Forum Softwares: January 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

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Sunday, January 30, 2011

New Domain Names

1.Aerlo.com (Available)
2.iBlackwood.com (Available)
3.Phoenix.com (Expires on Nov,2011)
4.t20island.com (Available)
5.1isto1.com

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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IPB Skins

Websites for IPB Skins:
http://skinground.com/
http://www.minerskinz.com/

Installing CometChat with IPB

Introduction

This guide will help you through the installation process and get CometChat running on your site.

Installation is very straight forward, only taking about 15 minutes from uploading the files to viewing the CometChat bar on your site.

Before you begin, you will need an FTP client, if you do not have one, some popular solutions include FileZilla (free) or CuteFTP (trial).

You do not need programming knowledge to install CometChat, but a working knowledge of FTP functions is a plus.

This guide assumes that you have successfully downloaded the latest release of CometChat and have the zip file "unzipped" and ready to go. If not, you can download the package from your client area.

The instructions will term the zip file you downloaded as cometchat.zip.

Uploading

At this point, you should have the zip archive cometchat.zip and find a single folder- cometchat

If you don't know already, find out the folder in which IPB is installed.

If you access the forums via 'http://www.domain.com/forums/', then look for the directory called 'forums' in the webroot directory.

If you access the forums via 'http://www.domain.com', then look for the webroot directory.

The "webroot" directory is usually 'public_html' or 'www', but this varies from server to server so if you're unsure, contact your hosting provider.

Using your FTP client, copy the cometchat folder inside your IPB folder. e.g. http://www.domain.com/forums/cometchat (for the first example) andhttp://www.domain.com/cometchat (for the second example)

CHMOD the following file and folder to 777

cometchat/config.php
cometchat/plugins/filetransfer/uploads

Installation

Step 1

You should now run the installer file through your web browser by entering the URL to it into your browser address bar (if you have followed our example, type inhttp://www.domain.com/forums/cometchat/install.php, naturally substituting 'domain.com' for your web address).

Click on the "Click here to see footer code" link and copy all the contents of this new page.

Step 2

Now log-in to your IPB Admin Control Panel (usually http://www.domain.com/forums/admin)

Under the Look & Feel tab, click on the skin name in which you want to add the bar. Now under Global Templates, select globalTemplate

In the textbox, immediately after the opening head tag add the following:

<head>

The above code will be replaced with:

<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>jqcc=jQuery.noConflict(true);</script>

Just before the closing body tag, paste the copied text:

</body>

http://www.cometchat.com/support/page/documentation?record=23
For example, the above code will be replaced with something like: (only change will be src)

<!-- CometChat Footer Code Start -->
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="cometchat/cometchatcss.php" charset="utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="cometchat/cometchatjs.php" charset="utf-8"></script>
<!-- CometChat Footer Code End --> 
</body>

Then click on the "Save" button on top of the textbox.

Now delete install.php file from the cometchat folder.

That's all! Now log-in to your site and you will be able to see the CometChat bar. For customizing the text, icons, plugins, theme and modules, please refer to other documents.

Thank you for purchasing CometChat!

Integrate Chat Bar to IP.Board

Use http://www.cometchat.com/demo

How to Add/Edit Search Drop Down

This may be useful for sites that have a lot of IDM categories.

By default, the search only shows four categories at once in the drop down. There may be times when you only want to search a few categories but the small drop down box is difficult to navigate. It is easy to change this with a small skin edit. :)

ACP > Look / Feel > Skin Manager > (edit skin) > Edit Template HTML > Skin Downloads > Search Form

Find...

<tr>
   <td width='20%' align='right' valign='top'><strong>{$this->ipsclass->lang['search_category']}<
/strong><div class='forumdesc'>{$this->ipsclass->lang['search_cat_extra']}</div><
/td>
   <td align='left'><select name='search_cat[]' multiple='multiple' size='4'>{$cat_options}</select></td>
  </tr>

Replace with...

<tr>
   <td width='20%' align='right' valign='top'><strong>{$this->ipsclass->lang['search_category']}<
/strong><div class='forumdesc'>{$this->ipsclass->lang['search_cat_extra']}</div><
/td>
   <td align='left'><select name='search_cat[]' multiple='multiple' size='10'>{$cat_options}</select></td>
  </tr>

Screen shots (before and after)

http://img.photobuck...nd_search_1.png

http://img.photobuck...nd_search_2.png

:)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

IP.Board Downloads

IPB License:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N86VWSWW

IPB Addons:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AJKCY7I2

CometChat:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IBFYWZEO

How to Edit Navbar in IP.Board

Global templates > Global template

Search for the following code

Code:

{parse variable="helpActive" default="" oncondition="IPS_APP_COMPONENT == 'core' AND $this->request['module'] == 'help'" value="active"}

Note, some skins may be different btw.

add this at the end of the other code

Code:

<li id="nav_members" class="left "><a href="your url" target="_blank" title="put a description of the link here"><span style="">put the link name here</span></a></li>

this should work but you may need to move it about abit to put it in the right place