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| Topic:Code incompatibility? | Arariel New Member

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pm | | Code incompatibility? (12th Jan 12 at 3:53pm UTC) | | I'm using the Floating Menu code, along with Reorder Select Menu Buttons, but when both codes are used together, the Reorder select menu buttons doesn't work at all.
Edit: I've tried to add various codes of Wrighty's, and either they don't work, or they're not compatible together. What gives? | |
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| Topic:Personal text not showing on forum | Arariel New Member

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pm | Personal text not showing on forum (30th Dec 11 at 8:24am UTC) Resolved | | Experienced By: Everyone, from what I can tell. Browser: Opera (and tested in Safari) Operating System: Windows 7
Problem: Myself and several of my members have entered personal text, however, they do not show in our profiles, or on thread pages. I don't have any codes on my forum, and from what I can see, there isn't any setting I have wrong.
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| Topic:Question about VF | Arariel New Member

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pm | | Re: Question about VF (16th Dec 11 at 7:12pm UTC) | | | Thanks, Ross. Are there any coding forums I could get codes from? | |
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| Topic:Skin Customize? | ashkir Full Member
  
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pmskypemsnyahoo | | Re: Skin Customize? (19th Oct 11 at 5:28am UTC) | | | Hi there. Most of the graphics were custom done for vForums. Hence, they cannot be changed. However if you go to your skin options you can change the hex codes of the other options outside of graphics. | |
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| Topic:Facebook Posting Mod | dog199200 Guest | | Facebook Posting Mod (16th Aug 11 at 11:04pm UTC) | | I know this code might be a bit complex, so i'm not sure if anyone would by willing to try it, but I was wondering if someone could possibly make me a code so that when a staff member of a certain group starts a post within a certain board, that message is them posted onto the wall of the facebook page added in the code.
That means there should be 3 input fields i'd need to fill out. Facebook Page URL, Groups I want to be able to post the message, and the id of the board the codes assigned to. Also might need the Facebook API Code for the code to work.
I have an idea how how the facebook api works, but I have never been good with JS, and am even worse now that all I do is PHP and C#.. If no one wants to try this that's fine, I understand, but I would greatly appreciate it. | |
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| Topic:Headers / Footers positioning | dog199200 Guest | | Re: Headers / Footers positioning (9th Aug 11 at 9:04pm UTC) | | I could be wrong, but I think you're miss understanding the system. The system doesn't determine where each area is on the forum, it determines priorities. So if you have conflicting codes, the one with the higher priority will load first overriding the other code.
I do agree this should be added though. Being able to adjust the load priorities of the templates would be great. Some of us have coding in the templates that should have a higher priority than other areas.
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| Topic:Showing a forum in an Iframe? | Marc vChat Developer
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pmwww | | Re: Showing a forum in an Iframe? (24th Feb 11 at 11:58pm UTC) | | In terms of whether or not it's possible, placing your forum into an iframe will work. However, as Graham said, iframes really aren't good practice to use in codes; it's much better to link people right to your forum.
Also, I'm not 100% sure what the rule is on forums in iframes; probably best to wait and see what Ross says. | |
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| Topic:General Activity | Nick Very Senior Member
    
