Geeklog Plugins by Portalparts - www.portalparts.com

Geeklog forum plugin - version 2.7.3

Author: Blaine Lang < blaine@portalparts.com >

Date: July 19 2008

Requires minimum Geeklog version 1.4 and version 1.4.1+ recommended

This plugin provides a full featured discussion forum with integrated Geeklog features for your community website.

Summary of features:

Summary of version 2.7 changes

This chapter contains the following sections:

If you've enjoyed this plugin, please consider supporting my contributions. These projects require considerable time and effort to create for distribution and ongoing support. The intial version of this plugin was released in 2002.

1) How to Install

You need to manually create the plugins program directories and copy the files to their appropriate directories.

If you are new to installing a geeklog plugin, I recommend that you review the background documentation on how to install a plugin here

Step 0 - Backup your Database

Step 1 - Restore the plugin Archive

Step 2 - Create the required plugin directories

Step 3 - Copy the the required plugin files

Step 4 - Copy the the required theme files

Step 5 - Update or copy the lib-portalparts.php file

Step 6 - Run the plugin install

Step 7 - Update your themes css - style.css file

Step 8 - Setup your forums and review Admin Settings

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2) How to update from version 2.5RC3

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Note: A bug in GL 1.4.1 pre-release may create a SQL error when toggling the enable/disable of the plugin. If this occurs - skip this step and leave it enabled.

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Note: If the forum was still enabled, the centerblock and sideblock will be disabled once you copy over the new code until you complete the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme and theme css - style.css file

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congradulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.7

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3) How to update from version 2.3.x

The update process will update your forum to version 2.6 in one step if version 2.3.x detected

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Note: A bug in GL 1.4.1 pre-release may create a SQL error when toggling the enable/disable of the plugin - skip this step and leave it enabled.

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Note: If the forum was still enabled, the centerblock and sideblock will be disabled once you copy over the new code until you complete the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme files and theme css - style.css file

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congradulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.7

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3) How to update from version 2.6

The update process will update your forum to version 2.7 in one step if version 2.6 detected. No database updates are made other then changing the version displayed.

Step 0 - Backup your Database.

Step 1 - Disable the forum plugin (optional)

Note: A bug in GL 1.4.1 pre-release may create a SQL error when toggling the enable/disable of the plugin - skip this step and leave it enabled.

Step 2 - Restore the plugin Archive

Note: Make a copy of your plugins config.php and compare to the new one if you have made changes. Additionally, do the same for your forum theme files if you have made changes that you don't want to loose.

Step 3 - Run the plugin update

Step 4 - Update your theme

Step 5 - Review Admin Settings

Congradulations - you should now have your forum updated to version 2.6

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4) Theming the plugin look

The plugin uses the new default plugin CSS declarations that were introduced in GL 1.4. Example of the main CSS decalarations used are:

The templates were copied to your theme directory - folder /forum/layout directory

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5) Config.php Settings

Most of the common forum settings are now online settings but there are additional settings in the plugins config.php file

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