Not dead. Just stagnant. I've put this project up on Google Code to help manage bugs and feature requests. If you encounter a bug please enter an issues in the Google Code Issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/vbnetwork/

I have a messageboard interested in networking with my board which will help in the development of the plugin. I hope to make updates to it soon and take it out of beta and have vb 4.0 support.

If you use a word censor the posts on your forum will get censored and posts sent to other forums will also be censored... Uncensored forums will see uncensored words in their own posts but still see the **** in posts from censored forums- basically the way it should work.

You can ban users from another site in the network options.

When i run the task i get this msg: unable to create incoming packet file

When i do a local test in the dir network i succeed in creating a file with fopen.

Any idea?

Network: NET
Destination Node: otb
Node service URL: http://forums.otherboard.net/network/service.php
Package file: (./network/packets/outgoing/thb.otb.xml)
Package size: 422063 bytes
Response:

<br /><strong>Warning</strong>: fopen(./network/packets/incoming/thb.OTB.1277668410.xml) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <strong>[path]/network/service.php</strong> on line <strong>152</strong><br /><br /><strong>Warning</strong>: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:3283) in <strong>[path]/network/service.php</strong> on line <strong>26</strong><br /><response>
<action>accept_package</action>
<result type="error">unable to create incoming packet file</result>
</response>

Sounds like the plugin cannot write to the packets directories. Make sure that /network/packets/outgoing and /network/packets/incoming both have write access. Do chmod 777 on both, as instructed in the docs.

Hi, i read on the 4.0 version of this plugin that you found a way to show avartars with the usernames.

Is this fix also availbale for the 3.8 version?

you should be able to get the avatars working by going to Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager and enable the the "vbNetwork: Add network avs and stuff if it's a network user and forum." I am not sure why it is disabled by default

I run a 3.8.x forum and I have a friend who runs a 4.0.x forum. I am moving my database on his server. We want to share one section of the forum across both sites. Is this possible?

If it is, I'm guessing he would have to install the 4.x version of this mod and I install this one?

I'm having trouble viewing newly added forums on the actual site. I can add them and view them in the ACP with no problems but I can't see them on the actual index page.

Nice Mod, Thanks!!

Can i use this mod to show share certain forums between a vb4 and a vb3.8 board?

I know of the 3 forums in the example (mine is 1) one of them is a 4.0.x forum.

Awesome. Now if only I could show the same members online on both forums.

Does this addon affect performance?

I run it as a cron job and have noticed no hit to performance. The data it's reading and sending is no more then displaying a thread every few minutes anyway so I can't see it ever being an issue.

Installed this mod, and when I click on Network Forum Manager, I get this:
(I removed my ip and username)


Database error in vBulletin 3.8.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT DISTINCT subid FROM vb3_network_sub
WHERE (network_sub.networkid = 1)
ORDER BY subid;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'network_sub.networkid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, September 11th 2010 @ 09:59:07 PM
Error Date : Saturday, September 11th 2010 @ 09:59:07 PM
Script : http://www.divinusguild.org/forums/a...tworkforum.php
Referrer : http://www.divinusguild.org/forums/a...dex.php?do=nav
IP Address : X.X.X.X
Username : XXXX
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.91-log



Is this because I use a table prefix? I saw this post on the 4.0 version

NM, if you use a table prefix, make the diff changes you find here, it will fix it:

http://code.google.com/p/vbnetwork/s...tworkforum.php

I've been wanting this FOREVER. What I'd like to see is this available for multiple forum software packages. phpbb would be a great one to start with. I envision something like that become some sort of standard and eventually working its way into core forum software functionality.

This sort of thing was common place with the old BBS's (ala FIDOnet, WWIVnet, etc).

Has this been resolved?

I'm receiving a lot of XML parser errors (error code 3 when running the scheduled task) when using this mod.

For example, a post with regular quotes is fine:

I'm Matt, AKA "I.M.O.G."

But a post with these quotes is not:

I’m Matt, AKA “I.M.O.G.”

I'm running a network with 8 nodes, so I'm working at improving the parsing code to be a bit more liberal. I've also noticed you have to be careful about the settings on each board - depending on the image settings and such, you may receive errors if one board in the network has more liberal settings configured than another.

yeah, you need to make the max images and max number of characters per post equal on all the boards to prevent the risk of some messages not being accepted and throwing off the whole system. Learned that the hard way.

Working on adding IPB support :)

For anyone using this plugin, you may want to make the following changes to improve the way vbnetwork handles special characters:

Line 320 of "/forums/network/function_network.php" should read:
$xmlstr = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'."\n";

The line just below that should change "=" to ".=".

With that small change, you will eliminate a lot of "error code 3"/XML parsing errors, where the XML feeds are corrupted due to the use of special characters in posts.

I have installed and created a new network. For those wanting to join and network with geekhack.org, please drop me an email at: me [at] imav [dot] org

This is something I have been curious about, tagged... thanks.

No takers??

I've given up on this one.

Tried to upgrade it for vBulletin 4, but failed

i know this is quite old, but I dont see why it isnt working... I am using vb 3.8.11 and PHP 5.6.4 when I try to add new network, upon clicking save the page goes blank and nothing is added in the database.

I have tried going through the files and replacing =& with just a = but still no luck. anyone got his working?