How to add custom page for my vanilla forum...?

Vanillaplus

I wanna to add Custom pages WITH side bar and url like this.. http://www.edupluslanka.org/page_name

Shadowdare

The Basic Pages application lets you add simple pages. http://vanillaforums.org/addon/basicpages-application

Vanillaplus

it dosent work.. Fetal Error..!!

peregrine

@Vanillaplus

Fetal Error..!!

this is a political hot topic

it dosent work..

your going to have to be more descriptive about error, if you want a solution.

you can certainly post in your native language as well as english, since you are a non-native english speaker.

Eathuis

@Vanillaplus said:
I wanna to add Custom pages WITH side bar and url like this.. http://www.edupluslanka.org/page_name

The URL you gave led to the vanilla error page, ergo I don't exactly know what "sidebar" you are referring to. As for custom pages the one that @shadowdare gave works perfectly fine for me, as does this one http://vanillaforums.org/addon/custompages-plugin

peregrine

@Eathuis said:
The URL you gave led to the vanilla error page, ergo I don't exactly know what "sidebar" you are referring to. As for custom pages the one that shadowdare gave works perfectly fine for me, as does this one http://vanillaforums.org/addon/custompages-plugin

excellent @Eathuis I've seen a few of your posts, you are on the ball.

Shadowdare

@Vanillaplus said:
it dosent work.. Fetal Error..!!

Please provide more details about the error.

@peregrine said:
excellent @Eathuis I've seen a few of your posts, you are on the ball.

Let's keep the ball rolling!

Vanillaplus

@Shadowdare http://edupluslanka.org/err.GIF

qh3

Wow the site looks nice, I like the style a lot!

I can't help much with the error, but let's get to the original problem. Could you give us a pic to show either what you want it to look like (WITH sidebar) or what it looks like now and where the sidebar should go?

Shadowdare

@Vanillaplus said:
http://edupluslanka.org/err.GIF

@Vanillaplus, what version number of Vanilla are you using? Also, a copy and paste of the fatal error would have been okay too.

Info on the Fatal Error

The fatal error shown in the screenshot is "the specified data type (longtext) is not accepted for the MySQL database" and is an exception thrown by Vanilla.

Looks like the longtext data type isn't defined as a valid column data type in the _DefineColumn method in the /library/database/class.mysqlstructure.php file in Vanilla 2.0.18.8. I wasn't aware of this until now.

In Vanilla 2.0.18.8, these data types are defined as valid:

'tinyint', 'smallint', 'mediumint', 'int', 'bigint', 'char', 'varchar', 'varbinary', 'date', 'datetime', 'mediumtext', 'text', 'decimal', 'float', 'double', 'enum', 'timestamp'

In Vanilla 2.1b2, more data types have been defined as valid, including longtext:

'tinyint', 'smallint', 'mediumint', 'int', 'bigint', 'char', 'varchar', 'varbinary', 'date', 'datetime', 'mediumtext', 'longtext', 'text', 'decimal', 'numeric', 'float', 'double', 'enum', 'timestamp', 'tinyblob', 'blob', 'mediumblob', 'longblob'

After All

Currently, Basic Pages is version 1.8.3, which includes the change of one column's data type to longtext.

For now, you can use Basic Pages 1.8.2 if you're using Vanilla 2.0.18.8. Please let us know if it works for you. http://vanillaforums.org/addon/basicpages-application-1.8.2

Shadowdare

@Vanillaplus, are you able to add custom pages now?

Vanillaplus

@Shadowdare Not yet. But I can create them now. Thanks for all who helped me.