Vanilla-Forum Integration as modx-snippet

vanilla 2 is a complete rewrite and will not work with this integration.
This integration is only for vanilla 1.x, which is also included in this download.

Hi Bruno

I have got the forum up and running thanks to your instruction, but i cannot get web users to sign in and then use the forum.

I am using this call to Weblogin

[!WebLogin? &loginhomeid=`5` &logouthomeid=`4`!]

I also have a registration page on the site.. do you know what I need to add to this to allow web users to access the forum? I haven’t tried WebloginPE yet tho....

normally if you are logged in, you have access to the forum.
did you really follow all my steps?
I see on your forum the links are not working correctly. Did you modify your htaccess-file as instructed?
There seems also something to be wrong with your login. I get only blank screen after registration or login.
See my two examples above, where vanilla is completly integrated in the rest of my pages.
I don’t know what goes wrong with your installation.

The only steps I was not too sure of was these

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.
So I changed these in step 6,7 they get changed back after the install, then I changed them to databasetemp, settingstemp, and settingstemp in vanilla/conf/MODx/ and nothing worked so that’s why I have left them as they where without the temp. This could be my problem ill try changing them back.

14. That all links work you need friendly-urls on and modify your .htaccess. Example see: /assets/snippets/vanilla/modx.htaccess

I have friendly URL turned on,,, Do you mean I should copy the PHP from modx.htaccess into .htaccess, I am not sure what you mean by modify your .htaccess?

16. modify vanilla-templates. See example: /assets/snippets/vanilla/themes/modinnung <- this is my theme, copy or modify it to your needs
I have changed my theme, I still need to edit the CSS tho. To look like my site but it does not load into my site like your examples I don’t know why this is.

I have one question. Is it possible to upgrade Vanilla (current version 1.1.10, your package version 1.1.7) without any trouble?
Thank you for this bridge!

all files of this package are hopefully upgraded files of 1.1.10

Is it possible to use the web permissions system of MODx instead of the permissions system for vanilla?

I have a few web usergroups on my MODx installation and I want each group to have access to specific forums.

in vanilla you can assign user to one group(role)
and you can create categories with assigned groups to them.

the role for each user is the field lum_RoleID in modx_web_users.

I’m sure there is a way to synchronise these role_id with given webuser_groups.

perhaps with a plugin OnWebLogin or OnBeforeWebLogin you can check the usergroup and modify the roleID if necessary.

Hi,

I have a question regarding friendly URL configuration.
Is it necessary to set "Use Friendly URL alias path" to "YES" in the MODx system configuration of Friendly URLs?

Regards,
Udo

No.