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Well i might do that when i have a little spare time. But if someone wants to put me in the right direction (links to the relevant article regarding the "extensions") that would be much appreciated. 🙂 I have seen the event listeners. What you describe regarding extensions sounds great but i gotta admit i don't see how it's possible to change the codebase without breaking 3rd party code. Not saying it's not possible i just don't understand how this works but if it works that sounds cool.

I was just briefly looking at the developer blog posts. I do not really understand how you would create something bigger (plugin) than a custom field some css/html and a menu entry though? I mean at the end this requires "hooking in" php code at a specific point, right?

Thanks for the quick replies. I'm happy to hear that. 🙂

I'm currently building a new website which lead me to trying out a bunch of different CMS systems including wordpress joomla drupal typo3 woltlab suite (articles) xenforo + xenaddons article management system winter cms I came to the conclusion that invision community despite originally being a forum software ironically has the best content management system. (Pages Application) Paired with the "Axen Article System in Pages Plugin" + some custom Tweaks it allows me to run multiple independent article/blog sections, each with different custom fields and blocks on my website. Something i simply cannot do with some of the other contenders. With others like wordpress it's possible but you end up with a complex mess + plugin dependency hell. Also if i want to add a forum/community features it's very simple with invision community. Not even possible with wordpress or joomla to the same extent. But now it came to my attention that Invision Community 5 will remove many hooks. I've been told to a point where you can barely extend existing apps (like the pages/cms application) anymore. Is this true? I think the pages/cms application is great, but if you cannot tweak/extend it to your needs with plugins i think it's also pretty useless unfortunately. Sure in some cases customizing the templates will be enough but in others you will need features not included by default. I'm really worried because NOTHING currently available beats/matches invision community but if you guys remove extensibility through plugins this will maybe force me to migrate CMS applications to wordpress. By the way i've already been an ikonboard user. So i'm using your products (on and off) for a long time now.

I just did that. 🙂

That looks to be exactly what i want. Does this also work for the pages application? Can it be tested? Is this available for free or how much would it cost? (Feel free to send me a pm)

I understand that but i would still like to know what i would have to expect to pay for a plugin like that BALLPARK 🙂

Well you could make it optional so that users would have to manually turn it on. Anyway since it's not currently implemented. How much would i be looking at for custom development ballpark?

I'm currently still running Invision Community 4.7 selfhosted. If someone posts an external image (inserts an image from an external URL) i would like to automatically upload it to my server. I not only need this for the forum but also (especially) the pages application. I have seen this on other sites. (Xenforo for example) Is this possible? How? If so is there an option in the ACP or a Plugin?

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Update says "Also includes 4.5.4.2" But Dashboard says im already running that if i see it correctly? And if not can i upgrade only to the latest 4.5 instead of 4.6? I'm still having a custom plugin that is not 4.6 ready at the moment... 🙂 [img]https://abload.de/img/invisionoik2p.png[/img]

I installed the latest version of the plugin and im running the latest version of ips. The options do not show up. Can you please update / fix this?

@DawPi Just installed the latest version of the plugin on the latest version of ips but this: https://dne4i5cb88590.cloudfront.net/invisionpower-com/monthly_2020_05/screen_1.png.cee033078c2aa2f43c6d8d11ad23224d.png Does not show up

The Update fixed it, thanks. 🙂

Okay thanks. 🙂

You submitted the last update on December 29, 2020. I have the latest version 5.5.3 installed but the issue is still there. Edit: Full error message: REPLACE INTO `links_groups` ( `links_g_id`, `links_g_access`, `links_g_contentcount`, `links_g_dontpay` ) VALUES ( 2, true, NULL, NULL ) IPS\Db\Exception: Column 'links_g_contentcount' cannot be null (1048) #0 /home/user/public_html/system/Db/Db.php(979): IPS\_Db->preparedQuery('/*detroitd_detr...', Array) #1 /home/user/public_html/applications/links/sources/Members/Members.php(60): IPS\_Db->replace('links_groups', Array) #2 /home/user/public_html/applications/links/extensions/core/GroupForm/Links.php(74): IPS\links\_Members::setGroupData(2, true, NULL, NULL) #3 /home/user/public_html/applications/core/modules/admin/members/groups.php(224): IPS\links\extensions\core\GroupForm\_Links->save(Array, Object(IPS\Member\Group)) #4 /home/user/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(90): IPS\core\modules\admin\members\_groups->form() #5 /home/user/public_html/applications/core/modules/admin/members/groups.php(39): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute() #6 /home/user/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(152): IPS\core\modules\admin\members\_groups->execute() #7 /home/user/public_html/admin/index.php(14): IPS\_Dispatcher->run() #8 {main}

