SMF with modx from newbie to newbie

FINALLY!!!
Just found reason for blank page after installing bridge! It is unbelievable simple: SMF has an option "Compress pages for saving traffic" (DB name - ’enableCompressOutput’ )checked by default. Just turn it off and that’s it!
Hope it will help!

Steel,

You are a ruddy hero.

Thank you so much. Despite my post above, my forum page had reverted to blank upon syncing users. Your solution seems to be working.

Tx Tx Tx.

O.

Thought I’ d let you know, I had an issue with the SMF icons lining up vertically when posting a reply.
After consulting the SMF community, I was advised to put a on the wrapper.
And that did the trick.

It’s been a while since anyone has added to this thread. I’m trying to bridge SMF 1.1.6 with modx 0.9.6.2.
I’ve installed the SMF v1.0 bridge as discussed in another forum post here as well as following the steps in this thread.

Problems I’m encountering, are around paths and friendly search engine links.
currently www.mysite.com/forum.html?action=admin is just displays the forum index, same for the other actions.
Yet forum/index.php?action=admin does work. I’m interested to know what people have put in their .htaccess file.

Also I’m finding the login/logout action isn’t working too well, does the modx SMF connector module work with 1.1.6??

Other concerns is over timeout, Ive set the tiimeout on SMF to 60mins, but I do not see any timeout setting on modx confguration pages.

By the way, I’ve disabled admin verification and my modx is in / and forum is in /forum/

I’d be interested to know if anyone has SMF 1.1.6 or even 2.0b4 working inside modx, with modx doing all the login/register/logout code. Lastly, has anyone managed to get the SMF copyright displaying properly?

I guess the alternative would be to use the forum like modxcms site does and use SSI to handle the login/logout operations. This might be the only way to do it, with the modx md5 key != smf salted key problem - or is there a way round that too?

Hoping we can pick up this integration and make it super-smooth. Some matching modx/smf templates would be nice too.

A big thanks to everyone who’s been working on modx<>smf integration so far. Your posts are REALLY appreciated.

Hi, every time I change the configuration settings in the SMF connector module, I then run the module, and sync. After that I get a compression error in Firefox and the forum needs to be re-installed. Ie shows the forum?
http://www.velocetteclub.nl/forum.html

So... has anyone actually successfully done it. Bug free and all? If so, I suggest a new thread should be sticked, or in the wiki, or in the documentation.

following the guidelines from this thread. by the dot, i got it working, no bugs.

I serious cant get this right, and Ive followed the guide completely. So far i get a forum in my modx template, however the forum looks screwed up and the linkage fixe’s dident do the trick, my forum links are all messed up.

Any help appreciated... my from is located here: http://www.norlins.dk/uchihaproject/Forum.html

Thanks

Hi,

Not an expert, but I v got it up and running. Maybe I can help.

So do you mean that at point 5 it all is right. But things get ugly after that point?

Step 5: Preview
When you type in Firefox the url to the forum page (like http://yoursite/forum.html), you should see the forum inside the template of your web site but not very well displayed.
If not, then you have an error. You need to try again from step 1.

All is okay except that it is not really inside your template, no?
At what point does it go wrong?

Quote from: Frank at Apr 14, 2009, 02:56 AM

Hi,

Not an expert, but I v got it up and running. Maybe I can help.

So do you mean that at point 5 it all is right. But things get ugly after that point?

Step 5: Preview
When you type in Firefox the url to the forum page (like http://yoursite/forum.html), you should see the forum inside the template of your web site but not very well displayed.
If not, then you have an error. You need to try again from step 1.

All is okay except that it is not really inside your template, no?
At what point does it go wrong?

Hey Frank, sound good.

I did pass Step 5, since i get the forum to show in my modx. The smf theme is messed up (using a default theme), i guess this can be fixed by styling the theme to fit my modx template.

Well, to start one place; when i view my sourcecode in the browser i get two <head> and doctypes, 1 for my modx in the top of the page and 1 where my forum is inserted. That dosent seem right?

thanks
-j