Vanilla-Forum Integration as modx-snippet

Here is an upgrade to this integration.
Made some work to run vanilla as snippet.

Some Instructions:

1. Upload all files to folder /assets/snippets/vanilla
2. use phpMyAdmin or heidisql and run /assets/snippets/vanilla/conf/MODx/install.sql
3. create the Forum-Ressource with empty or blank Template and content: [!vanilla!]
4. create snippet with content from assets/snippets/vanilla/vanilla.modxsnippet.php.txt
5. modify this line: $vanilla_docid=xxx;
6. Rename file /assets/snippets/vanilla/conf/database.php to databasetemp.php or something like that
7. Rename file /assets/snippets/vanilla/conf/settings.php to settingstemp.php or something like that
8. start Install at www.yourdomain.com/assets/snippets/vanilla/setup/
9. use the same database as your modx , table-prefix: LUM_ as it is.
10. modify /assets/snippets/vanilla/conf/database.php see databasetemp.php for example
11. modify /assets/snippets/vanilla/conf/settings.php see settingstemp.php for example
12. modify /assets/snippets/vanilla/conf/MODx/settings.php. I think you can do the modifications of conf/settings.php also do here.
13. now you can call your forum-page. Also login with weblogin or webloginPE should work now.
14. That all links work you need friendly-urls on and modify your .htaccess. Example see: /assets/snippets/vanilla/modx.htaccess
15. change the value in field lum_RoleID in table modx_web_users to -> 4 for you to be a vanilla-admin.
16. modify vanilla-templates. See example: /assets/snippets/vanilla/themes/modinnung <- this is my theme, copy or modify it to your needs
The page is now created by vanilla, but you can insert modx-elements for example with
echo ’{{vanilla_nav}}’;
see for example: /modxinnung/menu.php oder modxinnung/head.php (echo $HeadString . ’{{vanilla_head_css_scripts}}</head>) for your own css-files from modx-chunk

modified files, because ’global $Head’ did not work in modx:
this is needed for admin-work like modifing Categories and Roles.
/assets/snippets/vanilla/appg/init_vanilla.php ->$GLOBALS[’vanillahead’]= &$Head;//by Bruno
/assets/snippets/vanilla/library/Vanilla/Vanilla.Control.CategoryForm.php ->$Head= &$GLOBALS[’vanillahead’];//added by Bruno
/assets/snippets/vanilla/library/People/People.Control.RoleForm.php ->$Head= &$GLOBALS[’vanillahead’];//added by Bruno

perhaps someone finds it usefull.

wow thanks for sharing Bruno!

perhaps someone finds it usefull.

well, that’s for sure

Great, thanks for sharing

is there a working example of this ??

working examples are here:
http://bruno.tattoocms.de/Forum.html
but there is no registration-form at this time
http://www.rgmarktheidenfeld.de/forum.html

Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

THANKS for sharing!!

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Hi Bruno, I’ve followed your instructions to the letter but I’m getting this error when I visit the forum page when Im logged in:

An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the requested user.
Affected Elements
UserManager.GetSessionDataById();
The error occurred on or near: Table ’interne_modx.LUM_web_user_attributes’ doesn’t exist


Only thing different on my installation is I dont use a prefix on my modx db tables.

Good skills on the mod by the way.

Hi Kush,
normally you should never come to this line. Try to log out. Clear all caches and login again.

You can also try to change in assets/snippets/vanilla/library/MODx/MODx.Class.Authenticator.php
line about 124. there is no table-prefix for function-call:

Hi Bruno

Thanks for these instructions.

I have installed vanilla 2, do you know the changes to the instructions above to allow Vanilla 2 to integrate with the Modx snippet?