I think you gave up too early on Fireboard. It works great. It looks like what you have now also works great. Best of luck.

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You may be right, but unfortunately I was under pressure to get a job done and needed a quick solution. I googled everything and searched every forum I could find but couldn't find a solution using Fireboard. I think the problem is that I was using joomla 1.5 in legacy mode. I think I'm going back to the more stable version of Joomla for my next project. In any case, thanks for your help.

I got it all installed, But forgive my newbie question, HOW DO I Make it appear on my home page?????

I know it is a dumb question, but I have spent 2 hours trying to figure it out.

I figured it out....

does anyone want to know?

I got it all installed, But forgive my newbie question, HOW DO I Make it appear on my home page?????



I know it is a dumb question, but I have spent 2 hours trying to figure it out.



I figured it out....



does anyone want to know?

Yea, its easy, go to your menu configuration, disable Frontpage and enable Fireboard ect ect

Sorry I didn't see this forum before i posted my other post on another page, however it seems more appropriate here... before is the copied post thanks!!!


Hello All!

First off let me apologize for the length of this post, however I am going to try to be as specific as possible.

My name is Andrew and I just finished installing Joomla for a class I am TA-ing for next quarter when I realized that I needed a forum so here I am. I installed FireBoard and did the 'clean install', everything went through error free. In my Joomla account there are about ten accounts, varying in from 'registered' to 'super Administrator' I am currently running Joomla 1.5 in Legacy mode(because that is what FireBoard needs) on a LAMP with php 5, latest greatest Mysql, and open suse.

So I create a category via the Forum Administration section.

I fill out everything including the following settings:
Locked: NO
Public Access Level: All Registered
Include Child Groups: YES
Admin Access Level: Super Administrator
Include child Groups: NO
Review Posts: NO

So in laymen terms, i want only registered students to be able to post and see, and only me, the SA, to be able to moderate on EVERYTHING. I create it then go and check it out using the admin, all is good.

At this point I log in as a registered user 'MrMan', no category is seen. I double check settings, everything looks good however nothing is visible to MrMan. I then fiddle with the settings in the Forum Administration section, and still nothing. Finally I set it so that 'everyone can do everything on everything' then MrMan can do stuff. I slowly change things and work my way back up to the above 'secured' settings and surprisingly it works! I then test it out on another user (different browser) with the user account 'MrsLady'. She sees nothing, just the 'recent post' and 'forum stat' sections, but no category! I go back to MrMan, and he can still see things and post and do everything he is suppose to, if your not logged on it works like it suppose to (by blocking you) just MrsLady is messing up. I went to the DB and checked out if MrsLady and MrMan are different and aside from their emails, and user names, they are EXACTLY THE SAME. So I repeat the steps I did with MrMan, with setting loose privs, then adding privs and the same thing happened. Lastly I tried out one more time with MrMan2 on yet another browser, and the exact same thing happened, nothing is seen, changed privs to loose, re built privs then everything worked

I am guessing that this is not suppose to happen (lest its a new feature ). Since this, I have uninstalled all of FireBoard, re-installed, then uninstalled Joomla and FireBoard re installed, repeated the tests to no avail... I am truly baffled and truly look forward to any light someone can shed on this. Thank you greatly!


Cheers!
-Andrew

So I have gone and started poking around the code / database (not changing just looking) and I have found out why the perms are not working just as is. Something at some time is not updating #__fb_sessions table properly, and therefore the 'allowed' column in the table is never getting anything past 'na'. If I change the na to the proper ID of a category/forum, it works and I am happy, if I don't change it by hand it does not work.

I have installed 1.0.14 on my computer along with FireBoard to make sure that the way I was setting the permissions was right, and I was able to get everything running and all was happy in the world. Things work beautifully out of the box, which makes me want to fix 1.5 even more because I am sure that other people are having this problem also (or could). So can any of the people who have 'poked around' more than myself think of why the 'allowed' column wouldn't be getting updated in 1.5 where as it does in 1.0.14?

Joomla:
When installing FireBoard on a Fresh install of Joomla 1.5 the DB is different in that key tables have had their primary keys changed from ‘table_id’ to ‘id’ causing issues. Specifically table jos_core_acl_aro, and jos_core_acl_aro_groups. These in particular are key ‘session keeper tables’ that are used by FireBoard. To make this work you must go and replace $aro_group->group_id to $aro_group->id. After this everything seems to be working fine.

I tested it out on 1.0.14, and FireBoard worked right out of the box, then I updated from 1.0.14 to 1.5RC4 and it still worked, so this seems to be a problem only if you directly install 1.5RC4

These are the files that need to get changed and the lines that need to get changed:
com_fireboard/sources/fb_pdf.php: $letPass = fb_auth::validate_user($row[0], $allow_forum, $aro_group->group_id, $acl);

com_fireboard/template/default/view.php: $letPass = fb_auth::validate_user($row[0], $allow_forum, $aro_group->group_id, $acl);

com_fireboard/template/default/fb_sub_category_list.php: $letPass = fb_has_read_permission($obj_fb_cat, $allow_forum, $aro_group->group_id, $acl);

com_fireboard/template/default/showcat.php: $letPass = fb_auth::validate_user($row[0], $allow_forum, $aro_group->group_id, $acl);

com_fireboard/template/default/listcat.php: $letPass = fb_has_read_permission($obj_fb_cat, $allow_forum, $aro_group->group_id, $acl);

After doing this, everything SHOULD be working… good luck one and all!

Hi there, I just completed a fresh install of the Joomla cms and am having some problems installing fireboard in it. When selecting the 1.04 complete package from my filestore and clicking upload and install, the cms admin panel returns this error:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(E:Inetpubvhostshellotalent.co.ukhttpdocscomp10900joomlamediaFireBoard_1.0.4_Stable_CompletePackage.zip) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in E:Inetpubvhostshellotalent.co.ukhttpdocscomp10900joomlaadministratorcomponentscom_installeradmin.installer.php on line 175

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move 'C:WINDOWSTempphp7850.tmp' to 'E:Inetpubvhostshellotalent.co.ukhttpdocscomp10900joomlamediaFireBoard_1.0.4_Stable_CompletePackage.zip' in E:Inetpubvhostshellotalent.co.ukhttpdocscomp10900joomlaadministratorcomponentscom_installeradmin.installer.php on line 175

I have installed a fireboard onto another Joomla site before and vaguely remember having a similar problem but I cannot remember how I got it to work, any help would be much appreciated. =)

Hi the_beard,

Thanks for your changes for $letPass. it worked perfectly. another thing I just fixed also is the recent posts section which was not showing any entries. I edited com_fireboardtemplatedefaultpluginrecentpostsrecentposts.php from this:

Line 88

$query = "select gid from #__users where id=$my->id";
$database->setQuery($query);
$database->loadResult();
$group_id = (int)$database->loadObjectList();

to this:

$query = "select gid from #__users where id=$my->id";
$database->setQuery($query);
$group_id = (int)$database->loadResult();

The line $group_id = (int)$database->loadObjectList(); just seemed to be outputting 1 instead of what was actually in the table so I removed it and just set it to the previous line LoadResult.

If anyone else is having the same issue then give this a go.

Cheers

Justin

Andrew--

THANK YOU!

I've been wrestling with this for a few hours tonight, and I just ran across your post. I thought that I had been doing something wrong, that I was being really dense and permissions didn't work they way I expected them to. I changed the files per your post, and everything works perfectly now.

Thanks again!
--TonyV