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pmwww | | Re: General Activity (22nd Feb 11 at 6:29pm UTC) | | I agree with Michael on Ross's suggestion
I could offer up iCodes to become the official forum? I could redesign it, and the coders here could come in, and enter the codes into the Database.
Of course, I guess the owner also has to have advanced coding skills to eh? | |
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| Topic:General Activity | dog199200 Guest | | Re: General Activity (21st Feb 11 at 11:35pm UTC) | | Broken, I do agree that the Support forum is inactive, but that doesn't mean we don't care about vForums. If you have a look at the Users Online Today, you see that there are quite a few of us who check in every day. I know that all of the staff have full-time jobs, and many have relationships and other things in their lives that keep them busy, as well. We still post when we have the time available to do so, but unfortunately sometimes that's easier said than done. You yourself said you're not as active as you'd like to be because of other things taking up most of your time. Also, saying that the Arcade system has been "blown off" really isn't a fair statement. An arcade system is quite a large undertaking, requiring server space first of all (so it costs money to undertake), and quite a bit of time to complete. I personally have had a few attempts at it, but it's a little difficult to spend hours and hours on it (even over a period of a few weeks) when you have a full-time job, a part-time job, a freelance job, an internship, and getting loans/grants/applications/pape rwork/etc together for college, all while trying to find some time to fit in a social life, as well, haha. So I really don't think it's a lack of interest; it just takes a lot of work from the whole community to get a forum from an inactive state to a self-sustained active state, and as you yourself know, life is very busy at times. The levels of activity do fluctuate (usually being quite a bit busier in the summer when things are generally slower for most people), so I personally think it will pick itself up as time goes on and peoples' schedules open up. If you look at the vForums home page, you can see that the growth is still steady, so the service as a whole is growing and succeeding just fine. While I do agree that it would be nice to have an active Support community, I don't necessarily think it's anyone's "fault".
First not once did I say no one cared XD and sorry if it sounded like I was picking on anyone, just thought it be nice to give the staff a hard time every once in a while But i realize its everyone's fault but there is little things that only staffs can do. AKA cleaning up the code database XD heck Most of the codes can be removed OR at least updated to explain how to remake the effect using the template system. The menu button codes are a great example Though I can'tr complain much because NO matter how often I try i'm just not good at javascript. Heck i'm a lot better at PHP, but even then I still make stupid mistakes, especially when i'm programming while tired.
Think of this like the "Big Community" (I guess only UK members will get that  ) Still all the details to sort out on this, but the idea would be to have semi-official community run forums filling these gaps. I've seen other forum providers try this in the past but don't think they ever really offered enough support or incentive to get such things running. Initial thoughts?
I'm a bit slow today, not sure what your talking about. (--> American) xD | |
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| Topic:General Activity | Vanquish Junior Member
 
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pmvForum | | Re: General Activity (21st Feb 11 at 6:54pm UTC) | | I know its the support forum, so it should highly relate to vforums related topics. But if the support forum had graphics boards/contests/resources, general topics such as media/sport/entertainment and basically took the step into making it a massive forum for everyone involved atm.
This would (hopefully) generate interest in the software, then others would be able to create their own forums, and obviously be able to advertise them greatly too.
Now the boards I suggested arent specific, but only a start.
Another inferiour software support board has: - - Skinning boards (requests/premades/graphic requests(buttons, etc.) and codes. - Graphic specific boards (battles, design discussion and tutorials.) - Competitions to help advertise forums, battle of the boards, forum of the week.
Now these are only some ideas and comparisons, but the above example has a thriving community. This certainly isnt a criticism, as I would be one of the members who has slipped away since I first registered here, but it is still my favourite forum software. | |
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| Topic:General Activity | dog199200 Guest | | General Activity (20th Feb 11 at 2:05pm UTC) | | I've been here for several years, and i'm not really around that often anymore cause I've been consumed into my own projects not counting the long list of projects i get stuck doing for Nick but regardless of that i'm still one of the top posters around here. I find it rather odd honestly. You look at other forum services and their support forums are always active. Though I'm not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing as it could mean the people there are friendly or the service is so poor that people always have to request help. vForums is a great service, even if feature production has slowed down a lot over the last year, and yet the support forum is dead. No code requests, not many people talking on here. So Ross should be proud or concerned. I mean he has this great service and yet no one is around which could mean either no one likes the service and has abandoned it OR the service is so good that its self sufficient and people don't need to be around here for resources.
Just makes me wonder, if you could take control of everything for a single day with the ability to change, add, or even remove anything from the service; What would it be?
Personally if I was to change anything around here i'd have to say a more productive community. I shouldn't be one of the top posters around here when i'm never around anymore. That doesn't just got for members either, that goes for staff as well. We all have our own lives, but even still you look at other services and they have a lot of mods, skinning templates, etc because they have an active community as well as active staff. I mean if you look at the code database here, the service has changed so much that half the codes don't work anymore and most of those that do still work aren't even needed do to the template system.
Thats just my two sense of it all, love to hear what you'd all think. | |
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| Topic:API Error | dog199200 Guest | | API Error (11th Feb 11 at 11:19am UTC) | | Forum URL: http://www.shiningashes.vforums.us Site URL: http://www.shiningashes.net/
Problem:
 Code: - Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/REMOVED/public_html/index.php on line 71
Ross,
For some reason since the migration to the new server i've been getting this error because of the API system. I can no longer login via my website, or anything else. I had changed nothing within my programming. Here is the codes i've been using incase its a problem resulting in something being changed within the API:
Code Giving The Error:
 Code: - <?php
- $news_articles = $vforums_api -> get_recent(Array(
- "board" => "publicupdates",
- "mode" => "topics",
- "show_locked" => "1",
- "allow_all" => "1",
- "max" => "1"
- ));
- foreach($news_articles as $post) {
- ?>
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- <div class="content">
- <h2>News</h2>
- <div class="text">
- <div class="right"><?=date('l dS \of F Y', $post['timestamp']);?></div>
- <h4 class="subject"><u><?=$post['subject'];?></u></h4>
- <blockquote><?=$post['message'];?></blockquote>
- <div style="text-align : right;">~ <b><?=$post['display_name'];?></b></div>
- </div>
- </div>
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- <?php
- }
- ?>
API Include Statement:
 Code: - <?php
- include_once('/home/REMOVED/public_html/includes/vforums_api.php');
- $vforums_api = new vforums_api('shiningashes.vforums.us', 'REMOVED');
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- $user_info = $vforums_api -> login_user("user", "pass");
- $logged_in = $user_info? true : false;
- ?>
Then i'm calling it into every page using:
 Code: - include("/home/REMOVED/public_html/includes/forumdata.php");
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| Topic:Getting close... | Nick Very Senior Member
    
