New to Vanilla and I would like to know how to do few things.Please Help!

anithaiyer

How to include custom fields in registration?
I would like to add a data to one of my table from a database whenever an user creates a discussion or comments on a discussion. how to do this?
Thanks in advance

peregrine

@anithaiyer: said "New to Vanilla"

I guess I can safely say "Welcome new member" without ducking

How to include custom fields in registration?

profile extender plugin.

I would like to add a data to one of my table from a database whenever an user creates a discussion or comments on a discussion. how to do this?

kind of a detailed question.

you would need to write a custom plugin. There is an example plugin and some documentation regarding writing plugins in the official documentation. The Documentation link at top of page in this forum would be a good place to start looking regarding plugin development.

anithaiyer

Thanks for answering
Can't I insert a simple code in between the post discussion module's php code to attain this? Is it necessary to write a plugin?

peregrine

anithaiyer said: Is it necessary to write a plugin?

the prevailing school of thought, is not to change the core. It makes it a nightmare when you try to do upgrades. Some people have chosen to take this path only to realize, it seemed simpler at the time, but caused headaches later.

Addons are the way to go. If you can do something triggering off of an event instead of overriding views, etc. You will be better off in my opinion.

In some cases some people have written themes and plugins that override views, etc and never have recovered or have been capable of updating (either time constraint or savoir-faire) for the current version. It becomes hasta manana. (which never seems to come).

You said you want to write to a table after Discussion save or comment save,

Download a few plugins and research them.

look at triggering off of events

e.g.

public function PostController_AfterCommentSave_Handler($Sender, $Args) {

and or
public function PostController_AfterDiscussionSave_Handler($Sender, $Args) {

then look at how to use the vanilla way to write to a table.

take a look at models and the structure function in various plugins.

In summary, you will be happier once you get the knack of plugins, and then you can write community plugins to gain wealth and fame. (maybe only fame ).

mtschirs

You can modify the relevant parts of the code directly, but in doing so you create your own Vanilla software branch that is incompatible to the official releases. Future updates will revert all your modifications if you don't take great care while merging changes.

A plugin is much simpler, just create a handler for the relevant events ( 'AfterDiscussionSave' and 'AfterCommentSave').

Edit: Peregrine was faster

peregrine

mtschirs said Edit: Peregrine was faster

ah, but yours was concise and to the point.

sometimes concision is better celerity. I prefer the brevity over verboseness but can't help myself.

peregrine

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mtschirs

@peregrine ...please don't write a peregrine-auto-reply bot for this forum

anithaiyer

Thanks a lot people for taking time to help !! Will look into the code this weekend and try creating a plugin
one last doubt Is it possible to have a custom homepage other than discussion?

peregrine

Is it possible to have a custom homepage other than discussion?

yes. google search (vanilla search engine only lists 10 items)

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:vanillaforums.org+custom+hom+page

anithaiyer

and also can I create a large number of categories and discussions in an automated manner without clicking , typing and creating?

peregrine

if you designed it yourself and knew every nuance of the permissions table and category table. otherwise no.

there are some performance tradeoffs and category limitations with a large number of categories in dashboard.

you can probably find those via google with site:vanillafourms.org.

anithaiyer

@peregrine Thank you

peregrine

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/226455/#Comment_226455

anithaiyer

I would like to show table layout for desktops and modern layout for mobiles. Is it possible?

peregrine

@anithaiyer said: I would like to show table layout for desktops and modern layout for mobiles. Is it possible?

you could write a plugin

this should work...

public function Gdn_Dispatcher_AfterControllerCreate_Handler($Sender) {
  // change mobile layout to modern if mobile is detected.
  if (IsMobile()) {
   SaveToConfig('Vanilla.Discussions.Layout','modern', array('Save' => FALSE));
   }
}

there may be other ways as well.

probably best to start a new discussion with an appropriate title for each new question after this, please

anithaiyer

Haha sure
btw you're the best

anithaiyer

@peregrine said:
Download a few plugins and research them.

look at triggering off of events
e.g.
public function PostController_AfterCommentSave_Handler($Sender, $Args) {
and or
public function PostController_AfterDiscussionSave_Handler($Sender, $Args) {
then look at how to use the vanilla way to write to a table.
take a look at models and the structure function in various plugins.

I need to write a profile extender data to a table with discussion topics as fields(if new discussion is created it should be added to this table too).
Can you tip me some exact code to use? or which specific plugin to look for?

peregrine

Can you tip me some exact code to use?

I would start here:

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/framework/database/

flagging, tagging, discussion polls write to tables to name a few of many, many plugins that write to database.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/206536/

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/187306/#Comment_187306