 lines post, but not full text.

Sorry for my English :/

Edited by Hunterok, 18 February 2011 - 12:48 AM.

[Matthias Reuter]

Hunterok, on 18 February 2011 - 12:46 AM, said:

1) Add to "create new entry" page "Forum for Comments" dropdown menu like in "Topics" settings. So you can select the Forum in which the comment-topic will be created while adding entry. It's very useful for software digest, you can auto add news and topics in the same category, not only in 1 chosen.

Do you mean that this forum selection option should be available with every wordpress post/page creation editor? Don't you think this could be annoying to select each time when a post or page in wordpress is created on which specific subforum the discussion topic should be created?

Hunterok, on 18 February 2011 - 12:46 AM, said:

2) Create checkbox called "Create topic with full story first post". Current topic autocreation is not flexible, it creates only 1 or 2 lines post, but not full text.

I'm stripping all HTML tags and formatting from teasertext of wordpresspost when creating a discussion topic, because Wordpress HTML isn't compatible with IP.board HTML in posts. So the full text would not have any formatting or something else. Additionally, for Search-Engine-Optimization purposes, you should avoid duplicate content. So if you're inserting the full text of the wordpress post into discussion topic teaser, it will be duplicate content. Nevertheless, you are able to increase text length in IPBWi for Wordpres settings.

[Hunterok]

Matthias Reuter
Maybe you're right. I'll explain what I want. I want to make a news portal with a forum. If I post some program I want forum created a similar post with links to the program and I wish that people would discuss the program in this topic. If all the news will be created in one forum, it would be inconvenient. But I want to make different categories and subcategories for the fact that the forum would be easy to find everything you need. For example: the category of "program" and forums in it - "Office software", "Utilities", "Navigation, " etc. When I write, for example, "Google Maps", I wish that would have created the forum topic on the "Navigation" and so on.

Edited by Hunterok, 18 February 2011 - 02:35 PM.

[Matthias Reuter]

what do you think about this feature: IPBWI for Wordpress is retrieving blog post's category and autocreates a subforum with same name in blog's discussion category? The Discussion Topic will automaticly created in this category? This feature would be convenient and flexible, too, but it would limit the hierarchy to 1-tier-categoryzing in several subforums.

[Hunterok]

Matthias Reuter, on 18 February 2011 - 03:23 PM, said:

what do you think about this feature: IPBWI for Wordpress is retrieving blog post's category and autocreates a subforum with same name in blog's discussion category? The Discussion Topic will automaticly created in this category? This feature would be convenient and flexible, too, but it would limit the hierarchy to 1-tier-categoryzing in several subforums.

I think that its much better then nothing But that will be good if you'll add choice - post to forum or don't post at all.
Maybe you can add some options in settings with a list of blog post categories and drop-down menus with ability to connect blog post category and forum to post.

Edited by Hunterok, 18 February 2011 - 03:55 PM.

[Matthias Reuter]

ok, I put this on my todo list, but I can not give you a timeline when it's finished.

[Hunterok]

Matthias Reuter, on 18 February 2011 - 04:08 PM, said:

ok, I put this on my todo list, but I can not give you a timeline when it's finished.

Its ok. Thanks a lot for your great job)

[lifestyle]

Joomla integration will be great

[Matthias Reuter]

Joomla integration can be developed, but unfortunately I can not do this for free. If someone decides to order this feature from me, it'll cost about 500 - 2.000 EUR (depending on the effort).

[memdev]

Hello Matthias,

in order to check a users login data, I had to extend your ipbwi_ips_wrapper class with the following code:

public function checkLogin($userid, $email, $password) {
  $classToLoad = IPSLib::loadLibrary(IPS_ROOT_PATH.'sources/loginauth/ipconverge/auth.php', 'login_ipconverge');
  $this->login_ipconverge = new $classToLoad($this->registry);
  return ($this->login_ipconverge->authenticate(false, $email, $password) || IPSMember::authenticateMember($userid, $password));
}

We use IP.Converge to connect several IPBs. Is this way of validating the login information correct?
If not, could you point me in the right direction to just validate the login information and not to perform a real login?

It would be nice to have such a feature in a future IPBWI release.


Greets,
Manuel