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pmwww | | Getting close... (25th Jan 11 at 9:23pm UTC) | | Well I am getting close to getting my forum done to look like my site. But I seem to not be able to get it done correctly.
Have a look http://ihosting.co.cc -- > http://support.ihosting.co.cc
I need the menu buttons to be put inside the purple area with the lines, (like on the site) and I need to get the hover effect in it's place too. If I can just get these codes/images to work properly. The forum would be completely done, besides the link colors.
If anyone of you could help me out, that would be great.
Also if this is in the wrong area, please move to the correct board. | |
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| Topic:Designing some premade skins | Vanquish Junior Member
 
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pmvForum | | Re: Designing some premade skins (7th Aug 10 at 5:01pm UTC) | | Although the premade skins available at the minute are top quality, Was just thinking if there was an even bigger selection it may appeal to possible users.
Thanks for the option to request some codes though wrighty | |
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| Topic:Designing some premade skins | Michael Moderator
    
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pmvForum | | Re: Designing some premade skins (7th Aug 10 at 4:06pm UTC) | | If you need any codes, shoot a request, and I'll try to get them done for you ASAP!
Would be good to get some new skins! | |
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| Topic:Thinking of Converting... | Johnny New Member

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pm | | Re: Thinking of Converting... (7th Jul 10 at 5:37pm UTC) | | If you were to look at our stats, you'd see that we're actually very active; it's just our support forum that isn't. It's actually a good thing, because it means that people are very happy with the service as-is; they don't need support because everything works well, they don't report bugs cause they don't encounter any, they don't ask for codes because so much is built-in, etc. ah. makes sense i guess  . well then this forum is epic pwnage =D You seem overly excited.... Do you snort coke?
uh..no, i dont do drugs, that's bad
and i am always overly excited when i visit Vforums because the features are awesome =D
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| Topic:Thinking of Converting... | conradwbauman Guest | | Re: Thinking of Converting... (7th Jul 10 at 2:27pm UTC) | | Welcome. smart thing converting here, this place rocks! they have sub sub sub sub sub sub sub boards  , which calls for easier organization which is epic pwnage  . unlike "ProBoards" =O this place may not be as active, but still pwns =D. once Vforums gets known it will get better If you were to look at our stats, you'd see that we're actually very active; it's just our support forum that isn't. It's actually a good thing, because it means that people are very happy with the service as-is; they don't need support because everything works well, they don't report bugs cause they don't encounter any, they don't ask for codes because so much is built-in, etc. ah. makes sense i guess  . well then this forum is epic pwnage =D
You seem overly excited....
Do you snort coke? | |
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| Topic:Thinking of Converting... | Johnny New Member

