what happened to the .95 version? I got an email saying you needed ppl to try it out.

Yes, I sent that to the people who have installed the hack. I'm looking for a few people to test before I load it onto this site, just to check the new installation process. If you want to be part of that test, just send me an email (reply to the one I sent yesterday.)

Ah, Family. I remember there was something in the past. ;)

Sure.
Du you plan to build a Moderate-Queue? It's nice when Users can add Links and an Admin must moderate them.

If you chaged nothing the next week I can rebuild it with phrases.

Unfortunately a reply (to that email) would go to the webmaster@vbulletin.org ... how about a PM ?

Version 0.95 is now available in the first post.

The new install script handles database table creation and template import. The db part is unchanged from beta 0.3 but the template handling is new. It works fine for me on both clean and already-installed boards, but who knows what it will do on yours :devious:

Seriously, the install script scans your database for all existing templates for this hack, and it deletes them. It then installs new templates in all styles that have a parentid of -1, i.e. all the root styles but not the master style. So if you have 0.3 installed and you have modified the release templates, be careful.

Usual instructions - read instructions.txt in the zip, back up your database, and let me know how it goes.

I do not intend adding phrasing, but will investigate moderation for release 1.0. If someone wants to help me with the phrasing, I'll certainly acknowledge your work, but please don't release parallel versions, at least for the time being.

Problems discovered in the 16/2 upload, 17/2/04: now corrected in the attached zip file

1) The code degraded poorly when there are several thousand links in the database. The main change required was to add another index on one of the tables (local_linksltoc ADD INDEX ( linkid ))

2) The installation script assumed that you are using RC4. THis has been corrected.

3) The instructions omitted to tell you to upload the local_links_templates.xml file into your forum, otherwise the installation will fail.

4) The code to change to using the standard table prefix is now back in the correct place.

I've found one problem.

when editing a catagory, I get a no permission error then, I go back and the catagory is gone from the list, but when I go to create a new link or catagory, The catagory that is missing is there to be used as a parent catagory.

any ideas?

...installing 0.95...

1) Your install instructions don't mention to upload the template.xml
That's what confused me a little on Step 2.

2) When editing a category it says that I don't have the permissions, although I didn't change permissions and am logged in as admin.
->when this happens, the category is deleted
->but still appears in the link statistics

I see i'm not the only one :p

I forgot the mention the xml file, thanks for remembering, but even after uploading it, it failed, because it is newer then my VB3 RC3, so I manually installed it, over-writing the one there and telling it, to ignore the vBulletin version.

Any ideas AndrewD on the permissions problem. I tryed setting for -999 as well as setting it for an actual forumid for permisions

working great. inserted into all my skins great. Love that feature!

Sorry about omitting to say "upload the templates" in the instructions.

I have difficulty with understanding your error messages concerning editing categories. If the templates are correctly installed, the menus, etc should not even give you the chance to do something that the admin has forbidden.

My guess is that, because of the missing instruction to upload the templates, you have got a mismatch between the templates and the software.

So I strongly recommend that you actually do upload the templates into your forum directory, then rerun the installation script from step 1, rather than manually installing the templates via the vb admincp. The installation script does a certain amount of tidying up.

Please let me know if, having done this, you still have the same problem.


I should explain the permissions system:

There are two completely separate types of permission, which may be confusing:

- There is a series of "permissions to do something" (can_add_link, can_edit_category, etc.) These are set per usergroupid in the links admin page. These are initialised the first time you visit the admin page. By default, all the permisssion are turned on for the admin group only. You have to decide who else should be able to do things.

- The hack connects to the standard forum permissions system to define who can see what.

a) If you set default_forumid to a negative value (any negative value), this part of the system is turned off, and all users see all categories and entries.

b) If you set default_forumid to the id of a real forum (you can get these id numbers by hovering the mouse over a forum link - it's the number N in the links f=N), then - by default - new links and categories will be created with the same viewing permissions as that forum. In other words, if a user can visit forum N, she can see the links that have been created. If she cant visit forum N, the links/categories will be invisible.

c) Regardless of the seeting of default_forumid, if you turn on can_set_permissions for a particular usergroup, then users in that group can over-ride the default_forumid and choose another forum setting instead.

Confused or clear?