PHP Portals... will it....

[firewired]

Okay, I've looked at YaPP and EZTARCH and both show promise. Once something like this is installed how easy is it to uninstall from your board? Do these portals alter specific files in the original YaBB SE 1.4 set?

I'd like to try both out but I'm concerned that I may find myself inadvertantly stuck with a particular system. Worse, future YaBB upgrades (like 1.4.1) may have compatibility problems when it finds a portal add-in on top of your original installation.

[groundup]

to the best of my knowledge, it is basically the same db schema so all you have to do is delete your files and upload the yabb files if you want to delete

[Michele]

YaPP adds a few tables to the YaBB database - if you remove YaPP, YaBB will just ignore them

YaPP also modifies the template.php and other files in the yabbse directory, so if you want to go back, make sure you keep a copy of those files safe.

It also adds a few more files to Sources, and it may change a few in there, so back up all your YaBB files before installing YaPP if you want to roll back. It adds a few mods (which I like), so you may have to tweak the YaBB install to get all the mods the way you had them before.

At least that's what I've noticed has changed... I installed YaPP (and a clean copy of YaBB) onto a "beta" sub-domain on my site while I play around with it. I haven't installed it on my live site yet. You can see the slightly tweaked site at http://ac2.computers4gaming.com, and the real site at http://ac2m.computers4gaming.com.

HTH, Moya

[phark]

I installed it on a live site first (DOH!)...

When I ran the dbmod.php file, I got some errors, so I went and did some chmod on some things, ran it again and maybe one more time after more errors.

When I finally started it up (after copying the files over), I had three of each menu items on the menu bar.  

I installed the old files that were replaced by YaPP back on the server and went on with life... never did figure out who to fix the YaPP.

Once I realized that everytime I ran dbmod, it mad duplicates (somewhere), I tried it again on a test site and ignored the errors and it worked great.

It looks like a great program from what I have done with it thus far.  My only complaints are the lack of support (Due to the lack of people using it to date, not alot of support in the forum) and their website is down more than it is up.

When I downloaded the install package the second time for the test system, it took almost an hour to download the 500k +/- package and I am on a cable modem.  I emailed them and offered a mirror, which was declined, as they are moving servers.

I hope their new server is online soon, as I think this is an EXCELLANT program and has a great future... its just in a imature state right now.  

Good work guys on a well thought out design and project...  I think you will make it!  

_{The opinons expressed here are just my thoughts and that is that... sue me, beat me, spit on me, but just don't mess up my hair.}

[groundup]

Well.. yapp at it's current site will be back up on saturday with a lot more bandwith.  I would say the support from eric is superb.

* groundup gives a round of applause for Eric and Chris

[Michele]

Well.. yapp at it's current site will be back up on saturday with a lot more bandwith.  I would say the support from eric is superb.

* groundup gives a round of applause for Eric and Chris

Yeah! Will beta .6 be out then??  

[groundup]

according to some insider sources I hear that progress has slowed because of the YaPP site being down.  This source has never been wrong before so I don't know when

[Chris Cromer]

Yes production has slowed because of the server being down, I myself can't access the site to download the source files I need to continue working on it.

So me and Eric are taking a little break from YaPP(until the server is back up). We hope to get 0.6 out soon but right now we are redesigning the YaPP admin center a bit and fixing any bugs that come along.

Sorry about the lack of support at the board, I havn't been able to access it at all myself. Every chance that I get I try to help with support but the server being down has been a real problem for that.

About the dbmod.php if you run it more than once it does multiply the stuff. I will try to find a way of fixing this. Also about the errors, they are not really ocurring, for some reason it is saying there is an error when most of the time there isn't. I will look into this bug as well.

As for uninstalling YaPP and just going with YaBBSE, it should be possible but I am not 100% sure, since I have not tried it myself.

[T-DoG]

I was wondering if YaPP can take its news content not just from threads of one forum, but threads from multiple forums. In other words, it would be nice to be able to have different categories of news items that are basically threads from different forums.

I'm sorry if this question's been answered before.  I don't know much about YaPP because the site is down.  I've been looking at different portal mods of various forums, and it seems only YaBB has a portal mod that supports multiple news forums.  YaBB is really too slow for my purposes though.

[Chris Cromer]

Well at the moment this isn't possible, but that is a very good idea that I would like to impliment. I will ask Eric and see what he thinks.

[phark]

About the dbmod.php if you run it more than once it does multiply the stuff. I will try to find a way of fixing this. Also about the errors, they are not really ocurring, for some reason it is saying there is an error when most of the time there isn't. I will look into this bug as well.

What about just reverse engineering the dbmod file, or putting something in it so it bombs out if its already been run once?

[Chris Cromer]

Actually I already have a plan to fix this and it will be fixed for the 0.6 release. Which will probably be after that stupid server is up and running.

[phark]

Will it be able to fix my semi-installed version now?

[Chris Cromer]

No it is not going to fix the problem with more than one items appearing, that is an easy fix which is on the board(you should look for it once the YaPP board is up).

The only thing I am going to do is make it so that it can only be run once. After it is ran the first time it will tell you that you have already installed it and you cannot run it again. As for those errors, I bet they where blank when it printed out right. For instance, it said mysql error:

but it never displayed an error which means an error never really occured. It was just a bug in dbmod.php I don't know what is causing it but I will look into it.

[phark]

I did look for that... I found things like "delete the duplicate entry"....  Maybe I am dumb (no comments from the peanut gallery on that one), I'll look again.  

Thanks!