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pm | | Re: Thinking of Converting... (7th Jul 10 at 2:27am UTC) | | I'm thinking of converting from "that one place you may not be able to mention here" to this place. So, convert me. Welcome. smart thing converting here, this place rocks! they have sub sub sub sub sub sub sub boards  , which calls for easier organization which is epic pwnage  . unlike "ProBoards" =O this place may not be as active, but still pwns =D. once Vforums gets known it will get better If you were to look at our stats, you'd see that we're actually very active; it's just our support forum that isn't. It's actually a good thing, because it means that people are very happy with the service as-is; they don't need support because everything works well, they don't report bugs cause they don't encounter any, they don't ask for codes because so much is built-in, etc.
ah. makes sense i guess . well then this forum is epic pwnage =D | |
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| Topic:Thinking of Converting... | Marc vChat Developer
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pmwww | | Re: Thinking of Converting... (7th Jul 10 at 1:27am UTC) | | I'm thinking of converting from "that one place you may not be able to mention here" to this place. So, convert me. Welcome. smart thing converting here, this place rocks! they have sub sub sub sub sub sub sub boards  , which calls for easier organization which is epic pwnage  . unlike "ProBoards" =O this place may not be as active, but still pwns =D. once Vforums gets known it will get better
If you were to look at our stats, you'd see that we're actually very active; it's just our support forum that isn't.
It's actually a good thing, because it means that people are very happy with the service as-is; they don't need support because everything works well, they don't report bugs cause they don't encounter any, they don't ask for codes because so much is built-in, etc. | |
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| Topic:Hidden Var codes | Michael Moderator
    
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pmvForum | | Re: Hidden Var codes (1st Jul 10 at 12:26pm UTC) | | Not the best code but try taking a look at Mini Profile Background Image .
A while back, it was discussed about attempting to form some standard in the way that items are stored within this hidden field. We came up with the solution of: {variable:parameters}. Where variable is something unique to your code - Eg: the code above uses: "vf_mp" as the variable, and the information to be stored is set as the parameters.
Have a read of that code above, and let me know if there's anything further you need help with.
Edit: Profile Spoler Area is a slightly better written code that does the same thing - using w_spoiler as the variable | |
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| Topic:Hidden Var codes | Michael Moderator
    
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pmvForum | | Re: Hidden Var codes (30th Jun 10 at 8:09am UTC) | | What exactly do you want? O.o
Want us to tell you how to use it orrr....? | |
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| Topic:simple html. | Ross Administrator
    
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | | Re: simple html. (6th Jun 10 at 9:27am UTC) | | Unfortunately this won't be added for the same reason as it hasn't been added when suggested before. It is too big of a security risk. Even if filters were in place there is a good chance that a good XSS attacker would be able to get around them.
Staff members can use header/footer controls/codes to accomplish the same thing. | |
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| Topic:Lottery System v1 | dog199200 Guest | | Re: Lottery System v1 (25th May 10 at 4:31am UTC) | | | Well that is nice to hear. I don't use a lot of codes here at all, all the codes I used all got replaced by the template system but it would be nice to see some new codes around since you, ross, and michael are the only people here that do any codes for the community. | |
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| Topic:info center Birthday error | Nick Very Senior Member
    
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pmwww | | Re: info center Birthday error (1st May 10 at 6:02am UTC) | | Oddly enough. . . it sorted it's self out. o.o
I took a picture, so I know I'm not crazy!
http://dmtesting.vforums.co.uk/
I always add codes onto my testing forum, to make sure they work, and see what they do, before I officially add them to the main forum, I am adding it too. | |
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