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Simon Phillips

Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:54:19 pm

Hi,

I need to install forums into my existing ezPublish site. I have the 'forum' package installed, but there are no content classes or any other obvious forum settings. How do I set up a forum? After 2 hours of trawling the forums, all I've found is references to obscure functions in ezpublish 2.1 and a suggestion to 'copy and paste' from the demo site.

Copy and paste what?

I feel like I must be missing something obvious here - surely having the package 'installed' means the classes should be there too?

Please help!
Simon

kracker (the)

The Doctor

Tuesday 15 February 2005 1:14:39 pm

Honestly,

And I could be wrong, so don't hold me to it but ...

<b>If</b> you don't see any forum classes / objects in your eZ publish administrator, then odds are you did not install the (optional) forum component.

Example Screenshot of, Step 6: Site functionality (Setup Wizzard): http://ez.no/ez_publish/guided_tours/setup_wizard_guide/step_6_site_functionality

I really don't think you have the forum options installed.
If I were you, I would restart the setup and try again or start over from scratch. Pay close attention to make sure your installing into the correct database.

Hope this helps,

//kracker
Akrobatik - Don't Fear

Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/

Simon Phillips

Tuesday 15 February 2005 3:20:58 pm

That is entirely possible!

However, the site is somewhat developed - I really don't want to start again from scratch just to add this functionality. What do these options actually do on the filesystem/database layer? Can I import them by hand? I have no worries about getting my hands dirty in SQL and php!

Thanks,
Simon

kracker (the)

The Doctor

Tuesday 15 February 2005 3:36:55 pm

I believe you can simply restart the setup wizard and do an in-place upgrade.

By adding a setting to your settings/siteaccess/(name)/site.ini.append.php which will restart the site in setup mode.

# Simply Add this value to enable the setup wizard.
# Set to true if you want the setup system to be activated
CheckValidity=true

Once you have done this I belive you can simply hit the site as normal to update your site existing code / database without over writing your existing information.

I belive it is Step 7: Site details which will give you the option (not shown on the screenshot below) that will prompt you how to deal with the existing database information.

http://ez.no/ez_publish/guided_tours/setup_wizard_guide/step_7_site_details

You might want to double check this to make sure, and always backup your code and database before doing things your not familiar with ...

Sadly I do not know of a simple way of doing this with just sql and source code, ( I too wish for the alternative to the setup ) sadly I think this is the only way.

cheers,
//kracker

Coldplay : The Scientist

Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/

Simon Phillips

Tuesday 15 February 2005 3:49:12 pm

Thanks for your help with this one - very much appreciated.

Although the packages were supposedly installed, something had gone wrong - as you indicated. Fortunately, I've got it working fine by uninstalling and re-installing the forums package from the setup screen.

So just a tip for anyone else out there who's missing classes - <b>try a re-install of the package</b>. It worked for me!

Simon