Im getting an error when trying to edit guest usergroup settings. Other usergroups work fine. Part of the error message: Column 'links_g_contentcount' cannot be null Probably just something minor. But i hope you can tell me how to fix it so i do not have to look deeper into this myself. 🙂

https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/7756-sd-company-directory/ I bought this off the developers website just a few days ago. Unfortunately i realized he passed away soon after the purchase. Well now i know why its not available in the marketplace anymore... Maybe anybody can help me with my problem anyway? After installing there are only entries for countries and not for cities and states. Can someone give me an .sql dump containing the cities and states for import? I do not want to add all states and cities by hand. I need at least states and cities for united states and canada but "worldwide" would be best.

Well i had the same issue. Here is how you can archieve this: Disable check links: # ###################### Open "applications/links/sources/link/link.php" and replace: (appears 2 times, change both) ------------------------------------------------------------ throw new \InvalidArgumentException( 'link_bad_url_url' ); with: ----- //throw new \InvalidArgumentException( 'link_bad_url_url' ); replace: (appears 2 times, change both) ------------------------------ $msg = \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( 'link_bad_url', FALSE, array( 'sprintf' => array( $response->httpResponseCode ) ) ); throw new \InvalidArgumentException( $msg ); with: ----- //$msg = \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( 'link_bad_url', FALSE, array( 'sprintf' => array( $response->httpResponseCode ) ) ); //throw new \InvalidArgumentException( $msg );

Well you cant stop that anyway. And if you are concerned about "basic users" generating problems you could simply make it so it can be turned on/off by using constants.php for example. (So basic users would not even be able to download plugins.) Just as a suggestion. I would love to see that in a future version. 🙂

Happy new year fellas!

Yes i also think everything important has already been said. And this issue aside i still think ips is the best platform available. May i make a suggestion on closing? Why not simply allow downloads parallel to the "idiot install"? This way there would be no tradeoff but even a gain.

There is no good free alternative anymore these days. Back in the days there have been lots of free alternatives which some of them have been pretty good. Mybb 1.6 was the pinnacle. Great free forum software with lots of great plugins, most of them free too. Yeah but it has been going down hill ever since 1.8. 2.0 got cancelled & 1.9 is due for years now. They never added mobile support / responsive templates in 1.8 so out of the box its still not responsive in 2020. I suspect they have been sabotaged or bought out by some bigger company. Simply because 1.6 was so good that there basically was no need to spend money on a paid solution. So it was dangerous for companys like jelsoft, woltlab or invision power services. phpBB is and ever has been a joke. It works but that's about it. Everything else is even worse. But man was mybb 1.6 great. One great thing still true even for 1.8 is that its not bloated with a lot of crap like xenforo or ips is these days. No developer tools bigger than a whole forum package back in the days and stuff like that. Its pretty simple to develop own plugins and it works like a champ. Same is true for vbulletin 3 for example.

At the end of the day we live in a capitalist society. So customers and there money decide which companys and products survive. That being said xenforo already has the by far biggest market share. I suspect it will go up even more to the disadvantage of the invision power services company, soon. Given your new business practises i would actually like to see that happen.

BTW: That means the 1,5k i spent on IPS right now is like throwing 1,5k out of the window in the long run. Because you basically got nothing in 10 years from now. Yeah nobody would pay much for 10 year old software anyway but you wont even have the 10 year old software by then. 😄 * Yes you can still run your existing installation. But you know the point.