ChrisTERiS Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) Hello, I'm happy to announce that Forum AddOn for WHMCS has just released. After 5 years experiance on developing modules for vBulletin, and with a portfolio of over 25 of them, I do believe that I had the knowledge to release a Forum Module for WHMCS. Instead to write what it includes is better to say what the current version does NOT includes; Polls PM system Why it does not includes PM system? PMs are fine if you're operating a community. But as I know 95% of you, are operating a Hosting company, or Software company, or something similar. By adding PMs, the only happy part should be your members as they'll have another way to bomb you with the same question. You know very well that, there are sooooo many impatient members who want a reply right now. That's why they post in forum, they send PM, and of course they open a support ticket too. All of them for the same issue. PMs will also make happy your competitors as they'll give a free way to contact in private your members. Don't know if you've the same experiance, or I was the only unlucky coder/webmaster who faced such situations. In any case, I'll not say No to my clients to add this feature, but for sure I'll not use it on my own installation. Price I believe that for 4,000+ lines of code, the price is cheap comparing with other WHMCS Modules. The Lifetime Owned License with 12 months Support and Upgrades costs $79.95. This price also includes Brand Free files, something that most companies sell as seperate option. You can download a Trial version (expires on 11 Feb 2011) from: http://www.whmcsadvanced.com/ForumTrial.zip Please note that deletion of Forums is deactivated in Trial version. Installation: Unpack the zip file and upload all files inside the whmcs directory to your whmcs installation. Login to your Admincp and activate the Module Forum Addon Configure: General Settings (Ignore the license key) Add Forums (Unlimited depth of Forums) Modify the default Usergroups Add Moderators Very Important Only those who already have an account in your WHMCS installation can Activate an account in Forums. Adding a link to your menu You must add a menu to your template to point to forum.php. eg for the Portal template, you must edit the footer.tpl and add: <li><a href="forum.php"><img src="templates/{$template}/images/icons/forum.png" alt="Forum" width="16" height="16" border="0" class="absmiddle" /></a> <a href="forum.php" title="Forum">Forum</a></li> Enjoy it Maria Edited February 4, 2011 by ChrisTERiS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Some more Screenshoots.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 LANGUAGE FILE Please copy the content of English.txt and append it to the original language file. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNS_Harrison Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Very Nice. Almost looks identical to vB which I like. Is there any demo site so we can take a look of the project? I might just go ahead and try out the trial. Also, is it possible to convert my phpbb3 data to this one? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tynman Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I would like to see a demo site please. NJ thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyWHMCS Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Hello Did you add the suggestions i recommended in previous thread ? Custom field on the registration/checkout form for forum username, And auto activate forum account Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Hello Did you add the suggestions i recommended in previous thread ? Custom field on the registration/checkout form for forum username, And auto activate forum account Cheers Not yet, and I'm not sure if I'll add such a feature. It's a bit complicated as I'm using Ajax for username check and I don't like to modify the native WHMCS templates. Actually it's no different that the current way that I'm using. Every client who is visiting the forum is seeing a button at the top center "Activate your Forum Account". Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeqution Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Great work Maria! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Great work Maria! Thank you:) If it goes well on sales (not so much, just an average level), I can do it to ...dance in the near future. I've many ideas in my mind. eg an auto community newsletter which will contains the last forum forum activity. Also I need to study a bit more the widget technology, to be able to add widgets like Latest post, popular posts etc. Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyhaber Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks good. Widgets are fairly simple. Pretty much you can run any of your php code and take in any $_GET variables. After you finish your code execute any values you wish to return and display on the page is done through a javascript write command 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks good. Widgets are fairly simple. Pretty much you can run any of your php code and take in any $_GET variables. After you finish your code execute any values you wish to return and display on the page is done through a javascript write command Thank you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGWH-James Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks promising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsa Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Look very nice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 A quick notice that I've updated the zip file as there was a typo in forum.php and the activation account failed. Please upload just the forum.php Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsa Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 pls check your email they some more bug i find 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 pls check your email they some more bug i find I had a quick look on your email as it's already 10pm in Greece, so I'll work on it tomorrow, but as a quick reply please note that even admins can have account in forum. In simple words everybody needs to have a userid in forums. Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
factor Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Hi, When they browse the forum they see the option to activate their account, they are asked for whmcs login/password and it's ok? do they have the option to use a nickname? can i see a demo somewhere, or a complete feature list/presentation? seems a good idea if i can restrict posting to customers only. does it have SEF urls? Regards 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
factor Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Right now your website whmcsadmin.com doesn't work, do we depend from a licensing server that will make the script unusable if it isn't working? Regards, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
factor Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Hi, When they browse the forum they see the option to activate their account, they are asked for whmcs login/password and it's ok? do they have the option to use a nickname? can i see a demo somewhere, or a complete feature list/presentation? seems a good idea if i can restrict posting to customers only. does it have SEF urls? Regards Just seen that it only allow customers to activate forum account, are the post viewable by all? as knowledgebase and for seo purposes... Regards, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 Just seen that it only allow customers to activate forum account, are the post viewable by all? as knowledgebase and for seo purposes... Regards, Posts are viewable by all but only clients can post. By saying "Clients" I mean all those who have an account in the WHMCS installation. So, if you allow registrations only to your clients, only those can post in forums. If registration in WHMCS is available to all, all can post in forums. No, currently there are no friendly URLs. Demo: http://www.microhellas.com/forum.php (you need to create an account). Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 Please note that the download link has been changed to: http://www.marteri.com/ForumTrial.zip Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
URLhost Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 very nice, not sure if this has been covered in this thread if so i overlooked it: -Will clients be forced to use a nickname? (prefer this for privacy reasons) -Will the source be open? (nothing against you but i have had issues with coders vanishing and whmcs updates made addons not function) Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTERiS Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 very nice, not sure if this has been covered in this thread if so i overlooked it: -Will clients be forced to use a nickname? (prefer this for privacy reasons) -Will the source be open? (nothing against you but i have had issues with coders vanishing and whmcs updates made addons not function) Thanks 1.- Yes. They must use a nickname, even if my first thought was to use the real name. Don't forget that by using WHMCS means that you community is not a hobbist one. But later on I decided to use nicknames and have an editable field for first name. 2.- That's my hell. Working for vBulletin and following the fact that it has visible code, I used to release addons (have more than 25) with 100% visible source code. With WHMCS is different. WHMCS itsselft is encrypted, and all the addons (even the simpliest) are also encrypted. So, I must follow this path here. The only different is that the license check will take place just once during the initial installation. Maria 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
URLhost Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 yeah i thought the name sounded familiar, i remember seeing you around vb.org 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tynman Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Can you please provide a working demo and also http://www.marythegeek.com/portfolio.php isn't working form me. Not Found The requested URL /forum.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at http://www.microhellas.com Port 80 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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