Extension talk:MediaWiki Bulletin Board

Demo Page
Is there any demo-page to try out this extension? --Nyks 14:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Pretty Cool
I have this running on tmug.org here here are some issues


 * when setting up a fourm, if users only is selected, error is returned, saying forum_perm was left blank
 * it is confusing - what is specials group?
 * PM system - users can't delete a PM - kind of understandable because of delete permissions w/i MW itself

TMUG 01:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


 * thanks for the demo. But we need to be a member to post and there is no message. The only way to really know how it works still seems to install it. Any other demo? --70.52.210.6 14:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Simple, effective
I installed MediaWiki Bulletin Board here on Dirtopia. Some of the CSS is embedded, but what do you want? It's version 0.1! Thanks. --Travisk 07:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Error message
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /chroot/home/yes0song/wiki/extensions/mwbb/mwbb.php:95) in /chroot/home/yes0song/wiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 9

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /chroot/home/yes0song/wiki/extensions/mwbb/mwbb.php:95) in /chroot/home/yes0song/wiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 9

--Yes0song 10:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I also have this problem. The output started at is whichever page you currently are accessing. --68.150.34.225 03:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Admin panel
I can't see the link to the Admin panel anywhere. There is text saying visit the Admin panel, but no link. How do I access it. Thanks Gsix14 08:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Install.php did not work for me
Install.php did not work for me. So, I copied the  into MySql to create a table. I replaced the  with the prefix of my data, and it worked. I have MediaWiki v1.9 and I didn't find the code on SkinTemplate.php mentioned in the pm install section. Is this because v1.9 has its own pm message function?--Kohyin 07:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Typo in common.php
Hello developper. I use MWBB-0.1.zip. I attached diff file. --- common.php.orig    2007-03-31 12:10:22.000000000 +0900 +++ common.php 2007-03-31 12:10:22.000000000 +0900 @@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ 'no_cat_admin'=>'There is no category. Please create a category first!', 'no_cat_delete'=>'There is only 1 category. You can\'t delete all categories!!', 'no_forum_delete'=>'There is only 1 forum. You can\'t delete all forums!!', -'powered_by'=>' Forum section Powered by MWBB ' +'powered_by'=>' Forum section Powered by MWBB ' )); ?> --Kamataki 03:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Help!
http://kdeopsys.110mb.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Forum (my site) is set up but not working. HELP!

Nice bit of software. Modding it up now.
For a 0.1 version bit of code, this is pretty darned decent. Seems to work just peachy in mediawiki 1.9. I am using it as a framework and trying to supe it up a little to do some of what I need. First off, I have set up the topic display to be actually readable... in the existing version, long topics are pretty much illegible. Next up I am de-embedding all the CSS. When I have made a slightly more skinnable version with the CSS separate I will post it here for all to enjoy. If I can get avatars and things like that working after, I will continue to post any successes here.

221.29.158.74 05:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiCode
I've worked on enabling wikicode on MWBB. I'm not a programmer, you see, but i've tried out something like that:

1. I found the lines in topic.php: $html.=' |  '.$skin->makeKnownLink('Special:Post/reply','Quote','tid='.$topic_data['topic_id'].'&quote='.$data[$i]['post_id']); $html.=' '; $html.=' '; }  return $html; } And after "return $html" and before " } " i've put $html=$wgOut->addHTML($html); $html=$wgOut->addwikiText($html);

That's providing an bold ( bold ), italic ( italic ) text, links ( links ), and graphics. The signatures ( and ~ ) does not work.

I'm testing it now.

Author?
I couldn't find the author for this page when adding the template Bouncingmolar 02:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Compatibility problems with IE7.
--TDeeming 09:59, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * After installing to my MW 1.93... and using several of the hints above to get it working... Thanks!
 * like manually creating the msql tables...
 * I found that the monobook skin layout was distorted.
 * There is a space between the tabs and the pages.
 * The navigation bar has disappeared on some pages... like the help page...
 * I had experienced this after installation of the "myblogs" extension... but at some point the problem just went away, but I am not sure why.
 * Just for fun, I decided to try another browser (Firefox 2.0)... and the format of the pages was fine.


 * The MWBB extension itself "appears" to be working without any immediate problems, but with this formating problem with IE7... I'm afraid I will have to disable it again.


 * I also entered this information on the sourceforge site Bulliten Board... but it seems as if nobody is monitoring it.


 * Anyone have any ideas?

Monobook formatting
I finally found an easy way to install a forum but this extension causes me too much trouble to adjust it to my needs. Same formatting problem in IE as described above and even in Firefox when the edit/post box appears, the sidebar shows up below the body content (works fine in other skins though). I'd be happy to see the post box at the bottom of the topic, working like Extension:ArticleComments which is great.

EditToolbar
Why does the EditToolbar doesn't appear when posting / editing

Style
Configuring the style (colors, backgrounds, etc.) in the php files is hard work and doesn't work at all with monobook. Most important for me: Background color for topic rows in forum and posts in topic.

Preview button
Instead of the (useless) Reset button a Preview buton would make much more sense.

Normal text format instead of wiki format
The text should be formatted like in pre tags to enable easy posting like in a normal forum, cos the tag is a hell of a bitch :)

Some wiki codes are already ignored so maybe this would be easy to implent?

Number of topics / replies
The Admin forum lists the number of topics (not working) and posts. I want that overview for the main forums when in Special:Forums where it makes much more sense!

Permalinks
This should def be possible like on Bugzilla.

But since there seems to be no workaround I'd be happy if anyone can recommend another forum extension before i waste too much time configuring and going live with it. --Martin, 2007-08-20